Five wheelchair activists have won their case against the province's discriminatory administration of Food Safety Regulations, but their 770-day trek illustrates what's wrong with Nova Scotia's torpid, ineffectual Human Rights Commission...
As of Tuesday, particulate matter associated with smoke from BC forest fires covered the Atlantic Provinces, and extended well into the North Atlantic. ...
Today’s Morning File led off with a victory lap in which Editor Tim Bousquet proclaimed that, “as I predicted, [the Tuft's Cove spill] was much larger than originally reported.” I call B.S....
"There was no sign, I don't know why you think there was" "Dude, the sign is literally RIGHT BACK THERE"...
After weeks of silence, Police Chief Peter McIsaac excoriates news media over the Leitches Creek accident....
There’s only one thing wrong with the story you've heard about that fatal prom night accident in Leitches Creek: Almost every detail is false....
Tuesday's Word-of-the-Day, makebate, "one who foments discord," gave my heart a lift, illustrating, as it does, the disappearing word form sometimes called a tosspot, or more pedantically, an exocentric compound. These are compound nouns, often jocular and insulting, that take the form verb + object = subject....
The germ theory gets a fresh airing in Halifax Thursday when a Board of Inquiry hears a complaint of discrimination against Environment Minister Iain Rankin. Four wheelchair users say Rankin is endangering their health with discriminatory enforcement of Food Safety Regulations, so they can't wash their hands before eating....
Dear _______________: On a winter's day in 1963, I was the driver in a single car accident that nearly killed a 10-year-old boy. ...
Lest you think Spring has arrived, check out this photo, snapped yesterday by NASA's Aqua satellite. Lots of snow cover everywhere. Lots of drift ice on the west coasts of Cape Breton and PEI. Heck, you could practically walk to PEI from Mabou....