The Hants Journal

The bottom line drives the decision, and the company says, “these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back, to your hometown.” Oshawa’s the hometown, and GM’s the company. But the story’s old and familiar, ...

There are things you can’t say. You may believe them, they may even be absolutely true, but you can’t say them. Because saying them out loud has other ramifications. They lead to behaviours that you didn’t expect, ...

Most Americans care little and know less about the rest of the world. But the ‘Make America Great Again’ mythology they bought into play two years ago — despite the better judgment of a slight majority — included the ...

Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland came down east this week to take a bit of a victory lap for cutting a new trade deal that the petulant pup in the White House actually gets to chalk up as a win. There were Freeland ...

The beauty of it is that I can say this. Maybe I won’t be able to for long: Wednesday, the federal government announced that it plans to put $595 million of federal money over the next five years into a plan to protect independent ...

Welfare reform sounds good in theory, which is fortunate because, after four years of trying, it appears the Nova Scotia government can only deliver welfare reform in theory. In practice, the provincial Community Services Department remains a ...

For many of us, 2019 promises to be hard on the head. By April Fools’ Day, a price on carbon will have arrived everywhere in the land and for the majority of Canadians, blissfully ignorant as to what that means, the bliss will be ...

Tri-County Vanguard editor Tina Comeau reflects on the personal side of the lobster fishery. PINKNEY'S POINT, YARMOUTH COUNTY, NS – Usually there’s a convoy of vehicles all heading in the same direction. It makes me grin every year ...

I get discouraged sometimes. Discouraged, because, caught up in doing things the same way we always have, we keep doing them, even though we should know better. The source of my latest discouragement? Reports late last week that ...

BRIDGETOWN, N.S. - As the country scrambles to figure out how to safely and fairly adapt to the legalization of marijuana, the pharmaceutical world is in a similar position.  This has become a controversial topic but, before you decide where ...