The Hants Journal

It’s as simple a concept as buyer beware. Last week, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on a case that, in some ways, looked like it could be solved with simple common sense. When an oil company goes bankrupt, in this ...

The guru of food, Sylvain Charlebois, had some good news last week for the family-operated firm, Acadiana Soy Products, in Grand Pre. Anna Anderson leads the tofu making. According to Charlebois, there are both fads and trends in the food realm. ...

Keeping the lid on healthcare has become an obsession for Nova Scotia’s Liberal government. In the past couple of weeks, close observers got a look at the Liberals’ strategy to manage the provincial government’s gravest political ...

Out the door in the 6:30 dark, and even with the rain, there’s still a thin scrim of snow left across the windshield of the car, punched into a particular lace by the fat droplets that have gathered on the bare maple branches in the tree above ...

In some countries when you disagree with the state, they throw you in jail or worse. In Canada, and most recently Ontario, governments find other, more elegant ways to punish or silence their critics. It stems from the notion that ...

“The most profound lessons about journalism I've learned have been taught to me by the people I've covered.” — Jodi Kantor, Pulitzer Prize winner, The New York Times A journalism student from College of the North ...

As Atlantic Canada’s population and economy declines, it’s had a big impact on this region’s importance relative to the rest of Canada ...

It’s a once-in-a-lifetime trip! Heck, it’s a once-in-any-number-of-lifetimes trip. Baffin Island in summer: pictures show long, grey banks of broken rock, greyed, melting snow, huge banks of smoothed and rounded boulders. ...

Stick a fork in it, folks. It’s done. “It” is the Nova Scotia legislature’s health committee. It is a ruse, a ploy, a gimmick, a cruel hoax perpetrated on Nova Scotians by a Liberal government desperate to show concern for ...

Lots of science is reported in the media — often somewhat breathlessly — long before all of the dots have been fully connected. News stories claim that a vaccine or cure might be imminent, mere years away, for some crucial bane of human ...