The Hants Journal

When things go wrong — really wrong — I recommend soup. Two-day soup. Chicken. Not the eating, necessarily — the making. Keep in mind this is not a recipe. This is a coping mechanism. My mother-in-law, a lovely ...

The battle lines are drawn, but the battle is not yet joined. When Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil conceded in year-end interviews that the future of Northern Pulp’s Pictou County mill is very much in doubt, his words didn’t ...

A natural disaster has beset Hantsport and environs and seems to serve as a cautionary tale for other Nova Scotia communities, particularly those at risk from rising sea levels. The provincial government does not have your back. It doesn’t ...

So the New Year ticked in and, in the process, your paycheque changed. OK, it probably changed in a couple of ways, but I’m most interested in one change: a small increase in premiums for the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). If no ...

Liberals across the land rang out the old year with a hearty “good riddance” and rang in the new with hopes that 2019 will not resemble 2018 at all. This year, the federal government, along with Liberal governments in Newfoundland and ...

Nova Scotia’s growing population has become a point of pride for the provincial government, so it sneaks the line into statements and news releases with increasing regularity. “This past year was one of impressive records and firsts in ...

Almost from the start, more than five years ago, Nova Scotia’s Liberal government has betrayed a bit of an authoritarian tilt. In the government’s first term, the tendency presented as an affinity for legislated, rather than ...

Oh, it’s resolution time again — and I’m horrible at resolutions. I resist temptation fine in the morning when I’m shaving, because I’m only just awake, but it’s pretty much downhill every passing ...

Beneath the great arches of Toronto’s Pearson airport, passengers scurry like tiny beetles, luggage piled high on carts while, high above them, instead of the ringing of cathedral bells, the public address system intones its sometimes-cryptic ...

The first and only Christmas I ever spent away from family occurred long ago now. I was 20 and had cast myself on the kindness of English strangers. ...