The Hants Journal

If you take your progress slow and steady, Tuesday the Nova Scotia government produced another budget that should be to your liking. On the other hand, Nova Scotians hoping for bold action to relieve overcrowded hospital emergency rooms or to help ...

When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, the old song goes, something’s gotta give. The irresistible force in this analogy is the new Liberal brand Justin Trudeau successfully sold Canadians in 2015. It was irresistible to Jody ...

Two days last week patients in need were turned away from the Cobequid Health Centre in Sackville. Virtually ever year at this time there are headlines because the emergency room at Valley Regional Hospital is overcrowded. No doubt we’ve got ...

My sadly departed newspapering colleague Brent Fox once told me, "Mummers, mimes and clowns scare the bejesus out of me, always have. I can't stand them! At least lefties and environmentalists and criminals can be rehabilitated, after a ...

The provincial government’s coastal protection bill, introduced this week, is all about adapting to climate change. Most of the attention to date, here and elsewhere, has been on mitigating, or limiting, climate change, which for rational ...

I don’t often share experiences of such a personal nature, but I thought this was rather amazing. ...

Fifty-one years ago, much of Washington D.C. was in ruins after Martin Luther King’s assassination and in Ottawa the Liberal party was in tatters. ...

When the top judge in the province accuses the attorney general of undermining the role of the chief justice of Nova Scotia, Houston is right – we have a problem. Conservative leader Tim Houston exposed that problem this week in the ...

The year Stephen McNeil’s Liberals defeated Darrell Dexter’s NDP government, 11 of Nova Scotia’s aging long-term care facilities — nine of them nursing homes — were slated for replacement. More than five years later, ...

The same government department that brought Nova Scotia its worst breach of private information to date, assures us all is well with the most important IT procurement in the province’s history. That procurement will pick the vendor to ...