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RUSSELL WANGERSKY: You can’t always play the bankruptcy card
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 ...
ELLIOTT: Tofu is trending
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. ...
VIBERT: Liberals determined to contain critics
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 ...
RUSSELL WANGERSKY: No room left for beautiful
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 ...
LANA PAYNE: Binders full of enemies — Part 2
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 ...
PAM FRAMPTON: In defence of journalism
“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 ...
TO THE POINT: Why does Nova Scotia have a chronically under-performing economy?
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 ...
RUSSELL WANGERSKY: Hop on for the natural relic tour
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. ...
VIBERT: Nova Scotia's Liberals bar doctors from health committee
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 ...
RUSSELL WANGERSKY: New research links Alzheimer’s and gingivitis
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 ...