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The headline exaggerates, of course. Our government, like the previous one, is pushing immigration hard. We need to attract younger folks to one of ... → Read More
B.C. dropped a shocker on Monday — $100,000-plus raises for family doctors and a fundamental shift in how they are paid. A million British Columbians don’t ... → Read More
The family physician shortage is bad everywhere in Nova Scotia. But it’s getting worse, faster in metro Halifax. In the last two years, the number of ... → Read More
When most medical students don’t want to be family doctors, that’s a problem. And when, even among those who do choose family medicine for a residency, ... → Read More
Ask a Nova Scotia family doctor to name their biggest waste of time and odds are they’ll say Pharmacare, the province’s public drug insurance plan. I mean ... → Read More
Police pulling someone over for “Driving while Black” has no place in a civilized society. That’s a given. Same with stopping pedestrians based on ... → Read More
Human trafficking is one of the most lucrative criminal pursuits in the country. All you need for the job is a lack of conscience, a knack for exploiting ... → Read More
Why should you trust the RCMP? A lot of people are wondering, but women have even more cause to ask. Like the military, the Mounties have for decades ... → Read More
The date, Feb. 1, 1957. The place, Rikers Island, N.Y., home to one of America’s most notorious prisons. On that cold, snowy night, Northeast Airlines ... → Read More
Double the cleaning. Double the sanitizing. Double the laundry. Kayla Legge’s workday as a support worker at Harbour View Haven, the long-term care ... → Read More
To fix the family doctor shortage in Nova Scotia, it’s often suggested, maybe Dalhousie Medical School should just train more family physicians. If only it ... → Read More
Did the federal minister in charge of public safety and head of the RCMP put politics over people in the wake of Canada’s worst mass shooting? On the face ... → Read More
It’s time for Nova Scotia — desperately short of doctors, nurses and other medical professionals — to drop its mandatory vaccination policy for health-care ... → Read More
Five security camera videos showing RCMP officers shooting and killing Gabriel Wortman at the Enfield Big Stop on the morning of April 19, 2020 have been ... → Read More
Serious question. Think about it. Could you survive on $380 a month? Nova Scotia’s Department of Community Services apparently thinks so. That’s how much — ... → Read More
Hey, it’s not about the money. No, siree, when it comes to VLTs, money is secondary to the Nova Scotia government. So says Bob MacKinnon, president of the ... → Read More
Would you waste time watering plants in one room while a fire was raging in another? Of course not. This shouldn’t be necessary but let’s explain why ... → Read More
All she wanted was a romantic encounter. By the end of the night, she’d been sexually assaulted. We’re not naming the woman, let’s call her Jane, as her ... → Read More
A promising military career poisoned by lies, incompetence and baseless suspicions he was the dupe of a Russian spy. Tim Dunne's story is a tale ... → Read More
A promising military career poisoned by lies, incompetence and baseless suspicions he was the dupe of a Russian spy. Tim Dunne's story is a tale ... → Read More