February 2, 2023 at 12:16 pm
Working from home I wasn’t sure what I was going to write about this week and then I discovered that Craig Boudreau, head of J. Francis Investments, vice chair of the Cape Breton Regional Chamber of Commerce, Sage of Charlotte Street, had once again taken pen in hand to shareRead More
February 13, 2019 at 12:32 pm
Have you seen that video clip of New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioning witnesses during a recent hearing by the House Oversight and Reform Committee? The committee was considering strengthening ethics rules for the executive branch of government (i.e. the president) and Ocasio-Cortez used the opportunity to highlight how muchRead More
November 21, 2018 at 1:06 pm
CBRM Council has declared its support for the Blue Dot movement. Launched in 2014 with the backing of the David Suzuki Foundation, Blue Dot is a “national campaign to advance the legal recognition of every Canadian’s right to a healthy environment.” In passing its resolution of support last night, theRead More
October 24, 2018 at 12:51 pm
Cecil Clarke is not the only anti-carbon tax politician in the current landscape; in fact, he’s arguably just the homegrown version of a familiar figure on the political scene — the “Canadian conservative” who, as Dalhousie economist Lars Osberg puts it, has “successfully framed” the federal government’s carbon-pricing system as aRead More
August 22, 2018 at 9:06 am
Bill Lahey’s prescription was sweeping: “We need a new paradigm to manage our forests.” That’s what the University of King’s College president told journalists after handing the McNeil government the results of a year-long review of forestry practices in Nova Scotia. McNeil appointed Lahey last August after choosing not toRead More
December 6, 2017 at 12:04 pm
Editor’s Note: A version of this article has appeared in The Inverness Oran and the Nova Scotia Advocate. The last leaves have fallen to the forest floor, and as I look out across my little forested valley, I would like to take this time to respond to the Margaree Salmon Association’sRead...