Daily brief Premier Stephen McNeil began by offering his condolences to the family of the Northwood long-term-care facility (LTCF) resident who died on Tuesday and assured families withloved ones in the facility that the government is “working very hard” to get Northwood back to something like normal. Dr. Robert StrangRead More

Daily briefing Nova Scotia has recorded its first COVID-19-related death, a woman in her 70s with underlying conditions. The provincial press release said only that the death was recorded in the Eastern Health Zone, but during the question period at today’s briefing, it became clear she was a patient atRead More

Two things inspired this week’s feature story: the first was an Agence France-Presse article about a Michigan township that is trying to fight a deal under which the Swiss-based food conglomerate Nestlé may be allowed to pump 400 gallons of water per minute from a local wellhead for an annualRead More

Perhaps one of Charles Dickens’ most famous lines was Oliver Twist’s “Please sir, I want some more.” First published in monthly installments from February 1837 to April 1839, Oliver Twist was pretty much an attack on Britain’s Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834. As G.K. Chesterton wrote in an introductionRead More

Earlier this year, the idea of a guaranteed annual income (GAI) was in the news, including in The Cape Breton Spectator where yours truly wrote about Ontario’s plan to “launch a pilot project to assess whether a basic income can better support vulnerable workers, improve health and education outcomes forRead More