Opinion
BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: Ready, aim, pace yourself
Bruce MacKinnon's cartoon for May 4, 2024.
PERSPECTIVE: Want to fix student absence rates? Reduce illness in schools
By Susan Joudrey If you think that children are missing more school due to illness than they did before the pandemic began, you’re not imagining things. If you suspect constant illness is affecting their education, you’re not wrong. Documents ...
GAIL LETHBRIDGE: Poilievre talking points constantly cross decorum line
Whether or not you like what he says, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has certainly amped up the colourful rhetoric of Canadian politics. If you like a good rhyming slogan or a hyperbolic metaphor, Poilievre has one for you. Even if you don’t ...
EDITORIAL: Temporary foreign workers are critical to Atlantic Canada and deserve supports
Like Atlantic Canadian labourers who migrate for jobs in western Canada for months at a time, when Lude Meng left her home in China to work in a Prince Edward Island fish plant, she did so to build a better life for her family. Instead, she faced a ...
JOHN DeMONT: Getting kids off screens will make them happier — here’s how
I’m still down in the dumps about something I read the other day: that unhappiness among the world’s young people has grown to the point where — even though they have their entire lives ahead of them — they are less joyful about things than ...
LETTER: New Cape Breton central library project needs public’s support
According to estimates, over the past 10 years approximately 130 media commentaries via the Cape Breton Post and the CBC have addressed the subject of the proposed new public library for Cape Breton Regional Municipality and Victoria County. In ...
COMMENTARY: Why didn't N.S. mental health system recognize the signs of our Aidaen's distress?
Kelly Mitchell Commentary She was our miracle. After six years of infertility, IVF and multiple miscarriages, we adopted Aidaen from Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., at seven days old. She was our only daughter, my parents’ only grandchild, and an angel that ...
BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: Fine day for a nap
Bruce MacKinnon's cartoon for May 3, 2024.
CHEERS AND JEERS: Cheers to those working to ensure safety of temporary foreign workers
Cheers to the Cooper Institute in Charlottetown for its tireless work advocating for vulnerable P.E.I. residents, including temporary foreign workers like Lude Meng. In a series about Meng’s efforts to obtain an open work permit after she was ...
LETTER: New municipal building search in Baddeck ‘seems excessive’
Re: ‘Victoria County on hunt for new building,’ Cape Breton Post, April 4. The above story discusses Victoria County municipality's intent to have architects plan a new administrative facility to replace the former Victoria County courthouse. In the ...