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In this line of work, you learn who to trust and who not to trust, and that it is vital to put yourself in the latter category. Don’t trust what you know, because you don’t know enough. Don’t trust what you think you heard because ...

  Russell Wangersky If you travel by air any amount, you’ve heard it before: the safety demonstration that, eventually, you can almost repeat by rote. “Insert the flat metal end into the buckle and pull on the loose ...

  Russell Wangersky With the last name “Wangersky,” it’s pretty clear some parts of my family are immigrants. It doesn’t matter that, on the other side of my family, I can trace my lineage straight back to ...

There’s no place to hide the growing heaps of nasty plastic garbage, but a dump off the Walton Woods Road is apparently as good a place as any to bury it. Nova Scotia’s Environment Minister Iain Rankin appeared just long enough last week ...

As always, there’s good news and there’s bad news. The bad news is, we seem incapable of solving our more pressing or persistent problems. The good news is, we’re getting closer to building a machine that might do it for us. If ...

New Year’s resolutions are a mug's game. There’s no reason why a promise made by you to you on Dec. 31 should hold a greater likelihood of fulfillment than one made on, say April 1. Nevertheless, they are made, and generally in the ...

WINDSOR, N.S. — Since the beginning of December, Santa knocked on AV's doors and we were all anxiously waiting for Christmas. ...

  As you sow, so shall you eat. OK, that’s not really the saying, but you’ll see what I mean in a moment. It always amazes me that, no matter how far away from the beaten track you get, you can always find plastic ...

I thought, there but for the grace of God, go I. Go we all. Or words to that effect.     I thought it while reading a lengthy collection of information that police had submitted to obtain a search warrant in a recent St. ...

There’s a dirty little secret about legalized marijuana, one that could become an issue in neighbourhoods across the country. Well, maybe it would be better to describe it as a stinky little secret, but one that’s likely to become very ...