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TAKE OUR POLL: What do you think of the Central Health review?
N.L. Health Minister John Haggie announced Feb. 6 there will be an external review of the Central Health authority. Health minister orders external review of Central Health What do you think? Take our online ...
Russell Wangersky: Winter house
Russell Wangersky The winter house means collecting fresh snow for the teapot, because you don’t want to go through the 39 steps of draining the pipes before you leave. The lonesome peep of the upstairs smoke detector, battery ...
Editorial: Too little, too late
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” George Santayana wrote. Those are words worth remembering, even if you’re looking into the near past and last August’s collapse of an open water salmon ...
Let’s get pedantic about semantics
During an episode of the current sitcom Blackish, Dre Johnson (Anthony Anderson) publicly disagrees with his wife Rainbow. Later, while they are fighting about it in private, he says something along the lines of, ‘So, I’m supposed to back ...
Editorial: Drug driving
Unsettling incidents involving young people driving while drunk have grabbed the spotlight in recent days across Atlantic Canada. It doesn’t augur well for potential law enforcement issues later this year. In Halifax, a 23-year-old New ...
Russell Wangersky: New Brunswick’s debt just one red flag
Russell Wangersky Well, the first of four fiscal shoes has dropped in Atlantic Canada. Let’s hope it’s not an example of what’s to come. Tuesday, New Brunswick’s provincial government brought down its 11th ...
Letter: Tobacco should be treated as an epidemic
What is Canada’s leading preventable cause of disease and death? It’s tobacco. Last week was National Non-Smoking Week, which provided a reminder that tobacco is still our No. 1 public health issue. Smoking kills 45,000 Canadians every ...
LETTER: Family doctor model is broken
Dear Editor: A debate between Health Minister Haggie and various health care providers is getting a fair bit of column space in these pages. Perhaps it is time to hear from some other participants in the health-care industry in this province, the ...
In the stacks
Being second choice might depress some, but not me. In 2002, I was second choice for a seasonal (Sept – April) part-time library technician position at the College of the North Atlantic, where I've just begun my seventeenth year. A ...
Editorial: Domino effect
As the saying goes, the only constant is change. And change there has been — and quickly, too. In Nova Scotia, Opposition Leader Jamie Baillie was out of a job on Wednesday after an investigation into complaints made by a female staffer ...