What do you call it when someone who has bought into the conspiracy theories about COVID-19 ends up testing positive for the virus? https://www.spreaker.com/user/saltwire/my-take-feb-14-2022-covid-not-karma Sheldon MacLeod has been a broadcast ...

BRIAN GIFFORD • Guest Opinion Brian Gifford lives in Halifax. He is chair of the Affordable Energy Coalition.  Nova Scotia Power’s application for large rate increases raises many controversial questions. Premier Tim Houston has said the Nova Scotia ...

Love to hate NSP Judging by the letters in your Feb. 3 edition, we really love to hate Nova Scotia Power. Where to begin? One letter explains at length that the company's return on capital is way too high. But hang on, judging by another letter, it ...

 - Michael de Adder

Some readers may not be familiar with the word “bovid.”  My dog-eared online dictionary defines “bovid” as any member of the bovidae family of ruminants that have hollow, unbranched horns (often in both sexes), usually on either side of their heads.

With the death of Wanda Eloise Davis Robson on Feb. 6, a candle went out whose unwavering light will be hard to rival. The 95-year-old activist was passionate and persistent — a firebrand who dedicated much of her life to sharing her sister’s story, ...

Outside influences unwelcome ​​I read with great dismay about the truckers’ convoys growing in numbers and support in various Canadian cities.   My partner and I love Canadians because the culture and values are so special, with a sense of community ...

When you read this, I will be back in Halifax, returned from a self-imposed semi-isolation that began when Omicron breached the gates of our city, and we fled to the countryside where neither cell service nor the pandemic seemed able to follow. I ...

In my previous opinion piece on Feb. 5, “Russia-China Axis looms as democracy teeters,” I described three global geopolitical developments that combine to threaten the health — and perhaps the very survival — of Western democracies.  These three ...

 - Bruce MacKinnon