The Vanguard

I turn 50 this year. 50? 50! #$%^& 50! Don’t worry. My birthday is not for a few months yet, so you still have lots of time to buy me a gift. (No tube socks, please.) Anyway, it seems like yesterday I was a nine-year-old whose ...

When whaling was still going on, the one thing you didn’t want to be was a right whale. They got their name because they were the right whale to hunt: they had thick blubber, so lots of whale oil, and, unlike some whales, the blubber meant ...

Someone once said, if we didn’t have any weather, most Canadians couldn’t start a conversation. That’s not too far off the mark. In 2014, a report by Influence Communication analyzed all major news stories of the year and ...

What’s $5 million in the Nova Scotia health budget? It’s a million bucks more than the department spends on something called “investment decision support,” but two-and-a-half million less than on “system strategy and ...

  Russell Wangersky In New Brunswick, the pre-budget consultations are already over and done with. In Prince Edward Island, the last two public meetings are today and Thursday, in Charlottetown and Montague, respectively. In ...

Nova Scotia remains a hostile environment for private prosecution of criminal cases. Friday, Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Patrick Murray denied a motion that would have forced the provincial court to hear a fraud charge brought by Jeremy Pike ...

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 ...