The Vanguard

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, the RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service are in agreement: there are hundreds of people with strong links to Canada who are suspected of travelling overseas to engage in terrorist activity, most in ...

This is an editorial that shouldn’t have to be written. For years, the world has had an effective vaccine for measles. Yet, after a scare from a since-proven-false article by the now-discredited Andrew Wakefield that claimed there was a ...

Not since the Atlantic Schooners were granted a conditional franchise 35 years ago has the elusive dream of a Canadian Football League team in Atlantic Canada seemed so tantalizingly close. The CFL awarded a team for the Halifax area in 1982, to ...

It’s a rum thing. Literally. Probably far more people will have a rum and Coke tonight somewhere in the Atlantic provinces than will ever read the lengthy Federal Court of Canada case Diageo Canada vs. Heaven Hill Distilleries ...

  The recent flood of sexual harassment and abuse allegations against powerful men in politics, entertainment, the media and other areas is abhorrent. Each day brings more complaints — many suppressed over long, agonizing months or ...

  It’s an old song. But it seems we have to keep singing it until something changes. Two weeks ago, The Globe and Mail ran a feature story on the fishing industry, pointing out, as others have for years, that the industry is one ...

  Every year on November 11, Canadians are encouraged to attend cenotaph and memorial services to remember those who made the supreme sacrifice in defence of our country, our rights and freedoms. There are eloquent services at nursing ...

Think about just how complicated the federal, provincial and municipal regulation of marijuana will be. ...

“Not only must justice be done; it must also be seen to be done.” It’s an adage that’s taken on a new meaning in Atlantic Canada when it comes to the composition of provincial Supreme Courts. In an open letter to ...

  Pins inside apples. Razor blades lying in wait inside chocolate bars. Muscle relaxant pills in among the loose candy. These are some of the hazardous items that were reportedly found lurking in children’s Halloween loot last year ...