Opinion

Whoever writes press releases for Air Canada should get a raise. I think every media outlet that I tuned into on Sunday used the term ‘hard landing’ when referring to the Halifax airport crash late Saturday night.

When Tipper Gore struck and her cadre of Washington wives held US Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) Senate hearings on putting warning labels on music that referenced drugs, violence or sex, I, of course, was opposed.

Cars, air travel, space exploration, television, nuclear power, high-speed computers, telephones, organ transplants, prosthetic body parts… At various times these were all deemed impossible.

Welcome April! Just think, in seven or eight weeks we’ll be out in our gardens! Compared to what our gardening friends in the Maritimes have had to struggle through this winter, we have been very lucky! First, some housekeeping: The next meeting of t

“Why is Good Friday good, Nana?” asks my grandbean. The child knows very well what happened on that long-ago day. The day Christians remember the gruesome death of Jesus Christ, crucified at Calvary, just outside the gates of Jerusalem.

View from the Cheap Seats is kind of an extension of the newsroom. Whenever our three regular reporters, Calvin Daniels, Thom Barker and Randy Brenzen are in the building together, it is frequently a site of heated debate.

Budgets, at least at the federal and provincial governments levels have become as much about optics as numbers.

The good budget news is what wasn’t in it. There was no dipping into the municipal revenue-sharing pool to balance its own books.

Dear Editor: The Western Canadian Wheat Growers (WCWG) appear to belong to the Ostrich family.