The CoastGuard

It’s been a difficult time for justice in Canada. There was outrage over the acquittal of St. John’s police constable Carl Douglas Snelgrove, who was accused of sexual assault, to the acquittal of Bassam Al-Rawi, a Halifax taxi driver ...

Russell Wangersky Now, I like a good home renovation television show as much as the next person. Actually, I probably like it more than most — first, because I enjoy fixing things, and like watching the process. Second, because ...

It’s not often fishermen, environmentalists and processors sing from the same industry song sheet, but the early chorus seems supportive of amendments to the Fisheries Act tabled in the House of Commons this week. Federal Fisheries Minister ...

Russell Wangersky When I started thinking about this column, I was particularly tired. Tired of writing, tired of reading. I thought I’d start it with the catchy line, “Stop the information train — I want to get ...

One Sunday every winter football fans and party-going pretenders gather, ostensibly to watch some of the finer athletes on the planet along with remarkably agile large men knock each others’ brains out. The unfortunate reality is that those ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The force of the January 4, 2018 winter hurricane created death and destruction at aquaculture site 1358 in Jordan Bay, NS contrary to statements from the company and Aquaculture Minister Keith Colwell. The Cooke owned Kelly Cove Salmon site ...