The CoastGuard

Drive across the border from New Brunswick to Nova Scotia and, except for a sign or two and the visitor’s centre on the Nova Scotia side, you might miss it entirely. And if you look at the signs, the most important issue seems to be a warning ...

I’ve been hunting for four solid-wood doors for a while now. Not new doors — old ones, suitable for cleaning up and putting into doorframes in an old house.   The house has four hollow-core wood doors upstairs now, ...

What happens in the U.S. is their business, and we shouldn’t spend time writing or thinking about it. That’s message I get every single time I write about the country to the south of us. “If Trump is hurtling that ...

Jonathan Wilkinson has many tall tasks ahead of him as Canada’s newest Fisheries and Oceans minister, not the least of which could be overcoming where he’s from. Wednesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shuffled Dominic LeBlanc out of ...

SOUTHWESTERN, N.S. – There is better news to report about red light school bus violations in Digby, Yarmouth and Shelburne counties. According to Steve Stoddart, director of operational services for the Tri-County Regional Centre for ...

I wonder sometimes: is it you? Are you the one I have to watch out for? Or are you really just asking a simple, honest question?   Years ago, when I worked for CBC as a reporter, I used to hate getting asked questions at ...

Governments have tried it before, with limited success — arbitrarily changing the terms of contracts with the private sector. Sometimes, the solutions sound absolutely ridiculous: faced with a court decision that a liquor levy was improperly ...

It’s summertime, and it’s hard to get enough words to fill all the spaces.   Hence, the Financial Post’s printing of a lengthy op-ed on equalization by three writers from two business-positive think-tanks on the ...

Ah, the humble lawsuit. Sometimes, it’s the result of the genuinely aggrieved trying to get their due in the only way they can.   Other times, it’s a punishment — people who keep a suit going just to keep the ...

Wednesday, the Bank of Canada is widely expected to raise interest rates. If it does, it will mark the fourth time since last July that the rates have risen, a sign that the bank believes the economy to be stable and unemployment, nationwide, is ...