Opinion
Colby Cosh: In Alberta, not even the courts will question a doctor's choice to euthanize
Among those who have tried to reckon with Monday’s assisted suicide ruling from the Alberta Court of King’s Bench, it is naturally our own Chris Selley who has done the best job of conveying the dystopian position in which our courts ...
IVISON: Canadians still positive about immigration but they want Ottawa to 'get its act together,' Marc Miller says
This week, John Ivison talks to Canada’s immigration minister, Marc Miller. Miller has just announced a suite of measures aimed at capping the number of temporary residents in Canada at 5 percent of the population over the next three years, a 20 ...
MARTHA MUZYCHKA: The takeaways from Princess Kate's cancer announcement
A friend recently asked me what I thought of the Kate Middleton story. For those who may not know, the Princess of Wales had surgery in January and the accompanying announcement reported she would be convalescing for at least three months. Since ...
LETTER: 'Peace memorial’ more apt term for Cape Breton national park proposal
Re: ‘News photos and credibility,’ Cape Breton Post editorial, March 16. The above article gave me pause to reflect on the role the media has played in the characterization of the proposed Never Forgotten National Memorial (NFNM) in the Cape Breton ...
LETTER: Present Conservative party leader could learn much from Brian Mulroney
Dr. Mary Lynk, a much-missed friend and colleague, gave me a book written by a distant relative of hers, L. Ian MacDonald, titled “Brian Mulroney, The Making of a Prime Minister.” I read it a couple of months before the Progressive Conservatives ...
LETTER: Cape Breton Post cancer series a reminder to test for radon
I suspect that there are few, if any, families in Cape Breton who have not been touched by cancer. This week’s ongoing series in the Cape Breton Post entitled ‘Cancer in Cape Breton’ illustrates just how devastating this disease can be. As mentioned ...
GWYNNE DYER: The world's temperatures are climbing faster than expected and we don't know why
It was bound to happen some time, and the time could well be now. We know that when there was strong warming on our planet (like at the end of the last Ice Age, around 11,000 years ago), there were sudden big leaps in the global temperature. It ...
ROSEMARY GODIN: Hope is all around us this week
What is a miracle? Simply put, you might think of it as something wonderful that happens unexpectedly with no logical way of explaining it. The origins of the word are found in many ancient languages. For example, the Latin word “miraculum” means ...
LETTER: Mental health and unhappiness
I’m puzzled at the deluge of mental health issues that appear to be taking over an astonishing proportion of the Canadian population. Initially, I blamed it on the pervasive hold social media has on people. Who hasn't seen couples sitting in a ...
BOB WAKEHAM: We'll always be Newfoundlanders first
Historians, political scientists and others who have studied all aspects of Confederation, and who have passed on that information to their students at MUN, certainly have no worries about an ink-stained wretch like myself usurping their ...