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In the short term, the federal and provincial governments will need to act, reducing taxes on diesel and fuel oil.

Delia and Phil is a story I wrote while riding Toronto Transit Commission trains to and from work back in 2003. It was originally part of the novel Drive-by Saviours, a story within a story, imagined ...

Heating a home with oil will be exceptionally expensive in Nova Scotia this year because of global market conditions

Sparkling water machines, bottles, and reusable CO₂ cylinders. An eco-friendly and cost-effective way to make sparkling water at home.

On Monday, Calgary-based Questerre Energy Corportation announced it was selected as the "successful bidder in the first bid round” of the Subsurface Energy Research Development Investment Program (SER...

ALT: Dawn French: Working Hard

Sobering scientific analysis estimates more than 2,700 people died from heat-related causes during the May and June heatwaves in England and Wales

Frederick Douglass’ great lecture “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?,” delivered on July 5th, 1852, to a predominantly white audience at Rochester’s Corinthian Hall, captured the contradicti…

Despite public opposition and evidence that battery energy storage systems would cost less, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick approved power plants that will burn gas and diesel for the next quarter centu...

A provincial overview of extreme wealth in Canada

Outsourcing your creative work to a machine is "empowerment"?

Canadians see energy efficiency is an essential tool to deal with the rising cost of living, and more than three-quarters say it’s up to federal and provincial governments to help households seize the...

Marjorie Simmins’ latest memoir deals with the heavy grief of losing her husband to cancer at the height of the COVID pandemic in the spring of 2020. Simmins’ husband, the writer Silver Donald Cameron, was prolific but best known for The Education of Everett Richardson: The Nova Scotia Fishermen’s Strike 1970-71, The Living Beach: Life, Death and Politics Where the Land Meets the Sea, and the posthumously released Blood in the Water: A True Story of Revenge in the Maritimes. The grief of such a loss is permanent, but Simmins must learn how to press on, practically and in a way that gives her remaining time meaning. In the immediate aftermath, she writes, “It’s the atoms and molecules I want, a rare freckle here and the deeply creased cheek there.”