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COMMENTARY: Online sports betting as addictive as VLTs
2+ hour, 15+ min ago (552+ words) The province of Ontario was the first jurisdiction in Canada to offer a private online gambling (sorry, gaming) market in April 2022. Alberta has now followed suit and officially launched its own regulated online sports betting market. Will Atlantic Canada be…...
GWYNNE DYER: The Rule of Law: Where does your country rank?
1+ day, 32+ min ago (895+ words) Cyril Ramaphosa and the Law It’s outrageous. You’re at your hobby farm in the country, just pottering around, so you stuff the $580,000 in your pocket under the sofa cushions temporarily just to get it out of the way. Then you…...
Gander dad 'a little emotional' after NL expands cleft palate coverage for kids
1+ week, 4+ day ago (786+ words) Matthew Gill, whose seven-year-old son Charlie has a bilateral cleft lip and palate, says expanded provincial coverage will ease the financial burden on families facing costly orthodontic treatment Gander dad Matthew Gill says his family was “super proud and overjoyed,…...
Young entrepreneurs build summer work from paper cranes, berries and big ideas
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1300+ words) Meet some PEI kids that have found creative ways to launch their own summer businesses At a foldable table in her living room, 13-year-old Grace Herring has learned to work slowly. There is paper to cut, cranes to fold, flowers…...
Youth unemployment in P.E.I. is high, so how is there a labour shortage?
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1804+ words) Emma Hawley has been looking for work for about two about years now. The 20-year-old says she has applied to more than 25 businesses within walking distance of her home, changed her resume multiple times, updated her contact information and repeatedly…...
Cape Breastoners celebrate 25 years of paddling and healing
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (759+ words) Remarkable friendships, fitness and fun for breast cancer survivors The Cape Breastoners Dragonboat team is celebrating 25 years of supporting, healing, paddling and just plain having fun. Dragon boats look like very large canoes – about 38 feet long and seating 20 paddlers in…...
A recipe for home in NL: How 'cooking changed everything' for Safaa’s Kitchen owner
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1575+ words) A decade after arriving in Newfoundland and Labrador, Safaa Tohme has built a food business, raised five children and opened her family’s life to viewers through a new documentary series Safaa Tohme still remembers the uncertainty of the journey that…...
Letter: The peril of judging words without context
2+ mon, 3+ hour ago (406+ words) The controversy surrounding Father Norman MacPhee’s remarks at the Cape Breton University convocation illustrates a growing danger in modern public discourse: the tendency to isolate words from their context and then assign to them the harshest possible interpretation. (Editor’s note:…...
West Hants invests in smart meter technology to combat water leaks
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (967+ words) In an effort to crack down on leaky pipes, West Hants council has approved a pilot project that will see 300 smart water meters installed throughout the serviced areas of the municipality. Todd Richard, the director of public works, pitched the…...
Sipekne'katik loses appeal, must pay commercial fishermen's association some legal costs
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (646+ words) Sipekne’katik First Nation has lost its appeal to not have to pay a portion of the legal costs for an organization representing commercial fishermen. The Nova Scotia Scotia Court of Appeal dismissed Sipekne’katik’s claim that it shouldn’t have to pay…...