The Digby Courier

Atlantic Canada is still assessing the impact of federal cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc’s departure from Fisheries to Intergovernmental Affairs and Trade. It’s a new challenge for LeBlanc, but likely a loss for this ...

The dog days of summer. According to an article in National Geographic a few years ago, the term originated from the ancient Greeks. It was the time of year when the Dog Star, Sirius, rose before the sun in late July. “They referred to ...

There are a couple of reasons why there haven’t been any right whale deaths in waters around the Atlantic provinces this year — good luck and good management. Last year, an alarming number of endangered whales died — 13 in ...

Search the word “temperature” in Google News, and you’re overwhelmed by stories about the heat. Over the last week, for example, Lisbon broke an all-time heat record, hitting 44 degrees C on Saturday. Berlin was expecting 39 ...

The idea behind Canada’s equalization program is simple — to ensure that every province is able to provide comparable levels of public services to its citizens at comparable levels of taxation. The concept is written into the Canadian ...

The world’s oceans are huge, but interconnected. The trash you carelessly throw in the ocean may end up in Ireland or Iceland or far beyond, and recent video from the Dominican Republic has shown that the chickens (in the form of plastic waste) ...

Cigarettes, to put it mildly, are not as fashionable as they once were. In fact, campaigns to educate smokers about the deadly risks of lighting up and to help them quit have led to a remarkable decline in smoking rates in the past 50 years or ...

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 ...

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 ...