The Journal Pioneer

Tinkering! This is what I cannot help thinking about last week's release by the P.E.I. Liberal government of its Poverty Reduction Action Plan. Not just tinkering but continuing the use of the meanest of a charity model addressing being poor: ...

I have a powerful childhood memory of playing alone in the living room of our old farmhouse while my mother worked alone in the barn milking our dairy cows and doing the chores. I remember the anticipation of waiting for my father to come home ...

The National Farmers Union (NFU) says that “total farce” would be the best words to describe the appearance of Robert Irving of Cavendish Farms before P.E.I.’s standing committee on Communities, Land and Environment, on Tuesday, ...

Topics of major importance to the people of Summerside in the run-up to Monday’s election include the Hopping Report into the failed Michael Jackson tribute concert once planned for Summerside, and the results of a 2010 police review. With ...

$160 for the year was a pretty good price for a vacation property. Only eight minutes from Ben’s downtown-Guelph apartment, there was 1,000 square feet of fertile soil with direct water access. Well, irrigation access. Pitching his ...

The deep political and cultural tremors rattling the United States these days are sending waves crashing ashore in Canada. They always do. President Donald Trump ignited a resurgence of America’s dominant cultural characteristic — ...

Not every Atlantic Canadian agrees with some of the more right-wing views of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF). The CTF opposes government waste and supports lower taxes and greater accountability. Those are worthy objectives, but the ...

Almost every journalist has a Mike or two on the periphery of their life. Some have a half a dozen or more. (Mike is a pseudonym, by the way.) What’s a Mike? A Mike (or a Michelle, for that matter) gets in touch to tell ...

Why did the Nova Scotia Health Authority bury evidence of its cosy, prior relationship with the two finalists chosen to bid on the biggest health IT contract in Nova Scotian history? Why won’t the NSHA answer that question? What about the ...

If anything from the National Post ever falls into your online bowser — the newspaper itself hasn’t been delivered east of Montreal for years — it was hard to miss this weekend’s self-celebration of the paper’s 20th ...