http://www.gulfnews.ca/images/logo/21_Gulf-News.gifhttp://www.gulfnews.ca/List of the latest articles from this category.http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial-10055Thu, 17 May 2012 08:45:18 -0400Thu, 17 May 2012 08:45:18 -0400enhttp://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-05-07/article-2972338/Putting-price-tags-on-our-doors/1Mon, 07 May 2012 09:14:11 -0400Let’s talk about a seasonal industry that’s having a draining effect on the province’s economy: road repairs.http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-05-07/article-2972338/Putting-price-tags-on-our-doors/1editor@gulfnews.caEditorialhttp://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-05-07/article-2972338/Putting-price-tags-on-our-doors/1http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-04-30/article-2966841/Nice-holiday%2C-if-you-can-get-it/1Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:47:44 -0400Unless you work in the provincial government, or know someone who does, you were probably under the assumption that last Monday was just a regular, run of the mill Monday.http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-04-30/article-2966841/Nice-holiday%2C-if-you-can-get-it/1editor@gulfnews.caEditorialhttp://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-04-30/article-2966841/Nice-holiday%2C-if-you-can-get-it/1http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-04-24/article-2962264/Job-cuts-arent-small-potatoes/1Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:08:12 -0400Anyone who has travelled on the Marine Atlantic ferry has faced the potato interrogation.http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-04-24/article-2962264/Job-cuts-arent-small-potatoes/1editor@gulfnews.caEditorialhttp://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-04-24/article-2962264/Job-cuts-arent-small-potatoes/1http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-04-16/article-2955571/Penny-for-your-thoughts/1Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:40:04 -0400They jingle in our pockets and make a bulge in our wallets or coin purses but there will come a time when the Canadian penny will be no more. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced in his 2012 budget speech the federal government would stop producing the coin many people refer to as a copper.http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-04-16/article-2955571/Penny-for-your-thoughts/1editor@thegeorgian.caEditorialhttp://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-04-16/article-2955571/Penny-for-your-thoughts/1http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-04-02/article-2944919/World%26rsquo%3Bs-oldest-profession-gets-legal-respect/1Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:26:23 -0400As long as there have been human beings, there have been prostitutes, and as long as there have been prostitutes, there have been governments telling women what they legally can and cannot do with their bodies.http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-04-02/article-2944919/World%26rsquo%3Bs-oldest-profession-gets-legal-respect/1Editorialhttp://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-04-02/article-2944919/World%26rsquo%3Bs-oldest-profession-gets-legal-respect/1http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-03-26/article-2939278/If-a-politician-falls-in-the-forest.../1Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:08:35 -0400If a tree falls in the forest, and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a noise?http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-03-26/article-2939278/If-a-politician-falls-in-the-forest.../1editor@gulfnews.caEditorialhttp://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-03-26/article-2939278/If-a-politician-falls-in-the-forest.../1http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-03-12/article-2924907/Dial-t-for-treason/1Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:12:41 -0400There have been reports coming out over the past few weeks of voters who received strange calls on the last federal Election Day. They were told their polling station had moved at the last minute and directed to a new polling station.http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-03-12/article-2924907/Dial-t-for-treason/1editor@gulfnews.caEditorialhttp://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-03-12/article-2924907/Dial-t-for-treason/1http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-03-05/article-2915503/Rural-deliverance/1Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:52:21 -0500The urban-rural divide grew a tiny bit wider last week with the closure of the Cape Ray post office.http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-03-05/article-2915503/Rural-deliverance/1editor@gulfnews.caEditorialhttp://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-03-05/article-2915503/Rural-deliverance/1http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-02-20/article-2900175/Blankets%2C-babies-and-lunchtime/1Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:08:02 -0500Facebook has served its purpose. While debating what to fill this editorial space with this week, we threw out a random thought to our Facebook friends.http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-02-20/article-2900175/Blankets%2C-babies-and-lunchtime/1editor@thepacket.caEditorialhttp://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-02-20/article-2900175/Blankets%2C-babies-and-lunchtime/1http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-02-13/article-2893828/Rocking-the-boat/1Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:44:00 -0500You don’t need a physics degree to understand what happens when you put too much weight on one side of a boat.http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-02-13/article-2893828/Rocking-the-boat/1editor@gulfnews.caEditorialhttp://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-02-13/article-2893828/Rocking-the-boat/1http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-02-06/article-2886997/Gold-plated-pensions/1Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:27:52 -0500When the economy started taking a nose dive in 2008, Canada appeared to be weathering the storm well. Prime Minister Stephen Harper had no problem chiding other countries on the world stage for their lax banking regulations.http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-02-06/article-2886997/Gold-plated-pensions/1editor@gulfnews.caEditorialhttp://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-02-06/article-2886997/Gold-plated-pensions/1http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-01-30/article-2879775/Ecstatic-over-a-drug-bust/1Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:38:34 -0500On Thursday morning, news broke that Port aux Basques RCMP had seized a large quantity of marijuana and ecstasy from a house in Port aux Basques.http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-01-30/article-2879775/Ecstatic-over-a-drug-bust/1editor@gulfnews.caEditorialhttp://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-01-30/article-2879775/Ecstatic-over-a-drug-bust/1http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-01-23/article-2871461/Fares-fair%3F/1Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:03:36 -0500The cost of everything is going up; it’s just a fact of life. http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-01-23/article-2871461/Fares-fair%3F/1Editorialhttp://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-01-23/article-2871461/Fares-fair%3F/1http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-01-16/article-2865131/Legislating-what-we-took-for-granted/1Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:51:22 -0500Even if you have a job you absolutely love, there are probably aspects of that job you don’t enjoy.http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-01-16/article-2865131/Legislating-what-we-took-for-granted/1editor@gulfnews.caEditorialhttp://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-01-16/article-2865131/Legislating-what-we-took-for-granted/1http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-01-09/article-2858355/Fleeting-fairness/1Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:20:07 -0500By the time the average Canadian worker headed home for lunch last Tuesday, the average CEO in this country had collected in salary what it will take that average Joe the rest of the year to make.http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-01-09/article-2858355/Fleeting-fairness/1Editorialhttp://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-01-09/article-2858355/Fleeting-fairness/1http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-01-03/article-2853065/Transparency-is-the-answer/1Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:24:57 -0500There was a bit of a stink in the provincial media just before Christmas with word that a popular restaurant in St. John’s had been closed due to unsanitary conditions in the kitchen. http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-01-03/article-2853065/Transparency-is-the-answer/1editor@gulfnews.caEditorialhttp://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2012-01-03/article-2853065/Transparency-is-the-answer/1http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2011-12-12/article-2832065/Permission-to-come-aboard%3F/1Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:16:56 -0500Civil liberties, and civil rights, are pretty important in a democratic society.http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2011-12-12/article-2832065/Permission-to-come-aboard%3F/1editor@gulfnews.caEditorialhttp://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2011-12-12/article-2832065/Permission-to-come-aboard%3F/1http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2011-12-05/article-2825276/Fighting-for-the-little-guy/1Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:30:41 -0500Our province’s citizens’ representative, Barry Fleming, has submitted his annual report to the provincial House of Assembly.http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2011-12-05/article-2825276/Fighting-for-the-little-guy/1editor@gulfnews.caEditorialhttp://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2011-12-05/article-2825276/Fighting-for-the-little-guy/1http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2011-11-28/article-2817827/Dont-look-to-the-stars-for-advice-on-Old-Harry/1Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:06:02 -0500You may have heard on the radio or in other publications about a movie star who has come out against drilling for oil in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2011-11-28/article-2817827/Dont-look-to-the-stars-for-advice-on-Old-Harry/1editor@gulfnews.caEditorialhttp://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2011-11-28/article-2817827/Dont-look-to-the-stars-for-advice-on-Old-Harry/1http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2011-11-21/article-2810307/Fire-away-common-sense/1Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:38:46 -0500Bang, bang, bang. It can be heard coming from behind just about every tree in the province this time of year. Not surprising, since Newfoundlanders and Labradorians love their big- and small-game hunting, and ‘tis the season.http://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2011-11-21/article-2810307/Fire-away-common-sense/1editor@gulfnews.caEditorialhttp://www.gulfnews.ca/Opinion/Editorial/2011-11-21/article-2810307/Fire-away-common-sense/1