Richard Zurawski

It has been a frustrating week for me. The aftermath of the terrible earthquake and ensuing tsunami was bad enough without the horrible TV coverage about the difficulties with the Japanese nuclear facilities. Headline, after headline, after headline screamed about meltdown, clouds of nuclear radiation, Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, over and over again with [...]

This past week the son of our Maritime Morning talk show host, Jordi Morgan, had a run in with a tree while enjoying what is arguably Canada’s most popular winter sport, sledding. And the while his injuries, a fractured skull and concussion, are serious, they could have been much, much worse. We are exhorted time [...]

One of the most exciting advances in science is now taking place in the realm of astronomy. New technological advances have made it possible for the very first time, to verify what astronomers have suspected for centuries, that the many if not most of the stars of the firmament are orbited by planets. And with [...]

There has been, in the past few months, a great hew and cry about the proliferation of coyote sightings in Halifax and environs. It seems they are everywhere. And from the excited reports in the media, it seems as though we are under dire threat from coyotes everywhere. As soon as a coyote is sited, [...]