(30 April 07) In the midst of a major organizing campaign, Halifax Casino workers graphically testify to astonishing working conditions and wages being imposed on them. Lifting the veil of silence, they are openly stripping bare the glitz and glamorous facade of Casino Nova Scotia, the lucrative milch cow of the Province of Nova Scotia and the centrepiece of its tourism strategy. Parts One and Two by TONY SEED and INA BOUTILIER

(29 Mar) Residents of Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore are worried that an Australian-owned gold mine planned for Moose River will have environmental consequences, especially on clear water flowing to communities downstream. KIM THOMPSON

(1 May) Here is an old, familiar story: workers, farmers, their families and communities are being asked to bear the burden of the striving of a large food multinational to maximize its record profits, and the government leaps forward, not to sit idly by, but to consciously participate in the placating of that monopoly. News Commentary by TONY SEED and ENA BOUTILIER

Like lessons learned with eggs, we should know not to put all our chickens in one basket, or factory. Or even two. Nova Scotia's commercial chicken farmers are about to pay the price for ignoring that advice. DIRK VAN LOON

(23 Feb) US invasion scenario has identified several thousand targets inside Iran as part of a "Shock and Awe" Blitzkrieg, which is now in its final planning stages. MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY

Especially since the start of the Palestinian intifada in the late 1980s, a widespread movement of commemoration sprang up around the world in solidarity with the Palestinian people on this solemn occasion. The editors of the Dossier on Palestine.

(3 Apr) If these animals lived on land there would be a global outcry. But the great beasts roaming the savannahs of the open seas summon no such support. GEORGE MONBIOT