ANTIGONISH COUNTY: The author of a new novel with an interesting geographic flare says growing up, and still to this day, he has always been very interested in the place with a name that leaves a lot...
ST. GEORGE’S CHANNEL: The first ever Zenergy Electronic Music Festival took place from June 17 to June 20.
Inspiration Point Lodge, along the West Bay Highway just outside St. Peter’s, was used for the...
TORONTO: A local actress is celebrating a major accomplishment this week.
Allie MacDonald of Port Hawkesbury is the winner of a 2018 Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama for her work on CTV detective series Cardinal.
“I’m super...
ARICHAT: A local author has two new books available to the public.
In the late 1970s, Merrill Boudreau started indulging his interest in Isle Madame’s past with trips to the Nova Scotia Archives in...
HALIFAX: A community on Isle Madame is in a new documentary examining the effects of climate change.
Centering on efforts by the community of Gabarus to lobby the provincial and federal governments to replace an aging seawall, the documentary ONLY...
YELLOWKNIFE, NWT: A former resident of Grand River, now living in the Northwest Territories, has been nominated for a national teaching award.
Stephen Richardson, who teaches music at École St. Joseph School in Yellowknife,...
ARICHAT: For years, the people of Arichat delighted in the twice-daily chimes that peeled out from the carillon at St. John’s Anglican Church.
Save for a few short bursts last Christmas, however, the chimes have been silent since the church...
D’ESCOUSSE: Due to COVID-19, the 2019 Atlantic Journalism Awards gala evening in Halifax, Nova Scotia was cancelled this year, but the award winners were still announced on-line on May 8.
Among the Gold Medal...
PETIT DE GRAT: The forgotten history of some
Guysborough communities is now being recounted in a new book.
On November 6, the official book launch of The Forgotten Acadians… A Story of Discovery,
by Jude Avery...
HALIFAX: Rita Joe, well-known poet and writer born in We’koqma’q First Nation, will berecognized on Heritage Day 2023, which will be on Feb. 20 of next year.
Publishing her first collection of poetry in...