By: Jackie Jardine
CARIBOU RIVER: Mary May Simon had no idea growing up as a little girl in a remote Inuit village in northern Quebec that she would someday...
ANTIGONISH: After a year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the seventh annual Helping the Helpers Awareness Education Day for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is scheduled for Sept. 11 at StFX.
The day is...
STRAIT AREA: For the second time since 2003, the province will have a summer election.
Premier Iain Rankin officially dropped the writ on July 17, after meeting with Lt.-Gov. Arthur LeBlanc to dissolve the...
CREIGNISH: The lack of reliable internet service in Inverness County has a number of locals hot under the collar.
“It’s hard to believe this is the case after all these years,” said John MacNeil,...
ANTIGONISH: Concerns over the state of Old Maryvale Road have been heard by Minister of Transportation and Active Transit Lloyd Hines, but nothing is scheduled to be done about it.
During Antigonish County’s regular...
PORT HASTINGS: Nova Scotia’s NDP are claiming the governing Liberals are only pretending to care about important issues as the provincial election gets underway.
The day before Premier Iain Rankin called a provincial election...
STRAIT AREA: A partnership between two health care recruitment groups on Cape Breton has created an electronic mailing list for landlords to subscribe to, and support the attraction, recruitment and retention of health care professionals in the...
by Andrew Wright
Marine Biologist
HALIFAX: Even if you’ve never seen a drone in flight, you’ve seen the footage they capture for movies, sporting events and the typical advertisement for the...
HALIFAX: Like many during the coronavirus pandemic, former Nova Scotia politician and lifelong environmentalist Megan Leslie is having a tough time avoiding single-use plastics.
“I try hard,” says Leslie, a full-time environmental steward since...
PORT HASTINGS: A survivor of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School and local Mi’kmaq elder says a new sign welcoming people to Unama’ki (Cape Breton) in her native language is something she never thought she’d see.