The very rules governing commercial fisheries around Atlantic Canada, can help First Nations communities gain a stronger foothold in the industry. On March 3, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, Bernadette Jordan announced that the...
On March 5, Premier Iain Rankin announced a $3 million compensation fund to resolve cases that involve parties with competing claims and help speed up efforts under the Land Titles Initiative, which was established in 2017 to...
A proposed multi-purpose outdoor recreation park in Arichat will be an excellent use of space that has gone unused for far too long. During Richmond Municipal Council’s committee of the whole on Feb. 9...
After many Strait area patients lost their doctors in recent years, comes news that more people will be without a primary care physician. In a Facebook post on Feb. 3., Dr. Steven DeRoche confirmed...
It was alarming to hear that the company in charge of the television system at the Strait-Richmond Hospital took six weeks to restore service. On Dec. 12, it was confirmed that Health Hub Solutions...
The related issues of developing walking trails, establishing housing priorities, and setting the stage for more housing are clearly at the top of the agenda for the Town of Port Hawkesbury. That’s not to...
Recent funding announced for local schools, especially the major project in Pomquet, will be well spent, but it was unfortunate the area was left out of other funding announcements. During a virtual press conference...
It was chilling to learn that an Antigonish man arrested for impersonating a police officer was found with a replica police vehicle. What was even more unsettling is that the RCMP believe he may have pulled over...
Businesses close all the time. Here in the Strait area, that was a regular occurrence after the economic down-turn of the early 1990s; when fish plants closed, businesses shuttered, and young people and families...
Although new cases of COVID-19 continue to be recorded daily in Nova Scotia, and some cases have even cropped up in the Eastern Zone, local and provincial numbers are low enough to allow all municipal councils in...




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