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When insurance coverage is most needed, this is when it ends for seniors. At age 70, we can no longer buy coverage for disability/life insurance coverage if we choose to purchase an item through...
In the May 16 edition of The Reporter, I read of the plans to bring Strait-Richmond Hospital up to current acceptable standards. The structure is closing in on its 40th birthday and I suggest we consider an alternative use for...
I am writing in response to an article published in the November 16 edition of The Reporter entitled “Guysborough Warden wants apology from Inverness MLA.” On October 8, I asked a question during Question Period about municipal expenses in Guysborough (the purchase...
Approximately four years ago, I had a gallbladder attack following cancer surgery. I was taken to the Strait-Richmond Hospital’s emergency department, where I was immediately treated and sent to Antigonish for surgery. I...
Dugald (Dougall/Dugal) Buchanan McNab arrived in Cape Breton in 1810 upon a flood of Scottish immigration. His Lanarkshire family – father, Charles W., mother Janet Buchanan, brother Robert, and sister Frances – settled on...
While experiencing the effects of a literal force of nature, whereby I lost a considerable amount of money, I also came to experience the kinship of my neighbours. Many are familiar with the account of the event on that...
As if the sacrifices made in the name freedom by those before us are not enough, there are many other valid, if not equal, reasons to make a mark this election. On October 17,...
Editor’s note: The following letter was sent to Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil, as well as Strait area MLAs Allan MacMaster, Alana Paon, Lloyd Hines, and Randy Delorey. My family and community are grateful...
Some elderly readers will relate to my story, but a doubt may linger in some other readers’ minds. Life changed for me between1949 and 2023. My memories start with my great grandparents, grandparents, father,...
Many of us prefer to think that we are quite capable of surviving on our own; however, that is not how we have evolved. All living things need assistance to exist. When we pare that thought down...




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