Chewe Mupenzeni Lewis, an albino boy with low vision, was born on Aug. 8, 2007 in the Kasma district of the Northern Province of Zambia.
He is the third born child (and the only...
After winter drift ice floated up the Strait of Canso, it would disperse into the harbours of Arichat, Canso, Mulgrave, and Guysborough.For mariners and other seafarers, winter meant contending with ice floes.This northern drift ice would make...
Now that a review of federal electoral boundaries is underway, this is the time to take the Glace Bay area from the current Cape Breton-Canso riding.
Strait area residents will have their say at...
With community determination and input Inverness County has grown and flourished; Canada’s Musical Coast, Celtic Shores Coastal Trail, but now a company wants to place massive industrial turbines 200-plus meters tall in the Creignish Mountain range.
On April 11, our corporate group of Nova Scotian companies forwarded a letter to Nova Scotia Minister of Finance Allan MacMaster in response to two new taxes which are now being imposed on Nova Scotian non-residents.
Given the major issues on the minds Nova Scotians currently, such as access to health care and climate change, consolidation between two municipalities (Antigonish town and county) may appear to be a simple matter and of minor...
In 1897 Bertram Bourinot began the Richmond County Record, a periodical that lasted for almost 80 years. Marshall Bourinot worked with his father and continued the paper into the 1970s.
The following excerpts are...
I’m writing in response to the recent tax regime the Progressive Conservative government has put on out-of-province home owners. My company is a solutions company developed to help businesses and organizations with development, strategy, and management.
If people are remembered for even a single gesture, it’s safe to assume the late John MacLellan would be proud that his gift will be honoured for many years.
In his will, MacLellan left...
The reaction to the province’s approval of new taxes on non-resident landowners has been greeted with a surprising amount of skepticism.
On April 8, the provincial government passed the Non-Resident Deed Transfer and Property...