Year two at the Arichat seminary/school saw an increase in registration.
The seminarians, some 15 or so, boarded at the old “Hubert Big House.” Forty students enrolled in the common school and academy. Though...
There is a weak argument to be made for any kind of closure of the Canso Causeway even amid the second wave of COVID-19 in Nova Scotia.
During the regular monthly meeting of Inverness...
I have forwarded this note to the leadership of Cape Breton Island’s municipalities and First Nations.
It is encouraging to see discussions recently with respect to Cape Breton’s municipal and First Nation leaders calling...
The provincial government deserves credit for not shutting down the entire province, even as new cases of COVID-19 continue to be confirmed on a daily basis.
On November 24, Premier Stephen McNeil and Dr....
One of the most powerful messages we hear repeatedly during the COVID-19 pandemic is the notion of being kind to one another.
We hear it expressed by Chief Medical Officer Dr. Rob Strang and...
Having secured adequate funding for his fledgling school, Bishop MacKinnon realized that the success of this venture now rested on procuring a competent teaching staff.
He convened a group at Arichat called “the friends...
Although J.M Keynes was an economist, his words are also appropriate to our COVID-19 pandemic: “When my information changes, I alter my conclusions.”
What we know about this virus has advanced since it first...
Despite the need, this region will not be receiving new Emergency Health Services (EHS) vehicles.
Under a one-year pilot project called the Medical Transport Service, the province announced on November 24 that it purchased...
Today, new wind and solar projects are the cheapest forms of electricity on Earth; five times cheaper than coal, five times cheaper than nuclear energy, and three times cheaper than natural gas.
These technologies...
How did it come to be that StFX University got its start in Arichat?
In 1760 Britain conquered New France and one of the consequences of this development was to precipitate the exodus of...