Everybody admits to a quirk or two, and mine happens to be a predilection for dollar stores. I love browsing their aisles. I like to tour them whenever I’m in a strange city, or just an obscure shopping plaza...
International Women’s Day felt a little different this year.
For one thing, there seemed to be an air of hopelessness to it. Women have made incredible strides over the past year, on the local, national and international scale, and yet...
Nova Scotia Public Works has put lines in almost everywhere except Arichat-West Arichat-Petit de Grat. Why?
At night, I come home sometimes after 12 o’clock and if there is heavy fog, which there is...
The Town of Port Hawkesbury recently broke from a stance taken by past councils in opposing plans for a by-pass in favour of an overhaul of the town’s main street.
On February 22, the town issued a press release claiming...
Trust is the most important part of a relationship, closely followed by communication. If you have those two things, everything else falls into place.
Canadians and all people should be skeptical of government power and should ask hard questions: What...
“May you live in interesting times” could be received as a fond wish, or be what it is claimed to be; a translation of a traditional curse. Be what it may, that expression is applicable to our...
Our family has proudly owned and enjoyed property in Long Point, Cape Breton since the turn of the 1800s and expect to do so well into the future. What draws us to this land; the beauty, peace...
Scotia Rainbow, aquaculture, fish farm, politics -
equals controversy and conflict. Such was the case with the short-lived Scotia
Rainbow aquaculture project in Arichat.
In the beginning, all was well; there was a shiny new
processing plant,...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently announced a federal government investment of $90 million to twin a 38-kilometre section of Highway 104 between Sutherland’s River and Antigonish.
The Prime Minister said the work on Highway 104 is about improving safety, creating...
Politics at any level is a difficult issue to digest
and discuss, because it seems to rely equally on numbers and personalities.
Here in Nova Scotia, we’ve had our share of distinct
personalities at both the...