A report released last week by the Nova Scotia Federation of Municipalities (NSFM) is providing a real glimpse at how COVID-19 is affecting local municipalities. The report states that Nova Scotia’s municipalities are facing...
As prosecutors, Crown attorneys of the Nova Scotia Public Prosecution Service are committed to the fair treatment of all members of the public who encounter the criminal justice system, including African Nova Scotians. We...
By: Yvonne Fox How many of us do you think would be living here 65 years later had the Canso Causeway and Canal not been constructed? Here at the Strait...
In the parish of River Bourgeois, there was only one resident doctor early in the century. The doctors were in St. Peter’s. There was Dr. Bissett, son of “Old Bissett” from River Bourgeois, next...
The federal equalization program as administered does raise some questions for citizens in the economically struggling areas of Nova Scotia. Why is the town of Mulgrave probably the next town to dissolve? Why have...
Editor’s note: The following letter was sent to Bill Blair, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, as well as Nova Scotia Attorney General Mark Furey. Dear Ministers Blair and Furey,
Local demonstrations joined the global call for change in the wake of George Floyd’s death while in police custody last month in Minnesota. On June 5, Sasha Repko and her brother Talen walked from...
Inverness County Cares members met many remarkable people at the Kawambwa School in Zambia. This month we have chosen Fancy, an albino teacher at the St Odilia School. His autobiography gives a sense of...
By: Yvonne Fox The lobbying for a permanent crossing at the Strait of Canso in 1883 and 1902 was motivated largely by a concern for the coal and steel industries which were located...
Green Island is located at the northeast entrance to Chedabucto Bay and the Strait of Canso, a busy sea-lane in the “days of wooden ships and iron men.” It is also an area of...




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