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...
“Why can’t you wait until I’m dead?” my grandmother would laugh, half joking and half annoyed.
“Don’t talk like that! You’re not dead, you’re here to tell me what can be thrown out. If this place ever caught fire, it’d...
I’m winding down my tenth year of providing municipal council reports for CBC Cape Breton’s Information Morning, and I may have hit a first – amazing the host.
Sitting in for Steve Sutherland last week, Information Morning news anchor Yvonne...
It is time to investigate the homes and families in the Robins-Cap Auguet area back in 1935.
In 1935 the first house in Robins, on the left or south side of the road, was...
The Cheticamp River originates on the northern plateau of Cape Breton and flows some 25 or so kilometres westward to the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Beginning in peat bogs, barrens and small lakes on top of the plateau, it starts...
People in rural Nova Scotia continue to express frustration with the speed of their Internet connection. What is the broadband industry and government doing to fix this?
A recent announcement by Eastlink holds promise for Inverness County, provided you live...
Queer Eye is back with a new Fab Five. Who’s excited?
I can say while I was not exactly excited when I heard the news, I was pleased and decided to give the recent episodes a shot on Netflix. For...
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...
A disclaimer: I have never read Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables series, nor have I seen the Charlottetown festival’s long-running musical version.
Now that some of you have already begun the arrangements for my deportation from Canada (or...
When I was in university, I walked into my apartment one night after work and my oldest son, just a baby at the time, was asleep for the night. I was going to school full time and working six...