The Boreal covers something like 60 per cent of
Canada’s landmass, dominated by spruce, aspen, larch and pine, among others.
It stretches from Alaska to Newfoundland, and houses
the majority of the species which define Canadian...
We don’t know as much about the owls (Mi’kmaq:
ku’ku’kwes) of the Bras d’Or Lake Biosphere as we do about other birds.
I expect that may be due to the fact that observers are
not out...
Put simply, conservation works. When government takes
the time to understand a species’ decline and cooperate with local NGOs to
enact timely and meaningful change, the most at-risk species under their
purview recover. Go figure.
A 2005...
I’ve learned, through trial and error and a few tough
heartbreaks, that you can find a silver lining in almost any situation.
Some circumstances have been more difficult than
others, true, and these required the passage...
Arichat, 1935: We are now on the lower road, on the
water side, moving east at the store of A.D. Samson.
A building located on the west side of the A.D. Samson
store must at some...
It’s been awhile since Santa Claus last revealed his
official gift list for the naughty and nice newsmakers in the Strait area,
across Canada and around the world.
However, as some of you might know, I’ve...
Are Canadians being intentionally misled and being kept
uninformed by their governments?
For example, are the equalization transfers and the
healthcare transfers being manipulated by governments for future outcomes that
are not in the best interest of...
While provincial officials plan a permanent fix for the
dangerous Highway 4 intersection at Beech Hill Road, hopefully temporary
measures can be taken to ensure there are no more serious collisions.
On November 9 at around...
“The ancient Romans, for example, believed that eating more than
one large meal, per day, was unhealthy.”
This from the study, “Fasting as a Therapy in Neurological
Disease” from the US National Library of Medicine/National Institutes...
Inverness County Cares (ICC), founded in 2012, is a
charitable organization, based in Inverness County.
Our mission is to provide for the needs of children in
desperate need. Our current project is to assist two schools...