We hear Cabot
Links is a proposing a commercial airport for Inverness, suggesting
it would help attract more people to Cape Breton Island’s tourism attractions.
It appears the $18 million to pay for it would be ours. No word on...
By: Corrine MacLean, summer assistant at the Strait Area Museum
The Strait Area Museum, formally known as the Port
Hastings Museum and Archives, hosted its annual square dance on June 13.
Attendants gathered at the gazebo,...
I’ve worked several newsrooms in my time, always at
small rural papers and always as the only man on staff. As a consequence, I
became the de facto sports reporter, expected to assemble an entire section of
the paper with...
Almost two years in, there’s no doubt the #MeToo
movement has brought about change. Women have felt empowered to tell their
stories, and companies have made improvements to their harassment policies.
People in a variety of fields, of a variety...
The following is a newspaper account of the circumstances
surrounding the murder of Clarence F. Glover of Waltham, Massachusetts in 1908
and the subsequent trial of Hattie LeBlanc accused of the crime.
“Many more things than...
I’m not fond of hypothetical situations.
I don’t read a lot of the articles foisted on me from
the depths of social media and the internet, because they deal with
generalities, half-truths, speculation and, frequently, outlandish...
Editor’s note:
The following was the winning submission in a Letter to the Editor contest for
international students within the Strait regional centre for education.
Being in Canada is a dream come true. It was the...
As has been stated in this very space in the
not-too-distant past, there is room for only one fully-functioning airport in
Inverness County at the moment.
The day before a meeting of Inverness Municipal Council
on June...
“I suffered from chronic back
pain and sciatica for a number of years. I tried everything from surgery to
complementary medicine, all to no avail. I was astounded when I got off the
table after only 45 minutes and my...
You do not have the right to a healthy environment…
There, I said it. Neither Nova Scotia nor Canada at
large has ever formally recognized your right to clean air, clean water, clean
soil, or any...