In the days leading up to Halloween, we got an ugly reminder that few things are scarier than a coward with an agenda.
Over a four-day span, packages containing pipe bombs showed up in the mailboxes, residences and workplaces of...
It may have been the final day of Celtic Colours 2017, but on the second Saturday afternoon in October, it felt like the music was just getting started.
We gathered at the Evergreen Seniors Club in Port Hawkesbury for one...
For the first time in several months, I don’t have a single topic for my column, so I’ll hit on several things over the next 800 words.
Mind you, these seemingly-random thoughts all have one common thread – they’re all...
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...
As always, when beginning a column about our public broadcaster, I’ll point out that I’m a freelance contributor to the Cape Breton edition of CBC Radio One’s Information Morning program.
Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, I’d...
I’m amazed by the time that has already elapsed since the provincial Education Minister announced that his government had accepted the recommendation of an independent consultant – in a report filed only 24 hours earlier - to dissolve Nova...
I’ve come to love and appreciate candles much more in
my adult life than I did in my childhood and adolescence.
Far from being the birthday-cake wish-granters or
church-service adornments of my younger years, I’ve found...
This would not be a typical tourist stop, even though it was happening in one of the most historically and culturally significant parts of Atlantic Canada, and arguably, the entire country.
There we were, me and Cathy and five members...
It’s an old cliché: “A stranger’s just a friend you haven’t met.”
Well, it WAS an old cliché, anyway – before Cathy and I made our first trip to St. John’s.
It was already a special occasion because neither of us...
“Good morning, everybody, and welcome to our weekly government caucus meeting. You might recall that we had a little surprise last week, when a couple of our MPs dressed up as those loveable old balcony hecklers from The Muppet...