HALIFAX: It tasted just as sweet as the chocolate his family has been making for the past 30-years. Tareq Hadhad, the founder and CEO of his family’s Antigonish-based chocolate company, Peace by Chocolate, along with 49 other...
POTLOTEK FIRST NATION: It is expected that funding for the Mi’kmaw Economic Benefits Office will help link Indigenous youth in Cape Breton with jobs of the future. On Nov. 10, Jaime Battiste, Parliamentary Secretary...
PORT HAWKESBURY: The Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) has announced there will be no programs that will be fully on-campus for the 2020-21 academic year and StFX is scheduled to make an announcement on Friday.
WHYCOCOMAGH: A Cape Breton business with a unique plan for recruiting new employees continues to draw interest from people around the world. In 2016, Heather Austin and her sister Sandee MacLean, co-owners of The Farmer’s Daughter Country Market, decided to...
GUYSBOROUGH: The lead investigator into the deaths of Afghanistan war veteran and his family detailed the chain of events, including the steps the former soldier took and the level of planning that led to the triple murder-suicide.
By: Janet Whitman HALIFAX: As the first anniversary approaches for last April’s senseless tragedy that claimed 22 victims, a municipal councillor from the rural community where the shooting rampage started says it’s a...
By Steve Goodwin NOVA SCOTIA: More people are recognizing the importance of Truth and Reconciliation Day beyond First Nations communities. It comes as the federal government passed legislation earlier this...
GUYSBOROUGH: The municipality is hoping the federal and provincial governments will help fund a proposed multi-purpose facility. Municipality of the District of Guysborough (MODG) councillor Blair George says “the time is now” when it comes to the proposed Chedabucto Lifestyle...
Editor’s note: This project is the result of months of interviewing, data gathering, and data analysis by students in the investigative workshop and MJ program at the school of journalism at the University of King’s College. The reporting and writing...
PORT HAWKESBURY: With the full roll-out of SchoolsPlus across the province, local education officials marked the fifth anniversary of the program in all Strait area schools. On October 10, the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development...




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