PORT HAWKESBURY: The social stigma behind cannabis has seen a shift within the past few years, and now with cannabis legalized, business owners and operators are uncertain as to what this means for both employers and employees.
The Strait Area...
SYDNEY: Two ocean sunfish, known under the genus and species name mola mola, have washed up on the shores of the Bras d’Or Lake in the past month. The first was discovered on the East Bay sandbar in mid-November...
INVERNESS: The Inverness Development Association (IDA) was given provincial-level recognition for making trips to the beach possible for folks with disabilities, seniors, and anyone else with mobility issues.
The association was given a Human Rights Award during a ceremony at...
ANTIGONISH: A representative from the Strait Regional Centre for Education (SRCE) says they plan to offer a program to increase pro-social skills and positive identity in adolescent girls to a broader audience during the program’s launch event at StFX...
HALIFAX: As soon as the ground freezes, 700-acres of land along the Strait of Canso designated for the Melford Atlantic Gateway Terminal is scheduled to be cleared, another step towards building the proposed container terminal in Guysborough County.
Following the...
ANTIGONISH: Operating inside the walls of the former National Philatelic Centre, an unlikely partnership between the Canadian Association for Community Living (CACL) and Royal Canadian Legion Branch 59 has already started to garner provincial attention.
Representatives from CACL, the legion...
MONASTERY: Police scouring a field, combing the ground for signs of a missing person; it’s a scenario no one wants to see, but for search and rescue teams that is a scenario that can be all too real.
The Strait...
HALIFAX: A company with plans to put Richmond County on the craft cannabis map expects to start the hiring process this summer and have their facility constructed by the fall.
The Headland Cultivation Inc. co-founder and president David Burton told...
PORT HAWKESBURY: From developing the first successful commercial maple syrup business on Cape Breton, Jim Mustard is looking to continue to blaze the trail by being a part of a group of individuals looking to start the first cannabis...
PORT HASTINGS: Four weeks after the loss of a local Indigenous woman, family, friends and community members across Cape Breton Island marched together in solidarity across the Canso Causeway last Wednesday.
More than 400 demonstrators gathered on the Cape Breton...