INVERNESS: There’s a classic sports analogy from the 1989 movie Field of Dreams; “if you build it, they will come,” and that’s exactly what one entrepreneur is doing, with a bit of a personal twist.
ANTIGONISH: Residents in the Town of Antigonish will soon benefit from a regional emergency shelter.
Unanimously, councilors voted to support the establishment of a regional shelter located at the Heatherton Community Centre, in the...
HALIFAX: Public hearings probing April 2020’s mass shooting in rural Nova Scotia are putting a spotlight on major missteps by the RCMP that might have lessened the tragedy or averted it altogether.
Two major...
PORT HAWKESURY: Discussing the ways to help species at
risk was at the forefront of the agenda on February 26, during the “Species at
Risk Recovery Action Forum” held at the Shannon Studio.
“The recovery action...
ST. PETER’S: Music, food, friends, and memories were plentiful on October 19, as a weekly gathering of adults with various mental health conditions and related issues celebra
ted a decade of operation.
The Adult Drop In Group held a 10th-anniversary celebration...
MABOU: A whole lot still has to be worked out, but Sara
Rankin is hopeful subpar Internet service won’t result in her needing to move Sara Rankin Creative, her graphic
design and web design business, from its Mabou home.
HALIFAX: A former lawyer based in Halifax is working on plans to grow cannabis in Lennox Passage.
David Burton, co-founder of Headland Cultivation Company has been working full-time with his mother and business partner Ann Wilkie since the fall of 2016 to...
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...
SYDNEY: Cape Breton University is pleased to announce that Dr. Andrew Parnaby, an Associate Professor of History, has been appointed as Dean, School of Arts and Social Sciences.
“The School of Arts and Social Sciences is a vibrant academic community...
ANTIGONISH: Five local Indigenous people were featured in the panel discussion “Learning Lodge: Honouring Indigenous Women” last week as part of International Women’s Week.
The event, which was hosted by the StFX Anthropology Department and the Antigonish Women’s Resource Centre...