PORT HOOD: “Has anyone here seen the ghost ship? Or the burning ship?”
That question was asked by Cathy Gillies, an expert on local history, as she stood before a crowd of visitors to the Chestico Museum.
The discussion of the...
By: Raissa Tetanish
TRURO: Lisa Banfield says she and her family members feel for the victims of the April 2020 mass shooting and their families.
“We’re not angry they’re angry,”...
ANTIGONISH: The director of facilities management at StFX University says they’re beyond happy that Mulroney Hall has finally been given LEED® Gold status.
Leon MacLellan, who is responsible for the design, construction, maintenance and...
ANTIGONISH: Officials with the Nova Scotia Health
Authority (NSHA) say five family medicine and four specialist positions have
been filled in the Eastern Zone.
During the authority’s board of directors meeting in
Antigonish last Thursday, Tim Guest,...
HALIFAX: Sites have been selected for new family medicine residency spaces in Nova Scotia, an important component of the plan to provide more Nova Scotians access to a family doctor.
Six spaces will be at a new training site in...
ARICHAT: St. Anne Community and Nursing Care Centre in Arichat received a Canadian Forces Liaison Council Employer Recognition Award.
Nova Scotia Lieutenant Governor and Isle Madame native Arthur LeBlanc made the presentation at Government House in Halifax on March 6....
HALIFAX: Provincial and federal officials are in stark disagreement over the federal government’s implementation of a carbon tax.
On Nov. 22 the Government of Canada announced what it called “A Fair and Affordable Pollution...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Municipal and First Nations leaders from throughout Cape Breton gathered in Port Hawkesbury last week to discuss issues affecting the region.
“It’s an organic discussion about where we are as an island,” said Port Hawkesbury mayor, Brenda Chisholm-Beaton,...
STRAIT AREA: The regional executive director for the Strait Regional Centre for Education (SRCE) says they have had a successful transition back to in-person learning after an extended winter break, and a week of at-home learning to...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Local residents put on their denim and took to the streets last Wednesday advocating for greater awareness of sexual violence.
The Strait Area Women’s Place (SAWP) hosted its second annual Denim Day march on April 25 to support...