ANTIGONISH: The Diocese of Antigonish has officially ordained its new chief shepherd.
Most Reverend Wayne Joseph Kirkpatrick was
installed as the 10th Bishop of the Diocese of Antigonish during an
installation ceremony Monday at St....
GUYSBOROUGH: The emergency room doctor who
assessed retired Cpl. Lionel Desmond two days before he purchased a
military-style carbine and killed his mother, wife, and 10-year-old daughter
before turning the gun on himself, testified on Monday that the veteran wasn’t
considering...
GUYSBOROUGH: The Afghanistan war veteran
who shot and killed his mother, wife and 10-year-old daughter in their Upper
Big Tracadie home on Jan. 3, 2017 did so from approximately one-metre away, a
pathologist testified on January 30.
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, on Wednesday at...
ANTIGONISH: Rinaujan Kananesan, founder of Renewly Initiatives Inc., says he
wouldn’t be where he is today without networking, and meeting the people he has
so far along his journey.
Speaking at the second annual Connect @...
GUYSBOROUGH: What started out as a call to
a suicide in progress, responding officers dispatched to the Desmond residence
in Upper Big Tracadie, discovered the former Afghanistan war veteran had
fatally shot his mother, wife and daughter, before turning the...
GUYSBOROUGH: The Afghanistan war veteran who purchased
a rifle to use later that same day to kill his family and then himself were
victims of “systemic failures” that created barriers to accessing mental health
care, Nova Scotia’s chief medical examiner...
PORT HOOD: Roughly 9,000 vehicles cross the Canso
Causeway every day to enter Cape Breton, which has become a world class tourism
destination. Sadly, the first experience those drivers have is far from world
class.
That was...
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...
ANTIGONISH: St. Francis Xavier University has signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Maritime
Launch Services Ltd. – the company looking to construct and operate
a private, commercial space launch site in Canso – for research and rural
economic diversification.