PORT HAWKESBURY: A federal lawyer has defended the role of Veterans Affairs Canada in the lead up to the triple murder-suicide that rocked the small, tight-knit, historically Black community of Upper Big Tracadie on Jan. 3, 2017.
WEST BAY: Two local students have joined a select group of young Canadians that will each receive scholarships of $100,000 over the next four years.
SAERC student Janine Lock and Dr. John Hugh Gillis Regional High School student Kerilyn Kennedy...
ARICHAT: Cape Breton University held a community conversation with President David C. Dingwall to discuss the university’s five-year strategic plan at the council chambers here last Wednesday.
The strategic planning event, which is part of the university’s strategic planning process,...
PORT HAWKESBURY: After 54 years of public service and less than a week before his 80th birthday, former Port Hawkesbury Mayor Billy Joe MacLean gathered with a few hundred friends on November 19 at the Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre.
The...
GUYSBOROUGH: Traditional African drumming and voices lifted into the air gave way to the unveiling of a unique community project, as the Strait regional school board (SRSB) celebrated African Heritage Month prior to its regular monthly board meeting on...
LOUISDALE: A local woman has received a special keepsake from the brother she lost 73 years ago.
Margaret White was recently given an Italian bedspread that her brother Raymond Goyetche sent home to Arichat as a gift to their mother...
STRAIT AREA: Sean Fraser says he found it moving to witness Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s virtual address to Parliament.
The Immigration Minister and Central Nova MP was referring to Zelensky’s appeal last week for...
ANTIGONISH: The Town of Antigonish will be applying to a federal program that incentives local government improving their housing supply.
Mayor Laurie Boucher told reporters following their regular, council meeting on July 17; council...
NOVA SCOTIA: Changes to the Province of Nova Scotia’s rent supplement program will expand eligibility for low-income seniors and put more money in the pockets of seniors who receive the supplement.
Minister of Municipal...
By: Raissa Tetanish
DEBERT: “You’re my angel.”
That’s a sentence Crystal Blair has heard on more than
one occasion over the last couple of weeks while offering free meals to
truckers amid...