PORT HAWKESBURY: With food bank usage in Nova Scotia jumping by 20 per cent over the past year, food banks in the Strait area are getting a hand from two long-running grocery chains in addition to community groups and...
PORT HAWKESBURY: With a business consultant guiding them through the creative process and giving tips for their pitches, workshops got under way last week for potential entrants in a forthcoming contest designed to encourage the next wave of local...
ANTIGONISH: A long time community leader passed away last week.
Former Antigonish County Warden Russell Boucher passed away on May 22. The 65-year-old has been serving as warden since 2012 and served as a councillor in the community for 32...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Judge Paul Scovil’s final report and recommendations from the Desmond Fatality Inquiry will be released to the public on Jan. 31.
The fatality inquiry, which saw testimony from 70 witnesses over 56...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Local entrepreneurs pitched their business ideas to a live panel of judges last Thursday night, and three were selected to move on the final round of judging on November 23.
Thursday’s event was the second round of judging...
OTTAWA: The Government of Canada announced changes to the Employment Insurance (EI) program in the Strait area.
On August 20, Jean Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, said the changes will address the serious challenges faced by...
GRAND ANSE: The people of Richmond County want their riding back.
On September 14 at the Louisdale and Area Fire Hall in Grand Anse, residents and representatives of various organizations unanimously called for the Nova Scotia Electoral Boundaries Commission to...
PORT HAWKESBURY: The conservative estimate is that one in every six men has experienced sexual violence and, when statistics like that are considered, Wednesday’s forum on male victimization was a much-needed conversation.
“It was a fabulous day,” said Robert Wright,...
ANTIGONISH: The coordinator for Indigenous student affairs at StFX University says the university now providing all graduating students with degree parchments in Mi’kmaq will honour and recognize that the campus is located in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded territory...
HALIFAX: With the preparatory phase of an independent review of Nova Scotia’s forest practices set to get under way this month, the provincial Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is offering few details as to the nature of this review’s...