Looking back over the decades, and indeed, centuries,
it is amazing to observe the numerous family names that once were common in the
Isle Madame area.
One of those names is Murphy. This surname was once
very...
One day over the Christmas holidays, three of the four
MacDonalds were in separate rooms on the second level of our house, chatting
and laughing about a topic I can’t even remember.
In the midst of...
For years now, members of the conservation community
and even anonymous government employees have expressed to me their worry that
exactly this would happen - that years of lethargy from our provincial
government would result, finally, in their abandoning the...
In a recent Canadian
Press article, an interviewee blamed “radical environmental groups”
for a downturn in the number of new oil wells being drilled this year across
Canada, and sluggish overall growth for fossil fuels. The quote stuck with me.
Most people agree that finding love is no easy mission,
and for the many people who spend most of their waking hours working, the
office may serve as the perfect setting for a romantic relationship.
It’s...
In 1897 Bertram Bourinot began the Richmond County Record, a
periodical that lasted for almost 80 years. Marshall Bourinot worked with his
father and continued the paper into the 1970s. The following excerpts are taken
from the Richmond County Record
of...
There’s something eerily familiar about the tale of Northern Pulp and the recent events
surrounding its uncertain future.
Of course, that’s because we’ve lived so much of it,
right here in the Strait of Canso.
St. Peter’s and Port Hawkesbury restaurants have common
problems with parking lot safety.
Well-marked, but poorly designed signage while trying
to enter or exit the parking lots make for an unsafe entrance or exit for their
customers.
Communication efforts with Mulgrave Fire Chief Mike
Breen have included efforts to curb his practice of executing spends without
purchase orders, seeking payments without adequate paperwork and failure to
account for the operational and regulatory status of the department.
Amid local and provincial attempts to fight problems in
the health care system, it was very disappointing to learn that two emergency departments
in the Strait area were closed a total of 1,664-hours during 2018-19.
According...