Editor’s note: The following letter was written to Catholics in the Diocese of Antigonish.
On Thursday, June 18 we received word from Dr. Robert Strang, the Chief Medical Officer of Health for Nova Scotia,...
By: Yvonne Fox
Why are museums an important asset to communities you ask?
Thank goodness we had the foresight years ago to have columns from the Victoria Inverness Bulletin typed...
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...
A report released last week by the Nova Scotia Federation of Municipalities (NSFM) is providing a real glimpse at how COVID-19 is affecting local municipalities.
The report states that Nova Scotia’s municipalities are facing...
As prosecutors, Crown attorneys of the Nova Scotia Public Prosecution Service are committed to the fair treatment of all members of the public who encounter the criminal justice system, including African Nova Scotians.
We...
By: Yvonne Fox
How many of us do you think would be living here 65 years later had the Canso Causeway and Canal not been constructed?
Here at the Strait...
In the parish of River Bourgeois, there was only one resident doctor early in the century.
The doctors were in St. Peter’s. There was Dr. Bissett, son of “Old Bissett” from River Bourgeois, next...
The federal equalization program as administered does raise some questions for citizens in the economically struggling areas of Nova Scotia.
Why is the town of Mulgrave probably the next town to dissolve? Why have...
Editor’s note: The following letter was sent to Bill Blair, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, as well as Nova Scotia Attorney General Mark Furey.
Dear Ministers Blair and Furey,
Local demonstrations joined the global call for change in the wake of George Floyd’s death while in police custody last month in Minnesota.
On June 5, Sasha Repko and her brother Talen walked from...