Businesses close all the time.
Here in the Strait area, that was a regular occurrence after the economic down-turn of the early 1990s; when fish plants closed, businesses shuttered, and young people and families...
The Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal (DTIR) deserves criticism for its inability to repair the Lennox Passage Lift Bridge before the start of the boating season.
Recently, Lennox Passage Yacht Club commodore Teddy Poirier said he was told by...
The provincial government is rightly receiving a lot of criticism of its new plan for the sale of cannabis.
On January 30, Mark Furey, Attorney General and Minister of Justice, along with Bret Mitchell, president and CEO of the Nova...
The next federal election is going to take place on October 21, 2019 and it is shaping up to be a very competitive one.
With the Liberals and Conservatives jockeying for first place in national polls, the NDP struggling for...
Although it is disheartening that the police
investigation into the sudden death of Cassidy Bernard has yielded no results,
there are some hopeful signs starting to appear.
On October 24, the first anniversary of Bernard’s
death, approximately...
The recent meeting between councils with the Town of Antigonish and Municipality of Antigonish County is a harbinger of things to come.
On January 10, the municipal councils met at the People’s Place Library in Antigonish.
Antigonish Mayor Laurie Boucher said...
The Strait Area Chamber of Commerce (SACC) hosted its annual State of the Strait Region Business Update at the Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre on March 21.
SACOC executive director Amanda Mombourquette explained the update is an opportunity to showcase accomplishments...
In the past few weeks, the Government of Canada has
announced or confirmed a dizzying amount of funding for new or existing
programs and infrastructure affecting residents of the Strait area.
Three weeks ago, the feds...
Recently released data from the 2021 Federal Census has confirmed that the Strait area’s three decade population decline has ended.
Within the counties of Guysborough, Antigonish, Inverness, and Richmond, the total population was recorded...
With the Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ Conservation and Protection Branch admitting to “tensions” in this year’s lobster fishery, the question arises; what happens next?
According to press release issued by the Assembly of...