After six years in government, the McNeil Liberals are
transforming from the spend-thrift deficit hawks who first took office.
On March 26, Finance Minister Karen Casey tabled Budget
2019-2020, the government’s fourth consecutive balanced budget, which...
As if the lessons alone from the Hadhad family of
Antigonish are not proof enough of the social and economic benefits from
immigration, along come two businesses in Port Hawkesbury to drive the point
home further.
On...
The Town of Port Hawkesbury and the Municipality of the County of Richmond are joining forces on a couple of fronts.
During the regular monthly meeting of Port Hawkesbury Town Council on March 5, councillors passed a motion from an...
The dissolution process for the Town of Mulgrave is being held up, and not for a good reason.
Following the recent regular monthly meeting of Mulgrave Town Council, Mayor Ralph Hadley commented on a meeting with the Municipality of the...
Today is World News Day, an ambitious, worldwide initiative intended to draw public attention to the role that journalists play in providing trustworthy news and information that serves citizens and democracy.
World News Day...
Although it doesn’t seem that way, we are weeks into a federal election, and it seems as though Canadians are only now starting to pay attention.
That is unfortunate because the stakes couldn’t be...
One of the greatest athletes this region has ever produced passed away late last month at the age of 71.
Long-time baseball player, teacher, coach, and volunteer Barry Marchand passed away on April 25...
Plans by the provincial government to re-open all public schools on September 8 are being soundly criticized by many stakeholders.
During a media briefing on August 14, Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development...
Although it was a year ago, it seems like only yesterday when the world stopped and realized that the serious virus we’d been hearing about for weeks was about to become a world-wide problem.
A 32-year-old woman was killed on August 12. Her name was Heather Heyer. She was struck by a vehicle in Charlottesville, Virginia. Nineteen other people were injured in the incident.
The reason Heyer was in Charlottesville was to counter-protest a...