In years past when jobs were scarce and many were forced to move away, increasing immigration was a tough sell, but now, as the population ages and employers continue looking for workers, it seems like a logical...
The decision to move the murder and child abandonment trial of Austin Isadore to the new court in the Wagmatcook First Nation should be reviewed. After 405 days of remaining tight-lipped, late last year, the RCMP finally...
This has not been a good time for StFX University. An outbreak at StFX first detected two weeks ago has spread to the wider community, and among those cases, the new Omicron variant has...
The Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission of Nova Scotia is calling for the formation of the new riding of Cape Breton-Canso-Antigonish. According to a report submitted by the commission two weeks ago, the new federal...
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...
It was unwelcomed news that a man who many people believe evaded justice for so many years, seems to be willing to use the system one more time to strike out at his accusers.
A campaign that was launched last winter with great promise met an ignominious end when Erin O’Toole was recently elected Conservative Party leader. Following a contest that saw between 170,000 and 150,000 Canadians cast...
A bit of outside-the-box thinking might go a long way toward remedying the issue of wharves in Port Hood and on Port Hood Island. The wharves were dealt something of a death blow on December 16 of last year when...
A lot of negativity was avoided when the Nova Scotia Teachers’ Union (NSTU) and the provincial government agreed to sit down face-to-face. Late last month, the president of the NSTU, Liette Doucet, and Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil met to...
Living in a corner of the world like ours, where outmigration is an ever-present reality, we should always congratulate entrepreneurs who make things happen right here at home. In Antigonish, a refugee family is establishing itself as one of our...




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