There are many opportunities to create a growing, thriving, and sustainable forest economy in Nova Scotia. To be able to capitalize on these opportunities, we need to quickly move to support the larger forestry supply chain.
Dorothy’s Cat Sanctuary, which is serving a good cause, is located in River Bourgeois and has been there for many years. It has accommodations for some 30-plus unwanted, homeless, rescued, or abandoned felines, ranging from young kittens,...
Trees are not the enemy; the real culprits are their locations and maintenance, commercial interests, and Mother Nature’s wrath.
Having experienced the direct-hit forces of Hurricane Juan while I was a Truro resident, and...
It’s fair to say that it’s unfair, considering school students and our aging population throughout Canada, when it comes to self-serve checkouts and self-serve gas bars.
These two self-serve establishments are endangering the much...
Call me optimistic. Call me naïve. Call me whatever.
I believe we need to think outside of our current travel options and do as millions of commuters are doing daily throughout the world. Nova...
Concentrated marketing, much misrepresentation/deception, abuse of process (ignoring the Municipal Government Act), and absolutely dishonourable and disgraceful behaviour on the part of Premier Tim Houston, Warden Owen McCarron, and Mayor Laurie Boucher are my assessed phrases to...
Accountability is an assurance that an individual or an organization will be evaluated on their performance or behaviour related to something for which they are responsible. An organization which follows the principles of accountability; transparency, participation, evaluation...
Regarding the Watershed Wilderness designation for Archibald Lake, the Cochrane Hill Gold Project did not meet the standard of federal law for major natural resource projects in Canada because the contractual agreement between the province and the...
We live in an age of mass media options and increasingly more choices regarding where we can obtain information.
Unfortunately, all that is distributed for our perusal is sometimes missing and pertinent data is...
Enough already; I’m tired of most of what is making the news during these summer months.
Let’s take a break from what we hear about almost daily: the war in Ukraine; COVID-19; sexual assaults;...