The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) final report is the carefully documented response of Canada’s First Nations to the 1969 White Paper of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
In it, Trudeau proposed...
Health care, our bills, employment, COVID-19 and a myriad of other concerns loom within our lives. One certainly on which we will agree: many of us are enduring personal mental anguish and are eager to lessen our...
Canada Day 2021 will have a very different tone for many. In the last few weeks, we have been shocked, saddened and outraged by the discovery of a mass grave at a former residential school in B.C....
As a long-time credit union member, I joined when I was five years old; I was gravely concerned by the article in The Reporter announcing the East Coast Credit Union’s proposed merger with two other credit unions...
Editor's note: This is the first in a series of opinion pieces from the group Better Internet for Inverness County.
In October 2019, our Judique committee began the work of researching internet and cell...
Many of us are attempting to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic as it moves into its year-two existence and third-wave status. Vaccines are more readily available for those who want to receive them, albeit with increasing controversy...
Tourism is one of Cape Breton Island’s most important industries. Prior to the pandemic, it included over 700 businesses and organizations that employed over 5,500 people and generated over $400 million annually to our island economy.
It has been a very long 15 months as we all live through a once-in-a-lifetime public health crisis.
As we’ve seen in recent days, COVID-19 still has its grip on our province and with...
I would like to commend Jake Boudrot on his article, “Baseball legend, long-time Volunteer, Barry Marchand passes away at 71,” which appeared in the May 5 edition of The Reporter.
Barry Marchand’s reputation, as...
St. Peter’s Coastal Trail (the abandoned railway bed) has long been a touchy subject. It’s one of the few things that seem to divide residents and get people talking and arguing. It is approximately three kilometres, beginning...