I would like to express my opinion on the proposed golf course for the West Mabou Beach Provincial Park. The park and the beach were created for all people to enjoy, not just a few rich people.
As if waiting in traffic for two hours in sweltering late summer heat isn’t enough, motorists were further insulted when officials responsible for the delay pointed fingers rather than taking responsibility.
After a number of lengthy delays at the Canso...
By: Zack Metcalfe
In May of 2016 I pulled off a Hants County highway and parked by a barely perceptible trail, leading into a thin forest with powdery white gypsum erupting from the soil everywhere I cared to look.
Had I...
Closing the East Coast Credit Unions’ L’Ardoise branch for two days a week on Tuesday and Thursday may not be cost saving for senior citizen members.
Along with the closure brings unneeded stress to the seniors who rely on the...
I picked up some new prescription glasses this week since it’s been a few years since I purchased new glasses. I’m cheap about some things but I don’t mind paying extra for good quality lenses, since I...
I went back to L’Ardoise this weekend to say my final “Au revoir” to someone that I mistakenly assumed would be around forever, during the 34 years that I was lucky enough to know her.
My relationship with Jane Martell,...
It was bound to happen. It was only a matter of time before somewhere, sometime, somehow, the universal disease of self-aggrandizement combined with our unnerving penchant for voyeurism to produce tragedy.
I read a lot of terrible things on-line, but...
I am writing in response to an article published in the November 16 edition of The Reporter entitled “Guysborough Warden wants apology from Inverness MLA.”
On October 8, I asked a question during Question Period about municipal expenses in Guysborough (the purchase...
“Why can’t the Town and County just get along?”
We can’t tell you how many times we had to answer that question as mayor and warden of the Town and County of Antigonish.
The Cheticamp River originates on the northern plateau of Cape Breton and flows some 25 or so kilometres westward to the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Beginning in peat bogs, barrens and small lakes on top of the plateau, it starts...