If there were ever a time we needed to believe in the
redemption of kindness, in the humanity of our neighbours, surely it’s now. I
don’t know of a single person, regardless of political persuasion, who isn’t
left reeling by...
Editor’s note: The following letter was written to members of the Strait regional school board.
My name is Mary Anne MacKeigan Cameron and I live in Troy, currently parenting two children, ages 8 and 10, who are valued students of...
We are looking forward to getting back into the House of Assembly to hold the Liberals accountable for our crumbling education system.
We’ve taken our time to carefully consider the recent report on education. While some ideas merit discussion and...
Looking back over the decades, and indeed, centuries, it is amazing to observe the numerous family names that once were common in this area. One of those names is Allain
Louise Des Rabis: her...
As a grade-schooler in the early ‘80s, I frequently heard a country song with the following chorus spilling out of the CJFX AM Radio airwaves:
“Everybody wants to live to be 100, everybody’s looking for the key…We all want to...
As we move beyond Christmas and start to look ahead to
the new decade, I find myself winding the clock backwards, to when I was Greta
Thunberg’s age.
The climate-change activist, recently named as TIME Magazine’s...
It’s hard to believe that September of next year will be 20 years since Hurricane Juan passed this way.
I slept through the whole event that night, at my girlfriend’s townhouse overlooking Bedford basin....
Dear Premier McNeil:
Summer tourists travelling around Nova Scotia searching for the quaint or the scenic may be surprised to find a smattering of wind turbines scattered throughout the province. These are just one example of achievements made by previous...
Is there anything worse than traffic?
I don’t mean just a large volume of vehicles – as long
as it’s moving, it doesn’t matter if there are two cars or 2,000, I’m not
bothered by busier...
Despite the dire economic news, as a result of reduced
economic activity from strict public health measures to stem the spread of
COVID-19, there are reasons to be hopeful.
Both the Strait Area and Antigonish Chambers...