A while back, I asked the Facebook world about people’s favourite villains. I got a bit of a mixed bag, but because my friends are nerds, the answers were pretty much what you’d expect.
There were a couple of joke...
I never thought I’d see the day when the federal party established to break up Canada was finally on the verge of breaking up itself.
For that matter, I always figured that if I lived long enough to see the...
February 1, 1910, Wallace Fougere, son of Firmin Fougere and Anne Boudreau, married Ella Jeanne LeBlanc, daughter of Capt. Augustin LeBlanc and Gertrude Josse, witnesses were Jacques Josse and Amanda Fougere
February 2, 1910, Henry McDonald, son of Urbain McDonald...
I was watching a sitcom years ago. I can’t even remember which one, but the storyline involved a woman who had made a video of herself for a dating agency.
In it, she explained that she wasn’t actually looking for...
Inverness County Cares (ICC) is a community aid organization based in Inverness County.
ICC has worked to provide for the educational and daily life needs of the 280 students at the St. Charles Lwanga Secondary School (SCLSS) since 2012. The...
No doubt you have talked or thought about what you might do if you had a million dollars.
Actually, one of the first pieces I ever wrote for this newspaper was about how a million dollars, which it sounds like...
Ephrem Boudreau was born in River Bourgeois in 1905. After his classical studies from 1922 to 1928 at the seminary at Trois Riviere, he spent three years at agricultural school at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere. Here he earned bachelors’ degrees in arts...
A funny thing happened on the way to Round Two of the ugly brawl between the Nova Scotia Teachers Union (NSTU) and the provincial Department of Education: Somebody blinked.
Well, perhaps there was blinking on all sides. I suspect neither...
The Gaelic Council of Nova Scotia would like to raise concerns with the recently-published Glaze report, “Raise the Bar.”
This report outlines in its mandate that it will “consider the cultural, linguistic, and geographic contexts of the Nova Scotia school...
While it is vital that all local healthcare stakeholders work together, without long-term and deep financial investments from government, the system will continue to fail.
On February 23, the Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA) hosted a community information session in...