About three or four kilometres from Iona, and after crossing the Barra Strait Bridge, we come to the small village of Christmas Island.
Christmas Island is situated on the north side of a peninsula that lies between East Bay and...
In the Mi’kmaw language, January is “Punamuiku’s,” or Tomcod spawning time.
In times past, this small fish (in Mi’kmaw: Punamu) was a nutritious staple when other menu items were scarce. Early Mi’kmaq caught the Tomcod with lines inserted through holes...
This was a weird holiday season for me. Not weird in a bad way, just weird in a weird way. Are you in the same boat? I can’t even put a finger on it, it was just away from...
I have a few corrections I would like to get out of the way before diving into my first column of 2018.
First of all, I’ve since seen Star Wars the Last Jedi and I thought it was tremendous. I...
In 1897 Bertram Bourinot began the Richmond County Record, a periodical that lasted for almost 80 years. Marshall Bourinot worked with his father and continued the paper into the 1970s. The following are excerpts from the Richmond County Record...
Amid the joy of the Christmas season and the chaos of last week’s stormy weather, I experienced the sadness that comes with losing a mentor from my formative years.
Michael Cobden, who was the director of the King’s College School...
The transformation of Nova Scotia’s social assistance system has been underway for over two years, but people living in poverty, and their advocates, say to date there has not been significant, meaningful change.
A community coalition is calling for an...
I frequently think of environmental changes happening worldwide and the impacts of those occurrences for us and future generations. I also contemplate how the consequences of our environment-affecting actions - or inactions - will impact upon other living creatures...
With 2017 in the books and a new year underway, this is an opportune time to review and look ahead.
One of the most significant stories from the past year took place early last January with a tragic murder-suicide in...
“With our new operating system, there are going to be some bugs like that, I think, that we’ll discover as it operates.”
Andrew MacPherson, project engineer with Nova Scotia Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal on July 5, explaining why the swing...