Hard work. There’s just no substitution for it. And, as a result of hard work, a family business in Antigonish is looking to double its workforce from 25 people to 50.
Of course, for the Hadhad family, the value of...
The provincial government’s announcement of new long-term care beds and upgrades to facilities is a welcomed injection into a system badly in need of resources, but it was lost in the noise of an upcoming election.
Raise your hand if you still have a landline.
It may seem like a silly question, but the number of people trading their home phone line to rely solely on their cell phone, is growing every day, it seems. As...
The Antigonish Coalition to End Poverty and the Food Security Association are alarmed with the new data on the growing and pervasive problem of Food Insecurity.
Food is a basic human right. Yet, the...
The questions from the opposition benches over protected Acadian and African Nova Scotian electoral boundaries are missing the bigger picture.
Recently, Progressive Conservative Acadian Affairs critic Chris d’Entremont called on Cape Breton-Richmond MLA Michel Samson to step aside as the...
By Dave MacNeil
There were few things during my childhood that heralded the coming of spring quite like the changing of the cardboard in our front porch.
For those not old...
This is kind of embarrassing so please let me get to the end before you judge.
A week prior to me seeing Wonder Woman, three friends and I discussed the casting of Gal Gadot in the titular (stop giggling) role....
I have never advocated that people who routinely feed low doses of antibiotics to livestock should be executed without trial. That would be too harsh, too irrevocable. There should be fair trials, and fines for a first offence, and...
Many of us prefer to think that we are quite capable of surviving on our own; however, that is not how we have evolved. All living things need assistance to exist. When we pare that thought down...
David Dingwall, former federal politician, once uttered the phrase “I am entitled to my entitlements.”
Although a self-serving statement, it was a true statement of fact for Mr. Dingwall. He was correct to claim what he was owed no less...