On October 15 during the elections for councillors in the Municipality of Richmond and the school board members for the Strait regional school board, it was reported that Lian Sampson-Parsons had more votes that George Kehoe, her opponent. On...
The Strait Area Chamber of Commerce wishes to congratulate those joining or returning to our region’s municipal councils. We also thank the many strong candidates who put their names forward to serve.
This election has brought significant change to municipal...
The following officers served the Isle Madame RCMP detachment from its inception in 1952:
· Kennedy, J.F.G.A. (Jerry): October 22, 1952-October 4, 1953
· Stewart, W.W.: July 1953-August 17, 1953
· Spooner, M.J.: December 1951
August 1953-September 1954
· Cormier, J.E.: November 1955-December 11, 1955
· ...
So we got a visit from Brian Mulroney last week.
That kind of a sentence carries a vastly different flavour than it did only 25 years ago, when Bruce MacKinnon summed up a Prime Ministerial arrival in Nova Scotia with...
Although the aforementioned voter turn-out for recent school board and municipal elections was disturbingly low, it is encouraging that the Strait area’s elected bodies will have a new look in the coming four-year term.
Richmond County saw one of the...
Seeing as how municipal councils are getting sworn in for a new term, here’s a little advice for the newbies and a bit of a refresher for the reruns.
For those questioning my qualifications for offering municipal councillors advice, I...
Among the many things that infuriate me are voters who don’t vote.
This election season, which has been dominated by nastiness and theatrics and void of transparency and cooperation in spots, I heard a great many people say they were...
At a certain point, the dramatic turn of events surrounding the Strait area’s recent municipal and school board elections defies description.
We now have three new mayors and we’ll soon see a minimum of two new wardens sworn in. Three...
During Hurricane Matthew, I didn’t spend hours glued to my television set or checking my phone for weather updates. When a hurricane gets too close, I don’t default to Defcon 1 mode, but instead exercise what I consider to...
Who wants a random column? You do. That’s who.
My friends and I watching the teaser trailer for the third Wolverine movie dovetailed into a discussion of other superhero properties owned by 20th Century Fox. This naturally led to a...