I’m sitting on my veranda having a cool drink and watching the round bales of hay pop out of the baler in the field across the way near St. Margaret’s Church in West Bay Road. Am I wishing to...
Editor’s note: The following was written to Premier Stephen McNeil, education minister Zach Churchill and Strait regional centre for education director Ford Rice.
I am writing today concerned with the news library staff hours have been further reduced for the...
Over the last few weeks, Prime Minister Trudeau has been credibly accused by his own Attorney General, Jody Wilson-Raybould, of politically interfering in the criminal prosecution of a well-connected engineering firm.
It’s now beyond dispute that he and his office...
Without a doubt, there are major problems within the public education system in Nova Scotia.
These past few months of negotiations - although side-tracked at times by issues like wages, pensions and long service awards – made it clear that...
To let you the readers know, this Letter to the Editor that you are reading marks 31 years and my 139th letter to be published in newspapers throughout Nova Scotia.
My letters date back to 1988 and the first Letter...
Nurse practitioners (NPs) have been providing excellent
advanced patient care for well over half a century. Thousands of NPs provide
care across Canada, about 200 of them are licensed right here in Nova Scotia.
Millions of visits were made to...
In 1897 Bertram Bourinot began The Richmond County Record, a
periodical that lasted for almost eighty years. Marshall Bourinot worked with
his father and continued the paper into the 1970s. The following excerpts are
taken from The Richmond County Record
of...
I believe that much of rural Nova Scotia is within a lifestyle and employment crisis: populations are declining, traditional job opportunities are less, municipal tax bases are dwindling and attracting residents is becoming both more difficult and...
Schools across Nova Scotia have started the new 2021-2022 term and school buses are transporting students in the early morning and late afternoon.
Responsibility is placed in the hands of school bus drivers to...
The Cabot Group’s proposed golf course development would not only be devastating in its impact on West Mabou Beach Provincial Park, but also threatens all provincial parks in Nova Scotia.
The immediate upwelling of...