In a few hours from now I will turn 40. Forty. Years. Old. While that isn’t as scary a prospect as it used to be, I still find it hard to reconcile that I could possibly be that far out...
A total lack of communication and coordination between health care professionals, provincial departments and civilian and military authorities let down retired Cpl. Lionel Desmond, and helped contribute to the tragic deaths of his family. During the Desmond...
Local mayors, wardens and councillors will be facing some competition in October’s municipal election. After the deadline for candidates to declare passed on September 8 at 5 p.m., it was confirmed there will be...
As we lumber into the final six weeks of 2017, I’m noticing a marked difference between the stories that have everybody talking this year and those that got us all fired up last year. From where I sit, 2016 wound...
On Friday, February 2, my family and I decided to have dinner at Dreamcatchers Restaurant in Antigonish. There were places to park on Main Street, but the town failed to remove the snow banks or clear the storm drains, so...
It’s the type of news story that makes me queasy, the kind I dread reading and that implores me to scroll past when it pops on the screen. And yet, I can’t look away either. Without adequate words to...
Sometimes I won’t have anything especially profound or enlightening to say in this column. (I can hear you now: “Only sometimes?”) Occasionally, I’ll have a week that was so full of travels, adventures, and mid-summer memories that...
Nova Scotia Power (NSP) appears to be ignoring one the major causes of recent power outages; the lack of proper and regular maintenance of infrastructure serving parts of Richmond County. Since the summer, the western part...
It wasn’t her size that impressed me as much as her silence. Female moose can weigh just shy of 800 pounds, but to watch that mass of mammalian muscle tear through the waist high...
I would love to see Alberta and British Columbia not ban fracking but ban workers from the Maritimes. You would soon see people from the east coast look at fracking again. If fracking was so damaging, there would not be...




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