“God be with the citizens, we are back to the time of poverty,” wrote Saudi Arabian blogger Rayan al-Shamri on Twitter last week. That’s a bit strong, but he and his fellow citizens are certainly no longer living in...
As early as 1824 a functioning school existed in Arichat. By 1834, the school faced insurmountable financial difficulties. As a result, the creditors - primarily John Tyrrell, a prominent Arichat merchant - foreclosed on the property, but instead of...
One of life’s truisms is that no two days are the same;
we may hope for that to be a certainty but it will never be so.
Simply being alive gives us challenges of varying
degrees;...
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 November 17, 1951 edition...
Although new cases of COVID-19 continue to be recorded daily in Nova Scotia, and some cases have even cropped up in the Eastern Zone, local and provincial numbers are low enough to allow all municipal councils in...
With respect to the initiative to help young people get
into politics, as a young woman from Richmond County, who is currently in the
fourth year of her Political Science degree, I am beyond insulted by the
proposed project.
I am going to keep this column Trump free for the rest of the year.
Obviously, that’s an easy statement to make as I will only write three more columns this year but still, I thought you should know. As...
One of my first reactions to stupidity is laughter.
People hear me laugh at ridiculously inappropriate things. For instance, I laughed myself silly after reading some of Trump’s tweets regarding the recent high school shooting in Florida. (As a bit...
While there are a number of issues dominating political discourse, it is health care which seems to be on the receiving end of a disproportionate amount of attention in the 2021 election in Nova Scotia.
I went back to L’Ardoise this weekend to say my final “Au revoir” to someone that I mistakenly assumed would be around forever, during the 34 years that I was lucky enough to know her.
My relationship with Jane Martell,...