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 1970’s. The following is an excerpt from the Richmond County...
The experiment of removing garbage bins at provincial parks and beaches has failed and it’s time to return them, as well as those tasked with emptying them.
Late last month Richmond Municipal Council asked...
Earlier this year, the Liberal government launched a consultative process on Canada’s defence policy.
While Conservatives remain skeptical of the government’s intentions, especially given this government’s tendency to embark upon endless consultative processes rather than make the hard decisions inherent...
Our flight takes us down the valley of the South West Margaree River.
At Margaree Forks, the North East Margaree River joins in and we turn slightly westward, following the combined Margaree Rivers. We fly over the “Big Intervale” past...
Ephrem Boudreau was born in River Bourgeois in 1905. After his classical studies, he spent three years at agricultural school. Here he earned bachelors’ degrees in arts and one in agricultural science. He wrote Riviere-Bourgeois from which this history...
During the recent United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal, over 190 nations adopted a Global Biodiversity Framework. Part of that agreement is to conserve at least 30 per cent of the world’s lands and waters by...
I could retire tomorrow if I had a quarter for every person who asked me last week if I was going to write about the Glaze report.
I figured there were enough thought pieces already in the mix, so I...
Editor's note: This is the first in a series of opinion pieces from the group Better Internet for Inverness County.
In October 2019, our Judique committee began the work of researching internet and cell...
As you may remember from several columns I wrote in the past about politics, I do not vote.
I've tried to bring more disaffected folks to my camp but have yet to feel the pride of hearing someone say they...
Do the Academy Awards bore you? Do the speeches and the red-carpet chatter seem endless? Do you find it bizarre that the most-watched entertainment spectacle in the world didn’t, or couldn’t, find a host this year?
Never fear – your...