As if the start of summer, the end of
school, work vacations and great weather isn’t enough, a few stories arose
recently that were definitely welcome news.
Perhaps the biggest story of all was
the provincial funding...
The loss of wilderness to forestry, pollution,
agriculture, urban sprawl and climate change is the single most potent driver
of mass extinction.
When we say that 1 million species could go extinct in
the next few decades,...
One of the questions that I am asked most often is: “Are
there more jellyfish (Mi’kmaq: sasap) in the Bras d’Or estuary now than there
used to be?”
I have a lot of trouble answering that...
I’ve been doing research the past few days about the
proposed airport in Inverness. There are lots of opinions, plenty of
criticisms, and multiple shows of support. The one thing I wasn’t able to find,
however, is a single good...
The following is a newspaper account of the
circumstances surrounding the murder of Clarence F. Glover of Waltham,
Massachusetts in 1908 and the subsequent trial of Hattie LeBlanc accused of the
crime.
Part 2
If the recent box-office numbers are any indication, we
might be starting to run out of patience with Hollywood’s insistence on filling
our theatres with sequels, remakes and spin-offs.
Apart from Toy
Story and John
Wick, the latest...
The Cabot
Links golf course in Inverness is truly a success story and one we
are proud to share with Canada and the world.
It is easy to see many elected officials are supportive
of continued investment...
For the past week, I have felt personally violated by
our Liberal government, when news leaked that the federal government is intent
on investing $18 million of taxpayers’ money in a new airport in Inverness to
accommodate and patronize Cabot
Links.
The Strait area heaved a giant sigh of relief after a
fire in a wood ship silo at the Point Tupper operation proved to be minor.
Port Hawkesbury Paper
(PHP), the owners of the mill, confirmed...
The independence of the inshore lobster fishery is a
goal we all support. It helps keep licenses in individual hands through the
Owner-Operator policy and is important to the growth and preservation of our
coastal communities. In the last few...