There’s an air of familiarity to the Hawkesbury Room, located on the downstairs level of the Maritime Inn on Reeves Street, as we head into the final six hours of St. Patrick’s Day 2017.
It’s partly because I’ve been here...
That whole optimism thing is a big pile of nonsense.
Remember what I wrote about last week? You know how I was going to ignore the critics’ warnings about Iron Fist thing and watch it anyway? Yeah well, I was...
The recent disagreement within a local School Options Committee (SOC) shows the inherent limitations of the private-public partnership (P3) model which financed school construction in the 1990s.
The SOC examining the future of five schools in the Town of Antigonish...
Imagine the main street of Arichat in 1935. Currently, at the intersection of Conney’s (Delaney) Lane and the main road stand a former store and the old municipal building.
In 1935 the store was that of “Little” Joe Samson, and...
Video by Grant McDaniel
The Cape Breton West Islanders are seen here battling the Dartmouth Major Midgets during the Nova Scotia Major Midget Hockey League championship. The Islanders swept Dartmouth in three straight games to win the banner.
Video by Grant McDaniel
Mi’kmaq elder Robert Pictou was in charge of the Sacred Fire lighting held at the local NSCC on March 28. He’s seen here with others while they listen to unrelated sirens in the background. While obviously...
NEW GLASGOW: With three candidates now nominated in Strait area ridings and a two-term MLA expected to reoffer in the fourth, provincial Progressive Conservative (PC) Leader Jamie Baillie is confident about his party’s chances in an election that could...
Cecile Boudrot, daughter of Louis Boudrot and Barbe Fougere, was married at around 1780 to Simon Forest.
At her husband’s death she became a tavern keeper at Arichat. She was grandmother to MLA Honore Martell and Rev. Guillaume Marin LeBlanc...
The world is divided into two types of people: those who awaken before sunrise, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, and those who stay up late at night. One group will never understand the other, and getting such contrasting biological clocks to...
Please take this column as my own version of a self-help exercise.
Apparently, envisioning something helps a person achieve whatever that something happens to be, and I am trying to be less of a miserable git. Yeah, I know, without...