The Cape Breton West Islanders take full advantage of a five-on-three during their last game of the season, a 6-0 win over the Pictou Weeks Midgets on February 18.
I had a column all ready to submit tonight for the publishing deadline, but then today happened. I am sitting on my couch with my jaw hanging open.
It’s no secret that I am in favour of a complete overhaul...
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...
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...
It was not surprising that a legal challenge of changes to provincial electoral boundaries was successful.
On January 24, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal concluded a 2012 change to Nova Scotia’s electoral boundaries violated Section 3 of the Canadian...
It was bound to happen. It was only a matter of time before somewhere, sometime, somehow, the universal disease of self-aggrandizement combined with our unnerving penchant for voyeurism to produce tragedy.
I read a lot of terrible things on-line, but...
So nothing’s happening in the world, right? Everything is sunshine and roses?
Excellent. Time to write about something no one else will care about but me. Here we go.
I’m planning on starting a podcast this year. Why? Well, because I...
Over the past five years, three different governments – run by two different political parties – set out to change the way you vote.
So far, only one of them succeeded in bringing about changes, and those alterations were just...
With everything going on in Washington, D.C. recently, I didn’t really put much thought into a women’s march.
At first I thought it was just a bunch of people joining together to protest Donald Trump, but I chalked that up...
Just over a week into the Trump presidency (suppressing a gag) and the term "alternative facts" has entered the popular lexicon.
Wow. If my calculations are correct and the US continues on this downward slope, we’re going to end up...