When I reflect on memories of our cat Sadie that
predate her departure from this world last Thursday afternoon, her purr will
always come back to me.
It often reached incredible volumes – Cathy described it
as...
Newfoundland once qualified as a “remote island,” its
ecosystem forming more or less free of the continent, largely lacking in
mammals and catering heavily to birds and marine life. In the absence of
predators, these animals of wing and fin...
The practice of massage with hot stones is an
ancient and revered treatment.
Indigenous cultures have applied magnesium and
iron-rich basalt stones to the back, arms, chest and stomach to assist with
pain and dis-ease for...
GUYSBOROUGH: The Afghanistan war veteran who purchased
a rifle to use later that same day to kill his family and then himself were
victims of “systemic failures” that created barriers to accessing mental health
care, Nova Scotia’s chief medical examiner...
More than four years removed from the tumult in
Richmond County over municipal spending practices which resulted in the
resignation of the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), the warden deciding not
to run and staffing changes, comes more news from neighbouring...
I have a lot in common with my wife Cathy, as you might
expect, but the common threads include a key health concern: Vision issues.
Diagnosed in October with the “wet” form of Age-Related
Macular Degeneration...
Looking back over the decades, and indeed, centuries,
it is amazing to observe the numerous family names that once were common in the
Isle Madame area.
One of those names is Murphy. This surname was once
very...
One day over the Christmas holidays, three of the four
MacDonalds were in separate rooms on the second level of our house, chatting
and laughing about a topic I can’t even remember.
In the midst of...
For years now, members of the conservation community
and even anonymous government employees have expressed to me their worry that
exactly this would happen - that years of lethargy from our provincial
government would result, finally, in their abandoning the...
In a recent Canadian
Press article, an interviewee blamed “radical environmental groups”
for a downturn in the number of new oil wells being drilled this year across
Canada, and sluggish overall growth for fossil fuels. The quote stuck with me.