PORT HOOD: The guys are still below .500, but with four wins in their last five starts, the Cape Breton West Islanders are inching closer to balencing out their record which suffered from a number of early season losses.
“The first thing they observe is a quiet and calm feeling. They normally go home with a ‘floating sensation’ and positive lightness. For sure, if it was pain that brought them to a session - by the end of the...
Readers of The Reporter did not have to go far to find some hopeful holiday stories. The spirit of the season started early as on November 13, Carol and Laura Marryatt travelled to the IWK Children’s Hospital...
As we move beyond Christmas and start to look ahead to the new decade, I find myself winding the clock backwards, to when I was Greta Thunberg’s age. The climate-change activist, recently named as TIME Magazine’s...
Arichat 1935: Now it is time to backtrack once more to finish the north side of the lower road. We had left off at Johnny Jean’s. The lane adjacent to the Jean home was known then,...
If someone asks me if I believe in Santa Claus, the answer will always be yes. I will believe in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny, and anything else that prolongs the temporary...
The Boreal covers something like 60 per cent of Canada’s landmass, dominated by spruce, aspen, larch and pine, among others. It stretches from Alaska to Newfoundland, and houses the majority of the species which define Canadian...
We don’t know as much about the owls (Mi’kmaq: ku’ku’kwes) of the Bras d’Or Lake Biosphere as we do about other birds. I expect that may be due to the fact that observers are not out...
Put simply, conservation works. When government takes the time to understand a species’ decline and cooperate with local NGOs to enact timely and meaningful change, the most at-risk species under their purview recover. Go figure. A 2005...
I’ve learned, through trial and error and a few tough heartbreaks, that you can find a silver lining in almost any situation. Some circumstances have been more difficult than others, true, and these required the passage...




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