I started birding by accident, intent on spending a
year identifying the trees of Eastern Canada, and instead falling in love with
their feathered residents.
In the space of a couple of weeks, I went from...
In 1897 Bertram Bourinot began the Richmond County Record, a
periodical that lasted for almost 80 years. Marshall Bourinot worked with his
father and continued the paper into the 1970s.
The following excerpts are taken from...
With Canadians set to go to the polls in two weeks,
it’s late in the game to highlight the need for factual information.
News Media Canada decided to do its part by launching a
new media...
“I told you, we shouldn’t stop here. I hate these
chintzy take-out places.”
“I know, but we’ve still got a long way to drive – on
mostly-unpaved roads, for that matter. So, let’s take a chance...
This may be an issue only a woman can understand. Men
may sympathize or even offer suggestions, but unless you’ve been forced to walk
in circles or jump in place in the middle of a crowd, the magnitude of...
Let’s go back to 2013 when our provincial government,
in partnership with numerous stakeholders, created the Parks and Protected
Areas Plan. It was an inspired document, identifying huge tracts of land which
were ripe for formal protection either as wilderness...
As if the lessons alone from the Hadhad family of
Antigonish are not proof enough of the social and economic benefits from
immigration, along come two businesses in Port Hawkesbury to drive the point
home further.
On...
The seats were rattling. We could feel the pounding
rhythms through our ribcages and even our hearts.
Around us, hundreds of people jumped up and down in
time to the music. Most were teenagers and young...
Looking back over the decades, and indeed, centuries,
it is amazing to observe the numerous family names that once were common in
this area.
One of those names that no longer holds a place here is
Haskell....
P.T. Barnum, a 19th century circus showman, famously
said: “There’s no such thing as bad publicity.” But I wonder if that famous
quote still applies to the cynical, paranoid, anxious society we’ve become,
where mass murders are commonplace and children...