“You know they have stores there?” I
heard from the other side of my bedroom, as an unnamed critic watched me pack
for a recent trip. “We’re not going to the remote wilderness, we’re going to
Las Vegas.”
ANTIGONISH: The former franchise owner
of an illegal medicinal dispensary says ever since her charges were dropped
back in March and she turned a leaf on a new business venture – she’s been
targeted and harassed by the RCMP.
As if the start of summer, the end of
school, work vacations and great weather isn’t enough, a few stories arose
recently that were definitely welcome news.
Perhaps the biggest story of all was
the provincial funding...
The loss of wilderness to forestry, pollution,
agriculture, urban sprawl and climate change is the single most potent driver
of mass extinction.
When we say that 1 million species could go extinct in
the next few decades,...
One of the questions that I am asked most often is: “Are
there more jellyfish (Mi’kmaq: sasap) in the Bras d’Or estuary now than there
used to be?”
I have a lot of trouble answering that...
I’ve been doing research the past few days about the
proposed airport in Inverness. There are lots of opinions, plenty of
criticisms, and multiple shows of support. The one thing I wasn’t able to find,
however, is a single good...
The following is a newspaper account of the
circumstances surrounding the murder of Clarence F. Glover of Waltham,
Massachusetts in 1908 and the subsequent trial of Hattie LeBlanc accused of the
crime.
Part 2
If the recent box-office numbers are any indication, we
might be starting to run out of patience with Hollywood’s insistence on filling
our theatres with sequels, remakes and spin-offs.
Apart from Toy
Story and John
Wick, the latest...
The Strait area heaved a giant sigh of relief after a
fire in a wood ship silo at the Point Tupper operation proved to be minor.
Port Hawkesbury Paper
(PHP), the owners of the mill, confirmed...
I’ve worked several newsrooms in my time, always at
small rural papers and always as the only man on staff. As a consequence, I
became the de facto sports reporter, expected to assemble an entire section of
the paper with...