No doubt you have talked or thought about what you might do if you had a million dollars.
Actually, one of the first pieces I ever wrote for this newspaper was about how a million dollars, which it sounds like...
Ephrem Boudreau was born in River Bourgeois in 1905. After his classical studies from 1922 to 1928 at the seminary at Trois Riviere, he spent three years at agricultural school at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere. Here he earned bachelors’ degrees in arts...
A funny thing happened on the way to Round Two of the ugly brawl between the Nova Scotia Teachers Union (NSTU) and the provincial Department of Education: Somebody blinked.
Well, perhaps there was blinking on all sides. I suspect neither...
While it is vital that all local healthcare stakeholders work together, without long-term and deep financial investments from government, the system will continue to fail.
On February 23, the Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA) hosted a community information session in...
I wrote about this before but I missed music.
Up until recently the only music I had in my life was provided by my broken iPod (my headphone jack doesn’t work so it’s car-only) and YouTube when I couldn’t find...
I could retire tomorrow if I had a quarter for every person who asked me last week if I was going to write about the Glaze report.
I figured there were enough thought pieces already in the mix, so I...
One of my first reactions to stupidity is laughter.
People hear me laugh at ridiculously inappropriate things. For instance, I laughed myself silly after reading some of Trump’s tweets regarding the recent high school shooting in Florida. (As a bit...
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 are excerpts from the Richmond County Record dated...
While our neighbours to the south struggle with the latest debate over the right to bear arms, a former Canadian Prime Minister thought the time was right to launch a conversation over the right to bare arms.
Kim Campbell, who...
On February 10, the Town of Port Hawkesbury hosted the first in a series of events designed to get girls moving while celebrating themselves and each other.
Approximately 31 girls ranging in age from 11 to 14 took part in...