I’m amazed by the time that has already elapsed since the provincial Education Minister announced that his government had accepted the recommendation of an independent consultant – in a report filed only 24 hours earlier - to dissolve Nova...
The provincial government is rightly receiving a lot of criticism of its new plan for the sale of cannabis.
On January 30, Mark Furey, Attorney General and Minister of Justice, along with Bret Mitchell, president and CEO of the Nova...
August 15, 1973 final regular season standings:
Louisdale Baracos 14-6
River Bourgeois Schooners 12-7
St. Peter’s Royals 11-7
Port Hawkesbury 11-8
Little Anse Golden Hawks 10-10
D’Escousse Rebels 8-12
PDG Red Caps 8-12
Arichat Triple A’s 4-16
The play-offs began on Saturday August 18 with a quarter-final format...
I know the dieting drill. Find a trendy new diet, go to the grocery store, buy food that tastes like cardboard, then hunker down with a lonely little bag of mini-carrots and wait for the pounds to melt away....
Here we are with yet another random thoughts column. You ready? I thought so.
I was in the same room as a television broadcasting American President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address last week. I worded the previous sentence...
The relatively smooth coastline of the Strait of Canso is interrupted by a thumb-shaped peninsula that juts northwestward into the strait.
It forms the northern end of an oval-shaped body of land that looks as if it could have been...
On the surface, a change to one line in our national anthem might not seem to have that much in common with recent revisions to the Canada Summer Jobs (CSJ) program.
And yet, as both stories dominated the headlines last...
The recent decision by the provincial government to introduce sweeping changes to the education system has generated strong opinions.
On January 24, the Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development, Zack Churchill, announced the province will adopt the recommendations outlined...
Edward Charles Doyle was born in Poulamon on October 12, 1882, the son of Edward and Mathilda Doyle. He was educated at St. Francis Xavier University and the Maritime Business College. He was thrice married, first to Florence Alice...
It’s the type of news story that makes me queasy, the kind I dread reading and that implores me to scroll past when it pops on the screen. And yet, I can’t look away either. Without adequate words to...