When a person builds a house in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality (and other municipalities) they are subjected to many rules, laws and bylaws. Physical inspections also take place throughout the process to insure your property is safe to move ...

Explanations mean little in today’s current political and social climate. An incorrect choice of words, an inept utterance and beware the pounce of those ever at the ready to cry foul. So it may have been for Nova Scotia’s recently deposed Justice ...

I’ve attended two Cape Breton Regional Municipality council meetings this year – on Jan. 23 and March 26 – during which the status of the new central library in downtown Sydney was discussed. Both meetings were carbon copies of each other with simply ...

“I've said before, you do the right thing and you let the chips fall where they may,” said Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. The chips being the 10 or 20,000 extra Ukrainians who died needlessly during the six months ...

Phrase: White coat syndrome. Definition: “When you get a high blood pressure reading in a doctor's office and a normal reading at home. The anxiety of being around doctors in white coats can make your blood pressure rise,” says one internet ...

Bruce MacKinnon's cartoon for April 20, 2024.

If they gave out medals for tone deafness, Nova Scotia’s justice minister would be on the top of the podium this week. As flags across the province were lowered in memory of the 22 people killed in the 2020 massacre that began with an act of domestic ...

Advertisements for cars and trucks are mostly similar. The pictures show happy vehicle owners having a good time in an attractive location, with the voiceover proclaiming some sort of discount (“Six thousand dollars off !”) without ever revealing the ...

Henry Srebrnik Commentary In the wake of the Gaza war, the so-called two-state solution – an Israeli and Palestinian state side by side — has been resurrected. This idea dates back to at least 1937, when a British commission suggested a partition of ...

The menacing growth of government and the authority of the public state has infected even our quaint little Cape Breton community. Mind you, there is a difference between those who work for the government and the government itself. The former are ...