Cape Breton Post
CAPE BRETON’S NEWEST SWEET SPOT
For Shelly Gerow, it’s been a long and winding road to the newest sweet spot in Sydney. Gerow is the owner of Dragonfly Ice Candy Shop on St. Peters Road. The business opened in its new location on Jan. 17 of this year. “It all started with the...
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CALL OF THE HALL
A Nashville-based in-demand singer-songwriter, a renowned master of the fiddle, a champion of local radio and a peaceful ballad about a secluded and picturesque locale – all having Cape Breton connections – are the latest entrants into the Cape Breton...
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FIGHT NIGHT IN SYDNEY
Ryan Rozicki of Sydney Forks, left, lands a body shot on Gerardo Mellado during a cruiserweight main event fight as part of a professional boxing card at Centre 200 in Sydney on Saturday night. Rozicki won the fight by technical knockout in the second...
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RUSSIA MAY SEE CHANCE TO BENEFIT FROM MIDEAST WAR
For Russia, the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was the latest blow to President Vladimir Putin’s network of anti-Western partners, and it exposed Moscow’s diminished influence on the world stage, from the Middle East to...
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BADDECK SCULPTURES A HIT
Emily Madinsky poses with a giant sandwich, one of the more than 20 snow sculptures created around Baddeck for the second annual Baddeck Winter Festival. The event was held Feb. 13-16 and included activities such as a family movie night, live music,...
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DOUBLING DOWN
Membertou First Nation and the federal minister of Crown-Indigenous relations announced Wednesday that the reserve has added 409.37 acres of land to its holdings, effectively doubling its land base. “We’re accessing land that is vital for commercial...
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POWER TO PROTEST
More than 100 people gather outside the provincial building on Prince Street in Sydney on Wednesday to protest the Nova Scotia government’s cuts to grants and programs in the arts, culture, tourism and more. Read more on the protest at...
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THRILLING EXPERIENCE
Leisa Hirtz says a near-fatal accident when she was a young girl growing up in New Waterford inspired her to make a difference in the world and led to a trip to the Dragons’ Den. When she was three years old, Hirtz – then Leisa McKinnon – was struck...
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‘WE’RE GOING TO KEEP THE LIGHTS ON’
Isabelle Lalonde wondered aloud how the financial cuts tabled in last week’s provincial budget would affect the Cape Breton Regional Municipality’s 2026-27 fiscal budget. The Louisbourg resident said the community relies on tourism dollars as an...
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IS TRUMP RUNNING OUT OF TARIFF CARDS TO PLAY AHEAD OF CUSMA REVIEW?
Even the highest court in the land could not convince Donald Trump to stray from his love of tariffs. The U.S. president’s yearlong imposition of tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) was brought to a halt by the...
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MATCHMAKING METHODS
Amy Patterson, a recruiter with the Cape Breton Regional Municipality, passes along some information to Tom Russell of Howie Centre during a recruitment information session Wednesday at Centre 200 in Sydney. Other sessions are planned for North Sydney...
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AI POWERED
Another level of security has been added to the Cape Breton Regional Hospital’s emergency department. A new artificial intelligence-powered weapons detection screening system was scheduled to be put into use at the entrance to the department on...
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‘IT’S A BROTHERHOOD’
George Muise headed to No. 26 Colliery in Glace Bay late Friday night, Feb. 23, 1979, anticipating nothing more than an eight-hour overnight shift of good camaraderie with his coal mining buddies and, of course, hard work. From 11 p.m. until just...
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INTERNATIONAL CHAMPS
The Cape Breton Junior Eagles celebrate with members of the tournament organizing committee after capturing the AA division of the Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament at Videotron Centre in Quebec City on Sunday. Members of the team, not in...
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‘WE SHOULD HAVE WON IT’
A packed Sydney sports bar filled with Team Canada hockey fans felt a collective heartbreak on Sunday morning as they watched their team take a 2-1 overtime loss to the United States in the men’s hockey final at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Games. “We...
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‘SECRET’ MEETING LED TO HOWE BRIDGE DEAL
WINDSOR, ONT. The key piece of the puzzle that saw Canada pay the entire bill for the Gordie Howe International Bridge — thus allowing the massive project to proceed — came at a secret meeting. At least, it was supposed to be secret. In an interview...
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OLYMPIC AIR
Fanny Smith of Team Switzerland leads Hannah Schmidt of Team Canada, Jade Grillet Aubert of Team France and Brittany Phelan of Team Canada in the Women’s Ski Cross Quarterfinals on Day 14 of the Milancortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games at Livigno Snow...
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DRAMATIC OVERTIME WIN
Goalie Jordan Binnington of Team Canada celebrates the team’s 4-3 overtime victory over Czechia in the men’s quarterfinals playoff match against Czechia with Sam Reinhart and teammates during the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games at Milano...
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GOLDEN PURSUIT
Valerie Maltais, Ivanie Blondin and Isabelle Weidemann of Team Canada celebrate after winning gold in final A of the speedskating women’s team pursuit on Day 11 of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games at Milan’s speedskating venue on Tuesday in...
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BIG AIR GOLD
Gold medallist Megan Oldham of Team Canada celebrates with teammate Elena Gaskell after competing in run three of the Women’s Freeski Big Air Final on Day 10 of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games at Livigno Snow Park on Feb. 16, in Livigno,...
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CANADA’S SILVER BULLET
Courtney Sarault of Team Canada leads the group in women’s 1,000-metre short track speedskating on Day 10 of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games at Milano Ice Skating Arena on Feb. 16 in Milan, Italy. Sarault, who is from Moncton, N.B., went...
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OLYMPIC ACTION
Sarah Wilkes, right, and Tracy Fleury of Team Canada compete in the round robin match against Team United States on Day 7 of the 2026 Milano-cortina Winter Games at Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium on Friday in Cortina d’ampezzo, Italy. More Olympic...
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‘IT’S JUST A MESS’
Residents living near the construction site of the new Maple Hill Manor in New Waterford say they are upset over how some of the development work has encroached on, and impacted, their properties. “We weren’t told of anything,” said Christina...
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‘This is unacceptable’
Residents in Kim Sheppard-Campbell’s municipal district have been calling her to complain about soaring and seemingly unreasonable property assessments they received from Property Valuation Services Corp. last month. "My heart is breaking for some...
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‘A bump in the road’
Just as her singing and entrepreneur careers have been taking off, Abbey Mullendore now has to put both aside to face a more daunting journey ahead of her. The Judique vocalist and gourmet mushroom grower recently revealed on social media that she has...
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BEARS BACK ON TOP
Jaxon Durando of the Breton Education Centre Bears, middle, couldn’t hold back the tears of joy after he captured his third New Waterford Coal Bowl Classic title on Saturday afternoon. The Bears beat the St. Mark Catholic Lions 72-67 in the...
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FALLS ARE KILLING MORE OLDER CANADIANS
Had she known the northwestern Quebec city of Val d’Or would be blanketed in snow in early November, Montrealer Anne Renaud would definitely not have worn her UGG boots, “which have absolutely no traction,” to visit her boyfriend there. The morning of...
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LIFTING THE CROWD
Ty Macdonald of the Riverview Ravens (4) leads a celebration by the bench after scoring a goal during Red Cup Showcase action against the Sydney Academy Wildcats as fans cheer at the Cape Breton County Recreation Centre in Coxheath on Thursday....
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‘It’s just ridiculous’
Bryan Hollohan got the shock of his life when he noticed the jump in the assessed value of the Coxheath Hills-area home he built two years ago. After Property Valuation Services Corp. announced last month it was mailing out its 2026 assessments to...
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PACKING THE COURT
About 1,000 people cheer on the Breton Education Centre Bears during their New Waterford Coal Bowl Classic game against the Barrington Barons at BEC gym in New Waterford on Tuesday night. The hometown Bears didn’t disappoint the fans, defeating the...
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DIGGING OUT AFTER THE STORM
Cape Bretoners were still cleaning up Tuesday after a winter Nor’easter blew through the region on Monday, delivering approximately 20 centimetres of wind-driven snow and forcing widespread cancellations across the island. It was the third straight...
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‘DEEPLY ROOTED’
What African Heritage Month is really about is connection and showing up for one another, African Heritage Nova Scotia Affairs Minister Twila Grosse said when she unveiled the poster for the province’s African Heritage Month in Sydney on Friday. This...
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CANADA HAS PLEDGED EV SECTOR $50B IN SUBSIDIES. IS IT WORTH IT?
If you want to play, you have to pay. But when that payment is in the Canadian automotive industry, it in turn pays off in building businesses across several sectors that grow a national economy and generate thousands of jobs, industry experts...
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PERFECT PROPOSALS
Alone on the glasslike water, Heather Lohnes-tourneur screamed for help between the hands-on chest compressions during her husband’s sudden cardiac arrest. She recalls being jolted awake at 6 a.m. to the gurgling (agonal breathing) coming from...
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GOLDIE STANDARD
A Cape Breton artist has set the gold standard in her hometown for this year’s East Coast Music Awards. Goldie Boutilier leads the way with seven nominations at the annual celebration of Atlantic Canadian music, which will take place in Sydney May...
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SIGN OF THE TIMES
The Needs convenience store in Howie Centre is shutting its doors for good on Saturday. A staple in the community for 40 years, the convenience store is closing due to low sales, according to staff at the location. Sobeys owns the Needs convenience...
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STORM DAY!
A snowplow works its way along Kings Road in Howie Centre mid-Tuesday morning. Most of Cape Breton was digging out after a steady two-day snowfall covered the island with a 20 to 30-centimetre blanket of snow, as of press time. With poor road...
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MONEY SENSE
Keep close track of your earnings, says financial adviser Nick Costello, to make sure you’re fully aware of your spending. Keep track of your monthly or biweekly earnings — depending on how you are paid — and list your minus obligations, whether that’s...
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‘EVERYONE TOLD ME I WAS CRAZY’
CALGARY At 15 years old, Danny Motyka dreamed of one day opening a psychedelics drug lab. Two decades later, the Calgary chemist leads a team developing pharmaceutical-grade psychedelic compounds, operating out of a warehouse-sized laboratory in the...
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PORT PAUSE FRUSTRATES
For the past 12 years, the chief executive of the Sydney Harbour Investment Partners has maintained a vision of development on a greenfield site near Sydport Industrial Park, whether a container terminal and logistics park and/or a wind marshalling...
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OUT FOR BLOOD
Catholic Women’s League representatives have reached out to the Cape Breton Regional Municipality to support their call for the return of a national blood collection agency clinic in the region. Two members from the Antigonish Diocesan Council of the...
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TALKS DOCKED
The legal team representing the Cape Breton Regional Municipality will not be exploring further negotiations with a long-standing investment group interested in developing the Greenfield site near Sydport Industrial Park. At least for now. On...
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FAN SUPPORT
The IIHF U18 women’s world hockey championship didn’t set a tournament record for attendance in Cape Breton, but it was one of the most successful events in its history. Over 21 games between the Membertou Sport and Wellness Centre and Centre 200,...
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SILVER FOR CANADA
Winning a gold medal on home ice wasn’t in the cards for Canada. The Canadians were defeated 2-0 by the United States in the gold medal game of the IIHF U18 Women’s World Hockey Championship in front of a sold-out crowd of 5,039 fans at Centre 200 in...
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XI WELCOMES STEADY STREAM OF LEADERS SHAKEN BY TRUMP’S NEW WORLD ORDER
Donald Trump’s tariff war occupied U.S. allies for much of last year. Now, Chinese President Xi Jinping is welcoming a procession of leaders looking to mend fences with the world’s other major economy. South Korea’s Lee Jae Myung kicked off the trend...
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CRUNCH TIME
Nine-year-old Mabel Macdonald of Coxheath proudly holds up a sign she made to show her support for Team Canada at the U18 women’s world hockey championship. Macdonald held the sign high over her head for all 12 of Canada’s goals during the tournament...
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A CUT ABOVE THE REST
Cape Breton is poised to play a key role as Canada asserts its Arctic sovereignty. Sydney-Glace Bay MP Mike Kelloway announced Tuesday that the federal government has selected Sydney as the preferred site for the maintenance port that will serve the...
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‘IT’S REALLY INSPIRING’
Ryhan Paul had one word to describe her thoughts on opening day of the IIHF U18 Women’s World Hockey Championship in Cape Breton. Inspirational. A member of the Cape Breton Blizzard under-15 AA team, Paul had her first opportunity to see Team Canada...
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WELCOME TO THE WORLDS
The flags representing each of the eight countries competing in the 2026 IIHF U18 women’s world hockey championship hang above the ice at the Membertou Sport and Wellness Centre on Friday, while Team Slovakia practices below. The tournament opens today...
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MEMORABLE MEMENTO
Some players in the 2026 U18 women’s world hockey championship that begins this weekend in Sydney will be taking a little piece of Membertou home with them when they leave the area. Some are being presented with a beaded pin designed and handmade by...
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‘I LOVE HELPING PEOPLE’
Women firefighters are still under-represented in forces across the country. However, in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality, women interested in fire services seems to be strong. According to census data collected by the Canadian Association of...
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WORD ON THE STREET
Where Tonya Mofford’s small business is located, she’ll be a literal stone’s throw away from a proposed development recently announced for Sydney’s waterfront. The owner of Get Nauti gift store and home decor on Sydney’s Esplanade, Mofford said while...
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WILL TOP U.S. COURT END THE TARIFF TURMOIL?
’Tis the season for renaming — everything from a cultural hub dedicated to a beloved slain president to new destroyers to 2025 itself. No, U.S. President Donald Trump hasn’t labelled the year with his name, but his trade representative, in a new op-ed,...
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KICKING OFF THE NEW YEAR
The Port Morien Polar Dip 2026 was a record breaker with 183 people running into the icy cold water. People in swimsuits, superhero costumes and leggings with T-shirts braved the freezing water for their first dunk of the year while raising money for...
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RINGING IN THE NEW YEAR
Sophia Christiansen of Dominion smiles while riding the merry-go-round, which was another big hit at the Cape Breton Regional Municipality New Year’s Eve celebration along the Sydney boardwalk on Wednesday. From the ferris wheel and merry-go-round, to...
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GOLDEN RESTING PLACE
Duncan B. McFadden’s headstone at Gold Rush Cemetery in Skagway, Alaska, seems to be a popular one. Passengers on Alaskan cruises often visit the historic resting place of the first settlers of the area, territory belonging to the Tlingit First Nation...
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SKI SEASON BEGINS
Ski Ben Eoin is now open for another winter and early spring season. With temperatures hovering around the -2 C mark, dozens of skiers and snowboarders took to the slopes on Sunday afternoon, a day after the facility kicked off its 2025-26...
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DID TRUMP SAVE CANADA FROM BAD POLICY?
WASHINGTON, D.C. Prime Minister Mark Carney rescinded Canada’s digital services tax (DST), a threeper-cent levy on digital services revenue from large domestic and foreign businesses, in June after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to halt trade...
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HAVING SOME HOLIDAY FUN
Dozens of skaters of all ages took to the ice at the Emera Centre Northside in North Sydney for a Christmas Eve free skate hosted by North Sydney Fire and Rescue. Santa was slated to take a break from his busy schedule to hand out treat bags to skaters...
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‘It was a jaw-dropping moment for her’
A night that started with some disappointment turned into one that two Buffalo Sabres fans will never forget for the rest of their lives. Daniel Klaes and his 14-yearold daughter Shaylee were given tickets to the Sabres’ home game against the New...
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‘SOMETHING FOR THEM’
About 150 seniors in New Waterford were treated to a free turkey dinner on Friday. From left, Mary Arsenault of New Waterford and Noreen Morrison of Glace Bay chat with volunteer Linda Drake of New Waterford before Friday’s turkey dinner.
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BOOM & GLOOM
In one southwestern Ontario city, forever linked by history to all things jumbo, one of the world’s largest automakers is building Canada’s biggest factory — a $7-billion colossus expected to employ about 3,000 people. Only 50 kilometres away, in...
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SPECIAL MEMORIES
Ashley Wettlaufer lives in the historic village of Streetsville, Ont., in Mississauga, but spent her early years in Whiteside, Richmond County. She’s shown with a set of vintage glass ornaments that belonged to her grandmother, Elsie King. We found...
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NEW SPOT BOOKED
The Cape Breton Regional Municipality has started a new chapter in its decades-long search for a new central library location. During a special meeting Wednesday night, CBRM council voted unanimously to formalize negotiations with Doucet Developments...
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NO SURPRISES
Winter may have made an early appearance in Cape Breton with a couple of December dustings, but with the season set to officially begin on Sunday, meteorologists are expecting business as usual when it comes to temperature. The amount of snow and...
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TOURISM HOT SPOTS
The 2025 season has become the busiest for the Fortress of Louisbourg and Alexander Graham Bell Museum in Baddeck. With a couple of weeks left in the season, Parks Canada is reporting a 13 per cent overall increase in visitors at national sites across...
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SUSPICIOUS FIRE
The two main buildings at the Hunters Mountain cultural revitalization camp burned down early Saturday morning. There are no reports of any injuries and it is believed no one was staying in any of the buildings overnight at the time of the fire. RCMP...
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STAMP OF APPROVAL
Kate Beaton of Mabou makes a recent appearance in Montreal standing next to a Canada Post stamp depicting her reading from her 2022 graphic novel, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, while in Fort Mcmurray, Alta. Canada Post recently released stamps...
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FASTER HEALTH-CARE OPTION
Glace Bay Hospital is now offering virtual urgent care four days a week. One of the Nova Scotia Health sites offering the service, virtual urgent care aims to help patients get access to what they need faster. “What we are doing is providing access...
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NOSTALGIA FACTOR
A little bit granny-chic, a little bit nostalgia and a lot of timeless elegance. A new store in downtown Sydney is attracting attention for the eclectic vintage items on its shelves mixed in with a high quality clothing line and jewelry made right...
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FUNDING STRUGGLES
The Clifford Street Youth Centre is yet again in danger of closing. Volunteers behind the North Sydney community organization, which has been in operation for the past 17 years, are concerned that donations the facility normally receives have dropped...
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ON THE LOOSE
The Nova Scotia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) has noted a troubling rise in dogs running loose from some Cape Breton owners — and not being claimed. In recent statistics provided to Cape Breton Regional Municipality council,...
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ONTARIO CITY A CENTRAL SPOT IN FENTANYL FIGHT
In an underworld of criminals, guns and deadly fentanyl, Windsor, Ont., is a national nexus. Windsor’s place in the country’s booming fentanyl trade was recently highlighted with a record-shattering 46-kilogram drug bust. The $6.5-million fentanyl...
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INSPIRED BY NATURE
With some of the horses of Sable Island in the background, Rose Morrison of Big Baddeck sits in the tall grass around sunset listening to the sounds of nature around her. The multidisciplinary artist was on the island for 19 days as its first artist in...
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