Archive for July, 2018

Where’s Cecil?

Where’s Cecil?

July 11, 2018 at 11:36 am

Welcome to this week’s installment of “Where’s Cecil?,” my ongoing effort to keep track of Mayor Cecil Clarke’s campaign appearances to judge just how much time he’s taking from his day job to travel the province in pursuit of the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. AsRead...

"Fairy Island" from the book Elves and Fairies by Ida Rentoul, 1916. (Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons)

Letter to the Editor: In Search of Fairy Tales

July 11, 2018 at 11:30 am

About three years ago, I produced a show for CBC’s Land and Sea on Fairy Culture in Cape Breton. Fairies meaning “little people” or in Mi’kmaq culture “Wiklatmu’j.” It was so well received that I have decided to write a book about the same project. I have several publishers interested.Read More

Fast & Curious: Short Takes on Random Things

Fast & Curious: Short Takes on Random Things

July 6, 2018 at 11:00 am

Ferry Tale Bay Ferries Ltd, which currently operates the high-speed CAT ferry service between Yarmouth, NS and Portland, Maine, could start sailing to Bar Harbor, Maine instead as early as next June, reports the SaltWire network’s Andrea Gunn. Gunn notes that the move is being planned despite Bay Ferries andRead More