TV News I decided to write something about Eastlink dropping 34 channels owned by Corus Entertainment because, although I do not have cable TV myself, I know someone who does—and who probably watches HGTV and Food Network, both slated to go as of June 27, more than anything other thanRead...
I was thinking back to the 1950s when television arrived in Cape Breton and how many of us made our way up to Charlotte Street to stand looking into the window of a store that displayed a small set, itself displaying what we came to know as a test pattern.Read More
Former CBC “chief correspondent” Peter Mansbridge has an interesting new gig: he’s playing a journalist in a series of HomeEquity reverse mortgage ads and videos. The spots find him sitting face-to-face with his subjects, very much as he used to do on his weekly interview program, Mansbridge One on One,Read More
Cabot Takes an ‘L’ Cabot Cape Breton will not be getting a chunk of a Nova Scotian provincial park to turn into yet another golf course. Cabot hasn’t actually made a formal application to the province for permission turn part of the West Mabou Beach Provincial Park into its thirdRead...
Poker Face I haven’t enjoyed a TV series as much as I enjoyed Natasha Lyonne’s Poker Face in a very long time. It’s not a “Golden Age of TV”-style show like Deadwood or The Sopranos or Mad Men (all of which I also enjoyed very much), it’s a throwback toRead...
Student housing The “collective enterprise” UTILE (L’Unité de travail pour l’implantation de logement étudiant) was established in 2013 “with the objective of developing a social economy student housing model specific to Quebec inspired by best practices in non-profit student housing around the world.” In 2016, working with the the ChantierRead More
Medicare-less As I noted in my unburied power lines story on Wednesday, I managed to stay better focused in my research this week, but I cannot spend hours reading old newspapers without occasionally getting distracted. Fortunately, I have Fast & Curious as a sort of catch-all drawer; a place forRead More
Three Celebs and a Baby I recently swore off home reno shows after a friend pointed out to me that they are the worst thing you can possibly watch when you’re looking to improve your own living space because the key to their miraculous design transformations is the removal ofRead More
Talking Turkey I learned recently that in Scottish Gaelic, a turkey is a “cearc-fhrangach” or a French chicken. (Chicken is “cearc,” France is “An Fhraing.”) Turkeys, as you no doubt know, are native to the eastern part of North America, not France, so why did my ancestors think they wereRead More
Pennsylvania Pain I decided to write about the first thing that popped into my head this morning (that wasn’t war in Ukraine) and it was the TV series I just watched, Mare of Easttown, starring Kate Winslet. (Warning: there will be spoilers. If you haven’t watched it and plan to,Read More
