January 13, 2021 at 12:15 pm
In last week’s Inverness Oran, April MacDonald wrote about a significant issue that should concern everyone living in Nova Scotia — municipal by-laws, more specifically, municipal by-laws concerning agricultural land and land use. Many people are unaware of the by-laws that need to be created because things are changing inRead More
December 2, 2020 at 1:06 pm
Author’s Note: As this year unlike any other grinds to a bleak close, I offer – in the spirit not of prophecy, but satiric thought-experiment – ‘alternate universe’ visions of the near future. And bear with me, dear reader, as I first appear to lose my mind… “The extremelyRead More
December 2, 2020 at 1:04 pm
A couple of weeks ago, I reconnected (via Zoom) with an old friend in Brooklyn, NYC, and in between catching up and sharing gluten-free cinnamon bun recipes, we talked about our respective lives under COVID. She told me that she’d recently gone for drinks in her neighborhood with a smallRead More
December 2, 2020 at 1:00 pm
Millions of people from around the globe have been expressing their well-founded views about the need for substantial changes because they realize in order to survive as a species we have to change what is in our heads. As an example, we collectively know the core scientific factors regarding climateRead More
November 27, 2020 at 10:30 am
Ahem… Back in May of 2019, I wrote a story with the headline, “This is what a REAL port announcement looks like,” in which I contrasted what was happening at the Port of Québec — which had announced a deal with CN and Hatchet Ports to build and operate theRead More
November 25, 2020 at 11:50 am
There is probably as much to do in Cape Breton in winter as there is in summer and fall, and this winter, what with COVID-19 and all, may be a great time to try out spending some time in our own great outdoors; you can do it without getting coldRead More
November 4, 2020 at 10:15 am
Editor’s Note: We’re reaching into Michelle’s Smith’s archives for posts as useful now as when they were first published and this week, we’re revisiting one of her lovely long-form essays, first published in November 2019. The cat and I huddled under the blankets in the dark as the windRead More
October 28, 2020 at 12:17 pm
Editor’s Note: The Spectator’s Sean Howard will be back next week with his regular, monthly column, but he sent along a press release from Peace Quest Cape Breton about an important development in the progress of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW): On October 24Read More
October 21, 2020 at 12:15 pm
Editor’s Note: We’re reaching into Michelle’s Smith’s archives for posts as useful now as when they were first published. What to do this week This week, I want to do a checklist for putting your garden to bed for the winter. Some of the items on my list haveRead More
October 7, 2020 at 11:45 am
Editor’s Note: We’re reaching into Michelle’s Smith’s archives for posts as useful now as when they were first published. What to do this week You might need a garden shovel or something similar in the next month or so, who knows, but generally, this is the time of yearRead More