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Help for the Hard of Hearing

Help for the Hard of Hearing

May 10, 2023 at 1:47 pm

Dear Editor, Darryl Sittler, a Maple Leafs hockey legend, can be seen in a recent national campaign speaking on hearing loss. He notes hearing loss can lead to depression, cognitive decline and social isolation. These are serious yet preventable issues. We, the Society of Deaf and Hard of Hearing NovaRead More

Dear Editor: Such Negativity

Dear Editor: Such Negativity

April 12, 2023 at 12:32 pm

Dear Editor, Rare to find such negativity from a Cape Bretoner as I did in Mary Campbell’s March 22nd screed on caddies at Cabot (“The ‘Joy and Wonderment’ of Caddying“). Personally, I have met and carried for some of the most interesting, curious and open minded people. All seem genuinelyRead More

Dear Inverness: Cabot Is Not a Community Group

Dear Inverness: Cabot Is Not a Community Group

March 22, 2023 at 12:05 pm

An Open Letter to the Municipality of the County of Inverness: Lately, I have been asking myself who our government is actually working for. A few weeks ago, an ad in our local paper (Inverness Oran) caught my eye: Free Caddie Information Sessions were offered at four schools, but insteadRead More

Letter to the Premier: About That Golf Course…

Letter to the Premier: About That Golf Course…

February 8, 2023 at 10:47 am

Dear Premier Houston: We would like to bring your attention to the West Mabou Beach Provincial Park controversy and our concerns in that regard. West Mabou Beach is an ecologically sensitive area that forms part of the mere 5% of Nova Scotian coastline that is legally protected. We are adamantlyRead More

‘As Safe a Mine As There Is’

‘As Safe a Mine As There Is’

January 11, 2023 at 11:45 am

Editor’s Note: The subject line of this email was simply “Donkin Mine”   I am a retired psychiatrist who got to treat one of the men for PTSD who had brought out dead from the Westray mine disaster in ‘92. After the explosion the manager of that mine described itRead...

Dear Editor: Something Stinks in South Bar

Dear Editor: Something Stinks in South Bar

November 23, 2022 at 2:15 pm

Growing up in South Bar, wedged between the larger centers of Sydney and New Waterford, you quickly learn that to get anything done for “The Bar” you have to work hard, organize and make a lot of noise to get any kind of action from local politicians who focus onRead More

Source: Decent Work & Health Network  https://www.decentworkandhealth.org/status_letter

Dear Editor: Status for All

October 12, 2022 at 12:02 pm

Editor’s Note: I received my copy of this open letter, released by the Health for All Network on 12 October 2022, from Dr. Monika Dutt, a public health physician in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland & Labrador whom I’ve interviewed in these pages previously and who stated, in an accompanying pressRead More

Dear Editor: Numbers, Please

Dear Editor: Numbers, Please

August 24, 2022 at 12:10 pm

Why do we in Sydney have to settle for second best? We have consultations on projects but recommendations are ignored without much, if any, published analysis. Outrageously exaggerated costs are often quoted to justify inaction. Take the costs of installing buried power lines on Charlotte Street. I have not seenRead More

Reader Pans Proposed MLA Pay Raise

Reader Pans Proposed MLA Pay Raise

July 27, 2022 at 11:47 am

With the highest child poverty in the country, the highest unemployment ever, the highest property taxes in the country, infrastructure that is falling apart, our healthcare in a crisis, roads that are unsafe to drive on, cost of living the highest in 30 years, home ownership that is completely outRead More

Dear Editor: Time Flies

Dear Editor: Time Flies

July 13, 2022 at 11:32 am

Editor’s Note: Joe Noseworthy’s high school graduation photo popped up in his social media feed last month as his own daughter was graduating from high school prompting this delightful reflection on New Waterford in the ’80s.   Thirty years this week since this pic was taken! It amazes me, theRead More