In the wake of an accident that saw 600,000 liters of gasoline leak from a storage tank in Imperial Oil’s North End Sydney tank farm, the oil giant has been rather stingy with its compensation to residents, tossing nickels around like the proverbial manhole covers. It doesn’t require a veryRead More

Comfort and Joy I have to tie up two loose ends from my coverage of Tuesday morning’s council meeting. After listening to—and approving—Destination Cape Breton’s funding request (which I covered in detail because opaque organizations spending oodles of public money are catnip to me— or would be, if I wereRead More

The first thing I need to tell you about last night’s CBRM Council meeting was that it was blessedly short—just over half an hour. That’s because the agenda was light in recognition of the CBRM’s ongoing struggle with the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona. The second thing is that, due toRead More