Cape Breton Post
PORT PAUSE FRUSTRATES
For the past 12 years, the chief executive of the Sydney Harbour Investment Partners has maintained a vision of development on a greenfield site near Sydport Industrial Park, whether a container terminal and logistics park and/or a wind marshalling...
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OUT FOR BLOOD
Catholic Women’s League representatives have reached out to the Cape Breton Regional Municipality to support their call for the return of a national blood collection agency clinic in the region. Two members from the Antigonish Diocesan Council of the...
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TALKS DOCKED
The legal team representing the Cape Breton Regional Municipality will not be exploring further negotiations with a long-standing investment group interested in developing the Greenfield site near Sydport Industrial Park. At least for now. On...
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FAN SUPPORT
The IIHF U18 women’s world hockey championship didn’t set a tournament record for attendance in Cape Breton, but it was one of the most successful events in its history. Over 21 games between the Membertou Sport and Wellness Centre and Centre 200,...
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SILVER FOR CANADA
Winning a gold medal on home ice wasn’t in the cards for Canada. The Canadians were defeated 2-0 by the United States in the gold medal game of the IIHF U18 Women’s World Hockey Championship in front of a sold-out crowd of 5,039 fans at Centre 200 in...
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XI WELCOMES STEADY STREAM OF LEADERS SHAKEN BY TRUMP’S NEW WORLD ORDER
Donald Trump’s tariff war occupied U.S. allies for much of last year. Now, Chinese President Xi Jinping is welcoming a procession of leaders looking to mend fences with the world’s other major economy. South Korea’s Lee Jae Myung kicked off the trend...
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CRUNCH TIME
Nine-year-old Mabel Macdonald of Coxheath proudly holds up a sign she made to show her support for Team Canada at the U18 women’s world hockey championship. Macdonald held the sign high over her head for all 12 of Canada’s goals during the tournament...
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A CUT ABOVE THE REST
Cape Breton is poised to play a key role as Canada asserts its Arctic sovereignty. Sydney-Glace Bay MP Mike Kelloway announced Tuesday that the federal government has selected Sydney as the preferred site for the maintenance port that will serve the...
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‘IT’S REALLY INSPIRING’
Ryhan Paul had one word to describe her thoughts on opening day of the IIHF U18 Women’s World Hockey Championship in Cape Breton. Inspirational. A member of the Cape Breton Blizzard under-15 AA team, Paul had her first opportunity to see Team Canada...
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WELCOME TO THE WORLDS
The flags representing each of the eight countries competing in the 2026 IIHF U18 women’s world hockey championship hang above the ice at the Membertou Sport and Wellness Centre on Friday, while Team Slovakia practices below. The tournament opens today...
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MEMORABLE MEMENTO
Some players in the 2026 U18 women’s world hockey championship that begins this weekend in Sydney will be taking a little piece of Membertou home with them when they leave the area. Some are being presented with a beaded pin designed and handmade by...
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‘I LOVE HELPING PEOPLE’
Women firefighters are still under-represented in forces across the country. However, in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality, women interested in fire services seems to be strong. According to census data collected by the Canadian Association of...
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WORD ON THE STREET
Where Tonya Mofford’s small business is located, she’ll be a literal stone’s throw away from a proposed development recently announced for Sydney’s waterfront. The owner of Get Nauti gift store and home decor on Sydney’s Esplanade, Mofford said while...
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WILL TOP U.S. COURT END THE TARIFF TURMOIL?
’Tis the season for renaming — everything from a cultural hub dedicated to a beloved slain president to new destroyers to 2025 itself. No, U.S. President Donald Trump hasn’t labelled the year with his name, but his trade representative, in a new op-ed,...
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KICKING OFF THE NEW YEAR
The Port Morien Polar Dip 2026 was a record breaker with 183 people running into the icy cold water. People in swimsuits, superhero costumes and leggings with T-shirts braved the freezing water for their first dunk of the year while raising money for...
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RINGING IN THE NEW YEAR
Sophia Christiansen of Dominion smiles while riding the merry-go-round, which was another big hit at the Cape Breton Regional Municipality New Year’s Eve celebration along the Sydney boardwalk on Wednesday. From the ferris wheel and merry-go-round, to...
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GOLDEN RESTING PLACE
Duncan B. McFadden’s headstone at Gold Rush Cemetery in Skagway, Alaska, seems to be a popular one. Passengers on Alaskan cruises often visit the historic resting place of the first settlers of the area, territory belonging to the Tlingit First Nation...
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SKI SEASON BEGINS
Ski Ben Eoin is now open for another winter and early spring season. With temperatures hovering around the -2 C mark, dozens of skiers and snowboarders took to the slopes on Sunday afternoon, a day after the facility kicked off its 2025-26...
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DID TRUMP SAVE CANADA FROM BAD POLICY?
WASHINGTON, D.C. Prime Minister Mark Carney rescinded Canada’s digital services tax (DST), a threeper-cent levy on digital services revenue from large domestic and foreign businesses, in June after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to halt trade...
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HAVING SOME HOLIDAY FUN
Dozens of skaters of all ages took to the ice at the Emera Centre Northside in North Sydney for a Christmas Eve free skate hosted by North Sydney Fire and Rescue. Santa was slated to take a break from his busy schedule to hand out treat bags to skaters...
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‘It was a jaw-dropping moment for her’
A night that started with some disappointment turned into one that two Buffalo Sabres fans will never forget for the rest of their lives. Daniel Klaes and his 14-yearold daughter Shaylee were given tickets to the Sabres’ home game against the New...
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‘SOMETHING FOR THEM’
About 150 seniors in New Waterford were treated to a free turkey dinner on Friday. From left, Mary Arsenault of New Waterford and Noreen Morrison of Glace Bay chat with volunteer Linda Drake of New Waterford before Friday’s turkey dinner.
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BOOM & GLOOM
In one southwestern Ontario city, forever linked by history to all things jumbo, one of the world’s largest automakers is building Canada’s biggest factory — a $7-billion colossus expected to employ about 3,000 people. Only 50 kilometres away, in...
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SPECIAL MEMORIES
Ashley Wettlaufer lives in the historic village of Streetsville, Ont., in Mississauga, but spent her early years in Whiteside, Richmond County. She’s shown with a set of vintage glass ornaments that belonged to her grandmother, Elsie King. We found...
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NEW SPOT BOOKED
The Cape Breton Regional Municipality has started a new chapter in its decades-long search for a new central library location. During a special meeting Wednesday night, CBRM council voted unanimously to formalize negotiations with Doucet Developments...
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NO SURPRISES
Winter may have made an early appearance in Cape Breton with a couple of December dustings, but with the season set to officially begin on Sunday, meteorologists are expecting business as usual when it comes to temperature. The amount of snow and...
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TOURISM HOT SPOTS
The 2025 season has become the busiest for the Fortress of Louisbourg and Alexander Graham Bell Museum in Baddeck. With a couple of weeks left in the season, Parks Canada is reporting a 13 per cent overall increase in visitors at national sites across...
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SUSPICIOUS FIRE
The two main buildings at the Hunters Mountain cultural revitalization camp burned down early Saturday morning. There are no reports of any injuries and it is believed no one was staying in any of the buildings overnight at the time of the fire. RCMP...
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STAMP OF APPROVAL
Kate Beaton of Mabou makes a recent appearance in Montreal standing next to a Canada Post stamp depicting her reading from her 2022 graphic novel, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, while in Fort Mcmurray, Alta. Canada Post recently released stamps...
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FASTER HEALTH-CARE OPTION
Glace Bay Hospital is now offering virtual urgent care four days a week. One of the Nova Scotia Health sites offering the service, virtual urgent care aims to help patients get access to what they need faster. “What we are doing is providing access...
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NOSTALGIA FACTOR
A little bit granny-chic, a little bit nostalgia and a lot of timeless elegance. A new store in downtown Sydney is attracting attention for the eclectic vintage items on its shelves mixed in with a high quality clothing line and jewelry made right...
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FUNDING STRUGGLES
The Clifford Street Youth Centre is yet again in danger of closing. Volunteers behind the North Sydney community organization, which has been in operation for the past 17 years, are concerned that donations the facility normally receives have dropped...
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ON THE LOOSE
The Nova Scotia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) has noted a troubling rise in dogs running loose from some Cape Breton owners — and not being claimed. In recent statistics provided to Cape Breton Regional Municipality council,...
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ONTARIO CITY A CENTRAL SPOT IN FENTANYL FIGHT
In an underworld of criminals, guns and deadly fentanyl, Windsor, Ont., is a national nexus. Windsor’s place in the country’s booming fentanyl trade was recently highlighted with a record-shattering 46-kilogram drug bust. The $6.5-million fentanyl...
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INSPIRED BY NATURE
With some of the horses of Sable Island in the background, Rose Morrison of Big Baddeck sits in the tall grass around sunset listening to the sounds of nature around her. The multidisciplinary artist was on the island for 19 days as its first artist in...
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‘BUY A LIVE TREE AND BUY LOCAL’
There’s nothing like the smell of a real Christmas fir or pine tree in the home. And it appears the years of the convenient artificial tree are heading toward a hiatus for a while. Statistics are showing sales of trees farmed and groomed specifically...
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‘I WANT TO BE LIVING MY LIFE’
Cape Breton roots-rocker Elyse Aeryn is excited for her return to the stage in February. Not only will she celebrate the release of her sophomore album, Everybody Loves You …, it marks her return to performing live after a motor-vehicle accident in...
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A SWEET DEAL
Jayden Green’s business endeavours just got that much sweeter. The co-owner of Electric Candy in New Waterford recently added local freeze-dried candy company Candy Frost to the roster. Green recently took ownership of the company and already has big...
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‘AT THEIR BREAKING POINT’
Northside Community Guest Home long-term care workers have voted to go on strike. The workers, represented by Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 1876, voted 97 per cent in favour of a strike mandate it was announced on Friday. “The last...
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WHY CHINESE EVS KEEP HAUNTING LIBERAL PRIME MINISTERS
Mark Carney has inherited Justin Trudeau’s nightmare. In his decade as prime minister, one of the policy decisions that haunted Trudeau was the unavoidable question about whether to allow Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) into the Canadian market. It...
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OLYMPICS ON THE LINE
Team Nova Scotia skip Christina Black, originally from Sydney River, waves her broom as she acknowledges the crowd while celebrating a semifinal win over Team Einarson (Manitoba) at the 2025 Montana’s Canada curling trials in Halifax on Thursday. Nova...
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FINAL BOW FOR ‘BIG JIM’
Jim MacLellan is still processing his farewell performance with The Men of the Deeps. Emotions were running high before and during the miners choir’s opening night of its latest Maritimes Christmas Show tour at the Savoy Theatre in Glace Bay. The...
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GOODBYE TO AN ICON
Colleen Jones, the greatest curler Nova Scotia has ever produced, died Tuesday after a long battle with cancer. She was 65. During her illustrious curling career, Jones won six national titles and two world championships. She was also a two-time...
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MOVIN’ ON UP
The owners and operators of Ski Cape Smokey are set to open the first of its 27 luxury chalets next month. Cape Smokey Holding Ltd. recently announced that 10 of these new high-end villas at the foot of the Ingonish Harbour-based slopes will be...
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‘It really creates a big burden for us’
Dave MacKillop has noticed a serious decline in walk-in customers at his flower business with the ongoing construction on Kings Road in Sydney River. “They were doing it last year in front of us, and they actually had us closed off at one point and...
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BEACH BREACH
Drone footage shows the gravel and cobblestone berm being constructed at Dominion Beach, which started on Oct. 14 and finished mid-november. Some are questioning the need and effectiveness of the nourishment pilot project for the beach and its impact...
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LEST WE FORGET
Cpl. Grant Whiting of the 36th Service Battalion, Canadian Armed Forces, serves as a ceremonial guard for the cenotaph during the Remembrance Day ceremony at Centre 200 on Tuesday. About 700 people took in the event, including veterans, service...
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‘EVERYONE IS AGREED THAT IT’S AWFUL’
You’re a Canadian farm kid, sitting in a European trench in 1915. A man you’ve never met is dying across a stretch of open land, 100 yards away, as you pen a letter home. Death is everywhere. You’ve shot moving bodies, you’ve huddled against incoming...
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SYMBOLIC TRIBUTE
Crocheted poppies line the lawn in front of the Wilfred Oram Centennial Library and the North Sydney Heritage Museum on Thursday. About 100 poppies were crocheted by members of the lunchtime fibre club at the library and others in the community to help...
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CLOSER TO THE GOAL
The steering committee of Victoria County’s only indoor ice rink is crossing fingers in the hope the 2025 fall federal budget receives formal approval. Within the 405-page document unveiled in Ottawa on Tuesday, under the category of “generational...
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SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Dr. David Kennedy had the perfect combination of pedigree and animal instincts to become a veterinarian. His father, Dr. Raymond Kennedy, started one of Cape Breton’s first veterinary practices in 1951, initially seeing furry patients in a tworoom...
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FULL OF HEART
Running the entire Cabot Trail alone might seem like a daunting task, but Herbie Sakalauskas will be hitting the pavement for a good cause and in memory of two special people. The 45-year-old from Westmount will be running the 276-kilometre route over...
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SHOW OF SUPPORT
A Toronto Blue Jays fan with prime in-person viewing for their World Series run wanted to show pride for not only his favourite major league baseball team but also for a region of Canada he dearly adores. To honour his family roots, John Chisholm...
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FROM FAMILY HOME TO IRAQI SPOILS
Mayer Lawee, an 86-year-old Montreal man, remembers a childhood in his family’s elegant mansion, built by his father and uncle in the heart of Baghdad, Iraq’s quixotic capital, especially family weddings in the walled gardens with its tiered fountains,...
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STILL IN PLAY
A new proposal to build a golf course at West Mabou Provincial Beach has come forth, according to the province’s Natural Resources Minister. “It’s more about starting a conversation about a proposed course,” according to Kim Masland, the new minister.
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HALLOWEEN SPIRIT
The Robinson Family of North Sydney has created an impressive array of Halloween decorations in and around their home on Commercial Street. Pumpkins, witches, body bags, bones and other scary displays are part of the elaborate setup. Bill Robinson,...
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‘I’M ON MY OWN’
A family swimming pool turned out to be a saviour to help deal with a dried-up well at a Sydney-area property. Between that water, used for flushing toilets, and vouchers from the Cape Breton Regional Municipality, used for picking up 28 four-litre...
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State-of-the-art hospital redevelopment taking shape
No, Sydney is not getting a big, seven-storey parking garage near the new cancer centre like some have speculated. It’s the new clinical services building that is part of the provincial CBRM health-care redevelopment plan which was announced in 2018...
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ANOTHER CAPERS TITLE
Members of the Cape Breton Capers women’s soccer team celebrate with the championship trophy after the team claimed the Atlantic University Sport championship with a 2-1 win over the Memorial Sea-Hawks in the championship game at Ness Timmons Field in...
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ACCESS TO CHEAP CANADIAN MEDS ON LIFE SUPPORT
Linda Klonsky usually orders her prescription eye drops from a Canadian pharmacy that charges US$250 for a three-month supply. But that came to an abrupt halt late this summer when it came time for her to reorder, as the Trump administration’s latest...
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LOOKING BACK
A little over 30 years after the dissolution of the former city and towns that comprised Industrial Cape Breton and Cape Breton County, has what is now known as the amalgamated Cape Breton Regional Municipality worked? That would depend on who you...
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Big move next door
Richard Rose has been a member of the credit union for 74 years, and he doesn’t even remember signing up. That’s because his aunt opened an account for him at the North Sydney Credit Union when he was just five days old, and he’s been a dedicated...
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EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS
Cape Breton’s internationally acclaimed Celtic Colours music festival had its most successful year since the pandemic hit in 2020. In terms of final ticket sales, they were higher than any year since the first in 1997, said acting artistic director...
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TROUBLING DEVELOPMENT
Nova Scotia’s NDP leader said Mabou residents aren’t against a golf course being built in their community – just one that isn’t built on protected land such as West Mabou Beach Provincial Park. “If a golf course is such a lucrative project, then buy...
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AND THEY’RE OFF!
Erin Mailman of Sydney, centre, waves as he and other full marathon runners commence their Sunday morning race on Ortona Drive in Sydney. The Cape Breton Fiddlers Marathon attracted 761 participants running in one of four races — a full 42.7-km...
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INDIGENOUS PEOPLE BEAR THE WORST OF HISTORIC WILDFIRE SEASON
Fire WE025 started small. But in late May, hot and dry conditions and gusty winds whipped it into an out-of-control inferno. Over 116 days, it swept across northwestern Manitoba, chewing up 447,000 acres of boreal forest — an area larger than Houston —...
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SCREECHING TO A CRAWL
Drivers wait in congestion at the roundabout from Kenwood Drive all the way down Kings Road to the location of construction at the new roundabout 0.4 km away at the corner of Keltic Drive. Motorists are becoming impatient with the long delays in travel...
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BACK ON TRACK?
Although the long-discussed international container terminal at the Port of Sydney has been placed on the back burner, renewed – albeit sporadic – discussions are emerging around bulk commodities becoming the port’s potential cargo of choice. However,...
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ROYALTY DROPS ANCHOR
The Queen Mary 2 anchors in Sydney harbour on Tuesday. The Cunard Line ocean liner, which is 345 metres in length and can carry 2,691 passengers and a crew of 1,173, was one of three vessels visiting the Port of Sydney. The Majestic Princess, not shown...
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BRITTLE BONE BATTLE
A nurse in the delivery room in Alberta thought Maddox Desrosiers might have brittle bone disease when she was born with some broken bones. Her father, Kyle Derosiers, said the doctors and other nurses didn’t seem to know about brittle bone disease,...
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‘THAT’S A BEAUTIFUL GIFT’
Indigenous people have a responsibility to nature, Sen. Dan Christmas said last week as a special conservation gathering held at Membertou First Nation welcomed Indigenous knowledge keepers and land protectors from British Columbia to Canada’s North to...
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RECORD-BREAKING RADIO DAY
Wayne Miles, left, and Ralph Neville were collecting donations at one of the Cape Breton Regional Hospital parking lots on Thursday as part of Radio Day. Known as “a day of giving to health care in Cape Breton,” Radio Day is the Cape Breton Regional...
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PRETTY TEED OFF
Opponents of a golf development company eyeing land belonging to a protected provincial park near Mabou are outraged that talks may be in the works again. “To say this is extremely distressing is putting it mildly,” Nadine Hunt, a retired high school...
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ADDRESSING GAPS IN CARE
A Cape Breton-born nursing professor and her colleague at St. Francis Xavier University hope to make the health-care system more efficient by streamlining patient data. Meagan Ryan, originally from Port Hood, and Dr. Patti Hansen-Ketchum are members...
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