A lame excuse for neglecting immigration policy
The maligned Frank Anderson of Riverside Lobster makes thoughtful, nuanced, helpful observations about Ottawa’s pathetic approach to immigration in Atlantic Canada...
10 May, 2019
Why can’t this Dollarama cashier fix my teeth?
A demographic tidal wave threatens to destroy Cape Breton as a functioning community. CBU is giving us a chance to reverse the tide....
04 March, 2019
MLA Eyking, in office 64 days, takes 28-day vacay – updated
[See Update in second to last paragraph.] Just 64 days after taking her seat in the Nova Scotia Legislature, newly elected Liberal MLA Pam Eyking left Canada for a 28-day family trip to Australia and Taiwan. Eyking and her husband Mark, MP for Sydney-Victoria, left Canada on Boxing Day. Her office said she is expected back in Nova Scotia Thursday, the 23rd. Contrarian learned about the trip from a prominent Cape Breton Liberal who asked not to be identified, but said party members are annoyed at her taking a long foreign vacation so early in her term as MLA. Elected October...
19 January, 2014
ProletariART in Sydney
If you happen to be in Cape Breton Friday, the Cape Breton University Art Gallery will be hosting a public reception from 6 to 8 p.m. to kick off what promises to be intriguing art exhibit. In place of the gallery's traditional annual student-faculty show, ProlitariART is open to submissions from all comers. Here are two preview samples. First, a detail from a work by peripatetic Coxheath photographer Ashley Harding, called Doors of Rome: Second, a pen-and-ink drawing by l'Arche Cape Breton resident Gordon Mills, whose infectiously quirky art work has attracted a legion of fans in Inverness County: ...
23 January, 2013