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Two weeks ago in Nova Scotia, the provincial and federal governments announced a combined total of $285 million — $90 million from the federal government, $195 million from the province — to twin a dangerous stretch of Nova Scotia ...

The world’s oceans are huge, but interconnected. The trash you carelessly throw in the ocean may end up in Ireland or Iceland or far beyond, and recent video from the Dominican Republic has shown that the chickens (in the form of plastic waste) ...

OK, I’ve got a bone to pick with my own industry. It may sound trivial, and maybe there are lots of people who think it’s all right. I don’t — this, by the way, is my own personal opinion, and only my personal ...

Cigarettes, to put it mildly, are not as fashionable as they once were. In fact, campaigns to educate smokers about the deadly risks of lighting up and to help them quit have led to a remarkable decline in smoking rates in the past 50 years or ...

Drive across the border from New Brunswick to Nova Scotia and, except for a sign or two and the visitor’s centre on the Nova Scotia side, you might miss it entirely. And if you look at the signs, the most important issue seems to be a warning ...

I’ve been hunting for four solid-wood doors for a while now. Not new doors — old ones, suitable for cleaning up and putting into doorframes in an old house.   The house has four hollow-core wood doors upstairs now, ...

Donald Trump held a press conference after the NATO meetings in Brussels. At one point his reply to a question was, “I am very consistent...I am a very stable genius.” That statement requires some consideration regarding the man's ...

Service clubs are the lifeblood of small communities and no where is that better demonstrated than here in Amherst. We had another example recently of the profound impact the Amherst Lions Club continues to make on this area through its financial ...

To the Editor, On July 4, Cumberland News Now published an opinion article by Geoff De Gannes. The article, “Shale gas not an option for growing Cumberland County’s economy,” includes misleading statements about hydraulic ...

I never thought I would be counting on Santa Claus for the military protection of North America, but that appears to be just the situation U.S. President Donald Trump has put us in. The American President has threatened the existence of the North ...