CBC News' Stephanie Vankampen reports on the end of a shuttle connecting Prince Edward Island to the mainland. One reason I left was the question of accessibility to the outside world: I wanted to be able to be mobile. The weakness of mass transit routes, including buses, in the Maritimes generally is a serious issue. That the underlying economics ( Read more... )

The Globe and Mail's Christine Sismondo looks at the emergent wine scene along Nova Scotia's Bay of Fundy shore, where vineyards are forming in suitable microclimates.

Despite the relative successes of the “Free My Grapes” movement - a consumers’ rights organization that was spearheaded by frustrated wine fan Shirley-Ann George a little over five ( Read more... )

The Globe and Mail features Stephen MacGillavray's interview with Kaye Chapman, a centenarian who at the age of 5 witnessed the Halifax Explosion 99 years ago today.

Nearly a century ago, five-year-old Kaye Chapman said goodbye to her four brothers and sisters as they rushed out the door of their north-end Halifax home. She collected her Bible and ( Read more... )

MacLean's shares a Canadian Press article describing the successful, if expensive, working of the first installed tidal electricity generating plant in Nova Scotia's Bay of Fundy.

A massive underwater turbine started generating electricity from the world’s highest tides in the Bay of Fundy on Tuesday, a test project the Nova Scotia government says ( Read more... )

This BNN.ca article makes me wonder. Nova Scotians, is this island-buying a noticeable trend?

There’s a growing interest in the private island market - and you don’t have to be among the ultra-rich to own one, according to a real estate broker specializing in the sale of islands around the world ( Read more... )

• Apostrophen's 'Nathan Smith talks about his upcoming session at the Naked Heart literary festival here in Toronto.
• blogTO notes that Metrolinx is set to kill Bombardier's LRT contract.
• Centauri Dreams talks about the discovery of planets in the system of HD 87646, one not unlike Alpha Centauri.
• Dangerous Minds talks about a documentary on skinheads.
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I approve of this, reported by MacLean's after the Canadian Press, quite strongly. We have to start somewhere.

Daniel Christmas helped transform his near-bankrupt First Nation into one of the country’s most successful ( Read more... )

At Demography Matters, I blog about the ongoing and inevitable depopulation of Cape Breton.

CBC News' Jennifer MacMillan reported about a Cape Breton company, The Farmer's Daughter Country Market, that has gained quite a lot of attention with its offer of free land and a job to Canadians willing to relocate to work there.

A family-run business is trying a unique approach to recruit people to live and work year-round in rural Cape Breton ( Read more... )

Douglas Quan's National Post article "North Preston, N.S., is synonymous with a notorious pimping gang. Now residents want to reclaim its name" looks at how the largely African-Canadian Nova Scotia community of North Preston is trying to recover from the terrible PR associated with a violent human-trafficking gang.

One of the first things you ( Read more... )