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VIDEO: Cape Breton rapper releases music video encouraging people to vote
Cape Breton rapper Mitchell Bailey’s latest single is more about ballot boxes than beatboxing. Over the Thanksgiving Day weekend, when most people were thinking about second helpings, Bailey, a 22-year-old rapper from Glace Bay, wrote, ...
VIDEO: Sydney students have their say in mock federal election
Evelyn Collins has a message for anyone who doesn’t exercise their right to vote in the upcoming federal election. Evelyn Collins “If you don’t vote, and a team you don’t want wins, and you get really cranky, ...
VIDEO: Cape Breton candidate apologizes again for offensive tweets
A Cape Breton candidate who made headlines after a series of racist, homophobic and sexist social media posts were revealed last week says he’s proud to have the support of Liberal leader Justin Trudeau. In his first public appearance since ...
VIDEO: Voters' Voice in Cape Breton
We asked local voters: If you were elected MP, what would you try to change? Naomi Colford COMMUNITY: Sydney DO YOU VOTE? Yes “I would try to change the health-care system in Nova Scotia. Right now, we’re at a big ...
Cape Breton candidate started his own political party
Randy Joy was watching the evening news when he decided to start his own national political party. It was Feb. 1, 2018, and Joy, a warrant officer in the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals, was watching the news on TV at his home in Oromocto, N.B., ...
Sign of the times in Cape Breton? Fewer election signs dotting front lawns and street corners of CBRM; councillor calls for ban
It could be a sign of the times. ...
Public meeting being held with federal candidate will stress need for new sewage treatment plant in Inverness
Inverness is the happiest place in Nova Scotia but the scenic seaside hamlet could become known as one the smelliest if it doesn’t get a new sewage treatment plant. For nearly two months this summer, residents and tourists were forced to ...
Cape Breton ridings will have to break open the bigger ballots
Voters will likely be casting the longest ballots ever handed out for a federal election in Cape Breton when they head to the polls Oct. 21. So far 15 candidates — eight in Cape Breton-Canso and seven in Sydney-Victoria — are vying for ...
Cape Breton’s colonial cad conspired against DesBarres, clashed with Cossit and plotted to assassinate Washington
Scumbag. Greasy. No-good son of a bitch. Asshole. An 18th-century mafioso. That’s how some local historians describe David Mathews, one of Cape Breton’s colonial forefathers and a man who stopped Lt. Gov. Joseph F.W. DesBarres from ...
Great white sharks feeding, maybe breeding, off Cape Breton
The waters off Cape Breton are a summer feeding grounds for great white sharks, says a biologist who will be part of an expedition that’s coming here to tag some of the giant predators next week. Bob Hueter is the chief scientific adviser ...
