Pronouns and pride
As part of The Cape Breton Post's coverage of Pride, Greg McNeil spoke with Veronica Merryfield about why using people's preferred pronouns matters.
Merryfield, who mentors LGBQT+ youth (as well as tech entrepreneurs) in Cape Breton, told McNeil pronouns "gauge your identity."
"Incorrect use can be triggering and the devastating impact of that can be suicide, especially among youth," he reports.
“That’s why pronouns matter," Merryfield said. "The repeated denigration of individuals by using the wrong pronouns is going to head them down that road.”
Wedding bells
Postponed weddings and elopements are dual themes of 2020's wedding season.
However, Tara Thistle and Richard Barry went in the opposite direction.
“Some people are just like, ‘No, I want the big wedding, I want the whole thing … but (we) just want to get married," Tara (Thistle) Barry said after the ceremony.
Find out what they told The Telegram's Andrew Waterman about why their 2021 wedding became an in-person, church ceremony in 2020 and why the minister was thrilled.
Too long a wait for equality
SaltWire columnist Jim Vibert went to North Preston, an historic African Nova Scotian community, Aug. 1.
That was Emancipation Day, which marks the 1834 end of slavery in the British Empire on Aug. 1, 1834 – and a rally was held to protest anti-Black racism and inequality that goes right back to the community's founding when Black Loyalists were not given title to their land, as white Loyalists were.
"Every African Nova Scotian there could relate personal experiences with systemic racism that deny them equality – equality of opportunity, equality in the eyes of the law, equal access to and treatment from their governments, who take their taxes but seem to return little. There isn’t a sidewalk anywhere in the community of 4,000."
His column is worth your time.
Road trip
Now for some staycation fun!
The Guardian's Daniel Brown took on the challenge of SaltWire's One-tank Trip – an occasional series where journalists explore a destination they can reach on one tank of gas – with an adventure in Tignish, P.E.I.
Follow along in video, photos and words. as Brown visits Stomping Tom, fishing harbours, wind turbines and ice cream!
Have a suggestion for a one-tank trip? Let us know in the comments below.
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