A trail through time
Cape Breton Post reporter Chris Connors recently took part in the Eskasoni Cultural Journeys Goat Island interpretive experience.
He learned, among other things, about the Mi'kmaq four-cent cake, or luskinikn, as well as Mi’kmaq medicine and the use of local plants.
Check out the journey through Connors' photos.
A tale of two protests
The current lobster fishing dispute in Southwest Nova Scotia and the Muskrat Fals hydroelectric project in Newfoundland and Labrador spawned two of the most memorable and divisive protests in Atlantic Canada in recent years.
SaltWire's Evan Careen sees parallels and differences between the two issues, most notably the police response to each.
"...There’s a problem in the system," he writes. "Does the system see more value in a hydroelectric dam than it does in the safety of Indigenous people?"
A stutterer in an out-loud world
The Chronicle Herald's John MacPhee had an attraction to words since childhood. But speaking those words was another story.
MacPhee has a stutter. He remembers being almost physically ill before having to speak in front of his class in high school.
Why did he decide to write about it?
MacPhee was inspired by U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden and his own struggles to overcome a stutter and his efforts to raise awareness of the condition.
In that spirit, we're helping him raise awareness, too. Read MacPhee's story here.
How happy are you?
Connolly Aziz started studying positive psychology after seeing positive results at the gym. He learned there is a scientific way to measure well-being, much like his personal trainer measured his body.
“That’s when a light bulb went off in my head,” said Aziz, who moved to P.E.I. in 2019 where he is continuing his masters studies.
He decided to take those well-being measurements further, reports Cindy Nguyen, a student journalist at the Guardian.
On Oct. 1, Aziz began running an online survey called the P.E.I. Wellbeing Project collecting data from Island residents about how happy they think they are.
