Reviews
What Point Aconi’s biomass legacy reveals about clean energyThe environmental impact of the Point Aconi biomass power plant is not a story about smoke rising from a still-operating stack. The roughly 600-megawatt…Why Cape Breton’s Child Care Plan Is Struggling to Find WorkersNova Scotia’s new child care plan set out to give families affordable, dependable early learning and care, with more public funding and stronger workforce…Tiny Homes and Cape Breton’s Housing CrisisAcross Cape Breton, homelessness is often lived beyond the shelter system. Some people stay temporarily with friends or relatives, sleep in vehicles, move…How Cape Breton’s mining disasters reshaped worker safety lawsCape Breton’s coal industry was built on difficult seams, hard rock and dangerous underground work. At Sydney, Glace Bay, New Waterford and the mining fields…Inside The Debate Over Fluoride In Sydney’s Drinking WaterSydney, Nova Scotia, is facing a familiar public-health argument with unusually local stakes. The proposal to add fluoride to the municipal drinking-water…The Cape Breton Whistleblower Who Faced Workplace Safety ViolationsAt 5:42 a.m. on a wet February morning, Leona Fraser stopped on the loading dock of a food-packaging plant near Sydney, Nova Scotia, and photographed what she…Why road salt is contaminating Cape Breton’s lakes and streamsEvery winter, road salt spread across Cape Breton becomes part of the landscape. It melts snow and ice, protects drivers and keeps communities functioning…Canada’s homelessness pledge and the road to 2030The federal government's pledge to end chronic homelessness by 2030 is ambitious, but narrower than the slogan can suggest. Chronic homelessness generally…How the Ukraine war reshaped Cape Breton's Ukrainian communityFew communities offer such a concentrated view of how war can reshape local identity. For years, the Ukrainian presence in Cape Breton could be understood…Community fridges turn surplus food into local resilienceCommunity fridge programs are simple in appearance: a public refrigerator where neighbours can leave surplus food and others can take what they need. In…