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How Canada’s Dental Plan Reaches Cape Breton’s Uninsured ResidentsFor years, a routine dental cleaning could force a Cape Breton household to choose between a day’s pay and postponed care. That choice has been particularly…Tracing contaminants in groundwater near abandoned minesAn old mine can look like a harmless scar: a stand of dead trees, a fenced shaft or a heap of dark rock. Beneath that quiet surface, water may carry iron,…Why Nova Scotia’s Formula Leaves Cape Breton Schools BehindSchool funding can look fair when it is expressed as a figure per student. In practice, the same amount buys very different levels of education in a dense…Cape Breton’s Black Loyalists: promises, land loss and memoryThe untold story of Cape Breton’s Black Loyalist descendants and land loss begins with a contradiction. People promised a new life in British North America…Cape Breton's tourism rebound: overtourism or welcome recoveryCape Breton Island has long drawn visitors with its cliff-hugging Cabot Trail, Celtic music traditions, and the kind of foggy Atlantic coastline that…Open-net salmon farms reignite a political storm in the Bras d'OrOpen-net salmon aquaculture has rarely been a quiet topic in Atlantic Canada, but the current proposal to install a cluster of industrial pens in Cape Breton's…How Cape Breton Households Experienced the Federal Carbon RebateFor low-income households in Cape Breton, the federal carbon rebate was less an abstract climate policy than a payment that arrived against a power bill, a…Building food sovereignty from the ground up in Cape BretonIn the rolling hills and coastal inlets of Cape Breton Island, a quiet but determined transformation is taking shape. Decades-old farming plots that once fed…Why Cape Breton's volunteer fire departments are running out of volunteersAcross Cape Breton, volunteer fire departments remain the first line of defence for communities separated by long roads, wooded areas and scattered homes. When…Nova Scotia’s Prison Expansion And The Cost Of More CellsNova Scotia is moving toward a larger and more expensive correctional system at a moment when evidence increasingly questions whether extra prison capacity…