Reviews
How Cape Breton Breweries Are Riding Out The Craft Beer SlowdownCape Breton’s small breweries entered the 2020s with strong local goodwill, growing tourism and a product that seemed made for the island’s pubs, music venues…When the family doctor disappears, the clinic must changeIn a small Cape Breton community, the loss of a family doctor has become more than a problem of recruitment. It has forced residents, nurses, administrators…Inside the ongoing Mi'kmaq land claim negotiations for Cape Breton territoryCape Breton Island sits at the eastern edge of Nova Scotia like a stone caught in the Atlantic's grip, a place where forested highlands roll toward salt water…Cape Breton students mobilize for climate justice and divestmentAcross the industrial heartland of Cape Breton, where coal once defined the economy and the shoreline, a new generation of young people is turning its back on…Cape Breton coal plant reopening push tests modern grid promisesFor nearly a decade, the smokestacks that once defined the industrial skyline of Cape Breton have sat cold, their turbines stilled and their coal yards slowly…How the Affordable Housing Accelerator Fund Has Reached Glace BayIn Glace Bay, the federal Affordable Housing Accelerator Fund is easier to see in municipal policy than in a newly built block of flats. The programme was…Cape Breton Offshore Wind Plan Revives a Familiar Tug of War With FishersPebbles click against the hull as trawlers nose out of Little Bras d'Or at first light, the same way skippers have done for generations off the steel-coloured…J.B. McLachlan and the Living Legacy of Working-Class SolidarityJames B. McLachlan arrived in Cape Breton in 1902 and spent the next three decades doing what no one else in the small Nova Scotia coal communities had…Workers at Cape Breton Amazon facility push for union recognitionThe fulfilment centre sits on the edge of a coastal road outside Sydney Mines, in a region where coal seams and steel mills once anchored working life. Inside…Inside the opaque world of Nova Scotia's private nursing home contractsWhen Edith MacLeod's family moved her into a private long-term care home outside Halifax three years ago, they signed a thick admissions packet without ever…