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Dallas Goreham holds up the note he found in a bottle on May 16 washed up on the Lower Woods Harbour shoreline, 18 years after it had been tossed into the ocean in the waters off Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Shelburne County youth finds 18-year-old message in a bottle on shoreline of ...

Betty Bennett of Morristown must come up with enough cash to acquire a BiPAP machine for sleep apnea in order to return home from the hospital after a close call landed her in an intensive care unit seven weeks ago.

Morristown woman’s hospital release delayed by need for pricy BiPAP machine

A UFO cloud - altocumulus lenticularis or lenticular cloud - spotted by Jeff Dalton, North Mountain, N.S. in May 2018.

CINDY DAY: UFO sighting in Atlantic Canada?

Kathy Hazel of Waterville is sure to send Dr. Benjamin Heisler, a vascular surgeon at Valley Regional Hospital in Kentville, a postcard whenever she travels. It’s her way of letting him know that she firmly believes she wouldn’t be here today if not for him.

Waterville resident forever grateful to doctor who saved her life

Ron Veinot at work in his barber shop on Carten Street (Brian Fralic Photo)

Liverpool barber retires after 57 Years

VIBERT: ‘The goodness of Nova Scotians got me through’ – Horne

Jim Vibert
Published Nov 17, 2017 at 11:52 a.m.

“They bubble-wrapped me,” says Dr. Gabrielle Horne of colleagues and co-workers. She gestures to include friends and neighbours milling outside the courtroom, all of whom she credits with her survival of a 15-year ordeal. Workplace ...

VIBERT: ‘Reputation assassination’ case in the court’s hands

Jim Vibert
Updated Nov 17, 2017 at 11:48 a.m.

Treatment for what may be the most egregious case of privileged entitlement and abused power in recent Nova Scotia history is in the hands of three learned jurists. Chief Justice Michael MacDonald and Associate Justices Joel Fichaud and Cindy A. ...

Eventually, there’s a point where a product is so wildly expensive or esoteric that money is no longer an object. - Volokhatiuk

RUSSELL WANGERSKY: Tapping into new sources of revenue generation

Russell Wangersky
Updated Nov 17, 2017 at 5 a.m.

You can, if you like, purchase the “Renaissance 41-Light Candle-Style Chandelier by Schonbek” on Wayfair’s website for a whopping 35 per cent off right now, and pay only $50,115 instead of the usual $76,559.99. You ...

Interest in Kennedy may be about healing

Jim Vibert
Published Nov 14, 2017 at 1:33 p.m.

Three books about a long-dead American politician climbed to the top of bestsellers’ lists in the past 24 months. After winning the California Democratic Presidential primary, on June 5, 1968, Bobby Kennedy seemed destined to win his ...

STEVE BARTLETT: Slow down, put your phones in the trunk, and pay attention

Steve Bartlett
Updated Nov 13, 2017 at 11:50 a.m.

I pass the two-storey house every day. My heart sinks and my stomach pangs each time, no matter how often I drive by. A few months ago, the people who live in the home were struck by incomprehensible tragedy — a highway accident that ...

Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada. - Sgt Johanie Maheu, Rideau Hall © OSGG-BSGG, 2017

RUSSELL WANGERSKY: The vice-regal molehill that would be a mountain

Russell Wangersky
Updated Nov 14, 2017 at 4 a.m.

I just wish people would be allowed to say what they think. In the ultimate of tempested teapots, the new Governor General, Julie Payette, found herself in hot water when she gave a speech about the value of science to that regular hotbed of ...

$['Twenty-one descendants of Royal Newfoundland Regiment soldiers enlisted to be part of "Newfoundland at Armageddon," a new documentary film. The recruits underwent military training, ate rations, slept in tents and recreated the Battle of the Somme, gaining an understanding of what their ancestors\' went through.']$

RUSSELL WANGERSKY: For those who put their lives on the line

Russell Wangersky
Updated Nov 10, 2017 at 2:49 p.m.

Those who launch wars, and those who direct them, often get to live full and complete lives. Those on the front lines often don’t. ...

['Julia Ratcliffe, a technical consultant with The Bug Factory, a company that supplies insects for natural pest control, examines marijuana plants for pests at the MediJean medical marijuana facility in Richmond, B.C., on Friday March 21, 2014. The number of Canadian firms applying for lucrative medical marijuana licences has topped 1,000, as a so-called "greenrush" continues to overwhelm Health Canada.']

VIBERT: Strictly-regulated legal pot environment expected

Jim Vibert
Updated Nov 08, 2017 at 6 a.m.

Nova Scotians thinking that next July they’ll be able to nip down to the corner pot shop whenever they want, might want to chill until they see the province’s plan. Cannabis will be legal next summer, but the rules and regulations are ...

RUSSELL WANGERSKY: Bad manners at 30,000 feet

Russell Wangersky
Updated Nov 07, 2017 at 5 a.m.

Forgive me for a moment as I write about something particularly close to my world this week. ...

VIBERT: Has the pendulum swung too far?

Jim Vibert
Published Nov 06, 2017 at 8:59 a.m.

If you’re looking for easy answers, stay away from tough questions. That would mean staying away from medicine, where all the questions seem hard because the easy ones were answered long ago. (Had a good bleeding, lately?) The word ...