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The Quad Counties, outside of Antigonish, have very low upload and download speeds, and compared to the national average (average download 41.2 Mbps, average upload 17.5 Mbps), we’re playing with tin cans and string—Guysborough County’s average upload and download speeds are 3.45 Mbps and 1.31 Mbps respectively.

On December 5, 2013 the province legislated that the third Monday of February, starting in 2015, would become a statutory holiday. But what should this new holiday celebrate?

It has been many years since Brian Mulroney ran in an election. But if he did, judging by the adulation he received from the packed auditorium gathered at St. F.X. University Wednesday morning, he’d win handily….He may just be Canada’s Jimmy Carter.

For almost a decade Carrieann Parker’s family has included a dog named Chico. The dog, which she got as a pup, has been part of day-to-day life as the young family saw their number increase from one child to three. Last week the family was informed by a hand-delivered letter from the Municipality of the District of Guysborough that they must find a new home for Chico within four days, or the municipality would do it for them.

Jamie hopes that his music will help start an important conversation about the violence that youth face in our communities. While it is a common trope in American rap and R&B music to highlight the issue of violence perpetrated against young black men.

Canadian icon, activist, artist and singer Buffy Sainte-Marie is coming to Nova Scotia in November on a tour to promote her new album, Medicine Songs, and take part in several speaking engagements. With decades of experience working on social justice issues through song and action, Sainte-Marie is one of the most recognizable voices in Canadian entertainment. She spoke to The Chronicle Herald from her home in Hawaii about her forthcoming album and her social justice work.

The Times article named the supply source of North Korea’s missile engines as the Ukrainian Yuzhnoye State Design Office and Yuzhmash Production Association. This is the same conglomerate that is in partnership with Maritime Launch Services, which is proposing the Nova Scotia spaceport.

For many years it has been known that bees pollinate important crops. In Nova Scotia, work began in the 1940s and 50s at the Agriculture College in Truro examining the importance of honey bees in the cultivation of wild blueberries. Last month that blueberry-honey bee relationship was further solidified by an announcement that the Atlantic Tech Transfer Team for Apiculture would work to further consolidate the relationship between honey bees and wild blueberry production in Atlantic Canada.

The fishery uses small fishing boats, harvests close to shore using less fuel, does not disturb the ocean bottom, reduces by-catch and only captures mature shrimp. These practices are all beneficial to shrimp populations and their environment.It also benefits rural fishermen and the local community. The shrimp trap fishery season runs from the end of September to March, a winter harvest that staves off seasonal unemployment that is the bane of rural Nova Scotia.

Rural Nova Scotia is being hollowed out and looks, demographically, like a senior’s retirement community. In not addressing the absence of childcare in our rural communities, the government, in its consultation processes, is ensuring this trend will continue. Rural families need to work. When we work, we need childcare, regulated or unregulated. We aren’t picky because when you have nothing, anything that isn’t nothing is good.

Many people who come to Nova Scotia for a vacation fantasize about staying, and some actually take the plunge and make a new life on these shores. Kate Tompkins is one of those people. And aside from a love of the land she’s brought numerous talents to the rural community of Guysborough she now calls home.

BOYLSTON — The phutt, phutt of a torch and the clang of a hammer on an anvil—these are the sounds of Clair Bridge at work in her studio. A fine jewelry maker, Bridge has a workshop that may put many in mind of a blacksmith’s shop– though on a smaller scale. She works with metal; first with a torch, then cooled in a brine solution, placed on an anvil and then sets upon with a variety of hammers to create the desired texture and sheen.