Dr. Catherine O’Brien was recently awarded the Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication Award for Outstanding Post-Secondary Individual. The award honours innovative contributions to environmental education programs, especially those that “foster a greater understanding of ecological principles, environmental issues … Continue reading
Uli Schaarschmidt is an artist who visits Cape Breton every so often to paint sunshiney portraits of fishermen, miners, musicians and wild horses. Some of his Cape Breton paintings were recently featured at this gallery in his hometown Munich. Here’s … Continue reading
From the Canadian Commission for UNESCO‘s official announcement yesterday: Canada welcomes its 16th Biosphere Reserve, as Bras d’Or Lake, Nova Scotia, is designated a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). Biosphere Reserves are living … Continue reading
A Prairie Home Companion offers a list of books that “tell the story of the people and places” of Atlantic Canada. It’s missing anything on industrial/ urban Cape Breton, and so doesn’t include Alistair MacLeod’s No Great Mischief, John Mellor’s … Continue reading
From Nick Hornby’s How To Be Good: “David, incidentally, is rabidly conservative in everything but politics. There are people like that now, I’ve noticed, people who seem angry enough to call for the return of the death penalty or the … Continue reading
The Internet is a tool, and like any tool, whether it is creative or destructive comes down to how it’s used: United Nations Proclaims Internet Access a Human Right http://rww.to/lDMw9n When Social Networks Become Tools of Oppression http://is.gd/1veNN5 Many of … Continue reading
The Council of Nova Scotia Archives has awarded the 2010 Dr. Phyllis R Blakeley Award for Archival Excellence to the Beaton Institute in recognition of its project Music: Cape Breton’s Diversity in Unity. The award recognizes exemplary projects which have … Continue reading
In one of his recent “rants”, comedian Rick Mercer encouraged Canadian youth to “do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.” Spurred (or shamed) to action, young people across the country have responded by forming … Continue reading