February 2012 Archives

Wednesday February 29, 2012

Coastalbraid.com

Madonna Doucette

Posted by Robert Doublett

Starting tomorrow you'll be able to read the very first of a new publication in Cape Breton. While it is the work of the community, a lot of the work has been started by the editor Madonna Doucette.

Listen (runs 10:32)

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Tuesday February 28, 2012

Ma's Meals

Buddy Penny & Fred Milley

Posted by Robert Doublett

The soup kitchen in New Waterford is appealing for help from the province and from the public to keep its doors open.

Ma's Meals says it only has enough money to operate for another month.

A new board has been formed to make something happen.

Buddy Penny recently accepted the volunteer president's job when he was asked by the co-ordinator of Ma's Meals, Fred Milley.

CBC reporter Hal Higgins dropped into the centre today to talk with both of them,  starting with Buddy Penny.

Listen (runs 6:48)

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Monday February 27, 2012

Miner's Manor resignation

Hector DiPersio

Posted by Robert Doublett

A special meeting will take place at Miners Memorial Manor in Sydney Mines tomorrow night.

The Director of Nursing recently handed in her resignation following a flu outbreak and staff at the manor have asked to meet with adminstrators to discuss their concerns.

Hector DiPersion heads the Board of Directors, he spoke with Joan Weeks earlier today.

Listen (runs 4:49)

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Friday February 24, 2012

Job Bank isn't working

Doug Milburn & Roger Cuzner

Posted by Robert Doublett

As we've been hearing in the news, job seekers who are banking on Job Bank are out of luck these days.

The federal website that advertises job openings across the country has been out of service for a week.

Doug Milburn is vice-president of Protocase Incorporated in Sydney.

He was advertising two jobs at his manufacturing company on Job Bank before the site went down.

Reporter Bobby Nock spoke to him.

Listen (runs 3:51)

Rodger Cuzner is the M-P for Cape Breton-Canso and Liberal critic for Service Canada.

Reporter Bobby Nock spoke to him about Job Bank being down.

Listen (runs 1:38)

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Thursday February 23, 2012

Xstrata coal by barge.

Val Istomin

Posted by Robert Doublett

There was a heated meeting in Donkin last night, about a proposed coal mine for the area.

Fishermen in the area say they want to support the project - but not if it costs them their livelihood.

X-Strata Coal wants to move coal from the mine by barge, to coal carriers offshore. And the fishermen say that could force them out of the area.

Val Istomin is the project manager for the mine.
He explained the thinking behind the barge option, to Wendy Martin.

Listen (runs 7:51)

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Wednesday February 22, 2012

High School Robbery

Wendy Martin

Posted by Robert Doublett

Police are investigating an armed robbery at a local high school.

It happened at memorial high school in Sydney mines on Monday.

The CBC's Wendy martin has been looking into the story.

Listen (runs 7:54)

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Tuesday February 21, 2012

Oxycontin out, OxyNEO in......for some.

Dr. Etienne Prinsloo

Posted by Robert Doublett

As we've heard in the news recently, the manufacturer of Oxycontin will no longer make the drug.

It's being replaced with a new drug called OxyNEO.

It will be much harder to abuse and should cut down on addictions.

The province has decided ....it will not approve any new prescriptions for OxyNeo. Only people currently on Oxycontin... and some cancer and palliative patients... will be able to get OxyNEO.

Dr. Etienne Prinsloo is a pain specialist here in Sydney.

He foresees problems.

Dr. Prinsloo says Cape Breton has very long waiting lists for pain treatment... because there are only three specialists.

It also has a population with many people suffering from pain.

He spoke with Joan Weeks earlier today about the challenges facing pain specialists here.... and the complications caused by the changes with Oxycontin.


Listen (runs 3:34)

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Monday February 20, 2012

Transportation Trades 11 - automotive training

Mike Morrison - BEC's skilled trades instuctor

Posted by Robert Doublett

Students in some Nova Scotia High Schools are going to get more and more exposure to courses in the skilled trades.

It's part of the province's "Kids and Learning First" program.

Today the deputy premier officially launched the brand new "Transportation Trades 11" course
at Breton Education Centre in New Waterford.

The automotive training is the latest course -- it now joins the basic skilled trades course and a full-fledged construction course-- in which students actually learn how to build a small house right there in the school's workshop.

Mike Morrison is BEC's skilled trades instructor. He spoke with CBC reporter Hal Higgins.

Listen (runs 3:06)

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Friday February 17, 2012

Braemore Home's incoming CEO

Mildred Colbourne

Posted by Robert Doublett

Braemore Home in Sydney River has a new CEO.

The Cape Breton District Health Authority announced today that Mildred Colbourne will take on the job, starting on February 27th.

Last fall, problems at the home for people with intellectual disabilities including allegations of abuse led the provincial government to step in.

The Department of Communities Services stripped control of the facility from the Cape Breton Regional Municipality.

The Cape Breton District Health Authority was put in charge and an interim CEO was appointed.

The province also launched a review of the Home's operations.

For more, Braemore Home's incoming CEO, Mildred Colbourne joins me now.

Listen (runs 9:09)

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Thursday February 16, 2012

Talbot House Incident

Dr. John Gainer & Father Donald MacGillivray

Posted by Robert Doublett

The priest who has spoken for the Diocese of Antigonish in recent years is the subject of an unspecified complaint.

Father Paul Abbass runs Talbot House, outside Sydney. It's an addiction recovery and rehabilitation facility for men.

The complaint was filed with the Department of Community Services.

John Gainer is the chair of the Talbot House Board.

Listen (runs 5:36)

Father Donald MacGillivray speaks for the Diocese of Antigonish....the Bishop sent a press release out about an hour ago, we spoke with Father MacGillivray

Shortly after that...here is our conversation.

Listen (runs 5:28)

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Wednesday February 15, 2012

Dominion Beach Renewal

Deputy premier and local MLA ,Frank Corbett and Joe Ellsworth

Posted by Robert Doublett

Dominion Beach has faced more than its fair share of challenges over the years.

First pollution from nearby sewage outfalls prevented swimming.

Then... once that was resolved... mother nature continued to take a toll.

Erosion has been eating away the shoreline and winter storms have damaged the parks infrastructure.

The provincial government recently sent out a survey to help it plan for the future of Dominion Beach.

More than 1-thousand people answered.

Deputy premier and local MLA ,Frank Corbett, spoke with Joan Weeks about the survey.

Listen (runs 3:58)

The survey showed that almost half the people who use Dominion Beach... go there to walk the trail... enjoy the scenery ...or to bird watch.
In the summer.... only 30 per cent enjoy swimming and sun bathing.

Joe Ellsworth has been a lifelong visitor to Dominion Beach. He's part of a committee formed to find a solution to the erosion problems.

Ellsworth met with reporter Joan Weeks on the beach earlier today.


Listen (runs 4:16)

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Monday February 13, 2012

Courting the convention crowd

Mary Tulle

Posted by Robert Doublett

Destination Cape Breton is looking for 60-thousand dollars from the Cape Breton Regional Municipality.

CEO Mary Tulle made the request during a presentation to council last week.

She also layed out the association's strategic plan for boosting tourism to the island.    

Part of that plan involves courting conference and meeting business.

To learn more about the strategy, and how the 60-thousand dollars would be used, we've invited Mary Tulle into our studio.

Listen (runs 11:16)

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Monday February 13, 2012

International Ports Tour

John Lynn

Posted by Robert Doublett

A group of people interested in port development in Cape Breton are touring ports out west this week.

Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation is leading the trade mission.

The group is in Prince Rupert today.

That's where we reached ECBC CEO John Lynn.

Listen (runs 6:25)

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Thursday February 9, 2012

Robin's Demolition

Sylvia LeLievre

Posted by Robert Doublett

As we've been hearing in the news, the former Robin's store in Cheticamp has been torn down.

Crews with Inverness County Public Works are still working on the site, clearing away the rubble.

The County has tried twice to sell the derelict building for back taxes.

Now it hopes to sell the vacant lot to recoup some of the money.

Sylvia LeLievre lives next to the former Robin's store.

Reporter Bobby Nock spoke with her earlier today and asked what she can see when she looks out her window now.

Listen (runs 5:22)

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Tuesday February 7, 2012

30 years later: Point Tupper Blast

Lorraine King

Posted by Robert Doublett

Today is the anniversary of a terrible event in the Port Hawkesbury area.

Thirty years ago there was an explosion at the Point Tupper paper mill.

The toxic gas that was released in that explosion poisoned many of the mills workers.

It also resulted in the deaths of five men.

Listen (runs 7:07)

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Tuesday February 7, 2012

The New SPCA - Renovations

Nova Scotia SPCA executive director, Kristin Williams

Posted by Robert Doublett

The executive director of the Nova Scotia SPCA was in Sydney today to address Cape Breton Regional Council's committee-of-the-whole.

Kristan Williams is overseeing some major changes at the local shelter which was turned over to the control of the provincial body in a recent court ruling.

Today she summarized those plans.


Listen (runs 1:46)

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Monday February 6, 2012

The Kids and Learning First Plan

Vic Fleury: President of the Nova Scotia School Boards Association

Posted by Robert Doublett

After six years, there's once again a master plan for primary to 12 education in Nova Scotia.

The Kids and Learning First plan was released on Friday by Education Minister Ramona Jennox.

It outlines several strategies and priorities for improving math and literacy scores in the province while keeping class sizes small.

The plan also calls for more co-op programs and hands-on skills training at the high school level.

But there are questions around how closely the plan can be implemented, given the possibility of more funding cuts to school boards in the up-coming budget.

Vic Fleury is the President of the Nova Scotia School Boards Association.

Listen (runs 9:05)

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Monday February 6, 2012

Mnohaya lita!

Celebrating 100 years of Ukrainian Faith in Cape Breton

Posted by Robert Doublett

This afternoon on Mainstreet we were broadcasting live from the Cape Breton Center for Heritage and Science.

We were learning all about the Ukrainian Culture and Heritage. We met Internationally renowned Banduryst Julian Kytasty.

Julian traveled from New York for this years celebrations, and we asked him about the history of the Bandura and for a quick lesson.

Listen (runs 12:57)

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Wednesday February 1, 2012

Live from the Flamingo

John Gracie

Posted by Robert Doublett

Talk about versatile. Nova Scotia's John Gracie moves back and forth like nobody's business.

So it should come as no surprise that Gracie has reinvented himself once again, this time as a crooner. That's right, an old-style, lean on the piano, wear-a-tux with the tie undone, sip on a drink and make love to the microphone. Okay, he doesn't go THAT far, but his new album is called Live From The Flamingo: A Bennett, Sinatra Salute.

For Gracie the key was to put together a classic swingin' combo, to perform these songs for swingin' lovers, 50's style. That meant real instruments, some of the Maritimes best players in the genre, including Moncton-born Georges Hebert, the guitar stalwart for most of Anne Murray's career, as well as many others. It's a big band style, just guitar, bass, keys, drums and sax, but the point here is the intimacy, and room for the players to shine.

Listen (runs 12:28)

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• February 2013
  • Fri., 22 – More Beds, Sooner
     
  • Thu., 21 – Container Terminal - Discussion & Q&A
     
  • Thu., 21 – Bulk Commodities - Discussion & Q&A
     
  • Thu., 21 – Cruise Opportunities - Discussion & Q&A
     
  • Thu., 21 – 2013 CBRM Port Summit - Consultants Report
     
  • Tue., 19 – The Exit Interview
     
  • Mon., 18 – More ECBC Questions
     
  • Mon., 18 –
     
  • Wed., 13 – Senior Snow Removal
     
  • Wed., 13 – Stuff We Wrote As Kids
     
  • Mon., 11 – The Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI
     
  • Fri., 8 – New Kids Gaelic CD
     
  • Thu., 7 – Ice Crash
     
  • Wed., 6 – The New Anne of Green Gables
     
  • Mon., 4 – Searchlight Kickoff!
     
  • Mon., 4 – Billdidit - NAMM Exhibition Floor.
     
  • Mon., 4 – RCMP Respond to Criticism.
     
  • Fri., 1 – Police News Conference
     
  • Fri., 1 – Cowl Bowl Pennies
     
• January 2013
  • Thu., 31 – How Much to Serve?
     
  • Thu., 31 – Podcast Problems
     
  • Wed., 30 – The Tom Miller Human Rights Award
     
  • Tue., 29 – ECBC Speaks
     
  • Tue., 29 – The 2012 Aviva Community Fund Winners!
     
  • Mon., 28 – This Was Not Preordained.
     
  • Fri., 25 – 2/11
     
  • Fri., 25 – EI for Multiple Births
     
  • Wed., 23 – Call for Review
     
  • Tue., 22 – Between a Wreck and a Hard Place.
     
  • Tue., 22 – The First Address
     
  • Mon., 21 – Hemorrhaging Faith
     
  • Fri., 18 – Preserving The Yacht Club
     
  • Thu., 17 – The Trouble with Transferable Credits
     
  • Tue., 15 – ECMA Noms
     
  • Mon., 14 – Skeete Sentencing
     
  • Fri., 11 – Remembering Peter Jack and Joseph Peter MacLean
     
  • Wed., 9 – Yacht Club Sale Questioned
     
  • Tue., 8 – Virtual Drop-in Center
     
  • Mon., 7 – Les Miserables Casting
     
  • Fri., 4 – History of the Royal Cape Breton Yacht Club.
     
  • Thu., 3 – ECBC buying Royal Cape Breton Yacht Club
     
  • Wed., 2 – Municipal Issues
     
  • Wed., 2 – Idle No More
     
  • Wed., 2 – Call for Submissions!
     
• December 2012
  • Fri., 21 – Light Up A Life - 2012 Skating Party
     
  • Wed., 19 – St. Anthony Daniels Senior Parish Choir
     
  • Tue., 18 – Hear Me Out
     
  • Mon., 17 – Murder Arrests
     
  • Fri., 14 – Salvation Army Efforts
     
  • Thu., 13 – CBU Pet Therapy
     
  • Wed., 12 – Bowater Mersey Pension Fund
     
  • Tue., 11 – Best Christmas Gingerbread
     
  • Mon., 10 – Harbourside Elementary School - Kiwanis Kids
     
  • Thu., 6 – Disabled Housing Shortage
     
  • Wed., 5 – State of the Province
     
  • Tue., 4 – Amish Family Christmas
     
  • Mon., 3 – Aviva Community Fund
     
• November 2012
  • Fri., 30 – Lower Churchill Loan Agreement
     
  • Wed., 28 – the Robert J. Morgan Grant
     
  • Tue., 27 – Feed Nova Scotia
     
  • Tue., 27 – Broughton: A Return to Cape Breton's Ghost Town
     
  • Mon., 26 – Shaping Our Future in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality
     
  • Fri., 23 – The Hunger Count
     
  • Fri., 23 – The Hunger Count
     
  • Wed., 21 – CBRM Bravery Award
     
  • Mon., 19 – Cruel and Unusual
     
  • Thu., 15 – TeleFilm's Success Index
     
  • Wed., 14 – This ship has sailed.......again.
     
  • Fri., 9 – Steel Chef Cape Breton
     
  • Thu., 8 – Women In The Church
     
  • Wed., 7 – Another Stop Work Order
     
  • Tue., 6 – SPCA Resignation
     
  • Mon., 5 – Unsolved Murders - Reward Offered
     
  • Fri., 2 – Remembering Dave Harley
     
  • Thu., 1 – Farming Software
     
  • Thu., 1 – International Baccalaureate program update.
     
• October 2012
  • Tue., 30 – Health Spending
     
  • Mon., 29 – Detox Changes
     
  • Mon., 29 – Heart Healthy Kids
     
  • Fri., 26 – Jason Kenny Reaction
     
  • Thu., 25 – Stolen Goods Seizures
     
  • Wed., 24 – Long Shots
     
  • Tue., 23 – M.V. Miner Update
     
  • Mon., 22 – CBRM's New Councillor
     
  • Fri., 19 – A Bumper Crop for Pumpkins!
     
  • Thu., 18 – The Exit Interview
     
  • Thu., 18 – Warm Water Deaths
     
  • Thu., 18 – Cape Breton Walk-in Clinic - Expanding Services
     
  • Wed., 17 – The Exit Interview
     
  • Tue., 16 – The Exit Interview
     
  • Mon., 15 – The Exit Interview
     
  • Mon., 15 – No EI for Family Members
     
  • Fri., 12 – Road Trip!
     
  • Thu., 11 – On Location - Coxheath Hills
     
  • Fri., 5 – Trapper Boy
     
  • Mon., 1 – Natalie MacMaster Remembers
     
• September 2012
  • Wed., 26 – Glenn Jessome Interview
     
  • Thu., 20 – On Location - Cabot Links
     
  • Tue., 18 – Sydney Port Development
     
  • Mon., 17 – Richmond Tax Decision
     
  • Fri., 14 – "..it's supposed to look like that."
     
  • Fri., 14 – Canso Causeway Protest
     
  • Wed., 12 – Pepper Spray Attack
     
  • Tue., 11 – Kin
     
  • Mon., 10 – NewPage is Hiring
     
  • Fri., 7 – Withdrawing from the Race
     
  • Thu., 6 – CBRM Mayoral Candidate
     
  • Wed., 5 – Youth Speaks Up
     
  • Tue., 4 – Funding Worries
     
• August 2012
  • Fri., 31 – Guilty
     
  • Thu., 30 – "..the right thing to do."
     
  • Wed., 29 – Kindermusik
     
  • Wed., 29 – Where's the Red Shoe?
     
  • Wed., 29 – CBRM Mayoral Candidate
     
  • Mon., 27 – Talbot House Changes
     
  • Mon., 27 – Talbot House Reaction
     
  • Fri., 24 – Talbot House - Public Forum
     
  • Thu., 23 – E-Cigarettes
     
  • Thu., 23 – Glowing Plankton
     
  • Tue., 21 – YMCA Sydney
     
  • Mon., 20 – Mobile Care New Waterford
     
  • Fri., 17 – Calling It A Day.
     
  • Thu., 16 – New Page Deal
     
  • Tue., 14 – Wake-Up Call Breakfast
     
  • Fri., 10 – J.A. Douglas McCurdy Airport Improvements
     
  • Wed., 8 – Junebugs Baby!
     
  • Wed., 8 – MV Miner Removal
     
  • Tue., 7 – A Better Methadone Program?
     
  • Fri., 3 – Cape Breton Modern Drummer
     
  • Thu., 2 – Nova Scotia Tourism Strategy
     
  • Wed., 1 – Land Trust Donation
     
• July 2012
  • Tue., 31 – 70 George Street
     
  • Thu., 26 – Take Back The Night
     
  • Wed., 25 – 2012 Wine Spectator Award
     
  • Wed., 25 – Road Repair Request
     
  • Tue., 24 – Remembering Carol Kennedy
     
  • Fri., 20 – Calling it Quits
     
  • Thu., 19 – Residential Addictions Treatment CB?
     
  • Wed., 18 – the 'Lone Star State' Container Terminal
     
  • Mon., 16 – Nova Scotia wins Jazz jobs.
     
  • Fri., 13 – MV Miner - Departure
     
  • Fri., 13 – Muskrat Falls - Escalating Costs
     
  • Wed., 11 – Blueberry Honey Coconut Cups
     
  • Wed., 11 – The Paleo Diet
     
  • Mon., 9 – CBU - Refreshed Vision
     
  • Fri., 6 – MV Miner - Salvage Project
     
  • Thu., 5 – Government Jobs and Rural Communities
     
• June 2012
  • Thu., 28 – Fenwick MacIntosh victim
     
  • Thu., 28 – Cape Ann III Songwriting Contest
     
  • Thu., 21 – Disband the School Board
     
  • Tue., 19 – The Archbishop's New Home
     
  • Tue., 19 – Big Pond Beach: SOLD
     
  • Tue., 19 – The Beautiful Game
     
  • Fri., 15 – 2012 Canada 55+ Games
     
  • Thu., 14 – International Baccalaureate program reversed.
     
  • Wed., 13 – International Baccalaureate Program Review
     
  • Tue., 12 – Talbot House tender
     
  • Mon., 11 – Labour Movement in North America
     
  • Fri., 8 – Remembering Dave McKeough
     
  • Thu., 7 – Academy's International Baccalaureate Program
     
  • Wed., 6 – Academy's International Baccalaureate program
     
  • Wed., 6 – Academy's International Baccalaureate Students
     
  • Tue., 5 – Talbot House Supporter
     
  • Mon., 4 – Potential Greenfield Legal Action
     
  • Fri., 1 – Nova Scotia's electoral map
     
• May 2012
  • Wed., 30 – Auditor General's Report
     
  • Tue., 29 – Department of Fisheries Closures
     
  • Mon., 28 – CBCEDA Connector Program
     
  • Fri., 25 – From the murky depths it comes.
     
  • Thu., 24 – Eskasoni's Frist Female MD
     
  • Wed., 23 – CB Regional Victoria School Board Budget Cuts
     
  • Tue., 22 – ACOA cuts regional development funding
     
  • Fri., 18 – Drugstore Break-In
     
  • Thu., 17 – The Exit Interview
     
  • Thu., 17 – G20 Review
     
  • Wed., 16 – Greenfield Purchase
     
  • Wed., 16 – Membertou TCC - Fine Food Show
     
  • Tue., 15 – Concerns over Nova Scotia Power
     
  • Mon., 14 – Highschool football in CBRM.
     
  • Fri., 11 – Anti-Identity Phobia Day
     
  • Thu., 10 – I've Got A Crush On You
     
  • Wed., 9 – Westray Draggermen
     
  • Tue., 8 – Michique at Cannes
     
  • Tue., 8 – Human Smuggling Exercises
     
  • Mon., 7 – Music Monday 2012
     
  • Fri., 4 – Preaching Political Engagement
     
  • Thu., 3 – Loaves & Fishes
     
  • Tue., 1 – Loaves and Questions
     
• April 2012
  • Fri., 27 – Xstrata wants out.
     
  • Thu., 26 – Talbot House - Call for Resignation
     
  • Wed., 25 – Dancing Through History
     
  • Tue., 24 – Education Reform
     
  • Fri., 20 – St. Michael's Boys Choir
     
  • Thu., 19 – Next Big Thing Gets Bigger
     
  • Wed., 18 – Brakin' Tradition Reunion
     
  • Mon., 16 – Talbot House opposes report.
     
  • Fri., 13 – ECMA 2012
     
  • Wed., 11 – Cuts to Nova Scotia Libraries.
     
  • Tue., 10 – Why Men Lie
     
  • Wed., 4 – On Location - Canadian Blood Services
     
  • Mon., 2 – 1940's Championship Hockey
     
• March 2012
  • Fri., 30 – Provincial Decentralization
     
  • Wed., 28 – Reaching Out To Rwanda
     
  • Tue., 27 – The Language of This Land, Mi'kma'ki
     
  • Mon., 26 – St. Mary's Reprieve
     
  • Fri., 23 – Sydneys Artifical Reefs
     
  • Wed., 21 – Sense of Place
     
  • Mon., 19 – Trestle Traditions
     
  • Mon., 19 – Piano Accompaniment
     
  • Sat., 17 – Sydney Steel Museum Society
     
  • Thu., 15 – Violence Against Women
     
  • Thu., 15 – University Security Protocol
     
  • Wed., 14 – Community Services
     
  • Wed., 14 – Canadian Centre for Child Protection
     
  • Tue., 13 – The Hunger Games Panel
     
  • Thu., 8 – Tablot House closed.
     
  • Tue., 6 – Cape Breton Regional Council
     
  • Mon., 5 – Job Training Announcement
     
  • Thu., 1 – First Nations Song Writing Sessions
     
• February 2012
  • Wed., 29 – Coastalbraid.com
     
  • Tue., 28 – Ma's Meals
     
  • Mon., 27 – Miner's Manor resignation
     
  • Fri., 24 – Job Bank isn't working
     
  • Thu., 23 – Xstrata coal by barge.
     
  • Wed., 22 – High School Robbery
     
  • Tue., 21 – Oxycontin out, OxyNEO in......for some.
     
  • Mon., 20 – Transportation Trades 11 - automotive training
     
  • Fri., 17 – Braemore Home's incoming CEO
     
  • Thu., 16 – Talbot House Incident
     
  • Wed., 15 – Dominion Beach Renewal
     
  • Mon., 13 – Courting the convention crowd
     
  • Mon., 13 – International Ports Tour
     
  • Thu., 9 – Robin's Demolition
     
  • Tue., 7 – 30 years later: Point Tupper Blast
     
  • Tue., 7 – The New SPCA - Renovations
     
  • Mon., 6 – The Kids and Learning First Plan
     
  • Mon., 6 – Mnohaya lita!
     
  • Wed., 1 – Live from the Flamingo
     
• January 2012
  • Tue., 31 – Tribute to the Carpenters
     
  • Fri., 27 – Canada's Country Gentleman
    Tommy Hunter
     
  • Thu., 26 – BrainScreen
    Scott Knight, executive director of BrainScreen
     
  • Thu., 26 – Canadian Coast Guard 50th Anniversary
    Executive Director: Captain Lise Marchand
     
  • Thu., 26 – Provincal Energy Ventures
     
  • Thu., 26 – Inverness Operating Room
    Nova Scotia's Health Minister Maureen MacDonald
     
  • Wed., 25 – CBC LIVE: The Haggis Taste Test
     
  • Wed., 25 – WITS
    RCMP Constable Andre Sparkes
     
  • Mon., 23 – Job Cuts - Centre for Policy Alternatives
    Senior Economist David MacDonald
     
  • Fri., 20 – The town of Canso will cease to be
    Troy Greencorn
     
  • Thu., 19 – The New SPCA
    Nova Scotia SPCA executive director, Kristin Williams
     
  • Wed., 18 – Federation for Scottish Culture
    Tom Wallace
     
  • Wed., 18 – There's coal in them thar waves!
    Dr. John Harker
     
  • Tue., 17 – Possible Church Closures.
    John MacEachern and Father Donald MacGillivray
     
  • Tue., 17 – Intelligence officer accused of passing secrets
    Debrief by Steve Puddicomb
     
  • Fri., 13 – As you've been hearing in the news...
    Andrew Feldstein, expert in Family Law
     
  • Thu., 12 – Marine Atlantic Fare Hike
    Marine Atlantic's Vice President of Customer Experience, Don Barnes
     
  • Wed., 11 – Paws Pause for the Cause
    Jenn MacNeil: Volunteer at PAWS Mart
     
  • Tue., 10 – JobsHere program lacks targets.
    Liberal MLA Geoff MacLellan
     
  • Mon., 9 – The Detroit auto show........
    Phil Edmonston
     
  • Mon., 9 – ACAP's Big Year
    Executive director Susan King and Education manager Hannah MacDonald
     
  • Fri., 6 – RCMP settle lawsuit in Simon shooting
    Brian Arbuthnot, director of operations with the Wagmatcook Band Council.
     
  • Thu., 5 – CBU = (annual operating grant - 3.1%)
    Dr. John Harker, President and Vice-chancellor, Cape Breton University
    and Chair, Council of Nova Scotia University Presidents (CONSUP)
     
  • Wed., 4 – Bishop Lahey gets time served for child porn.
    Brian Dubreuil
     
  • Tue., 3 – Emera Utility Services calls temporary lay off.
    Sasha Irving, Director, Corporate Communications, Emera Inc.
     
  • Sun., 1 – Your Health with Dr. Brian Goldman
     
  • Sun., 1 – Technology with Anshuman Iddamsetty
     
• December 2011
  • Fri., 30 – Big changes at Sydney's Loaves and Fishes
    Executive Director Adrienne Cogswell
     
  • Thu., 29 – Accreditation
    John Malcom, CEO for the Cape Breton District Health Authority
     
  • Thu., 22 – Never let him go
    Sam Moon
     
  • Tue., 20 – Community group's appeal dismissed
    MEA Co-Chair, Neal Livingston and Environment Minister, Sterling Belliveau
     
  • Fri., 16 – The WeirdBeard Puppet Troupe
    Joannie Cunningham
     
  • Fri., 16 – The Gaelic College responds
     
  • Thu., 15 – Doormen rescue elderly woman.
    Kareem Foster, Michael Postlewaite and Charles Brockett
     
  • Thu., 15 – Our nation's worst driver, drives in Cape Breton
    Shirley Sampson
     
  • Wed., 14 – The dancers response
    Highland Dance Instructor, Kelly MacArthur
     
  • Wed., 14 – Cape Breton business man asks for skating oval
    Owen Fitzgerald
     
  • Wed., 14 – Provincial bailout for NSCAD
    Reporter, Jennifer Henderson
     
  • Tue., 13 – Feeding Feed Nova Scotia
    Dianne Swinemar
     
  • Tue., 13 – The pipers debate
    Maureen Carrol
     
  • Mon., 12 – The first Christmas . . . Tour
    Matt Minglewood
     
  • Fri., 9 – Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh cleared of all charges
    Joan Weeks
     
  • Thu., 8 – The birth of Feed Nova Scotia
    Dianne Swinemar
     
  • Thu., 8 – A journey to food banking
    Dianne Swinemar
     
  • Thu., 8 – Surprise! It's Dave Gunning!
     
  • Thu., 8 – A celebration of women
    Kelly McNenly, Kay MacKinnon and Hazel Latimer
     
  • Wed., 7 – Developing a strategy for safe teen dances
    Chief Peter MacIsaac
     
  • Tue., 6 – Sext Education
    CB Centre for Sexual Health, Executive Director, Cathy Penney
     
  • Mon., 5 – Sexting Students
    CBRP Chief, Peter MacIsaac
     
  • Fri., 2 – Optimistic about New Page sale
    RBC analyst, Paul Quinn
     
  • Thu., 1 – Sydney animal shelter is not going anywhere
    Danny Ellis and Leo MacIsaac
     
• November 2011
  • Wed., 30 – Social networking for musicians
    Charlie A'Court and Rose Cousins
     
  • Tue., 29 – Wine on a budget
    Natalie MacLean
     
  • Tue., 29 – An olive branch for the SPCA?
    SPCA provinicial executive director, Kristin Williams
     
  • Mon., 28 – LIVE IN STUDIO
    David Francey
     
  • Thu., 24 – Protest songs of Cape Breton Isle
     
  • Wed., 23 – Provincial SPCA plans legal action
     
  • Tue., 22 – The SPCA standoff
     
  • Mon., 21 – The welfare of Cape Breton's children
     
  • Mon., 21 – Nova Scotia SPCA executive director, Kristin Williams
     
  • Fri., 18 – SPCA shelter audit
     
  • Thu., 17 – The magical world of silversmithing
     
  • Wed., 16 – M/V Miner discussed in Ottawa
     
  • Wed., 16 – Doc Walker brings 16 & 1 to Glace Bay
     
  • Tue., 15 – Be cool, don't do drugs at school
     
  • Tue., 15 – They've occupied our minds
     
  • Mon., 14 – The Golden K, Sydney's ambassadors
     
  • Wed., 2 – Smokes and Mirrors
    RCMP Inspecrtor John Ryan
     
  • Wed., 2 – Jim Charters.....effective immediately.
    John Ryan - CBU's director of athletics
     
• October 2011
  • Mon., 31 – It was a dark and stormy night....
    David Rhodenizer
     
  • Fri., 28 – Red Brick Row
    Marcia Smith
     
  • Thu., 27 – Halloween Fire Safety
    Fire Service Instructor Stephen MacVicar
     
  • Tue., 25 – What we found.
    Bruce Hatcher
     
  • Mon., 24 – Boat Rescue
    Chief Lenny Barrington - New Waterford Fire Department
     
  • Fri., 21 – On the Road Again
    Don Shebib
     
  • Fri., 21 – Cape Breton's Worst Driver
    Shirley Sampson
    Nominated by daughter, Janis
     
  • Wed., 19 – Sydney Harbour Silt Plume
     
  • Tue., 18 – Braemore's licencing
    Community Services Minister Denise Peterson-Rafuse
     
  • Mon., 17 – Cape Breton District Health Authority Budget Cuts
    CEO John Malcolm
     
  • Fri., 14 –
     
  • Fri., 14 – Rachel Davis & Buddy MacDonald
    Cape Breton
     
  • Fri., 14 – Celtic Colours 2011 - Ashley MacIsaac
    Knox Presbyterian Church
     
  • Thu., 13 – Crowdis Bridge
    Cape Breton
     
  • Thu., 13 – Cabot Gypsum
    Reg MacLeod
     
  • Wed., 12 – the Alan Kelly Gang
    Ireland
     
  • Wed., 12 – What to do with all that zucchini....
    Sandra MacPherson
     
  • Tue., 11 – CBRM Crime Stats
    Chief Peter MacIsaac and Deputy Chief Lloyd MacCormack
     
  • Tue., 11 – April Verch Trio
    Ontario
     
  • Mon., 10 –
     
  • Mon., 10 – Blazin' Fiddles
    Scotland
     
  • Wed., 5 – Ingonish Grief Councling
    Debbie MacIsaac
     
  • Tue., 4 – A New Appointment for Cecil Clarke
    CBRM Council
     
  • Mon., 3 – Harbour Dredging Begins
    manager of dredging operation for Sydney Ports Corporation: Jim Wooder
     
  • Sat., 1 – CBC Cape Breton 75th Anniversary Open House
     
• September 2011
  • Fri., 30 – Council Meeting
    Nova Scotia Premiere Darrell Dexter
     
  • Mon., 26 – Sydney Harbour Relocation Project
    Bruce Hatcher
     
  • Fri., 23 – Paying Unsecured Creditors.
    Danny Ellis
     
  • Thu., 22 – Dance-4-Lindsay
    Richard Young & Dawn MacDonald
     
  • Wed., 21 – Frailty
    Dr Greg Hirsch
     
  • Tue., 20 – The Exit Interview
    Russ White
     
  • Mon., 19 – Catch and Release
    Melanie Sampson: Sydney Harbour Fishermen's Association
     
  • Fri., 16 – Not Running Anymore
    Kim Desveaux - CBRM councillor for District 6
     
  • Thu., 15 – The latest for New Page
    Premier Darrell Dexter
     
  • Tue., 13 – Dave Wilson Pleads Guilty
    Brian DuBreuil
     
  • Mon., 12 – Greek Default
    Craig Alexander
     
  • Fri., 9 – Keeping forestry workers employed
    Premiere Darrell Dexter
     
  • Thu., 8 – Cape Breton Film Production
    Claude Nearing
     
  • Wed., 7 – New Page -vs- Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
    Joan Weeks
     
  • Wed., 7 – The Antagonist
    Lynn Coady
     
  • Wed., 7 – Power Rates in Nova Scotia
    Leader of the PC Party of NS, Jamie Baillie
     
  • Fri., 2 – Lexon Communications
    Co-owner of Lexon, Earl Johnston
     
  • Thu., 1 – Live in Studio
    Carleton Stone
     
• August 2011
  • Wed., 31 – Remembering Bob Muir
    Ron MacDonald & Cecil Clarke
     
  • Tue., 30 – Uncle Sam Wants You!
    Terry Ritchie
     
  • Mon., 29 – Are you recieving?
    Stephen Guiton; Vice President and Cheif Regulatory Officer of the CBC
     
  • Fri., 26 – Ringside World Championships
    Brad Ross & trainer Rudy Putchie
     
  • Thu., 25 – Michael Anthony's
    Lucy MacNeil & Susan MacLean
     
  • Wed., 24 – Right Some Good
    Alvin Leung - The Demon Chef
     
  • Tue., 23 – Bob MacEachern
    101.5 The Hawk: New Page Reaction
     
  • Tue., 16 – Nick Beaton
    the Comedian
     
• April 2011
  • Tue., 19 –
     
• March 2011
  • Fri., 25 – Road Trip - Port Morien
     
• December 2010
  • Mon., 20 –
     
• November 2010
  • Mon., 22 –