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Thursday May 24, 2012

Eskasoni's Frist Female MD

Michelle Matthews

Posted by Robert Doublett

Michelle Matthews is from Eskasoni First Nation and this past week, she became the first woman from her community to earn an MD....what's more, she did it at age 47, while raising three kids.

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Wednesday May 23, 2012

CB Regional Victoria School Board Budget Cuts

Lorne Green

Posted by Robert Doublett

As we've been hearing this afternoon, the Cape Breton-Victoria Regional School Board has approved an operating budget that sees a decrease in provincial funding by 2.1%.

That means about 2.86 million dollars, and that translates into 75 positions....44 of which will be teaching positions.

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Tuesday May 22, 2012

ACOA cuts regional development funding

Eileen Lannon-Oldford

Posted by Robert Doublett

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency is cutting core funding to some regional economic development groups across Atlantic Canada.

ACOA Minister Bernard Valcourt confirmed the decision earlier today firstly in a letter, and then later issued as a press release.

The agencies affected in Cape Breton are the Cape Breton County Economic Development Authority and Strait Highlands Regional  Development Authority.
Eileen Lannon-Oldford is with the Cape Breton County Economic Development Authority.


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• May 2012
  • Thu., 24 – Eskasoni's Frist Female MD
     
  • Wed., 23 – CB Regional Victoria School Board Budget Cuts
     
  • Tue., 22 – ACOA cuts regional development funding
     
  • 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 – Provincal Energy Ventures
    Provincial Energy Ventures President Ernie Thrasher
     
  • 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.
     
• 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 – 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 – 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
    President of the Sydney Harbour Fishers Association: Melanie Sampson
     
  • 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 – 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 – What to do with all that zucchini....
    Sandra MacPherson
     
  • Tue., 11 – CBRM Crime Stats
    Chief Peter MacIsaac and Deputy Chief Lloyd MacCormack
     
  • 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
     
  • 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