Peter Macintyre News Today

Better weather has meant that the harvest season is now progressing across the UK but only 24% of this year's spring barley was cut last week

It is with deep regrets that the family of Bruce and Shirley Cummings announce their recent passing.

Cape Breton University faculty members have accepted the latest contract offer from their employer, ending a 12-day strike.

The fall semester has only just begun but faculty at Cape Breton University have already given the greenlight to a strike mandate.

The fall semester has only just begun but faculty at Cape Breton University have already given the greenlight to a strike mandate.

saranacbo@hotmail.com I started writing this column the way I’ve started doing almost everything — on a whim. As a result, I had no idea what I was doing. In fact, I was so out of it, I referred to what I was writing as “an article,” a gaffe so egregious that then-editor John Penny about apoplexed when he barked his correction at me. “Ahtical?” he snapped in his classy Long Island accent. “It’s a column, not an ahtical!” His reprimand did not go unheeded. But in all fair...