Sail Nova Scotia is asking Halifax regional council for $1.3-million worth of upgrades and new construction in Hubbards for an international sailing event in 2022.
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People around the nation are “voting with their feet.” Illinois: Seven straight years of population declines. California: Losing population during a year for the first time in history. Do you ever think about the fact that one city, Shanghai, China, has more people living in it than every state besides California and Texas? (Area-wise, what is the largest city in the United States? That title goes to Jacksonville at 875 square miles, elevation 16 feet.) Did you know that over 80 percent of people who move stay in the same state? One wonders, if higher income people are leaving a particular state, does that create a bigger burden on those who remain, which encourages more departures? Provo-Orem, Utah, Coeur d Alene, Idaho, and Reno, Nevada, are the top three high-end markets to watch, according to the luxury segment of th
ANDREW Turnbull (Letters, May 10) made some pertinent points about the importance of preserving Scotland’s languages and dialects, and I’m sorry to see that Celia Judge (Letters, May 11) profoundly disagrees. We in the West protest about China’s treatment of the Uighurs and her efforts to impose a Han Chinese monoculture in Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong. But that’s exactly what Britain did in its imperial glory days, and traces of that remain. One aspect of that policy was the renaming of places and people to make them sound more British. The most famous example is probably Nelson Mandela, who became Nelson only after he was given that fine British name on his first day at school.
I am writing this just a few hours after the jury in the Derek Chauvin murder trial went into deliberations. There very well may be a verdict by the time this is published. It has been a blood-curdling experience listening to the defense attorney grasping for straws in his attempt to win the day for his client. Today I heard him cast George Floyd in the role of seemingly committing suicide while facedown and handcuffed.
While I realize it’s the defense attorney’s job to go all out on behalf of his client, listening to him was an excruciating reminder of how far off the edge of the earth people like him will go to justify a white man murdering a Black man. It is his contention that George Floyd’s death was “a natural consequence of his actions.”
St Peter s Seminary has unveiled ambitious plans THE new owners of the Kilmahew estate, which includes the abandoned former St Peter’s seminary in Cardross, have unveiled ambitious plans to achieve UNESCO World Heritage status for the site by 2030. Husband and wife team Stuart and Ally Cotton are CEO and chair, respectively, of the Kilmahew Education Trust (KET), which struck a deal with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Glasgow last summer for the transfer of legal ownership of the site. The Covid-19 pandemic has delayed the pair’s progress so far but this week they revealed more detail on their proposals to restore the area to its former glory.