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The Office of the Fire Marshal issued an order to vacate for the upper units of this home on Charlotte Street in Sydney earlier this month due to fire code infractions and safety concerns. NICOLE SULLIVAN/CAPE BRETON POST

Cape Breton tenants ordered to vacate rental due to fire code violations

Tenants of a Sydney rental unit were ordered to vacate immediately after a fire marshal inspection on April 3 found violations of the Nova Scotia Fire Safety Act. A source who knows the property and tenants told the Cape Breton Post eight Cape Breton ...
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Charlotte Street businesses brace for final round of downtown Sydney redevelopment
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Sabrina Vatcher, the chief executive officer of YMCA Cape Breton, stands by a construction fence outside of the Frank Rudderham Family YMCA on Charlotte Street. The YMCA is one of several downtown businesses that will have to contend with the interruptions coming from the street's redevelopment work this year, but Vatcher says the YMCA and Cape Breton Regional Municipality have arrangements in place to keep things running as smoothly as possible for at least the next four months. LUKE DYMENT/CAPE BRETON POST

East Coast Credit Union assets hit $1.3 billion in 2023
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East Coast Credit Union in Dartmouth.

MEET THE MAKERS - Focusing on crafts: Crocheting, sewing and sign making also part of creative process for photographer
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Food vendors no longer allowed at downtown Charlottetown market say they are disappointed
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Cultural care: New long-term care facility opens in Eskasoni
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Danielle Latour, owner of the newly-opened Mak 902, with a glass of lavender makgeolli at her Kempt Road establishment on Monday, April 15, 2024. Ryan Taplin - The Chronicle Herald

HALIFAX RETALES: Danielle Latour tapping the Korean rice beverage market

Contributed |Updated Apr. 15, 2024 |3 min read Premium content

Danielle Latour has opened a tap room for Mak 902 at the production site at 3600 Kempt Rd. in the north end of Halifax. Mak 902 specializes in Korean alcoholic rice beverages. Makgeolli is traditional Korean alcohol. It's a kind of sparkling rice ...
Tara Black of Sydney is among the employees working at the new Steel Grounds Café location on the Sydney harbourfront. BARB SWEET/CAPE BRETON POST

Cape Breton's Steel Grounds Café opens new location on Sydney waterfront

Barb Sweet |Updated Apr. 16, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

SYDNEY, N.S. — The Steel Grounds Café has a new location on the Sydney waterfront. The non-profit venture operated by the Horizon Achievement Centre opened a Steel Grounds Café Grab and Go at the Joan Harriss Cruise Pavilion and in its first week of ...
Cove Soda founders Ryan and John MacLellan outside the Bayers Lake Costco on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Cove Soda will now be available in Costcos across the United States. Ryan Taplin - The Chronicle Herald

Cove Drinks of Halifax has begun shipping its no-sugar sodas to 575 Costco stores in the U.S., forecasts revenue of $100 million

Bill Spurr · Multimedia Journalist |Updated Apr. 16, 2024 |5 min read Premium content

Eight years after Ryan and John MacLellan founded their company at a kitchen table in Malignant Cove, Antigonish County, Cove Drinks is forecasting annual revenue of $100 million this year. And that could double the following year. “It wasn’t very ...
The team at Nova Scotia Works Career Connections in New Glasgow have been busy preparing for the 2024 Pictou County Job Fair, which is set for April 24th from 10am-3pm at the Pictou County Wellness Centre. Pictured are, from left, Jessie Falcitelli, Workshop Coordinator and Ann MacGregor, Employer Engagement Specialist.

Over 50 employers and service providers taking part in job fair in New Glasgow, N.S.

SaltWire Network |Updated Apr. 16, 2024 |3 min read

Nova Scotia Works Career Connections in New Glasgow has been busily preparing for this year’s Pictou County Job Fair, scheduled for Wednesday, April 24 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Pictou County Wellness Centre. The job fair aims to help connect ...
Gasoline prices were the big driver of inflation in March.

Canada's inflation rate ticks up to 2.9% as gas prices rise

Denise Paglinawan · Postmedia News |Updated Apr. 16, 2024 |2 min read Premium content

The consumer price index rose 2.9 per cent on a year-over-year basis in March, up from 2.8 per cent in February, according to Statistics Canada data released on Tuesday. Analysts had expected inflation to rise between 2.9 and 3 per cent. Statistics ...
The Algoscotia is shown easing through heavy fog in Sydney harbour early Tuesday morning just beyond the Joan Harriss Cruise Pavilion.This image was captured from the Esplanade in Sydney at around 7 a.m. The fog was lifting at the time after being noticeably heavier earlier in the morning. The Algoscotia is a 148.8 metre long tanker and is frequently seen in the harbour. GREG MCNEIL/CAPE BRETON POST

IN PHOTO: Foggy morning in Sydney harbour

SaltWire Network |Updated Apr. 16, 2024 |1 min read Premium content

The Algoscotia is shown easing through heavy fog in Sydney harbour early Tuesday morning just beyond the Joan Harriss Cruise Pavilion.This image was captured from the Esplanade in Sydney at around 7 a.m. The fog was lifting at the time after being ...
Walmart's logo is seen outside one of the stores in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 20, 2018.

Walmart Canada launches free pilot program to recycle its reusable shopping bags

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated Apr. 16, 2024 |1 min read Premium content

Are you holding onto any old blue Walmart shopping bags because you’ll feel guilty about throwing them out? Walmart Canada is teaming up with U.S.-based recycling company TerraCycle to launch a pilot program to repurpose excess or damaged blue ...
Parson Green Developments president Noel Taiani says amendments to a development agreement that could see as many as 442 residential units built in Canning are intended to address changing market conditions and help make up for lost construction time. FILE PHOTO

Kings, N.S., council allows amendments to controversial Canning development agreement

Kirk Starratt |Updated Apr. 15, 2024 |8 min read Premium content

Amendments to a controversial development agreement that could see 442 residential units built in Canning have been approved. Kings County council gave second and final consideration to the amendments following a public hearing on April 2. Council ...
An aquaculture site in the Municipality of the District of Argyle. Nova Scotia teams up with the municipality to collect scientific data in designated areas through a pilot project. - Centre for Marine Applied Research / Perennia

Six sites in Lobster Bay and Pubnico Harbour pre-approved for aquaculture development

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated Apr. 15, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

Six sites in Lobster Bay and Pubnico Harbour are now pre-approved for shellfish and marine plant aquaculture as part of an aquaculture pilot project aimed at saving time with pre-approved sites for growing shellfish and marine plants. Argyle ...
Forrester Centre co-owner Shannon Forrester, left, and floral designer Katie Hodder in the "Krypt" section of the centre on March 30. Hodder, who is also a wedding and event planner, recently joined the Forrester Centre as its in-house design and planning specialist for its events, including specialty weddings and other private functions. Prior, Hodder ran the Family HeirBlooms flower shops in New Waterford and Membertou. LUKE DYMENT/CAPE BRETON POST

'I get to do what I love'; Coxheath floral designer joining forces with Forrester Centre close to home

Luke Dyment |Updated Apr. 15, 2024 |7 min read Premium content

Katie Hodder is back home. For several years, the florist and interior designer from Coxheath lived out her longtime dream of running her own flower shop: Family HeirBlooms in New Waterford and Membertou. But as a new opportunity emerged close to ...
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One of the old Cape Breton Eagles buses sits at Carabin’s & Transoverland Ltd., the site where a fire burned the business's main shop, a garbage truck, some scrap buses and the new Cape Breton Eagles bus nearly three weeks ago. Owner Craig Carabin said the shop will be rebuilt on the site, hoping to complete it before the summer. LUKE DYMENT/CAPE BRETON POST
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A new Canadian holds a Canadian flag, their citizenship certificate and a letter signed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as they sing O Canada after becoming a Canadian citizen, during a special Canada Day citizenship ceremony in West Vancouver on Monday, July 1, 2019.
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Soundafex owner Stephen Bidart, left, and general manager Lloyd Cox at the Sydney electronics store on Friday — its final day in business after 45 years. Soundafex will continue with installation services but the storefront will close as Bidart gradually begins to step away from the business. LUKE DYMENT/CAPE BRETON POST
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Kari, a P.E.I.-based rideshare app, is coming to St. Stephen as part of a six-month pilot project.
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Construction work continues on the Cunard development on the Halifax waterfront on Wednesday, April 10, 2024. Ryan Taplin - The Chronicle Herald
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People browse the Downtown Farmers’ Market July 3. The downtown market will run on Sundays from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. until September. - Alison Jenkins • The Guardian
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The Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Saint John. The New Brunswick arm of the global organization is getting ready to open another store in Miramichi and build two more affordable housing units in the norther N.B. city.
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