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With provincial plans to ultimately phase out institutional settings for people with disabilities, such as Sydney River’s Breton Ability Centre, there will be a greater need for accessory dwelling units for supportive housing. IAN NATHANSON/CAPE BRETON POST FILE

CBRM seeks land-use bylaw change for supportive housing units

A municipal bylaw change may be in the works that would allow secondary housing units on a single-family residential lot to apply to properties deemed as supportive housing. Currently, the Cape Breton Regional Municipality’s land-use bylaw allows ...

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Ottawa’s $60-million infusion to young entrepreneur program will help 6,250 businesses, Fraser says

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Sean Fraser, Minister of Housing Infrastructure and Communities looks on s David Eisnor Atlantic Lead of Futurpreneur takes questions folloing a news conference concerning a fundin g announcement for youth entrepreneurship at the Mellow Mug in Bedford Monday April 22, 2024.

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Five Corners Properties talk 3,000 unit housing project in Bible Hill

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A proposal from Five Corners Properties offers 3,000 new residential units in the Bible Hill area. Image Five Corners Properties

New Upper Canadian owners for two central Nova Scotia golf courses

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Leon's furniture store completes relocation from Charlottetown to Summerside

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Local job fair coming to the Rath Eastlink Community Centre in Truro, N.S.

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Chantal Paupin operates In Good Company Pottery in Londonderry, N.S., Paupin initially took pottery classes as a way to spend time with her mother but it has since grown from a hobby into a business. Steve Currie • Code 1 Coverage

MEET THE MAKERS - In good company: Chantal Paupin’s business name honours the women in her pottery class

Laura Churchill Duke · Freelance |Updated a day ago |4 min read

As a young adult, Chantal Paupin took pottery classes as a way to spend time with her mother. It soon, however, became much more than that. “Taking classes at Thrown Together Pottery and Art in Truro has brought me so much opportunity, learning and a ...

Magog Cantonniers hockey players and staff get lunch, courtesy of the Membertou Trade and Convention Centre, before their first day of Telus Cup gameplay at the Membertou Sports and Wellness Centre. The Membertou Trade and Convention Centre is providing lunch and dinner for all six teams throughout the tournament. Mitchell Ferguson/Cape Breton Post

Telus Cup crowds have Membertou businesses prepared for busy week in Cape Breton

Mitchell Ferguson · Local Journalism Initiative Reporter |Updated a day ago |6 min read

MEMBERTOU, N.S. — The return of the Telus Cup national under-18 men's hockey championship to Nova Scotia and the tournament's first time coming to Cape Breton marks a significant step up for Membertou-hosted sports events but also in local economic ...

National Acadian Day celebrations in Pubnico. This year the Acadian culture will take on a huge presence with the World Acadian Congress happening in southwestern Nova Scotia in August. CHRISTIAN WEBBER/TOURISM NOVA SCOTIA

2024 Outlook: Busy tourism season expected in southwestern Nova Scotia

Kathy Johnson |Updated Apr. 22, 2024 |10 min read

A strong 2023 season has tourism operators in southwestern Nova Scotia optimistic for 2024. Not only will the region be hosting the World Acadian Congress (Congrès mondial acadien, CMA 2024) in August, but the Digby Wharf Rat Rally is celebrating a ...

An employee gets bags of bottles and cans out of customer's car to recycle at A&S Bottle Exchange, Charlottetown. Pratik Bhattarai • The Guardian

N.B. bottle exchanges close in face of stricter requirements

Local Journalism Initiative Reporter John Chilibeck The Daily Gleaner |Updated Apr. 22, 2024 |7 min read

Two New Brunswick bottle exchanges have permanently shut their doors and several others in the province are in danger of folding as they struggle to meet the stricter requirements of a new system. Caissie's Recycling, which operated in Rogersville ...

Aidan Angus, a flight medical technician with the Canadian Army Reserves, demonstrates on a dummy how to open up one's throat for breathing in an emergency situation. Although he joined the forces with no more than a first aid certification, he now has the qualifications to address a variety of medical situations.

IN PHOTOS: Canadian Army Reserves open doors in Cape Breton for job fair

Luke Dyment |Updated Apr. 21, 2024 |8 min read

SYDNEY — As part of a nationwide recruiting campaign by the Canadian Army Reserve, the Cape Breton Highlanders infantry regiment welcomed potential recruits to a job fair in Sydney on Saturday. More than a dozen stations were set up at the regiment's ...

Michael Mondor and Rhonda Scott own Bistro Phare 756, which is set to open later this month at 7551 Main St. in Louisbourg. “This is our dream. We've always wanted to have our own place and we have a blank canvas to do whatever we want,” says Mondor, who describes the Bistro Phare 756 menu as “casual with a flare.” CHRIS CONNORS/CAPE BRETON POST

‘This is our dream’: New Louisbourg bistro blends global and local

Christopher Connors |Updated Apr. 22, 2024 |7 min read

While Michael Mondor and Rhonda Scott have more than 50 years of combined experience in the restaurant business, the couple credits their dog with convincing them to finally open their own eatery. The owners of Bistro Phare 756 (bistrophare756.ca), ...

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The self discharging bulk carrier, Algoma Vision, passes beneath the Macdonald Bridge as it leaves the port of Halifax Tuesday March 26, 2024.

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Port of Halifax had a ‘solid year’ in 2023

SaltWire Network |Updated Apr. 21, 2024 |1 min read

Calls at Halifax in 2023 by 107 ultra-class container vessels of 10,000 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit) meant that specific type of traffic more than doubled from the previous year, said a statement by Port of Halifax senior vice-president Paul ...

Miranda Parker, head distiller at Compass Distillers, with bottles of Hell Isle rum, something of a departure for the company and which is already selling well. - BILL SPURR / THE CHRONICLE HERALD

New Compass rum enters the market smoothly

Bill Spurr · Multimedia Journalist |Updated Apr. 19, 2024 |3 min read

Compass Distiller’s first batch of its new Hell Isle rum went out the door so quickly that head distiller Miranda Parker had to take a break from bottling the second batch to talk about it. “This product is launching directly through the NSLC, which ...

This large ship anchored in the Sydney Harbour this week is called the Sea Installer. Owned by Belgium company DEME, the Sea Installer is specially designed to carry and help install offshore wind turbine components. It often transports equipment such as windmill blades and monopile seabed anchors between the Atlantic Canada Bulk Terminal in Sydney and destinations in Europe and the United States. LUKE DYMENT/CAPE BRETON POST

Cape Breton company moving offshore wind parts internationally from Sydney

Luke Dyment |Updated Apr. 19, 2024 |8 min read

Not only are cruise ships returning to the Sydney Harbour this spring, but water watchers may have noticed some big boats — in some cases much larger than the cruise liners — coasting through. Most likely, they were heading for a berth in the north ...

Lobster fishing boats make their way into the Falls Point Wharf in Woods Harbour after a day on the fishing grounds. Kathy Johnson

A multimillion-dollar question: Should the lobster carapace size be increased in southwestern Nova Scotia?

Kathy Johnson |Updated Apr. 22, 2024 |9 min read

Lobster licence holders in Atlantic Canada’s Lobster Fishing Areas (LFAs) have a lot to consider when it comes to whether or not they follow suit with their American counterparts and increase the minimum lobster carapace size effective Jan. 1, ...