Month: October 2025

This was originally written on October 10, 2025, as a letter to The Guardian, and it was published on October 24. The editor changed the anglicised name Micmac into the transliterated forms, with the following note: “Several occurences of the word Micmac in the above letter were changed to Mi’kmaq or Mi’kmaw, perhaps proving the… Continue reading Keep Abegweit Abegweit

This was originally written on August 30, 2025, as a letter to The Chronicle-Herald, once the gold standard of respectable Nova Scotian newspapers. Apparently the Postmedia hollowing-out has replaced their editorial department with crickets, as my submission was entirely unacknowledged. Current county-by-county fire restrictions: https://novascotia.ca/burnsafe/ Dear Editor, Now that people in Cape Breton and selected… Continue reading Safety culture and the provincial fire ban