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Cape Breton funeral home penalized for cremating the wrong person
A coffin is pushed into a refrigerated container at La Recoleta crematorium in Santiago, Chile, Friday, April 16, 2021. A funeral home in Cape Breton has been barred from offering cremations for two months following an investigation that confirmed a wrongful cremation last December. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
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What it’s like to ascend Cape Smokey on Atlantic Canada’s first gondola
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Flooding reported in Cape Breton and western Newfoundland as storm stalls over region
Waves roll in past Devils Island in Eastern Passage, N.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. The East Coast is bracing for a fall storm that's expected to wallop the region early next week with torrential rains and severe winds. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Recount ordered for Cape Breton riding after close result in Aug. 17 election
Nova Scotia NDP Leader Gary Burrill waits for the start of the leaders debate in Halifax on Thursday, May 18, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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As election looms, unity felt across Nova Scotia amid pandemic may be fading
Angus Capstick, stands holding a Nova Scotia flag outside of his store Capstick's Novelties and More located in Sydney, NS on July 30, 2021
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Nova Scotia RCMP say one man dead after boat flipped in Cape Breton
SEE WIRE STORY--AM-ATLANTIC-BRIEFS (SYD102) SEAL ISLAND, N.S., Sept. 28 --An RCMP officer enters the water at the search continues for a man missing after falling from scaffolding while working on the Seal Island Bridge in Cape Breton on Sunday. The bridge spans Great Bras d'Or Inlet to the Bras d'Or Lakes. (CP PHOTO) 1998 (Cape Breton Post--Vaughan Merchant)
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Cape Breton professor Charles MacDonald would leave the priesthood for love
Charles W. MacDonald, lives lived
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Search suspended for missing fisher off coast of Cape Breton
A man looks out onto the Bay of Fundy in Hillsburn, N.S. in an area where empty life rafts from a scallop fishing vessel where reported on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. A Canadian firm says the RCMP are declining the free use of its state-of-the-art sonar to search for a fishing boat that sank off Nova Scotia last month, with six crew lost. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Cape Breton pharmacist rides to the rescue with mobile COVID-19 vaccine clinic
Michael Hatt, the owner and pharmacist at the Medicine Shoppe in Port Hawkesbury, N.S., arrives at a home to provide a flu shot to an elderly man on Cape Breton Island on Tuesday, November 17, 2020. Hatt purchased an ambulance on Kijiji and converted the vehicle into a mobile clinic that he uses to provide flu shots in the region. Darren Calabrese/The Globe and Mail
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RCMP say they believe armed fugitive had help as he avoided police in remote area of Cape Breton
Police in Nova Scotia say it appears a man provided shelter to an armed fugitive who gave himself up to police late Wednesday after avoiding arrest earlier in the week.
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RCMP say man wanted near remote Cape Breton community safely taken into custody
The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police "E" Division Headquarters, in Surrey, B.C., on Friday April 13, 2018. RCMP say they have taken a Cape Breton man into custody days after warning residents of an armed suspect wanted on multiple arrest warrants. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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RCMP continue search for armed man in remote woods in Cape Breton
The RCMP are warning residents of a small Cape Breton community to remain indoors as the search continues for an armed man who is wanted on multiple arrest warrants.
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Membertou’s moment: How a Mi’kmaq nation found prosperity and a seafood empire
Since 1984, Chief Terry Paul has led the Membertou First Nation, an urban reserve neighbouring Sydney, Cape Breton's largest city.
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Police charge eight high school students in Cape Breton with assault
Eight high school students in Cape Breton have been charged with assaulting a 42-year-old man last month.
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Second Mi’kmaq fishery creating ‘a big excitement’ in small Cape Breton band
Fishermen from the Sipekne'katik band, part of the First Nations Mi'kmaw community who began harvesting lobster outside of the commercial season due to a 1999 Supreme Court of Canada ruling, tend to equipment in Saulnierville, Nova Scotia, Canada September 22, 2020. REUTERS/Ted Pritchard
book review
Silver Donald Cameron’s last book Blood in the Water is a brilliant finale to an illustrious career
Writer Silver Donald Cameron in D'Escousse, N.S, in November, 1998.
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Police take alleged shooter into custody in Membertou area of Cape Breton, N.S.
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Nova Scotia man faces additional charges in missing Indigenous teen case
The 47-year-old man allegedly connected with the disappearance of an Indigenous teenager in Cape Breton is now facing additional charges.
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Indigenous women’s group says police are too quick to label missing girls as runaways
The president of an Indigenous women’s group says Amber Alert policies across Canada should be reviewed in light of a recent case involving a missing teenager from Cape Breton.
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The last time I saw live music I became part of a Cape Breton cèilidh
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Man appears in Nova Scotia court on child abduction charge after Indigenous teen found safe
The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police 'E' Division Headquarters, in Surrey, B.C., on April 13, 2018.
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Police find missing Indigenous teen safe in Nova Scotia woods; 47-year-old man in custody
The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police "E" Division Headquarters, in Surrey, B.C., on April 13, 2018. The organization that provides civilian oversight of RCMP has launched an investigation into the conduct of Mounties involved in the June 1 arrest of an Inuk man in Nunavut, including whether racial bias played a role. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Ground and aerial searches continue for missing Indigenous teen in Cape Breton
The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police "E" Division Headquarters, in Surrey, B.C., on April 13, 2018. The organization that provides civilian oversight of RCMP has launched an investigation into the conduct of Mounties involved in the June 1 arrest of an Inuk man in Nunavut, including whether racial bias played a role. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Nova Scotia RCMP send emergency alert for missing Indigenous teen week after she was last seen
The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police "E" Division Headquarters, in Surrey, B.C., on April 13, 2018. The organization that provides civilian oversight of RCMP has launched an investigation into the conduct of Mounties involved in the June 1 arrest of an Inuk man in Nunavut, including whether racial bias played a role. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Nova Scotia RCMP release new information in search for missing Cape Breton teen
Nova Scotia RCMP are releasing new information in the hopes of finding a 14-year-old Cape Breton girl who has not been seen since last Thursday.
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‘This can’t be real’: Cape Breton man wins lottery for second time in seven years
Raymond Lillington and his wife Gaye hold their cheque during a presentation ceremony, in Halifax, on Aug. 19, 2020.
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Canadian universities scramble to maintain flow of international students and the revenue they bring
Haonan Deng, an international student who is enrolled at Thompson Rivers University, poses for a photograph in Richmond, B.C., on Tuesday, July 7, 2020. Darryl Dyck/The Globe and Mail
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Cape Breton theatre company to host movie screenings for family ‘bubbles’
The interior of the Highland Arts Theatre is seen in an undated handout image.
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Overnight fires in Cape Breton result in death at seniors complex, over 40 displaced
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Weapons threat forces closure of more than 30 schools in Cape Breton
Some schools in Cape Breton are closed today as police investigate what school authorities have described as a credible weapons threat to students and staff.
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Silent night: Ban on after-dark parades mutes Cape Breton’s Christmas spirit
A Christmas parade float sits in the fire hall of the volunteer department in Glace Bay, N.S., one of the Cape Breton communities where a recent decision by the regional government has limited the hours when parades can be held.
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Cape Breton’s compassion and community spirit answer the call again
Crystal Perry, left, a mother of four and a former employee of ServiCom, laughs while choosing toys for her children with Salvation Army employee Amber Wareham in Sydney, N.S. on Dec. 20, 2018.