Considered the most progressive blueprint ever for advancing women's rights, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action has been reprinted in this special edition, which also includes a copy of ...

Breton’s most renowned literary work, NADJA (New York Review Books, 131 pp., paperback, $16.95), recently reissued in a deft new translation by Mark Polizzotti, was written as a means of ...

A Cape Breton business owner has expanded her mobile yarn shop to offer an ‘un’rolling option. Tracy Stubbard has opened Tracy’s unRolling Yarn Shop on Charlotte Street in Sydney, expanding her ...

A Cape Breton lobster fisherman and his crew had the encounter of a lifetime this week when a 4.5-metre great white shark circled his boat just off Sight Point, coming close enough to briefly bite ...

When the photo of a drowned Syrian boy began circulating, Cape Breton's Clare Currie felt deeply moved to help. She saw the people of her beautiful but underresourced island mobilize in a big way ...

The conflict-impacted people of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) urgently need much more international assistance than they are getting today, the UN’s top aid official said on ...

The Cape Breton Regional Police has released the names and charges of those involved in a shooting in Sydney Mines on Tuesday night.

The Nova Scotia government is giving the Unama’ki Institute of Natural Resources in Cape Breton $893,000 to fund Mi’kmaq-led climate change adaptation work.

Facing the most severe funding shortfall in the history of humanitarian aid, UN relief chief Tom Fletcher on Monday announced a “hyper-prioritised” appeal for $29 billion to meet urgent global needs.