Marc A. Cormier

• WHEREAS, Irish reunification would address the root causes of conflict in Ireland and establish the basis for a permanent peace settlement;
• AND WHEREAS, the Good Friday Agreement created a political framework in which Irish reunification can occur;
• AND WHEREAS the Good Friday Agreement has already facilitated the establishment of all-Ireland governing institutions;
• WE THE UNDERSIGNED pledge our support for the peaceful and democratic reunification of Ireland.

I encourage all those who believe in a United Ireland to sign this pledge. Please join the Facebook Group dedicated to this cause.

By John Daly

I have often wondered why people when planting trees or shrubs rely for seedlings almost exclusively on the commercial nurseries when we have so many varieties of lovely wild trees in Cape Breton that can be had for only a little trouble of digging them up and transplanting. Then, too, they possess the advantage of being acclimated and will withstand the rigors of our winters much better than most imported trees and will bloom for generations, whereas many nursery shrubs and trees have a very ephemeral life, more especially if the plantation happens to be near the sea and is exposed to the cold, salty winds of the spring and fall.
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After fifteen years of Internet presence, I have finally opened my own blog. My first encounter with the net was a cryptic and intimidating unix prompt that would appear after a 2400 baud phone connection with a Toronto avant-guard provider Internex Online in late 1993. This was before the Web, when the only tools available were Usenet, Archie, Gopher, telnet, mail, joe, vi …

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