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A proud worker at the Petit-de-Grat snow crab plant on Isle Madame, off Cape Breton, NS. Photo by Kate Barden and Bruce Cramer.
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Eagle Watch (and Sno…
The "Eagle Watch" has become an annual tradition in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley. This weekend, avid photographers and nature lovers — and those in search of a great way to spend a winter day — will flock (!) to Sheffield Mills to see hundreds of bald eagles as they vie...
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Brighten Up That Bas…
The right lighting and wall colour can make a world of difference. Face it, it's always a challenge to come up with the right interior paint colour and perfect lighting. But what about for a basement? In winter? How do you make that space warm and cozy and easy on the eyes...
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Kindred Spirits
If life gives you PEI potatoes, what do you make? Martinis - with your own, award - winning potato vodka. One day in August 1997, Arla Johnson left her home in Fort Myers, Florida, heading north. She was tuckered out from her job as a school counsellor, and yearned for a...
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Right on Track
Riding the rails with a resident tour guide keeps the adventure from whirring by in a blur. "Welcome aboard," said the attendant, Henry Joey, looking rather like an affable pirate with his two earrings and black beard. "Once you're settled, go along to the Park car for a glass of champagne." "Curses," I...
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The Beleaguered Gard…
The only garden that doesn't have some sort of growing challenge is someone else's. Nature, it seems at times, likes nothing better than to knock us humans down a notch or two, particularly when we purport to "improve" her handiwork by gardening or landscaping our properties. Mother Nature can throw any of...
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