Public pitches in
For a while, Jeremy Locke doubted whether he'd be able to provide Cape Breton resident Veronica Brown with the repairs her home so desperately needed.
That doubt was erased by Brown's Westmount community after Locke put out the call for public support in a Cape Breton Post article back in September.
That's when the Post's Sharon Montgomery-Dupe first brought you the story of Locke using his roofing and construction business to help out Brown with home repairs. It's not even the first time he's played Good Samaritan — Locke pulled a similar random act of kindness for Jeanette MacDonald's Glace Bay home late last year.
As Montgomery-Dupe reports, after appealing to the public for support, Locke's phone never stopped ringing.
Situation on Spencer Street
An email to city council in St. John's, N.L., c in July from a concerned Spencer Street resident describes how the area has become "a free for all for illegal activity" — frequent fighting and loud noises at all hours, drug use, gunshots, suspicious fires, property damage and excessive garbage.
The Telegram's Juanita Mercer has been looking into the concerns of residents and the city's response and found out about some steps being taken to address the downtown neighbourhood's poverty, housing and homelessness.
It's a problem that's not unique in other parts of Atlantic Canada, so what can St. John's do that hasn't been tried elsewhere?
A contradiction
Not only is the ban on prisoners voting in municipal elections unconstitutional, it also contradicts the province’s recent commitment to tackle systemic racism against African Nova Scotians, says a Dalhousie University law professor.
“One cannot meaningfully commit to tackle systemic racism against African Nova Scotians while still allowing a significant percentage of this community -- in fact the most vulnerable from this community -- to remain silenced and to have their constitutional rights breached," Adelina Iftene, an expert in prison law and prisoners’ rights, tells the Chronicle Herald's Andrew Rankin.
With Nova Scotia's municipal elections on the horizon, it's an issue that has and will have wide-ranging impacts when those incarcerated are prohibited from casting a ballot.
Runway to success
Two P.E.I. men hope their new business venture will really take off with movie fans, reports the Guardian's Dave Stewart.
Paul Arsenault and Austin Roberts hrecently opened the Runway Drive In near the runway at the former Canadian Forces Base at Slemon Park in Summerside, which closed in 1991.
It's part of a revitalization of the drive-in concept, with COVID-19 keeping many people away from indoor screens.
“We think there is a demand out there and we’ve had great response on social media; a lot of great comments that it’s nice to have a (drive-in) theatre back in western P.E.I.," Arsenault tells Stewart. "That’s part of what it’s about, engaging the community and being here for them. Hopefully, they’ll come out and support us."
Take a tour around the new drive-in.
