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Duane, left, and Dave MacDonald, co-owners of Callbecks Home Hardware and now Leon’s Summerside, celebrated the latter’s official opening on April 17. Their company purchased the Leon’s franchise for P.E.I. from D.P. Murphy earlier this year and subsequently relocated it from Charlottetown to Summerside. Colin MacLean

Leon's furniture store completes relocation from Charlottetown to Summerside

Colin MacLean · Journalist |Updated a day ago |5 min read Premium content

The cutting of a bright yellow ribbon has marked a homecoming for a long-time Summerside business. Dave MacDonald held the scissors; he is co-owner, along with his brother Duane, of Callbecks Home Hardware and its associated family of businesses. On ...

Co-owners of St. John's-based business Hempware are celebrating 27 years in business all week. On April 21, co-owner Nycki Delisle hosted a BBQ and community clean-up. This week, on Monday, April 22, she held an Earth Day giveaway and on Saturday and Sunday, she is hosting a sidewalk sale and show. - Contributed

St. John's-based business Hempware celebrating nearly three decades in business

Cameron Kilfoy |Updated a day ago |7 min read Premium content

When Nycki Delisle and her partner, Stephane, opened Hempware nearly three decades ago, it was intended to be a short-term venture. “When the Cabot 500 celebrations were happening, I was finishing my education, and that fall me and my partner were ...

Magog Cantonniers hockey players and staff get lunch, courtesy of the Membertou Trade and Convention Centre, before their first day of Telus Cup gameplay at the Membertou Sports and Wellness Centre. The Membertou Trade and Convention Centre is providing lunch and dinner for all six teams throughout the tournament. Mitchell Ferguson/Cape Breton Post

Telus Cup crowds have Membertou businesses prepared for busy week in Cape Breton

Mitchell Ferguson · Local Journalism Initiative Reporter |Updated a day ago |6 min read

MEMBERTOU, N.S. — The return of the Telus Cup national under-18 men's hockey championship to Nova Scotia and the tournament's first time coming to Cape Breton marks a significant step up for Membertou-hosted sports events but also in local economic ...

An employee gets bags of bottles and cans out of customer's car to recycle at A&S Bottle Exchange, Charlottetown. Pratik Bhattarai • The Guardian

N.B. bottle exchanges close in face of stricter requirements

Local Journalism Initiative Reporter John Chilibeck The Daily Gleaner |Updated Apr. 22, 2024 |7 min read

Two New Brunswick bottle exchanges have permanently shut their doors and several others in the province are in danger of folding as they struggle to meet the stricter requirements of a new system. Caissie's Recycling, which operated in Rogersville ...

"The first time I was there, I saw what my end results would be," said patient Dennis Budden. Now that Budden is nearing the end of his treatment, he said the results he's seen have already exceeded his expectations. - Contributed

'Orthodontics has come full circle': New Galway clinic using digital approach to help predict outcomes, reduce treatment time

Cameron Kilfoy |Updated Apr. 22, 2024 |6 min read Premium content

St. John's resident Dennis Budden, 43, got his braces off 20 years ago. But in February 2023, he started to notice a gap between his teeth. Budden believed the gap came from not wearing a retainer, so he decided to go to his dentist, who suggested ...

Aidan Angus, a flight medical technician with the Canadian Army Reserves, demonstrates on a dummy how to open up one's throat for breathing in an emergency situation. Although he joined the forces with no more than a first aid certification, he now has the qualifications to address a variety of medical situations.

IN PHOTOS: Canadian Army Reserves open doors in Cape Breton for job fair

Luke Dyment |Updated Apr. 21, 2024 |8 min read Premium content

SYDNEY — As part of a nationwide recruiting campaign by the Canadian Army Reserve, the Cape Breton Highlanders infantry regiment welcomed potential recruits to a job fair in Sydney on Saturday. More than a dozen stations were set up at the regiment's ...

Michael Mondor and Rhonda Scott own Bistro Phare 756, which is set to open later this month at 7551 Main St. in Louisbourg. “This is our dream. We've always wanted to have our own place and we have a blank canvas to do whatever we want,” says Mondor, who describes the Bistro Phare 756 menu as “casual with a flare.” CHRIS CONNORS/CAPE BRETON POST

‘This is our dream’: New Louisbourg bistro blends global and local

Christopher Connors |Updated Apr. 22, 2024 |7 min read Premium content

While Michael Mondor and Rhonda Scott have more than 50 years of combined experience in the restaurant business, the couple credits their dog with convincing them to finally open their own eatery. The owners of Bistro Phare 756 (bistrophare756.ca), ...

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The self discharging bulk carrier, Algoma Vision, passes beneath the Macdonald Bridge as it leaves the port of Halifax Tuesday March 26, 2024.

TIM KROCHAK PHOTO

Port of Halifax had a ‘solid year’ in 2023

SaltWire Network |Updated Apr. 21, 2024 |1 min read

Calls at Halifax in 2023 by 107 ultra-class container vessels of 10,000 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit) meant that specific type of traffic more than doubled from the previous year, said a statement by Port of Halifax senior vice-president Paul ...

This large ship anchored in the Sydney Harbour this week is called the Sea Installer. Owned by Belgium company DEME, the Sea Installer is specially designed to carry and help install offshore wind turbine components. It often transports equipment such as windmill blades and monopile seabed anchors between the Atlantic Canada Bulk Terminal in Sydney and destinations in Europe and the United States. LUKE DYMENT/CAPE BRETON POST

Cape Breton company moving offshore wind parts internationally from Sydney

Luke Dyment |Updated Apr. 19, 2024 |8 min read Premium content

Not only are cruise ships returning to the Sydney Harbour this spring, but water watchers may have noticed some big boats — in some cases much larger than the cruise liners — coasting through. Most likely, they were heading for a berth in the north ...

Lobster fishing boats make their way into the Falls Point Wharf in Woods Harbour after a day on the fishing grounds. Kathy Johnson

A multimillion-dollar question: Should the lobster carapace size be increased in southwestern Nova Scotia?

Kathy Johnson |Updated Apr. 22, 2024 |9 min read Premium content

Lobster licence holders in Atlantic Canada’s Lobster Fishing Areas (LFAs) have a lot to consider when it comes to whether or not they follow suit with their American counterparts and increase the minimum lobster carapace size effective Jan. 1, ...

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