Council vote offers rethink on Sydney Harbour development
What the Council chooses to put in place now will shape how this public asset is stewarded and governed, and the benefits it delivers, for generations to come.
What the Council chooses to put in place now will shape how this public asset is stewarded and governed, and the benefits it delivers, for generations to come.
What’s next for harbour development and the contract for marketing the greenfield site?
“If there’s been substantial progress over the last ten years that warrants not tendering this time around, the onus is on the CBRM to explain that to the community.”
The role of the mayor’s office is neutral leadership in a coordinated multi-stakeholder development of all port assets on behalf of the community.
The Port of Sydney has never been more valuable. And we own it. For now.
Cape Breton Post, September 15, 2025
Analysis of a haphazard property tax system and the implications for New Dawn and other non-profit organizations
Members of the Affordable Housing and Homelessness Working Group submitted a series of questions to all CBRM mayoral and council candidates by email on October 7. Below are the responses received to date (October 17).
“Shame on CMHC!” exclaimed Coun. Cyril MacDonald, referring to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
The current Cape Breton Regional Municipality (CBRM) housing fiasco is not a new problem, but rather a sequel to last year’s tax-cut debacle.
“It’s deeply shocking, and I think it’s appalling,” said Alyce MacLean, housing development project manager with New Dawn Enterprises in Sydney.
This brief examines the history of income security in Canada, why basic income is the necessary next step in the erradication of poverty in Canada, and how we might get there.
In this episode of Annette Verschuren’s Bet On Me Podcast, a follow-up to her Bet On Me memoir, she talks with New Dawn President-CEO Erika Shea about her journey to Cape Breton and the work of New Dawn.
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Eymu’ti’k Unama’ki, newte’jk l’uiknek te’sikl Mi’kmawe’l maqamikall mna’q iknmuetumittl. Ula maqamikew wiaqi-wikasik Wantaqo’tie’l aqq I’lamatultimkewe’l Ankukamkewe’l Mi’kmaq aqq Eleke’wuti kisa’matultisnik 1726ek.
We are in Unama’ki, one of the seven traditional and unceded ancestral territories of the people of Mi’kma’ki. This territory is covered by the Treaties of Peace and Friendship which the Mi’kmaq first signed with the British Crown in 1726.
Ketu’-keknuite’tmek aqq kepmite’tmek ula tela’matultimkip wjit maqamikew ta’n etekl mtmo’taqne’l. Ula tett, ula maqamikek, etl-lukutiek l’tunen aqq apoqntmnen apoqnmasimk aqq weliknamk Unama’ki.
We wish to recognize and honour this understanding of the lands on which we reside. It is from here, on these lands, that we work to create and support a culture of self-reliance and vibrancy.