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Zihan Jin at a Chinese New Year Festival in Beijing where she volunteered.

Making time for volunteering: Finding support and personal fulfillment

Abby Cole |Updated Apr. 18, 2024 |6 min read Premium content

Abby Cole Special to SaltWire Making time for volunteering can be a challenge. Balancing work, family, school and other life commitments is hard enough. However, despite these challenges, volunteering has many benefits. Volunteering is a way to help ...

Chocolate strawberry yogurt clusters are the perfect treat for any time of the day. – Paul Pickett

ERIN SULLEY: Have you seen the viral yogurt clusters? You’ll be drooling over these delicious chocolate strawberry treats

Erin Sulley |Updated Apr. 17, 2024 |6 min read Premium content

I have seen so many videos of people making chocolate strawberry yogurt clusters online over the past few weeks that I just had to make them myself and see what all the fuss was about. Like anything that goes viral on the internet, it crosses your ...

The Cape Bear lighthouse is awaiting the return of its light and cap. The cap was removed for refurbishing and maintenance and will be reinstalled before the official opening of the lighthouse to tourist travel. Caitlin Coombes, Local Journalism Initiative reporter

P.E.I. lighthouse finalist in Canadian historical place restoration competition

Caitlin Coombes · Local Journalism Initiative reporter |Updated 27 minutes ago |6 min read

Cape Bear Lighthouse and Marconi Station in Murray Harbour are among the 12 finalists for the National Trust for Canada’s 2024 the Next Great Save competition. The National Trust for Canada, a registered charity dedicated to the protection of ...

Nick Beaton is originally from Sydney and has sets that feature his opinionated rants and hard-hitting jokes. He has taken this show to four continents, seven countries and over 40 cities.

One for the ages: Cape Breton comic proud to be a geriatric millennial

Christopher Connors |Updated 1 hour ago |7 min read Premium content

When the term geriatric millennial went viral a few years ago, the internet exploded with tweets and memes poking fun at people born between 1980 and 1985.  As one of the people who is old enough to remember the screech-beep-ding of dial-up internet ...

From left, Winston (Scotty) Fitzgerald, John Allan Cameron and Joella Foulds are being inducted into this year's Cape Breton Music Industry Hall of Fame. The event will take place June 20 at Centre 200. CONTRIBUTED

Call to the hall: Cape Breton music industry recognizes 'undeniable' impact of Cameron, Fitzgerald, Foulds

Ian Nathanson |Updated 1 hour ago |4 min read Premium content

Three Cape Breton music greats — John Allan Cameron, Winston (Scotty) Fitzgerald and Joella Foulds — will be honoured as inductees into the 2024 Cape Breton Music Industry Hall of Fame. “The impact of these individuals on the development of Cape ...

A cover dance band performs during an event devoted to the Spring Festival, at a shopping mall in Khimki, on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia, February 10, 2024.

Young Russians dance to K-pop and watch anime amid Asian culture boom

Reuters |Updated 1 hour ago |2 min read

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A few years ago, Karina Marakshina had to explain what K-pop was when asked to describe the musical style of her Moscow dance studio. Now she says she hears it blasting out from nearly every mall where she shops. Russia shares ...

Cape Breton Community Calendar

Cape Breton Community Calendar events for April 25-May 1

Contributed |Updated 3 hours ago |8 min read

Cape Breton Community Calendar is a public service listing of community events sponsored by non-profit groups. It will appear weekly on Fridays. The deadline for submissions is the Wednesday previous at noon but to ensure adequate advance ...

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PHOTO: Cape Breton Golden K gives to palliative care

Contributed |Updated 3 hours ago |2 min read

The Cape Breton Golden K Club recently made a monetary donation of $18,000 to the Cape Breton Regional Hospital. The money is to be used to refurbish palliative care rooms in the facility. The Cape Breton Golden K Club recently made a monetary ...

A sign in the city centre advertises the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, April 17, 2024.

Eurovision euphoria boosts travel to Sweden's Malmo, eDreams says

Reuters |Updated 3 hours ago |1 min read

(Reuters) - Eurovision fever boosted travel searches for the Swedish coastal city of Malmo by 176% between September 2023 and April 2024, Spanish online travel booking company eDreams ODIGEO said on Wednesday. The Eurovision song contest, the ...

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Record giant HYBE audits 'NewJeans' label as infighting returns to K-pop

Hyunsu Yim |Updated 2 hours ago |2 min read

By Hyunsu Yim SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's largest music company is auditing the management of one of its labels as it suspects they are planning to break away, the latest case of infighting in K-pop, one of the world's most popular and profitable ...

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