Category: Sydney

The Cape Breton-Victoria Regional School Board wants the province to help after two recent suicides in Sydney middle schools.

Board Chair Darren Googoo told the Cape Breton Post a letter is going to Premier Stephen McNeil and Education Minister Zach Churchill asking them to examine the resources available to students suffering from mental health issues.  Googoo says there are school counsellors now, various clinicians and other organizations that support their teams in the school system; but the question is, it enough.

A student at Sherwood Park Education Centre recently committed suicide, the second one in about six months.

The Margaree Environmental Association has concerns about air quality near the Cabot Links and Cabit Cliffs golf courses.

Co-Chair Neal Livingston told the Cape Breton Post he has written to the Environment Department expressing concern about possible pesticide and herbicide drifting from the courses Cabot Links and Cabot Cliff courses.  Golf courses are alllowed to use some pesticides and chemicals which the general public isn’t, but must maintain buffers with other properties; and Livingstone says that’s not enough.  He says drift monitors should be set up and research done on the drifting chemicals.

Then-environment Minister Margaret Mitchell wrote that based on inspections to date, there’s no evidence to warrant additional monitoring.