Ryan MacDonald
Video Journalist at CJCB-TV (Halifax, NS)
Video journalist with @CTVAtlantic in Cape Breton. Story idea? Send me an email. [email protected]
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1 week ago |
ctvnews.ca | Ryan MacDonald
On this day 80 years ago, the world celebrated Victory in Europe (VE-Day) and the end of the Second World War. “On September 10, 1939, which happened to be my birthday, Canada declared way on Germany,” recalled Joyce Peach of Port Morien, N.S.Peach was just 15-years-old when the good news came across the Atlantic Ocean that the war was over. She’s 95 now and, though she never thought she would mark the 80th anniversary of VE-Day, she still remembers the celebration on May 8, 1945.
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1 week ago |
ctvnews.ca | Ryan MacDonald
She was known as Nova Scotia’s “Sister To Courage” and now a new book casts Wanda Robson as the main character in the story of her own life.
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1 week ago |
ctvnews.ca | Ryan MacDonald
Some of Eskasoni First Nation‘s youngest girls got the afternoon off school Monday to learn more about a dark chapter in their people’s past and present. “We’re here to walk in memory of the Mi’kmaq missing and murdered,’ said Elaine Young, principal at Eskasoni’s Mi’kmaq Immersion School. The Red Dress Walk around Goat Island in Eskasoni - Nova Scotia’s largest Mi’kmaq community - was led by the school’s Grade Four drum girls.
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2 weeks ago |
ctvnews.ca | Ryan MacDonald
The annual Great Cape Breton Clean Up takes place Saturday with hundreds of people coming together with volunteer fire departments to pick up as much trash as possible. On Friday, a few people got a head start. “Geez, we’re finding everything”, said Chris French, a member of the not-for-profit organization Pathways to Employment.
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2 weeks ago |
ctvnews.ca | Ryan MacDonald
Whether it’s someone’s old recliner, a gently-used barbecue or a stranger’s comfortable couch - you can sometimes find interesting things curbside during heavy garbage season in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality. “Everyone’s checking it out,” said Daniel MacLeod of Sydney, N.S., who adds one person’s trash is another’s treasure.
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