A South Shore resort isn’t waiting for the government to mandate better wages. White Point Beach Resort in Queen’s County has announced that starting Sept. 5, it will offer a $15 per hour minimum wage.
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If Lucy’s forecast is correct, winter in Nova Scotia will continue for another six weeks. The sun is shining yet the air is chilly and the ground is dusted with snow. Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer checking my phone’s weather app to relying on the forecasting skills of a lobster.
Like Punxsutawney Phil, the rodent in the film Groundhog Day, Lucy the Lobster participates in a prognosticating ceremony each February 2. Onlookers gather by the causeway leading to Cape Sable Island, the Canadian province’s most southerly tip, to discover whether she’ll see her own shadow on emerging from the Atlantic Ocean. According to the Groundhog Day tradition, an animal seeing its shadow means a prolonged winter.