John DeMont
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Nova Scotia, Canada
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JOHN DeMONT: Jim Nunn a towering figure who dominated the media landscape
On Monday, I heard plenty about the fearless and fearsome ways of the fabled Nova Scotia broadcaster Jim Nunn, who died on the weekend at age 72. Many of ... → Read More
JOHN DeMONT: Is the truth really out there?
UFOs are on people’s minds all of a sudden. I imagine that I am typical. → Read More
JOHN DeMONT: The dy-no-mite ’70s are back
I read the other day that they are rebooting Fawlty Towers — Basil, Manuel, Major Gowan, and all. Much as I loved the original, I’m unsure if this is a ... → Read More
JOHN DeMONT: Which is worse - the arctic freeze or accompanying anxiety?
It began somewhere at the top of the world, we knew, barrelling southward, freezing everything in its path as cruelly as the White Walkers in Game of ... → Read More
JOHN DeMONT: Finding the universal in fabled goalie Ken Dryden’s mask
Jim McMinn was a parent of his time, the 1970s, which meant that he loved his kids, but demonstrated that love, his son Glen says, not with overt signs of ... → Read More
JOHN DeMONT: How a shuttered church still finds a way to help
HALIFAX, N.S. — It will be a sweet day on Friday when Susan Campbell walks into J.L. Ilsley High School. Campbell’s kids attended the Spryfield school ... → Read More
JOHN DeMONT: Old age is the new venerable
I have a little secret to tell you: in a couple of months, barring something unforeseen, I will turn 67. I am overjoyed to reach that age but surprised as ... → Read More
JOHN DeMONT: Using a new kind of house call to cure patient woes
Dr. Norm Pinsky and I were talking about geology the other day: the degree program he had been auditing at Dalhousie since his retirement after 40 years as ... → Read More
JOHN DeMONT: Bring on 2023. I’m in a buoyant frame of mind.
Explore stories from Atlantic Canada. → Read More
JOHN DeMONT: The birth of a distinctly South Shore radio station
I welcome the arrival of CVCR (Coastal Villages Community Radio), the soon-to-launch non-profit community radio station that will serve the South Shore ... → Read More
JOHN DeMONT: A happy ending to a sad 140-year-old mystery
It was one of those hazy family legends, so much so that Doug Baggs only remembers his mother recounting it once, with the sketchiest of details. All Baggs ... → Read More
JOHN DeMONT: The wrenching heartbreak of another meningitis B death
You do not need to know Norrie Matthews to see the pain on his face, even over a video call from Kelowna, B.C., even 18 months after the worst kind of loss ... → Read More
JOHN DeMONT: How remote work supercharged our housing market
Shelter is the story in Nova Scotia right now. How so many people don’t have it, or if they do they have to sell a kidney on the black market to pay for ... → Read More
JOHN DeMONT: Discovering my grandfather’s war
My grandfather, Jack Briers, and I did not talk a lot when he was alive. That was partly geography — he lived in Sydney Mines and I, growing up, mostly ... → Read More
JOHN DeMONT: When a great tree falls in a Halifax forest
Peter Duinker had been warned, so he knew what to expect one recent Saturday morning. The message from Kathryn Morse, the councillor for Halifax-Bedford ... → Read More
JOHN DeMONT: When a great tree falls in the forest
Peter Duinker had been warned, so he knew what to expect one recent Saturday morning. The message from Kathryn Morse, the councillor for Halifax-Bedford ... → Read More
JOHN DeMONT: A Yarmouth CEO's blue-collar path to business fame
Mandy Rennehan, the business builder, reality TV star, unflagging champion of blue-collar work and of Yarmouth, N.S. — and, as of Nov. 3., one of newest ... → Read More
JOHN DeMONT: Atlantic Canadian ghost stories chill, thrill and provide a little comfort
The fog, thick enough to muffle sound, seemed to leech the day-light from the sky along the old country road. To the left, a hay field that someone ... → Read More
JOHN DeMONT: A new owner needed for Weymouth's iconic Goodwin Hotel
It’s been a long time, so Pat Comeau is to be excused for not recalling exactly what she thought stepping into the Goodwin Hotel in Weymouth that singular ... → Read More
JOHN DeMONT: How Dick Stacey became the king of Maritime Saturday nights
When the young folks get a little smug about the expansive technological world in which they live, when they show, with a click of their laptop, how they ... → Read More