Now, as the spotlight shifts from Swinton, last seen picking up a best supporting actress Oscar for her performance in Michael Clayton, and on to Byrne, whose play Nova Scotia is about to open in Edinburgh, the playwright is determined not to become a soap star.
According to Scotia, the company behind the new technology, the average local authority operates 33,000 street lights, whose energy usage equates to emitting 7,600 tons of carbon dioxide a year.
Scotia (population 1,200) is a company town endangered by a different kind of force -- a corporate parent whose commitment to its future is uncertain.
Passed in the wake of the Scotia Mine disaster, which killed 26 miners in Letcher County in 1976, the law calls for the temporary reinstatement of any miner whose claim of retaliation was not "frivolously brought" before the agency.
There are relatively sophisticated summer people in Nova Scotia whose response to being complimented on an item of clothing is to smile knowingly and say, "Frenchy's" — or "Chez François".
Joan Jones, a low-key but determined crusader for racial justice and equality in Nova Scotia, whose black population has faced discrimination and hostility for centuries, died on April 1 in Halifax, the capital of the province.
The grand prize winner of the first season was Glo McNeill, 82, of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, whose recipe is available at Loblaw stores as President's Choice Luscious Lemon Pudding Cakes — and, in French Canada, as les Gâteaux au pouding Citron sensationnel le Choix du Président.
"Canada is often seen as somehow divorced from the 1960s," Isaac Saney, a professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax and an authority on black Canadian history, said by email, but all the civil rights injustices familiar in the United States were present there too, including in Nova Scotia, whose image of quaint fishing villages belied the racial tensions and inequities there.
Whose crime and whose punishment?
Depends on whose mind, whose soul.
The Moores got in early on Cape Breton, the long-overlooked, easternmost part of the peninsular province of Nova Scotia, whose mainland has been a hot real estate ticket since the early 1990s.
