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1. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Mike Finigan, For The Cape Breton Post

   Listless: Keeping your head in the game (opens the original)

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   In my early shirt-and-tie working days, I went to an out-of-town conference and shared a hotel room with an older colleague. Quiet fella. Even-keeled. Not going to be up all night partying. Entering the room, I flopped down on my bed and flipped through the hotel brochure to see where to eat and maybe have a beverage. My roomy though, he placed his suitcase squarely on his bed, took all his neatly folded clothes from it and placed them in the bureau drawers under the TV. Got his shave kit out, h

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2. Article · Aug 5, 2026 · Mike Finigan, For The Cape Breton Post

   The poor potato: Columnist is not a doctor - read with a grain of salt (opens the original)

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   My grandfather Hubert, on the odd summer morning, would send me and my buddy up to his sister Alice’s wee bungalow. She’d have sent for us seven-year-olds. She’d have a treat for us. And we’d sit on her backstep, which was a step. This was the pre-deck age. And we’d sit there and Alice, a sweetheart, all 4-foot-9 of her, from 40 years in Boston, wearing cat glasses and a broad smile, in a full dress and fancy apron, she would come out with a boiled potato split in two, skin on, covered in salt a

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