Canada invests $1.2M in Cape Breton high-speed internet project

OTTAWA – The government of Canada said Tuesday it is providing almost $1.2 million in federal funding through the Universal Broadband Fund for Rogers Communications to bring high-speed internet access to more than 1,600 homes — including over 440 Indigenous households — in 16 rural and remote communities on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. The communities to benefit from the fibre broadband project include Baddeck, Barra Head, Big Baddeck, Chapel Island (Potlotek First Nation), Grande Greve, Lynche River, Middle River, Nyanza, River Bourgeois, River Tillard, Sampsonville, Soldiers Cove, South Side of Baddeck River, St. Patricks Channel, St. Peter’s and...