Culture, Sport, and Recreation
CBRM's culture is dominated by the Scottish Gaelic, or "Celtic" heritage common to most of Cape Breton Island, however the urban industrial area of CBRM is also influenced by a mixture of other cultures including African Canadian, Jewish, Newfoundland, Irish, and a variety of Eastern European countries.
CBRM is home to several performance centres, including the Centre 200 sports arena in Sydney (home to the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles QMJHL team) and the historic Savoy Theatre, in Glace Bay. Glace Bay is home to the Cape Breton Miners' Museum, the Marconi National Historic Site and the Glace Bay Heritage Museum. Louisbourg is home to Fortress of Louisbourg, the largest historical reconstruction in North America.
CBRM hosts a CBC Radio studio with morning and afternoon broadcasts across Cape Breton Island. There are also five commercial radio stations. The municipality used to host CBC (CBIT) and ATV (CJCB-TV) television studios, however these studios were closed in the 1980s and television news programming for Cape Breton Island is now broadcast from Halifax for these networks.
CBRM has a daily newspaper, the Cape Breton Post, which is a broadsheet focusing on Cape Breton Island. Its editorial style is populist conservative, and it is owned by Transcontinental Media. The Halifax-based The Chronicle Herald is a daily broadsheet covering the entire province and maintains a bureau in Sydney. Boardwalk is an independently-owned free "alternative bi-weekly" focused primarily on arts and culture in Cape Breton.
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“Playing snooker gives you firm hands and helps to build up character. It is the ideal recreation for dedicated nuns.”
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