On July 23, 2020, Der Spiegel, Germany’s largest weekly magazine, published an article by Martin Doerry, entitled “Moose, Bears, Eva Herman: Right-wing ideologues and conspiracy-theorists, including the former “Tagesshau” presenter, lure Germans to the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. ‘New settlers’ can buy real estate in a colony of like-minded people.” The article was written […]
Germans in Nova Scotia ‘devastated’ by reports of hard-right extremist colony in Cape Breton
Recent media reports about conspiracy-theorizing and hard-right extremists buying and selling land in Cape Breton, and setting up a colony of like-minded German-speakers from Europe on the island have shaken up many people in Nova Scotia, none more so than in the German-Canadian community. The reports have “devastated” her German business clients in Nova Scotia, says […]
Who are the Germans selling land, doomsday ideology, and dreams of a refuge in Cape Breton?
German language quotes in this article have been translated into English. The set for the Herman & Popp online video show, produced for a German-speaking audience, is slick and professional, with the hosts Andreas Popp and Eva Herman sitting side by side, a laptop between them as they chat before the camera. Behind the camera […]
Report: Right-wing German extremists are buying up land in Cape Breton
Germany’s largest weekly magazine Der Spiegel is reporting that a right-wing network of prominent Germans, including Eva Herman, a well-known former news presenter on German television, is setting up a colony of far-right radicals and ideologues in Canada, and they’ve been buying land in their chosen location — none other than Cape Breton Island. The magazine reports […]
Corporate shell game
Part 2: Northern Pulp-affiliated companies say that without major concessions, they won't be able to pay back nearly $86 million they owe to the province of Nova Scotia. So far, however, the government has not caved, and is not agreeing to new financing.
Part 1 of this two-part series examined the corporate empire behind Paper Excellence Canada and the Northern Pulp mill in Pictou County, which is ultimately owned by a family worth many billions. In this article, we take a closer look at the petition to the British Columbia Supreme Court by the Northern Pulp group of […]
Corporate shell game
Northern Pulp seeks protection from creditors in a BC court — and its largest creditor is its owner, Paper Excellence
Northern Pulp — the mill in Pictou County — has gone into hibernation. And Northern Pulp — the company — is “insolvent.” It is one of seven related companies petitioning for creditor protection in the British Columbia Supreme Court, while it seeks “a plan of compromise or arrangement.” The petitioners seeking relief from debt payments, […]
The Borealization of Acadia
Due to climate change, warm weather-friendly trees should be dominating our forests; instead, cold-weather species are taking over. We now understand why — thanks to a phone call from the Irving company to lean on a professor's dean.
A new study shows that since European settlement, the rich mix of deciduous and conifer trees in the temperate forest — known by settlers as “Acadian” forest — of the Maritimes, New England, and southeastern Quebec has undergone “borealization,” meaning there has been “widespread replacement of temperate tree species by boreal species,” which are common […]
Court documents contradict RCMP denial that they ignored Susie Butlin’s pleas before she was murdered
On September 17, 2017, Susie Butlin was murdered by her neighbour Junior Duggan. As the Halifax Examiner reported last week, the murder came after Butlin repeatedly pleaded with the RCMP to intervene to stop Duggan from harassing her. In fact, Butlin’s friend Suzanne Davis told the Examiner that Butlin was ignored by the RCMP, and just three […]
“Insufficient grounds”
Susie Butlin repeatedly pleaded with the RCMP to intervene to stop her neighbour Junior Duggan from harassing her. The police took no action. A friend says an RCMP officer told Butlin her allegations against Duggan made her, not him, a "menace to society." Three days later, Duggan killed Butlin.
Since September 2017, when her best friend, 58-year-old Susan (Susie) Butlin, was shot and killed in her home at Bayhead, near Tatamagouche, Suzanne Davis has been in pain. Davis still thinks about her friend — whom she’d known since kindergarten — all the time. She says if they didn’t speak on the phone three times […]
“A political act of opportunism”: Conservatives go hard right on gun laws
CPC leadership candidates cozy up to firearm rights advocates, who compare Bill C-71 to the internment of Japanese Canadians in World War 2.
The venue is a virtual “town hall” meeting with leadership Conservative candidate Peter MacKay. It’s hosted by the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights (CCFR), which calls itself “Canada’s most effective and recognizable firearm rights organization,” and the “public relations experts in the firearms community.” MacKay, dressed for the occasion in a plaid shirt and dark […]
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