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Turning protesters into pets

How Nova Scotia's forestry regulators are already undermining the Lahey Report, and what we can do about it.

December 14, 2018 By Linda Pannozzo 8 Comments

Cover photo: a clearcut adjacent to the Old Annapolis Nature Reserve. The forest to the right of the clearcut is now being proposed as a second clearcut, which would create a total clearcut area of roughly 150 acres. Photo courtesy Mike Lancaster. In her eloquent and thought-provoking 2014 book, Capitalism: A Ghost Story, Arundhati Roy […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Environment, Featured, Province House Tagged With: Allan Eddy, Allan Smith, Arundhati Roy, Bernie Miller, Brad Toms, Bruce Nunn, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS), clearcutting, Department of Lands and Forestry (DLF), Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Harry Freeman and Sons, JD Irving, Jonathan Kierstead, Jonathan Porter, Lahey report, Ledwidge Lumber, Louisiana Pacific, Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute, Mike Lancaster, Minister Iain Rankin, Natural Resources Strategy, Nick Horne, Northern Pulp, Premier Stephen McNeil, Resolute Forest Products, Scotia Atlantic Biomass, St. Margaret’s Bay Stewardship Association (SMBSA), Stephen McNeil's Liberals, The Washington Post Company, WestFor, William Lahey

The Wrongful Conviction of Glen Assoun

In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Click here to read the Halifax Examiner's extensive reporting on the case.

DEAD WRONG

A botched police investigation and a police coverup shed light on the murders of dozens of women in Nova Scotia.

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