A handful of Colchester County residents will get their day in court next year to try and halt a one-year pilot project that would burn tires for fuel at the Lafarge Canada cement plant in Brookfield, 12 kilometres south of Truro, near Shortts Lake. Yesterday, in a process to set court dates, Lafarge lawyer John...
War never ends: Morning File, Thursday, January 5, 2017
News 1. War deaths “Aaliyah Desmond celebrated her 10th birthday three days after Christmas. She had just begun horseback riding, and announced to her family on New Year’s Eve she wanted to be a veterinarian,” reports Michael MacDonald for the Canadian Press: “She always had a nice little smile,” her great-aunt, Catherine Hartling, said Wednesday. On Tuesday, […]
There’s a cool comet up there but it’s too cloudy to see it: Morning File, Wednesday, January 4, 2017
News 1. Four dead in Lincolnville “RCMP say four people have been found dead in a Guysborough County residence,” reports Ian Fairclough for Local Xpress: Police said in a release the deceased were found in a home in Upper Big Tracadie, but area residents say the residence is on Highway 16 in Lincolnville, a small […]