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Backroad Deal

Part 2: Nova Scotia’s policies to conserve the province’s endangered forests might be doing more harm than good

June 1, 2020 By Linda Pannozzo 4 Comments

(This is the second of a 2-part series. See Part 1 here.)  It was an unseasonably warm day in February when I met up with Mike Lancaster to walk part of the new Ingram Access Road — a clearcut 100 metres wide in places — which he and other conservationists say cut out part of […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, News Tagged With: Acadian Forest Region, Art Lynds, Atlantic Ecosystems Initiative, clearcut, Colin Gray, coral lichen, Department of Environment (DOE), Department of Lands and Forestry (DLF), ecology, forestry, Harriet Irving Herbarium, Independent Review of Forest Practices In Nova Scotia, Ingram Access Road, Ingram Wilderness Area, Integrated Resource Management Review (IRM), John LeDuc, Lawlor Lake, lichen, Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute (MTRI), Mike Lancaster, National Forestry Database (NFD), National Seed Centre, Old Forest Policy (OFP), old growth trees, Peter Bush, Peter Duinker, Port Hawkesbury paper (PHP), William Lahey

Environmentalists say logging companies are rushing clearcuts near Lake Deception before new forest regulations come into effect

November 20, 2019 By Jennifer Henderson

Environmental groups are pushing back against three proposed cuts in a rural area near Lake Deception north of Shelburne. The cuts are on Crown land allocated to 13 companies in the WestFor group, which includes Northern Pulp, Louisiana Pacific, Ledwidge Lumber, and Harry Freeman & Sons. These “variable retention” cuts (a forest industry euphemism for...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: clearcuts, clearcutting on Crown lands, forestry, Healthy Forest Coalition, Lahey Report on Forestry, Lake Deception, Lands and Forestry Minister Iain Rankin, Mike Lancaster, People for Ecological Forestry in Southwest Nova Scotia, Shelly Hipson, WestFor

Truth Be Told: Nova Scotia’s forest department hires a PR firm with forest industry ties to help it with transparency

May 10, 2019 By Linda Pannozzo 5 Comments

Cover photo: recent drone shot of a clearcut located between Kejimkujik National Park and Lake Rossignol. Photo courtesy Jeff Purdy. The Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forestry (DLF) recently hired DG Communications, a public relations firm, to assess the department’s progress in meeting the recommendations of William Lahey’s Independent Review of Forest Practices, specifically […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Environment, Featured, Investigation, Province House Tagged With: clearcut, clearcutting on Crown lands, DG Communications, Ecology Action Centre (EAC), Forest Nova Scotia, Forest Products Association of Nova Scotia, Harvest Plans Map Viewer (HPMV), Jeff Purdy, Keji, Kejimkujik National Park, Lahey report, Lake Rossignol, Lisa Jarrett, Mike Lancaster, Natural Resources Strategy, Northern Pulp, Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forestry (DLF), Pam Davidson, Ray Plourde, St. Margaret’s Bay Stewardship Association

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 Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Keonté Beals. Photo: Keke Beatz

Episode #21 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

The young R&B artist Keonté Beals — Tara’s former NSCC student, by the way — started out singing in church in North Preston and performing popular covers before digging into who he is an artist. On his debut album KING, he sings about love, loyalty, and authenticity. He zooms in for a chat about its creation, his children’s book, and how not even a pandemic can keep him down.

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Uncover: Dead Wrong

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.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

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