News 1. McNeil stepping down Stephen McNeil is stepping down as premier. Zane Woodford reports on the surprise announcement, which McNeil made Thursday during a post-cabinet news conference. Says McNeil: Seventeen years is a long time, and it’s long enough. Today I’m announcing I will be stepping down and leaving public office. I have informed […]
The tragic loss of news photography: Morning File, Tuesday, January 3, 2017
News 1. Fish kills “Digby Neck fishermen say unusual weather and tides is the simple explanation for the dead herring people are seeing on the beaches of southwest Nova Scotia,” reports Jonathan Riley for the Digby Courier: “This isn’t anything man is doing, this isn’t any illness or poisons or toxins in the environment,” says […]