News 1. Canadian Press layoffs On Friday, the Canadian Press notified its staff that at the end of March it will be laying off six reporters nationwide, four of whom are in its Atlantic bureau in Halifax. The four Halifax reporters are Brett Bundale, Aly Thomson, Keith Doucette, and Alex Cooke. All are excellent reporters. […]
Free to be stupid: Morning File, Friday, June 16, 2017
News 1. Mi’kmaq seat “A Nova Scotia senator says the time may be right to re-examine the establishment of a Mi’kmaq seat in the provincial legislature — and the premier says his government is open to it too,” reports Keith Doucette for the Canadian Press: Dan Christmas, a Mi’kmaq who was appointed to Ottawa’s upper chamber as […]
Hammond Plains school kids get to experience what it’s like to be on a cruise ship: Morning File, Friday, June 9, 2017
News 1. Marine Protected Area The Department of Fisheries and Oceans yesterday officially designated the St. Anns Bank Marine Protected Area: Located east of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, this Marine Protected Area helps conserve and protect many ecologically and biologically significant features, including important habitats, areas of high biodiversity and biological productivity, and endangered and threatened […]
Shameless and immodest self-promotion: Morning File, Monday, May 8, 2017
News 1. Life after pulp Linda Pannozzo has meticulously documented the destruction of Nova Scotia’s forests, the effects of unrestrained clearcutting on forest health and species, the “regulatory capture” of the provincial Department of Natural Resources by forest product industries, and how all these trends have been exacerbated by the biomass sham. In her latest piece, […]