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It’s been a year since violence erupted in the lobster fishery, but the cases of dozens of people facing charges are in limbo and the status of the “moderate livelihood” fishery remains unresolved

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When a commercial lobster fishery makes national headlines, it’s not about good catches. One year ago, confrontation and violence upended the normally business-like commercial lobster season in St. Mary’s Bay and Lobster Fishing Area 35 in southwest Nova Scotia. Tensions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous fishermen in the bay had erupted in several dangerous boat-ramming incidents. […]

Atlantic Mining NS in court on environmental charges for the seventh time

Company again failed to enter a plea on the charges laid back in September 2020.

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Atlantic Mining Nova Scotia which operates Nova Scotia’s first — and so far only — open pit gold mine at Moose River appeared on Friday in provincial court for the seventh time this year on 32 environmental charges laid under the Nova Scotia Environment Act . Once again, Atlantic Mining NS failed to enter a...

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Camping out in Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes to show the potential of a national park

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A group of conservationists wants you to know there’s a back country canoeing and camping experience just minutes from downtown Halifax — and it could soon be a national park. The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) Nova Scotia Chapter spent the week camping in the Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness Area, paddling canoes, sleeping...

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Halifax’s new appeals committee grants one convicted cabbie a new licence, denies another

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One taxi driver convicted of a criminal offence got his licence back while another will have to stay off the road after Halifax’s License Appeal Committee meeting on Wednesday. The three-member committee — currently made up of Mark Everett, Ryan Baxter, and Carine O’Brien — was created following sweeping changes to the taxi industry’s regulations...

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Houston’s housing plan: rent control stays, 1,100 new affordable units, interventions in Halifax planning

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Premier Tim Houston’s Progressive Conservative government is keeping temporary rent control and pledging 1,100 new affordable housing units along with interventions in municipal planning as part of its plan to address the housing crisis. Houston and Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister John Lohr unveiled the long-awaited plan at a news conference on Wednesday, announcing that […]

Lionel Desmond was a victim of racism, cousin testifies at inquiry

Raymond Sheppard says racism within the Canadian Armed Forces contributed to Desmond's PTSD.

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It was two years ago this month that Raymond Sheppard first wrote in the former Nova Scotia Advocate about the role racism played in the case of his younger cousin, Lionel Desmond, who, in 2017, killed his wife, Shanna, mother, Brenda, and 10-year-old daughter, Aaliyah, before killing himself. Desmond who served in the Canadian Armed […]

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