M ary Hatfield and her husband Alan built their house on an empty lot on Eagle Road in the late 1990s. More than 20 years later, the 67-year-old sits on the couch in her front room, explaining the landscape around her modest bungalow. Hatfield spent 26 of her adult years living in Truro before moving […]
Boat Harbour
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Mi’kmaq scholar Daniel Paul on the Boat Harbour closure
In the week before Christmas, many Nova Scotians were filled with uncertainty and dread in the lead-up to premier Stephen McNeil’s Boat Harbour decision, but Daniel Paul wasn’t one of them. The 81-year-old Mi’kmaq elder and author says he wasn’t surprised when the premier, despite pleas from mill executives and forestry workers, said he would […]
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Ahead of premier’s decision on Boat Harbour, Unifor members rallied for jobs
Hundreds of Unifor protestors gathered outside of the Halifax Legislature Building on Thursday, rallying for an extension for the closure of the Northern Pulp mill from Premier Stephen McNeil. Premier McNeil announced Friday that there would be no extension, and the Boat Harbour Act—which called for the closure of the effluent treatment facility that poured […]