Michael Tutton
Reporter with The Canadian Press
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East Coast youth march to demand climate change action from political class
As 17-year-old Julia Sampson stood amid a climate protest crowd swelling into the thousands, the Nova Scotia organizer said she and her peers are weary of an unresponsive older generation of political leaders in the region.
Glen Assoun calls for reform in how Ottawa considers cases of wrongful conviction
Tethered to an ankle monitor and alone in a British Columbia basement apartment in the fall of 2017, Glen Eugene Assoun felt his sanity slipping away as his wrongful conviction file languished in Ottawa.
Glen Assoun to receive initial compensation payment for wrongful murder conviction
A Halifax man will receive interim compensation from the federal and provincial governments after spending almost 17 years in prison as the result of a wrongful conviction in the murder of his former girlfriend.
Maritime grids, forestry, coastlines need rethink in era of intense storms: experts
In an era when the intensity of hurricanes is expected to increase across Atlantic Canada, experts say major changes are needed to utility grids, shoreline defences and even the types of trees being planted.
Crews work to restore power and clear debris left in Dorian's wake
Canadian soldiers armed with chainsaws fanned out across the Halifax area on Monday, September 9, 2019, to help clean up the tangled mess of fallen trees and power lines left behind by post-tropical storm Dorian.
Power utilities, troops begin massive post-Dorian cleanup in Maritimes
A storm with hurricane-force winds that hit the Maritimes left more than 400,000 residents without electricity, as repairs began on Sunday, September 8, 2019, to downed power lines and buildings damaged by splintered trees.
Scientists spot rare life as remotely operated vehicles livestream off N.S. coast
Research scientists are watching with fascination this weekend as a search for rare undersea life is being broadcast live by two remotely operated vessels run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration off the coast of Nova Scotia.
Battle over Nova Scotia pulp mill's future reflects wider Canadian debate: filmmaker
For filmmaker David Craig, a new documentary depicting the fraught emotions over the future of a rural Nova Scotia pulp mill is not solely a local story.
For some N.S. woodlot owners, end of controversial pulp mill not seen as disaster
For wood harvester Wade Prest, predictions of devastation if Nova Scotia's largest pulp mill closes are missing a wider story of an industry that needs to rethink its future.
Closing N.S. pulp mill would cost 2,700 jobs, decimate forestry industry: union
A union-funded study is painting a bleak picture of a decimated Nova Scotia forestry industry and the rapid disappearance of 2,700 jobs if the Northern Pulp paper mill is closed.