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October 23, 2008 Weblog:

Fiftieth anniversary of the Springhill Mine disaster

Today is the 50th anniversary of the third Springhill coal mine disaster.

The CBC has some archival TV footage from the days following the disaster. Seventy four men were killed in the disaster, and 100 miners were trapped underground for almost nine days before being freed.

Prior to the deadly events of 1958, there were two large mine disasters at Nova Scotia's Springhill Mine, one in 1956, and another in 1891.

February 6, 2007

Cable: unfulfilled radical potential?

by Maury McCown
December 7, 2006 Environment

Race and Waste in Nova Scotia

Lincolnville_fp.jpgHillary Bain Lindsay investigates accusations of 'environmental racism' that have taken centre stage during a fight against a new landfill.

Accusations of 'environmental racism' take centre stage during fight against new landfill development

Dec 7 by Hillary Bain Lindsay
December 19, 2004 Environment

Buy Nothing Year

Matt Watkins is living without money for a year, to test some ideas about the infectiousness of generosity. Hillary Lindsay asks him about it.

Matt Watkins' quest to want not, waste not

Dec 19 by Hillary Bain Lindsay
December 6, 2004 Canadian News

Bush on Trial for War Crimes in Halifax, Nova Scotia

Dec 6 by Shannon Hines
March 16, 2004 Canadian News

UN Recommends Reparations for Africville Residents

Mar 16
July 26, 2003 Arts

Caution: Extreme Shakespeare in Halifax

Generally I am not a person who plans elaborate activities of merriment on calendar holidays. But, once and a while, an opportunity to celebrate gives me that tingling feeling and I am compelled to go out and join the party. It was that kind of crazed motivation that got me out of bed at 3:15 a.m. on July 1 to watch A Midsummer Night's Dream on the wharf of Casino Nova Scotia in Halifax. - by Sylvia Nickerson -

Jul 26 by Sylvia Nickerson
July 11, 2003 Environment

Dragged into Court

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A small NGO in Halifax is taking the Canadian government to court. The Ecology Action Centre (EAC) is accusing the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) of violating its own legislation to protect fish habitat. DFO's decision to reopen George's Bank, an important fishing ground in Atlantic Canada, to dragger boats, without first conducting an environmental assessment, spurred the EAC to take legal action in 2001. The case is expected to come before a judge this summer. - by Hillary Lindsay -

Ecology Action Centre challenges DFO on dragnet fishing policy

Jul 11 by Hillary Bain Lindsay

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