A group of mills is about to get access to a large area of forested Crown land in Queens, Shelburne, Digby and Yarmouth counties. The parcel is 566,600 hectares — roughly the same size as Prince Edward Island — and basically represents all the Crown land west of Highway 102, which runs between Truro and Halifax. Approximately one-third of the…

Canada has signed almost two dozen side letters with its trading partners in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, including an agreement with the United States to combat illicit trade. Canada also signed a side agreement with Japan that appears to protect the exports of British Columbia logs, a key sticking point between those countries in the multi-layered…

Many Nova Scotians imagine the mill owner’s profits are pretty good, since it is assumed the maker of supercalendered paper can remain profitable and still pay millions of dollars in trade penalties to the United States government. The U.S. Department of Commerce has ruled Port Hawkesbury Paper’s exports into that country have an unfair price…

A march and rally for sustainable BC forestry garnered a crowd of upwards of 100 at Charles Hoey Park Friday afternoon. The event, organized by the Pulp, Paper, and Woodworkers of Canada Public and the Ancient Forest Alliance, and attended by folks from up and down the Island, had a message for the provincial government:…

Busenbark County Park had no parking lot, no bathrooms, no trails, not even a sign to alert passers-by it was a park. Its amenities were more the natural sort. They included thick woods, with a few trees being at least 500 years old, and a natural spring from which area residents drew water by the…

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s toughest foreign policy challenge will not be climate change, China or even the Syrian refugee crisis. It will come in the form of our relations with the United States — our most important friend, partner and customer. And the Americans can, as past trade wars can attest, make life very difficult…