Profile of Emma Graney

Biography

Emma Graney, named 2011 Atlantic Canada Outstanding Journalist of the Year, is editor of the Northern Pen. You can follow her on Twitter (@emma_graney) or email her at info@northernpen.ca.  

All articles of Emma Graney

• Life in Little Brehat
  Sunny yellow buttercups and waist-high grass ripple in a breeze just brisk enough to keep the bugs at bay and cool the air. Wild purple orchids ...
• The changing faces of an iceberg
  Icebergs continue to populate the waters off the Northern Peninsula, and tourists and photographers are being wowed. Transcontinental Media’s ...
• The little bottle that could
  St. Anthony — Joy Nash and her friend Jean Pierre walk along a beach between Kerity and Le Guillvenec in Brittany, France. It’s a relatively warm ...
• Charlottetown’s founding father turns 90
  Charlottetown — Talking with Benjamin Windsor Powell’s family, you realize there’s no way to distil his life into one newspaper article.The man ...
• Estates left in limbo
  Main Brook — In Main Brook stands a home, empty, skeletal trees scratching the white siding.When the wind blows, dry leaves dance around a maroon ...
• Herring today, gone tomorrow
  L’Anse au Loup — Doug Ryland and his crew were busy off-loading a seething, silver mass of herring at the L’Anse au Loup wharf last week at the ...
• Beyond the call of duty
  Greg Charlton is known in Roddickton for being a good guy. He mows the ...
• Filming the French Shore
  Sitting outside the Croque town building, filmmaker Barbara Doran is protected against the biting wind by a bulky sweater, knitted from bright ...
• ‘I just want to tell my story’
  Josie Penny, a soft-spoken Labrador Métis woman with sparkling blue eyes, tips her head slightly to the side as she considers what she’d most ...
• I'm smelting
  Donned in traditional Viking attire, re-enactors from Ontario and site interpreters from Parks Canada spent a sweaty day’s work layering charcoal ...
• Weaving Conche into history
  It is the French Shore tapestry, an embroidered artwork depicting the history of the Northern Peninsula’s French Shore. Although it has been in ...
• Unhearting history
  Port au Choix - Standing at the Point Riche archeological dig site in Port au Choix, wind whipping at her jacket and rippling through the long ...
• Health minister preferred St. Anthony site: documents
  St. Anthony - On Sept. 14 last year, provincial Health Minister Jerome Kennedy not only discounted the idea of moving the air ambulance from St. ...
• Paved with good intentions
  St. Anthony - Conche is dubbed "the beauty spot of the north," although residents say the road heading out there is anything but. The ...
• Plucked from high seas
  St. Anthony - It was 9 a.m. and Shawn Hughes was standing on the deck of the Marine Clipper II keeping watch. The Bartlett's Harbour fisherman, ...
• The life and times of crab
  St. Anthony - Crab are interesting little critters - just ask Earl Dawe, research scientist for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. He's ...