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All about that bass: Nova Scotia man hooks monster fish in Annapolis River after tidal station shutdown
The sun was just breaking over the Annapolis River on Tuesday morning when Chad Cook cast his line. It was a sleepy beginning to what would be another long day on the river. He’d fish until the tide dropped, go dig clams for six hours, ...
Community on Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore a beluga whale sanctuary contender
A sort-of retirement home for captive beluga whales could be coming soon to the Eastern Shore. The Whale Sanctuary Project just wrapped up community meetings along the stretch of coast and is now focusing its attention on possible sites around ...
Anaconda Mining eyes expansion of Goldboro project
A proposed gold mine for Guysborough County is getting bigger. Anaconda Mining is now proposing to build a full-scale processing facility in Goldboro that would see gold ore bars created onsite. Previously, the company was only planning to create ...
Marine heat waves like 2012's Northwest Atlantic temperature spike to intensify — study
On Aug. 1, 2012, New Brunswick lobster fishermen blocked an 18-wheeler carrying American-caught lobster to a Bedec processing plant and shut off its refrigeration unit to spoil the load. The next day 16 Mounties followed the fishermen between ...
Mystery persists: why do many salmon fail to return to spawning rivers?
Raymond Elliott rounded the point off Goose Cove and steamed his skiff into a bay of memory. The boat’s motion changed as it left its brief sojourn in the North Atlantic’s slow swell for the slap of the shorter wind-driven waves of ...
Storm warnings: Thanks to slowing Gulf Stream, weather is getting rougher
It is immediate and tangible and touches all of our senses. ...
High-tech snapshots are revealing whale habits in Gulf of St. Lawrence
HALIFAX, N.S. - The whales knew they were there. Scientists had to follow the right whales to find the fatty copepods ...
Piecing together the wreckage of Swissair Flight 111
Within 24 hours of being awakened in his Winnipeg home by a phone call Vic Gerden was stepping off a coast guard helicopter in Peggys Cove. ...
Nova Scotia girl climbs tree to escape bear
On Sunday the North River Volunteer Fire Department carried out a dramatic and unusual rescue. “A young girl got treed by a bear and the RCMP figured they were 30 minutes away so they paged us out,” said John MacKay, second deputy ...
Our Changing Arctic
Part 1: Currents, rising temperatures in control of the Arctic It was Jan. 10, 1914 and Canada's first great foray into exploring our North had gone horribly wrong. Three months earlier the Canadian Arctic Expedition’s much-famed ...
