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68-648: Stephen Cooke of the Halifax Chronicle-Herald calls the song, "a honky-tonk rebuttal to the Beach Boys ' ode to women from The Golden State ." He goes on to say that the chorus, "drills its way into your head as the singer praises anyone of the opposite sex who can fire up a woodstove, sing along to Gordon Lightfoot and look sexy in a tuque." The music video was directed by Christopher Mills and premiered in February 2012. "Canadian Girls" debuted at number 36 on

136-510: A Halifax hospital on June 1, 2020, after being diagnosed with lung cancer. His death came just a few weeks before his latest non-fiction book Blood in the Water: A True Story of Revenge in the Maritimes was due to be released. The book describes the circumstances around the murder of a small-time criminal who had been terrorizing the small Cape Breton community of Petit-de-Grat for many years. He

204-462: A prisoner-of-war camp in Amherst, Nova Scotia , and was also produced as a radio drama, one of more than 50 Cameron wrote for both CBC Radio and CBC Television . In addition, he produced radio and television documentaries, as well as writing and narrating two documentary films for The Green Interview, Bhutan: The Pursuit of Gross National Happiness (2010) and Salmon Wars: Salmon Farms, Wild Fish and

272-778: A commercial printing company, in 2011. In 2012 they purchased The Casket , a weekly newspaper published in Antigonish , through a Herald sister company, Brace Publishing Limited. The company also launched the glossy Herald Magazine in February 2012. It launched the Cape Breton Star , a weekly newspaper, in Cape Breton in May 2014. Circulation has been in decline. In 2012 the Audit Bureau of Circulations reported circulation of 108,389 weekdays, 112,306 Saturdays and 97,190 Sundays In April 2012

340-478: A depressed region, I thought. One lives so well." In a chapter entitled, "Good People in Bad Times", Cameron outlines the troubles of industrial Cape Breton including the long decline of two of its economic mainstays, coal mining and steel making. "It is a hard place to make a living", he writes, "but it is a wonderful place to live." Industrial Cape Breton is raucous and funny, full of music and theatre and satire. It

408-537: A determined Cameron finally persuaded her to leave the "extravagantly green and lush" Pacific coast rainforest she loved for the often, wild and stormy weather of Atlantic Canada. Although Cameron himself had grown up in Vancouver, Simmins knew his heart belonged to Cape Breton. Cameron was the father of five children from two previous marriages. In his later years, he and Marjorie Simmins divided their time between Halifax and D'Escousse , Cape Breton . Cameron died in

476-585: A member of the Communist Party of Canada . Their main adversaries were two, huge, foreign-owned fishing companies. The fishermen also faced stiff opposition from what Cameron calls the "cod aristocracy", rich members of the Nova Scotia elite, as well as from leading politicians, judges, government bureaucrats, members of the clergy, the province's main daily newspaper, and the Canadian labour establishment itself. "In

544-522: A pension plan for Herald staff. He had a reputation as an "old-school media baron" who set up bureaus across Canada and even one in London, England. Dennis considered the paper essential to effecting positive change in Nova Scotia and ensured that it was available across the province. In 1998 the company began producing a Sunday edition called The Sunday Herald , which ran until April 20, 2013. In 2004 The Chronicle-Herald and Mail-Star were merged to form

612-506: A politician, schoolboys become truckers and contractors, middle-aged civil servants retire and old people take their departures. Knowing them year by year, I can grasp something of the flow of their lives." In 1973, Cameron bought an unfinished boat named Hirondelle in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia . In the book Wind, Whales and Whisky , he writes about spending the summer completing it by adding masts, toilets, compasses and handrails before sailing

680-530: A portrait of Cape Breton and "an essay on values, what is it that makes a good life." The book has also been described as "a wonderfully entertaining Bruegel painting of a book—at once a travelogue, a history, a geography, a folk study, a social commentary and a book of humour." Cameron introduces his readers to a wide variety of characters that he meets during his voyage including moonshine makers, malt-whisky distillers, musicians, poets, American Buddhists, fishermen and coal miners. Wind, Whales and Whisky uses

748-505: A round of bargaining in October 2016, Herald made numerous additional demands, including further cuts to the union's bargaining power, reduced sick leave pay, a further four per cent wage cut, eight more layoffs (amounting to a total of 26 layoffs), and the closure of Local Xpress and the signing-over of all Local Xpress content to the Herald . In November 2016 the union filed a complaint with

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816-410: A style not much to my taste. But it felt right: a serene and happy little house where generations had loved and laughed and wept and died." Cameron had already published magazine articles and a literary book, Faces of Leacock , a 1967 study of the great Canadian humorist , but now he was finally free to begin his apprenticeship as a full-time writer. For him, D'Escousse was an ideal home base. "For

884-467: A third of unionized staff, a cap on severance pay, reductions in vacation time and mileage allowance, a 25 per cent lower starting wage, and elimination of the defined benefit pension plan founded by Graham Dennis. However, the dispute dragged on with no agreement being reached between the two parties. The newspaper was accused of making unreasonable demands with the aim of breaking the union, and hired lawyers advertising services in union-busting. During

952-440: A writer," Cameron writes, "the great benefit of a village is the way you can know people." He added that in cities, writers are inevitably drawn into limited circles, but villages let them escape. "My friends in D'Escousse include welders, fishermen, millwrights and mothers on welfare as well as teachers, potters, priests and businessmen." Moreover, a writer who lives in a village watches people change and grow. "An electrician becomes

1020-407: Is gossipy and anecdotal, tolerant of eccentricity, generous and co-operative. It is tenacious, disorderly, skeptical of authority, lethal to pomposity and pretension. It is fecund, unruly and affectionate. Newspaper reviewers praised Wind, Whales and Whisky as entertaining, joyful and informative. One, who grew up on Cape Breton Island, wrote that the book brought back many memories: "I could smell

1088-523: Is important, but you can't let that determine what you do." Shortly after taking over as CEO, Dennis championed the newspaper's independence, stating: "The fact that we're not controlled by someone in Ontario makes a big difference in what we can do." She stated that the newspaper would remain independent as long as possible. However, following her father's death Dennis stated that she would entertain offers from potential buyers. Discord erupted in 2011 after

1156-465: Is in Cameron's storytelling skills. His writing is taut, tense, and blunt, perfectly reflecting the powder-keg feel of the times." Wind Whales and Whisky: A Cape Breton Voyage recounts Cameron's adventures as he, his wife Lulu and 12-year-old son Mark Patrick sail around Cape Breton Island on their 27-foot cutter Silversark during the summer of 1990. Cameron himself says the book is a family adventure,

1224-622: Is interwoven with stories about the many shipwrecks on a nearby "killer island", how Fred Lawrence ended up moving to Cape Breton from Maine , and the dramatic traces that "ancient volcanoes, mighty glaciers, up-tilted seafloors" have left on the coastline. "The rocks have a tortured appearance", Cameron writes, "abrupt, sharp shapes, angled striations, rapid shifts of colour from pink to white, rust, green, grey, black. The geology looks like frozen violence: layers of rock bent, twisted, broken, folded, thrust upward, knocked sideways, pressed downward." In Wind, Whales and Whisky , Cameron discusses one of

1292-403: Is known about their migrations. Cameron also describes how businessman John Risley discovered that lobsters "essentially go dormant in icy water" enabling his company to store them for up to a year by putting them into individual plastic trays stacked in "huge racks which reach clear to the ceilings of the cavernous holding rooms" and pumping 24,000 gallons of chilled sea-water per hour through

1360-665: Is the only jurisdiction within Canada that outlaws the practice. Several faculty members at the University of King's College , which is well-regarded for its journalism program, advised graduating students against crossing the picket line. The Herald approached several King's students and were rebuffed. Investigative journalist Tim Bousquet, of the Halifax Examiner , questioned the newspaper's practice of printing advertorial content nearly indistinguishable from regular news. Similarly,

1428-619: The Atlantic provinces , although it briefly lost that title to the now-defunct StarMetro Halifax (formerly Metro Halifax ). Silver Donald Cameron Silver Donald Cameron CM ONS (June 21, 1937 – June 1, 2020) was a Canadian journalist, author, playwright, and university teacher whose writing focused on social justice , nature, and the environment. His 15 books of non-fiction dealt with everything from history and politics to education and community development . An avid sailor, Cameron wrote several books about ships and

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1496-514: The Canadian Hot 100 for the week of February 25, 2012. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. Halifax Chronicle-Herald The Chronicle Herald is a broadsheet newspaper published in Halifax, Nova Scotia , Canada, owned by SaltWire Network of Halifax. On July 26, 2024, Postmedia entered an agreement to purchase SaltWire. Founded in 1874 as The Morning Herald ,

1564-709: The Evelyn Richardson Award , the Atlantic Provinces Booksellers Award and the City of Dartmouth Book Award. One of his television dramas won a Best Short Film award and he earned four National Magazine Awards as well as two awards for his corporate writing. In 2012, Cameron received both the Order of Canada and the Order of Nova Scotia . Cameron wrote about the Terrios, a large family in D'Escousse. One of

1632-531: The Herald locked out its 13 unionized printing press workers, causing the first work stoppage in the company's history. The lockout ended about a month later, after the union agreed to major concessions. Less than a year later, on January 23, 2016, 61 members of the Halifax Typographical Union's newsroom and news bureau staff went on strike. The Herald hired " scab " reporters as replacements. The Chronicle Herald refused any concessions offered by

1700-483: The Herald reprinted one of his articles and attributed it to his name only, with no mention of the Star , making it appear as though he was writing as a strikebreaker. Boutilier stated that he could not find the piece on The Canadian Press news wire while Bousquet commented that aside from the Star , the Herald appears to have been the only other newspaper to print the story. The Herald subsequently removed his byline from

1768-413: The Herald wrote a new contract for freelance journalists that gave the newspaper rights to freelancers' work forever, without any payment for signing over the copyright. Numerous freelancers, including Ralph Surette and Silver Donald Cameron , refused to sign. Dennis stated that the newspaper was simply emulating what other newspapers across the country were doing. The newspaper purchased Bounty Print,

1836-517: The Nova Scotia Labour Board accusing the Herald management of "bargaining in a manner designed to end union representation", preventing an agreement from being reached. As a result of this strike, CEO Mark Lever won the labour news website rankandfile.ca's annual Scumbag of the Year award for 2016. It was the second time in three years a Nova Scotian won this award. Throughout the strike,

1904-600: The Order of Canada and the Order of Nova Scotia . Donald Cameron was born in 1937 in Toronto , the son of Hazel (Robertson) and Dr. Maxwell A. Cameron. He joked that, at age two, he fled to British Columbia , taking his parents with him. His father was the head of the faculty of education at UBC beginning the mid-1940s. He grew up mostly in Vancouver and attended the University of British Columbia , receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1960. He earned his Master of Arts at

1972-614: The University of California, Berkeley in 1962 and returned to UBC to teach for two years before leaving for the University of London, where he received his Ph.D. in 1967. He based his doctoral thesis on his study of the structures in six major novels by Walter Scott . He served as a postdoctoral fellow at Dalhousie University (1967–68) before becoming an English professor in 1968, at the University of New Brunswick. While teaching at UNB, Cameron served as publisher and founding editor of The Mysterious East . During its four-year existence,

2040-780: The University of Prince Edward Island . He was dean of the School of Community Studies at Cape Breton University and served as its first Farley Mowat Chair in Environment. He also taught at Dalhousie University , the University of British Columbia and the University of New Brunswick . One of Cameron's last projects involved a series of video interviews with environmental thinkers, writers and activists that appeared on subscription website "The Green Interview". Interviewees include Vandana Shiva , Farley Mowat , James Lovelock , Jane Goodall and David Orton . Cameron's writing and journalism earned him many awards, and in 2012, he received both

2108-504: The ironies he sees about life in Cape Breton. On the one hand, the island seems poor with chronic unemployment, but on the other, its rural inhabitants have access to abundant and delicious food such as apples, cranberries, fish, deer, moose and the produce from their gardens. After describing "the most unbelievably wonderful meal of the voyage"—lobster and grey sole baked in the oven with tinned mushroom soup accompanied by scalloped potatoes and broccoli , Cameron writes: "I love living in

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2176-588: The 33-foot schooner back to D'Escousse. Hirondelle became the first schooner moored in D'Escousse since 1928 when Leonard Pertus sold his own boat Maple Leaf . Pertus became Cameron's tutor and mentor teaching him how to sail safely and well. Cameron dreamed of sailing across the Atlantic and, with the help of friends, began a nine-year project building a 27-foot cutter named Silversark . In 1977, Silver Donald Cameron published The Education of Everett Richardson: The Nova Scotia Fishermen's Strike 1970–71 . Portions of

2244-567: The Future of Communities (2012). His magazine articles numbered in the hundreds and his newspaper columns appeared in The Globe and Mail and the Halifax Chronicle Herald . He also wrote extensively for provincial and federal government departments as well as for corporate and non-profit clients. Cameron served as writer-in-residence at two universities in Nova Scotia as well as at

2312-412: The Halifax Typographical Union used social media to draw light to typographical and factual errors that plagued the paper since the strike began, and alleged that these quality issues were a result of using inexperienced " scab " staff. In addition, the union and others lambasted the strikebreakers for questionable journalistic practices. The use of strikebreakers is banned in many countries, but Quebec

2380-615: The Sunday edition was discontinued as a cost-cutting measure and the Saturday paper was renamed Weekend . Still, in 2013, Sarah Dennis stated that the newspaper was profitable and that readership was at an all-time high. In September 2014, weekday circulation was estimated at 70,000, with the weekend edition selling 72,000. On-line subscriptions totaled 1,862. In October 2014, the Herald issued layoff notices to 20 newsroom employees. In February 2015,

2448-632: The Terrio daughters, Marie Louise "Lulu" Terrio, had gone to Denmark the year before he moved to the village to study biochemistry at the University of Copenhagen . She became an ardent sailor in Denmark, married a Dane and gave birth to a son named Mark Patrick. When her marriage ended, she moved back to D'Escousse with her son and, "nervous as a schoolboy," Cameron asked her to help him sail his schooner to Louisbourg , Cape Breton in 1979. He writes that he fell "hopelessly in love with her" when she asked him to take

2516-430: The book for its even-handedness, but suggested Cameron got too bogged down in the official account of the strike and could have used more lively anecdotes to entertain his readers. However, more than 30 years after its publication, The Education of Everett Richardson attained the rank of 47th in a volume listing Atlantic Canada's 100 Greatest Books . Authors Trevor Adams and Stephen Clare write: "Cameron takes readers to

2584-501: The book had previously appeared in three Canadian magazines, Maclean's , Saturday Night and The Mysterious East . Everett Richardson was one of 235 trawlermen from the tiny ports of Canso , Mulgrave and Petit de Grat who fought for better pay, safer working conditions, job security and most of all, for the right to belong to the union they had chosen, the United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union led by Homer Stevens,

2652-595: The cable TV mogul Charles Keating . Keating died in 2005. In 2007 Argyle Developments Ltd. purchased the property from his estate. The Chronicle Herald moved in 2008 to one of the buildings on the ex- Maritime Life campus in Armdale . The former Herald buildings were demolished and the site was redeveloped as the Nova Centre , which houses the Halifax Convention Centre . In October 2008, The Chronicle Herald

2720-402: The death of his father, senator William Henry Dennis , who in turn had succeeded senator William Dennis in running the paper. He led the newspaper for the next half century. Dennis was proud of the paper's independence and rebuffed numerous offers to buy it. He was known as a humanistic employer interested in the welfare of his employees, stating that his proudest moment was the introduction of

2788-406: The end," Cameron writes, "this is not a story of the fishermen, or even of the labour movement. It is a story about privilege and poverty and injustice in this country, and about the social and political arrangements which cheat and oppress most Canadians, which stunt our humanity and distort our environment." After a seven-month strike and many more months of struggle, the fishermen eventually lost

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2856-444: The left-leaning, monthly magazine published a wide variety of articles and editorials on issues in Canada's Maritime Provinces , including everything from pollution, housing and censorship to birth control, drugs and the problems of native peoples. In 1971, Cameron took a leave of absence from UNB and moved to D'Escousse, a village on Isle Madame , a small island off the southeastern coast of Cape Breton. He wanted to write, he missed

2924-419: The multitudes of other Camerons. Folk-singer Tom Gallant suggested the name because Cameron's head of prematurely grey hair was his most striking feature.) Cameron settled in D'Escousse after buying a house he describes as "composed of two tiny ancient buildings pushed together to make one comfortable home." He adds that the house was "spang on the roadside, the floor plan was awkward, and it was half-renovated in

2992-489: The newspaper in protest, stating in her farewell column that "The story lays bare the worst of the worst xenophobia in our city and our province. It lacks all proportion. Balance eludes it, start to finish." On 13 April 2017, Transcontinental announced that it had sold all of its newspapers in Atlantic Canada to SaltWire Network , a newly formed parent company of the Herald . The Halifax Typographical Union called

3060-427: The online edition. Controversy surrounding an article published 8 April 2016 online (appearing in print on 9 April) made national headlines. The story alleged that Syrian refugee children attending Chebucto Heights Elementary School were "choking, pushing, slapping and verbally abusing their fellow classmates". The paper was widely condemned as the story was unverified, having been based on a sole anonymous source, and

3128-519: The paper quickly became one of Halifax's main newspapers. The same company also owned the Evening Mail , which was published in the afternoon. Its main competitors were the Chronicle in the morning, and the Star in the afternoon. By 1949 the papers had merged to become The Chronicle-Herald and Mail-Star respectively. Graham W. Dennis took over as publisher of the newspaper in 1954, at age 26, after

3196-402: The paper. Lever took over as president and CEO in 2012. Though the newspaper is profitable, Dennis and Lever have aggressively cut costs in recent years. Dennis holds a "far less romantic view of the newspaper" than her father did, a characteristic that journalist Stephen Kimber said has made cost-cutting easy. Dennis stated: "It's a business, and you have to run it like a business. The history

3264-458: The provisions of the province's Trade Union Act, to force mediation between the union and the Herald management from 4 August 2017. A union spokesperson called the move "long overdue" while the Herald ' s chief operating officer called the announcement "puzzling". The dispute finally ended in August 2017 when the union voted to ratify a new eight-year deal. The agreement included an increase in

3332-471: The purchase evidence that the Herald ' s claim of impending financial collapse was a "total fabrication". The president of CWA Canada also weighed in, stating of the ongoing labour dispute: "This has never been about money. It has been about power and union busting." On 13 July 2017, the Department of Labour and Advanced Education announced that it was setting up an Industrial Inquiry Commission, under

3400-455: The result of a decline in advertising due to the distress of the current economic situation . Sarah Dennis, daughter of owner Graham Dennis and vice-president since the 1990s, took over as CEO of the newspaper in November 2010. She married Mark Lever in August 2011. Graham Dennis, who ran the newspaper for more than 57 years, died on December 1, 2011, at the age of 84. Sarah Dennis inherited

3468-445: The right to be represented by their chosen union. However, Cameron points out that they did win collective bargaining rights for fishermen in Nova Scotia breaking centuries-old rules that prohibited them from joining unions. The strike also brought better pay and working conditions. Cameron concludes that the fishermen were both "collective heroes and martyrs, who lost the battle for themselves but won it for their brothers." He adds that

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3536-438: The salt and feel the warmth of those country kitchens and hear the intoxicating song of the fiddle ... There are moonshiners and poets in this book, fishermen and ghosts, Buddhist monks and singing coal miners, cock-fighters and priests. There's also a pretty good recipe for moonshine you could try if you're willing to risk $ 500 in fines and maybe six months in jail." His writing and journalism earned him numerous awards including

3604-415: The school board had investigated the allegations and had come up empty-handed. In the face of public outcry the newspaper tweaked the article online, removing some details before deleting it from the Herald website altogether on Monday morning. The paper published an editor's note that admitted the story "needed more work". In the wake of the controversy award-winning non-union columnist Lezlie Lowe quit

3672-402: The sea and his first marriage had ended. He arrived in Cape Breton, a divorced father of three sons and a daughter. As he told a journalist 20 years later, "Dr. Donald Cameron left his university office, drove to the village of D'Escousse, stepped into a phone booth and emerged as the award-winning author and playwright Silver Donald Cameron." (He added the name "Silver" to set himself apart from

3740-518: The sea. He was the author of a young adult novel and a thriller , both set in Nova Scotia where he lived for more than 40 years. Two of his books, The Education of Everett Richardson (1977 and 2019) and The Living Beach (1998), are included in Atlantic Canada's 100 Greatest Books . Cameron's only stage play, The Prophet at Tantramar , was about Leon Trotsky 's month-long confinement in

3808-450: The single The Chronicle Herald . In January 2004, The Chronicle Herald became the first newspaper in Canada, and one of only several in the world, to operate a WIFAG offset press. This development led to an increased use of colour, and changes in font and styling. In 2002 the historic Herald headquarters on Argyle Street was listed for sale for $ 15 million and sold by the Dennis family to

3876-464: The strike's seminal moments, giving them a real sense of the people on both sides of the conflict, and showing a keen understanding of this pivotal moment in Canadian labour history." They add that "through the lens of Atlantic Canadian history, or the labour movement, or the history of the fisheries, this is an important book. Yet few books on those subjects stand as large as The Education of Everett Richardson . That's because this book's ultimate strength

3944-446: The striking fishermen "changed the law, changed conditions on the boats, and left the see-saw of power balanced a little more evenly." Shortly after the book was published, it received a hostile review in The Globe and Mail . Critic Patrick O'Flaherty complained that the book contributed to a Canadian literary atmosphere that "continues to stink of parlor radical sanctimoniousness." Two years later, critic Michael Greenstein praised

4012-747: The techniques of creative nonfiction blending facts, observations, quotes, dialogue, anecdotes and stories. On a cold day in July, for example, Cameron accompanies Fred Lawrence as he hauls his lobster traps between Money Point and Bay St. Lawrence on the northern tip of Cape Breton Island. The six-page account includes detailed descriptions of how fishermen retrieve, empty and bait their traps, how they determine which lobsters they can legally keep and how they band lobster foreclaws with "a thick, fat elastic" before dropping them into "a bin filled with circulating sea water." The episode contains information on lobster biology including mating and feeding habits as well as what

4080-559: The tiller, vomited over the side, "wiped her mouth, climbed back to the afterdeck and reached for the tiller." They were married in May 1980 in D'Escousse and 10 years later sailed around Cape Breton Island in Silversark , a voyage recounted in Wind, Whales and Whisky . Lulu Terrio-Cameron died of breast cancer in April 1996. "We had 16 years of blissful happiness", Cameron told a journalist adding "it

4148-432: The trays. "At that temperature", Cameron notes, "lobsters do not eat, grow or moult, but they retain their weight, their texture and their taste, drawing only on the nutrients in their blood." He adds that Risley began airlifting his steady supply of lobsters to cities all over the world transforming his company from its beginnings "as a single roadside lobster stand" into "a corporate empire". The information about lobsters

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4216-455: The union pointed out instances of the "scab Herald " reprinting press releases nearly verbatim. Of the quality of the newspaper during the strike, Bousquet wrote: "Without the professional journalists, the paper is crap [...] The Herald has zero credibility. And the complete abandonment of any journalistic standards is showing in spades." Alex Boutilier of the Toronto Star spoke out after

4284-420: The union, and later on the striking staff launched a competing online newspaper called Local Xpress . By September 2016, the number of striking workers was down to 56 as some had sought new employment for financial reasons. The union criticized the Herald for spending more than $ 400,000 on security (as at September 2016) while demanding cuts in the newsroom, and stated that the real intention of management

4352-402: The work week from 35 to 37.5 hours, the dismissal of 26 union staff (with 25 returning to the newspaper and one moving to Cape Breton), and wage cuts. The Chronicle Herald has seen like most Canadian daily newspapers a decline in circulation . Its total circulation dropped by 15 percent to 91,490 copies daily from 2009 to 2015. The Chronicle Herald is the highest circulation newspaper in

4420-540: Was named one of " Canada's Top 100 Employers " by Mediacorp Canada Inc., and was featured in Maclean's newsmagazine. On February 3, 2009, the paper laid off 24 employees, the first layoffs in the paper's 136-year history. The cuts represented approximately one quarter of its newsroom staff, but it nonetheless remained the largest newsroom east of Montreal. These cuts impacted the production department where nine employees were laid off. The company stated that these layoffs were

4488-544: Was the kind of marriage that every day I felt myself filled with wonder that I had such a person to share my life with. Every day I said a little prayer of thanks." In 1998, at the age of 59, Cameron married the award-winning writer and journalist Marjorie Simmins . They had met four years earlier when she interviewed him in Vancouver for a profile in the University of British Columbia's alumni magazine. In her 2014 book of essays, Coastal Lives , Simmins describes their lengthy courtship and their life together in Nova Scotia after

4556-434: Was to bust the union . The typographical union also accused Sarah Dennis of hiring private investigators to tail and intimidate picketers. In September 2016 the Herald announced that it was shutting down the Cape Breton Star due to "a prevailing headwind of union sympathy in industrial Cape Breton". The union agreed to wage cuts and increased working hours equating to an hourly pay decrease of 17 per cent, layoffs of

4624-538: Was written with a highly sensational tone that alleged acts of "brutality" by children as young as five. It was published anonymously, lacking any byline , and was picked up by right-wing media abroad to bolster anti-refugee sentiment. The superintendent of the Halifax Regional School Board , Elwin LeRoux, stated that he was "deeply offended to see the school represented so inaccurately". LeRoux stated that

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