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What Good is Designating Land as Protected if it's Just Given Away?
To see a community that has given so much of itself divided and hurt by this process is heartbreaking. The strength of Mabou has always been in the way people show up for each other, and this development threatens that unity.
Oct 22
Provincial Parks are Sad Enough
"As a student, outdoor third spaces free from admission fees mean the world to me, as some place I can go without having to spend what little money I have."
Oct 22
When is a Park not a Park?
If you can "de park," then what is the point of naming parks in the first place?
Oct 22
Bad Actors
How can you know if your interests are being represented if the processes of government take place behind a veil of secrecy? Transparency is a fundamental principle of democracy and it is absolutely imperative that the public be kept informed.
Oct 22
Where Does Cabot Get the Right?
In 2023, when our MLA, Allan MacMaster, asked for a list of names and chemicals and the amount used at Cabot, the response was: "No, we do not need to answer that question." Freedom of Information and the Environment and Climate Change had no file on Cabot Links.
Oct 22
Iconoclast
Something to believe in,
A safe harbour.
A channel out of the rough seas.
Oct 21
NDP and Opposition Leader Claudia Chender Meets with Inverness County Residents Concerned about a possible golf course at West Mabou Provincial Park
About 65 area residents met with Provincial Opposition Leader Claudia Chender about the proposed golf course at West Mabou Beach Provincial Park
Oct 21
Chender visits Mabou to hear concerns over golf course
Claudia Chender, leader of the opposition, met local residents in Mabou to hear their concerns about Cabot’s desire to build a golf course in the West Mabou Beach provincial Park on Monday afternoon.
Oct 21
“It’s all about securing Nova Scotia’s unique natural assets – now and for the future.”
"I have a greater understanding of why Mr. Dewar has not bought his own land and an even deeper conviction that West Mabou Beach Provincial Park must remain whole and for the people."
Oct 21
Opposition grows to proposed golf course on West Mabou Beach Provincial Park
“If this government can destroy a protected provincial park by handing it over to billionaire golf developers who are too cheap to buy private land, then anywhere in Nova Scotia is up for grabs,” Beaton said. “The only special interest groups here are corporate ones who are in it for themselves.”
Oct 21
Nova Scotia's NDP leader hears out Cape Breton residents troubled by golf course talk for West Mabou Beach Provincial Park
“If a golf course is such a lucrative project, then buy land (elsewhere),” Claudia Chender said following a community chat at the Mabou Gaelic and Historical Society. “There’s lots of private land where you could build a very beautiful course in Inverness County.”
Oct 21
"Holding Sand" for West Mabou Beach Provincial Park 🎼
Original song, "Holding Sand" is a poignant tribute to West Mabou Beach Provincial Park
Oct 20
Tim Houston and his yes-men are yesterday’s men, gearing up for an assault on the environment, and those who would protect it
Houston and his yesterday men seem intent on stripping away all manner of protections of the environment, biodiversity, water, and public lands, moving backwards as fast as they can to turn Nova Scotia into Canada’s Corporate Playground, where extractive industries and big money can pretty much do what they want.
Oct 19
Hey, Cabot, leave our parks alone.
How is it that unnamed representatives of Cabot Cape Breton have any standing to tell our elected government to give them our provincial park?
Oct 19
Mainstreet NS: Concerned Resident on CBC Radio
Concerned resident, Sivan Hobden, speaks to Jeff Douglas on CBC Radio about the campaign to save West Mabou Beach Provincial Park.
Oct 17
COMMENTARY: Does Premier Houston even get Cape Breton?
"Sure, he may show up at some Celtic Colours events, but does Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston understand and appreciate the cultural history and ethos of Cape Breton?"
Oct 14
Bruce MacKinnon: Potential West Mabou Beach golf course has its obstacles
Editorial Cartoon by Bruce MacKinnon titled "Potential West Mabou Beach golf course has its obstacles"
Oct 14
Poetry Corner: Arrival
Poetry inspired by West Mabou Beach Provincial Park
Oct 14
Here we go again
"Our provincial government should have the courage to make it absolutely clear that turning any part of the West Mabou Beach Provincial Park into a golf course is not open for discussion: the West Mabou Beach Provincial Park shall remain a park for all to enjoy."
Oct 14
Is a Memory Charm Behind Houston and Rushton's Cabot Golf Mania?
Minister of Natural Resources Tory Rushton appears to have been subjected to a powerful memory charm which has left him blithely unaware that - just two years ago, in 2023 - he assured us that West Mabou Beach Provincial Park was safe from golf.
Oct 13
