Michael Tutton

Reporter with The Canadian Press

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HMCS Montreal departs Halifax for a six-month deployment on a NATO mission in the Mediterranean on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022. Photo by: The Canadian Press/Andrew Vaughan

Trudeau fears Russia will invade Ukraine and sends warship to Black Sea

Trudeau went on to accuse Russia of trying to start a fight with Ukraine and promised Canada’s support to the Ukrainian people, who are on edge as 100,000 Russian troops sit on their country’s eastern border.

News | January 19th 2022

Pat Ryan, president of Neocon International, stands above the factory floor in Dartmouth, N.S. on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. File photo by The Canadian Press/Andrew Vaughan

EV parts powering a burst of business for Atlantic Canada firm

Pat Ryan's recent advances into the electric-vehicle parts market are quietly fuelling his factory's expansion at an industrial park on the edge of Halifax, far from Canada's automotive heartland.

Reports from the Race to a Safer World

News, Politics | December 14th 2021

Canada's coastal towns will need help from Ottawa as seas rise

For Darlene Norman, being a municipal leader faced with what the author of a new study sees as Ottawa's piecemeal approach to climate-related flooding feels like drowning in ever-rising seas.

Reports from the Race to a Safer World

News, Politics | December 13th 2021

Monster East Coast storm exposes need to prepare roads for future deluges

"This was a wake-up call, and we're probably going to need a few wake-up calls before we start getting ready for it," Peter MacGillivray said on Wednesday after two culverts on Highway 245 near his home in northern Nova Scotia were taken out by the latest storm.

News | November 26th 2021

Peter Bowyer, the facility manager at AquaBounty Technologies, holds one of the last batch of conventional Atlantic salmon raised at the commercial fish farm in Albany, Ind., on June 19, 2019. File photo by The Associated Press/Michael Conroy

GMO salmon 'available for sale, in P.E.I. but might not be on store shelves yet

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says genetically modified salmon produced in Prince Edward Island is "available for sale" in Canada, but when and where consumers can purchase the food remains unclear.

State Of The Animal

News | October 14th 2021

Beth MacLean, the woman at the centre of a human rights case dealing with persons with disabilities and their attempts to move out of institutions, testifies at the inquiry in Halifax on Mar. 6, 2018. File photo by The Canadian Press/Darren Calabrese

Nova Scotia court rules there is systemic discrimination against people with disabilities

Nova Scotia's highest court has concluded there is systemic discrimination in the province against people with disabilities who are seeking services and housing in the community.

News | October 7th 2021

Halifax Regional Police Chief Dan Kinsella receives applause after addressing the audience as the force deals with historic complaints of racial profiling in Halifax on Friday, Nov. 29, 2019. File photo by The Canadian Press/Andrew Vaughan

RCMP will not apologize to Black community in Halifax for excessive street checks

The RCMP says there will be no formal apology to Halifax's Black communities for its heavy use of street checks, despite the Halifax regional police having done so almost two years ago.

News, Politics

Newly elected NDP MLAs Suzy Hansen and Lisa Lachance along with N.S. NDP Leader Gary Burrill attend a protest after the city removed tents and small shelters for homeless people in Halifax on Aug. 18, 2021. Photo by The Canadian Press/Andrew Vaughan

N.S. legislature increases Black, female presence, but there is still no Indigenous member

The representation of Black and female members has risen notably in Nova Scotia's legislature following on Tuesday's, August 17, 2021, provincial election, but no one who identifies as Indigenous was elected in the vote — or at any point in the province's history.

News, Politics | August 20th 2021

N.S. Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Houston addresses supporters after winning a majority government in the provincial election at the Pictou County Wellness Centre in New Glasgow, N.S., on Aug. 17, 2021. Photo by The Canadian Press/Andrew Vaughan

N.S. Tories win majority with campaign focused on health

Nova Scotia's Progressive Conservatives surged to an upset election win on Tuesday, August 17, 2021, over the governing Liberals after capitalizing on their main opponent's early stumbles and promising a big-spending fix to the troubled health system.

News, Politics | August 18th 2021

First Nation chief detained by fisheries officers in N.S. after launching fishery

Chief Mike Sack says he was pulled over and arrested by fisheries officers shortly after he held a news conference at the Saulnierville Wharf, in southwestern Nova Scotia.

News | August 16th 2021