Aaron Beswick

6 days ago | saltwire.com | Aaron Beswick

Advertisement 1  •  Article contentMore so than the power, it’s the life that got hold of Erica Porter. “Gaspereau, shad, tom cod, eels, mackerel, rainbow smelt, flounder, sea ravens, sculpins, striped bass … what am I missing? There’s more,” said Porter. “It’s not just muddy water, it’s full of life.”Porter’s education in what moves below the Minas Basin’s surface began early.

1 week ago | saltwire.com | Aaron Beswick

Advertisement 1  •   •  Article contentWhat’s worse than having the personal information of 280,000 Nova Scotian individuals and businesses released on the dark web? What if the hackers of Nova Scotia Power had instead shut off all our electricity in March? “Picture a power utility as a building with four walls,” said David Shipley, chief executive officer of New Brunswick-based Beauceron Security.

1 week ago | saltwire.com | Aaron Beswick

Advertisement 1  •   •  Article contentErnst Shuegraf worries that the sky is falling. That the Lord and Saviour, as depicted by ‘Canada’s Michelangelo,’ will come crashing down to the floor of Saint Ninian’s Cathedral. “I have worries,” said the chair of the committee responsible for the cathedral’s walls and ceiling. If you smirk at this, hopefully you’re not under a 19th-century lath and plaster ceiling.

2 weeks ago | saltwire.com | Aaron Beswick

Advertisement 1  •   •  Article contentXavi Ildefonso was living up to his side of the deal Tuesday morning. He was sanding off the edges on the tiny and seemingly impossibly intricate titanium latticework cylinders 3D-printed by PhD candidate Melissa Trask. They’ll be used by medical researchers to help someone’s jawbone regrow after surgery.

2 weeks ago | saltwire.com | Aaron Beswick

Advertisement 1  •  Article contentFisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) has not received new direction from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government on how to respond to unlicensed fishing. At the Maritime Region Lobster Advisory Committee meeting in Bedford on Wednesday, DFO’s area director of conservation and protection, Noel d’Entremont, told fishery representatives that nothing new has come from Ottawa.