Aaron Beswick

Halifax

Photojournalist and Contributor at The Chronicle Herald

Reporter at SaltWire Network

Articles

Carney's 'grand bargain' for Canadians: New allies, gas for Europe and old debates

1 week ago | saltwire.com | Aaron Beswick

Advertisement 1Here's what Canada and Europe get by signing a joint defence procurement deal • • Article contentPrime Minister Mark Carney is expected to sign on to join Europe’s sweeping rearmament plan when he meets that continent’s leaders at a summit next week in Belgium. A non-European country with a small military and smaller defence industry doesn’t get invited to that table without something to offer. So what does Europe want from Canada? And what does that mean for Nova Scotia?
Despite a hard season, Cape George celebrates with Lobsterpalooza

1 week ago | saltwire.com | Aaron Beswick

Advertisement 1 • • Article contentOn Sunday, Cape George celebrated anyway. Poor prices ($7 a pound for market sized lobster at season’s opening), worse weather and some of the lowest landings in recent memory have plagued the 2025 lobster season for the communities along the peninsula that juts out of Nova Scotia’s north shore to divide the Northumberland Strait from St. Georges Bay. “Bittersweet,” Kim Novak said of the LFA 26a season as it winds down.
N.S. Power hack: The dark web and how your stolen data will be used against you

2 weeks ago | saltwire.com | Aaron Beswick

Advertisement 1 • • Article contentBecause most of us don’t understand the dark web or the world of hacking, David Shipley uses a lot of metaphors. The chief executive officer of New Brunswick-based Beauceron Security compared the impact on the 280,000 Nova Scotia Power customers who had their private data stolen to radiation exposure. “It’s cumulative and it doesn’t go away,” he said Sunday.
The Pictou Bee is telling northern Nova Scotia's stories

2 weeks ago | saltwire.com | Aaron Beswick

Skip to ContentAdvertisement 1 • • Article contentShe finally found them in the pines out front of St. Ninian’s Cathedral. The evening crow migration had been catching Matea Drljepan’s attention since she and her husband moved to Antigonish in 2018. She’d be at the kitchen sink, in the yard or some parking lot and there’d be purposeful shadows crossing the sky, yanking her mind for a moment from all that comes with being a new mother, with a new job in a new town.
Staggering stats: The sizable investigation searching for Jack and Lilly

2 weeks ago | saltwire.com | Aaron Beswick

Advertisement 1 • Article contentThe RCMP are seeking to reassure the public that they’re leaving no stone unturned in the search for Jack and Lilly Sullivan. Four-year-old Jack and six-year-old Lilly were reported missing from their Lansdowne Station, Pictou County home on May 2.
Sipekne'katik drops suit against DFO over moderate-livelihood fishery

2 weeks ago | saltwire.com | Aaron Beswick

Advertisement 1 • Article contentThe Sipekne’katik First Nation band has dropped its lawsuit against the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the attorney general of Canada. The suit alleged that DFO had violated the moderate-livelihood rights of two of its members when it seized their traps set under a self-governed fishery on St. Marys Bay.
Canada's looking to buy new subs and new friends: are they in Europe or Asia?

3 weeks ago | nationalpost.com | Aaron Beswick

Advertisement 1New sub contracts could lead to new alliances, but are manned submarines still relevant military tech? Article contentA French nuclear submarine docking in Halifax in March. Sign In or Create an AccountArticle contentSlick websites, sponsored press junkets to far-flung shipyards and Canadian media outlets given ‘exclusive access’ to executives. Article contentArticle contentThe competition to build Canada’s new submarines is heating up.
Ticks are getting worse in Nova Scotia. Here's what you need to know

3 weeks ago | saltwire.com | Aaron Beswick

Advertisement 1 • • Article contentNicoletta Faraone went walking trails last week in Wolfville and couldn’t find a tick. She was disappointed, which to most of us would seem perplexing. But then the professor of chemistry at Acadia University went for a walk on a trail in New Minas and found 300 in two hours. That made her happy. “I know people find them nasty and they are dangerous, but I find them fascinating,” Faraone said on Thursday.
Canada's looking to buy new subs and new friends: are they in Europe or Asia?

3 weeks ago | saltwire.com | Aaron Beswick

Advertisement 1New sub contracts could lead to new alliances, but are manned submarines relevant military tech? • • Article contentA French nuclear submarine docking in Halifax in March. Slick websites, sponsored press junkets to far-flung shipyards and Canadian media outlets given ‘exclusive access’ to executives. The competition to build Canada’s new submarines is heating up.
Canada's looking to buy new subs and new friends: are they in Europe or Asia?

3 weeks ago | thesudburystar.com | Aaron Beswick

New sub contracts could lead to new alliances, but are manned submarines still relevant military tech? Published Jun 05, 2025 • Last updated 1 day ago • 9 minute readCrew members of the FS Amethyste S605 are seen in front of the sub as it sit’s at a jetty at CFB Shearwater in 2018. Photo by Tim Krochak /The Chronicle HeraldArticle contentA French nuclear submarine docking in Halifax in March. Advertisement 2This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.