PULP MILL PRESSURES STORE TO CANCEL BOOK SIGNING

A Nova Scotia MLA is raising concerns about freedom of speech after a Toronto-based retail chain cancelled a local book signing amid controversy over the book’s portrayal of the Northern Pulp Nova Scotia Corp. pulp mill. Pictou West MLA Karla MacFarlane says cancelling the book signing at the Coles bookstore in New Glasgow, N.S., infringes on freedom of speech. MacFarlane says the mill’s efforts appear to have backfired as she predicts Joan Baxter’s book The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest will likely sell out.