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DeSmog On July 6, 2013, a train hauling crude oil from North Dakota’s Bakken region derailed in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, resulting in fires and explosions that killed 47 people and wiped out a large part of the small Canadian town’s center. At the time I was living in Albany, New York, which had become a major distribution point for Bakken oil delivered to the Port of Albany in mile-long trains like the one that devastated Lac-Mégantic. In the six months following the deadly disaster, sev...

As the Arctics only ceramic arts studio, Matchbox Gallery is changing our ideas of Northern art Studio founders Jim and Sue Shirley have spent 30 years helping to foster a thriving creative scene in Kangiqliniq, Nunavut. Social Sharing Jim and Sue Shirley have spent 30 years helping to foster a thriving creative scene in Kangiqliniq, Nunavut Posted: Dec 10, 2020 12:00 PM ET | Last Updated: December 10, 2020 "Facing Forward" by Pierre Aupilardjuk and Shary Boyle.(Photo by M.N. Hutchinson) "Facin...

Posted: Dec 12, 2020 3:26 PM ET | Last Updated: December 12, 2020 Audrey Martin of Mambo Concept, a salon in Lac-Mégantic, is one of several businesspeople who decided to doff their clothes as part of a recent buy-local ad campaign.(Courtesy of Claude Grenier/Numéra) When you work as a manicurist and nail stylist in a small town, you get used to having all manner of conversations — this one was both simple and extremely complicated. The voice on the other end of Audrey Martins phone ...