HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia MLA is raising freedom-of-speech concerns after a Toronto-based retail chain cancelled a local book signing amid controversy over the book’s portrayal of an area pulp mill. Pictou West MLA Karla MacFarlane says the decision to cancel the Dec. 2 book signing at the Coles bookstore in New Glasgow, N.S., was the “wrong move.”“I feel like freedom of speech has been infringed upon here. Joan Baxter’s book, “The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest,” explores the impact of the Northern Pulp mill near Pictou in northern Nova Scotia. A spokeswoman for Paper Excellence Group, the parent company of Northern Pulp, said the mill’s management wrote a letter objecting to the book signing event. However, she noted book signings were held in Dartmouth and Truro, and that the book is also available on the company’s website.

Source: National Post December 06, 2017 18:22 UTC