Profile of Gary Kean

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Gary has 20 years of experience covering Corner Brook and western Newfoundland for The Western Star. You can follow Gary on Twitter at All articles of Gary Kean

• Coyote largely misunderstood: expert
  That’s because the coyote found its way to the island all on its own — much like humans once did — and were not deliberately introduced by ...
• CBPP's new general manager has experience turning...
  “If you don’t get your arm ripped off, you’re good to go,” joked Ric Tull, whose first day at the Corner Brook (Newfoundland & Labrador) mill ...
• Cuts unnecessary: union
  A dozen of the 50 members from Local 1567 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers were called into the human ...
• Corner Brook mill softens planned cuts
  Communications, Energy and Papeworkers Union national representative Gary Healey told the media after today's (Jan. 24) morning meeting at the ...
• Loggers still have access to subsidy
  The money announced by the Department of Natural Resources was made available to the Northern Peninsula Forest Resources Association and the ...
• Bennett urges government response to loggers
  The Northern Peninsula Loggers Association, in partnership with the Nordic Economic Development Corporation,
• Visit from Kruger boss not a bad omen for mill:...
  Kruger, chief executive officer of the family owned company established by his grandfather in 1904, was in Deer Lake to meet with mill ...
• Mill makes short work of tall trees felled by hurricane
  When the howling winds were finished blowing through the graveyard the first weekend of September last year, it left 68 of the behemoth trees ...
• That’s a fine cup of conk
  Voitk moved to western Newfoundland from Hillsburgh, Ont., in 2010 after a downturn in the automotive industry forced him to give up the car ...
• Mill confident it can handle tire-derived fuel
  In recent coverage of the paper mill’s proposal to burn shredded tire material in a test trial, some of the plan’s critics have said the mill ...
• Protest against tire-burning plan set for Saturday
  She is not willing to stand idly by and allow even the slightest level of contaminants to be introduced to the air they breathe. That’s why ...
• Paper mill still considering burning tires as energy...
  It has been five years since the paper mill in Corner Brook first proposed the idea of having tires shredded at a facility outside of the ...
• Bugged by the weather; Spray program could use...
  [Corner Brook, NL]—The weather has not been co-operative, but the provincial (Newfoundland & Labrador) insect control program is hoping to ...
• Mill will likely pay fine for 2007 spill
  Corner Brook Pulp and Paper has changed its plea to guilty and will find out June 30 how much an accidental spill of a caustic soda solution in ...