Joan Baxter

Northern Pulp wants author Joan Baxter and her latest book placed squarely on the Christmas naughty list. Baxter was looking forward to signing copies …on Saturday afternoon. But the event was cancelled after an apparent attempt by the company that runs the Abercrombie Point Mill in Pictou County to scuttle the book-signing. …“I was very upset, I won’t hide that,” Baxter said of the cancellation. “This is Nova Scotia, Canada, in 2017. …they said they were worried about my safety. . . . They said the bookstore staff were really uncomfortable with it.” Baxter said the explanations for the …cancellation were vague. “Disruptions, protests, ‘somebody might destroy the book.’ I wanted to know what had led to the cancellation. I said if there had been threats serious enough to warrant the cancellation of the book-signing, then I felt they should have been given to the police.”