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Search Results for: "port wallace gamble"

Port Wallace Gamble: the real estate boom meets Nova Scotia’s toxic mine legacy

Part 4. The provincial government has taken over control of the Port Wallace 'special planning area' to fast-track development, but what about toxic tailings in Barry’s Run and other risks to the area?

April 13, 2022 By Joan Baxter 2 Comments

In March 2020, the Halifax Examiner published the award-winning series, “Port Wallace Gamble: the real estate boom meets Nova Scotia’s toxic mine legacy.” The three articles (available here, here and here) looked at Clayton Developments’ proposed new and massive subdivision for Port Wallace in Dartmouth, and serious concerns about the mercury and arsenic contamination from […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Environment, Featured, Politics, Province House Tagged With: affordable housing, Allison Clark, arsenic, Barry's Run, Brynn Budden, City of Lakes, Clayton Developments, climate change, contaminated sites, Dartmouth, Deborah Bayer, Department of Environment and Climate Change, Department of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Department of Natural Resources and Renewables, Doug Skinner, Executive Panel on Housing in HRM, Forest Hills Extension, gold mining, Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), health risk assessment, Highway 118, history mine tailings, housing, human health risk assessment, Ikea, John Lohr, Joshua Kurek, Krista Higdon, Lake Charles, Lake Mic Mac, Lake Williams, mercury, Mic Mac Mall, Michael Parsons, mine tailings, Mitchell's Brook, Montague gold mines, Mount Allison University, Nova Scotia Lands, Port Wallace, Port Wallace Holdings, Sam Austin, Shannon Park, Shaw Group, Southdalte Mount Hope special planning area, special planning area, The Parks of Port Wallace, Tim Houston, Tony Mancini, Tracy Barron, traffic congestion, Waverley Road

Port Wallace Gamble: the real estate boom meets Nova Scotia’s toxic mine legacy

Part 3: Cleaning up the historic tailings from Montague Gold Mines – Does Port Wallace development hang in the balance?

March 3, 2020 By Joan Baxter 1 Comment

This is the third and final article in a series about the toxic legacy from historic gold mines in Nova Scotia, which its citizens will be paying many millions of dollars to try to clean up, and how the contamination at just one of these sites — Montague Gold Mines in HRM — is affecting […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Environment, Featured, Investigation, News, Province House

Port Wallace Gamble: the real estate boom meets Nova Scotia’s toxic mine legacy

Part 2: the suburb proposed to be built in the shadow of Montague Gold Mines 

March 2, 2020 By Joan Baxter 5 Comments

This is a story about the toxic legacy from historic gold mines in Nova Scotia, which its citizens will be paying many millions of dollars to try to clean up, and how the contamination at just one of these sites — Montague Mines in HRM — is still affecting us today.  This, the second in […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Environment, Featured, Investigation, News, Province House Tagged With: AECOM, Barry's Run, Blue Chip, Brian Palmer, CAO Jacques Dubé, Clayton Developments, councillor Shawn Cleary, councillor Tony Mancini, Doug Skinner, Frank Whebby Limited, gold mining, Lake Charles, Lake Loon, Marina Hamilton, mine tailings, Mitchell Brook, Montague Mines, Paul Morgan, Port Wallace, Richard Butts, Shaw Group, Shubenacadie Lakes, Shubie Park, toxic tailings from historic gold mines, w. Eric Whebby Limited, watersheds

Port Wallace Gamble: the real estate boom meets Nova Scotia’s toxic mine legacy

Part 1: The making of a toxic mess and the uncalculated costs of previous gold rushes.

March 1, 2020 By Joan Baxter 4 Comments

This is Part 1 of a three-part story about the toxic legacy from historic gold mines in Nova Scotia, which its citizens will be paying many millions of dollars to try to clean up, and how the contamination at just one of these sites — Montague Mines in HRM — is still affecting lives today, […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Environment, Featured, Investigation, News, Province House Tagged With: Alexander Heatherington, arsenic from mining, Atlantic Gold, Barry's Run, Canadian Extractive Industries Transparency Measures Act (ESTMA), Clayton Developments, Cochrane Hill gold mine, Damas Touquoy, Department of Energy and Mines (DEM), Department of Lands and Forestry (DLF), Francis Paul, gold mining, gold mining pollution, Goldenville, James Paul, John Drage, John Hartlen, John Pulsiver, Kerry Rowe, Lake Charles, Lake Loon, Linda Campbell, Lisa Jarrett, mercury, Michael Parsons, mine tailings, Mining Association of Nova Scotia (MANS), Mitchell Brook, Montague Mines, Moose River gold mine, Nova Scotia Auditor General Michael Pickup, Nova Scotia Lands, Paul Paul, Raymond Plourde, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, St. Barbara Limited, Touquoy mine

Royal flush: the monarchy’s role in reconciliation and Canada today

Morning File, Thursday, May 19, 2022

May 19, 2022 By Ethan Lycan-Lang 6 Comments

News 1. Halifax CAO Jacques Dubé to resign Halifax’s highest paid employee will be stepping down at year’s end. As Zane Woodford reports, Jacques Dubé, Halifax Regional Municipality’s chief administrative officer for nearly six years, will resign at the end of 2022. The news was shared in a release from the HRM. “Since September 2016, […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Coun. Waye Mason, Cst. John MacLeod, Globe and Mail, Halifax Regional Police, homelessness, HRM, John Doyle, monarchy, P.A.D.S. Community Network, Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth II, Royal Family, Sally Rooney, Starr Park, Vicky Levack

There’s no meaning in mass murder

Morning File, Monday, May 16, 2022

May 16, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

News 1. Mass murders This morning, we published another article related to the proceedings of the Mass Casualty Commission, headlined “Tech issues bedevilled the RCMP response to the mass murders of 2020.” In this article: • Did the killer listen in on the RCMP’s unencrypted radio calls? • Emergency Response Team had no GPS capability • […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health, Morning File Tagged With: Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program (AIPP), Barbara Adams, Continuing Care Assistants (CCA), Health Association of Nova Scotia (HANS), Immigration, Janet Simm, Jennifer Henderson, Katherine VanBuskirk, long term care (LTC), Mary Lee, Murray Stenton, Northwood, Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC), Shannex

Weekend File

All the articles we published from April 11 to 14, 2022.

April 16, 2022 By Suzanne Rent Leave a Comment

Welcome to Weekend File, where you’ll find links to all the articles you might have missed last week. Jump to sections in this article: Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday   Monday, April 11 1. Northern Pulp is in a polluting league of its own Joan Baxter reported on a new study that shows the mill’s emissions […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Weekend File Apr 16 2022

“My body, my choice” except if you have a uterus

Morning File, Thursday, April 14, 2022

April 14, 2022 By Suzanne Rent 3 Comments

News 1. Critics says PC Nova Scotia Power bill doesn’t have any teeth Jennifer Henderson was at the Standing Committee on Law Amendments yesterday where advocates had plenty to say about the Houston government’s Bill 147, which they say is poorly drafted and has no teeth to help low-income Nova Scotians or keep Nova Scotia […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health, Morning File, Women

Province moves to speed up development approvals for 22,600 housing units in Halifax, but none of them are guaranteed affordable

March 25, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

Housing Minister John Lohr has designated nine “special planning areas” in the Halifax Regional Municipality, with the potential for a total of 22,600 residential units. This designation gives Lohr the authority for development approvals in those areas. The special planning areas are: former Penhorn Mall lands, 950 units Southdale/Mount Hope, 1,200 units Bedford West 10, […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, PRICED OUT Tagged With: affordable housing

Public paying the price to clean up old gold mines

Anaconda Mining says the province indemnified it from any liabilities associated with the toxic historic tailings in Goldboro, and plans to mine around them, while Nova Scotians pay to clean them up.

March 23, 2022 By Joan Baxter 1 Comment

  The gold rush in Upper Seal Harbour near Goldboro began with the discovery of gold in 1892 by a fellow named Howard Richardson. For the next 65 years, gold miners dug rock out of the earth in what was known as the “Richardson Belt” on the banks of Gold Brook Lake in Guysborough County. […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Province House Tagged With: Anaconda Mining, arsenic, CBC, Dartmouth, Department of Natural Resources and Renewables (DNRR), Department of Public Works, Eastern Shore, Gold Brook, Gold Brook Lake, gold mining, Goldboro, Goldenville, Guysborough County, historic mines, Howard Richardson, indemnification, Kevin Bullock, Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), Lower Seal Harbour gold district, mercury, Michael Gorman, Mike Parsons, mine remediation, mine tailings, Montague gold mines, Municipality of the District of Guysborough, Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change (NSECC), Nova Scotia Lands, Orex Exploration, Pieridae Energy, SEDAR, Sherbrooke, Upper Seal Harbour gold mining district

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PRICED OUT

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents
PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

You can learn about the project, including how we’re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on the PRICED OUT homepage.

2020 mass murders

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.

Updated regularly.

Uncover: Dead Wrong

In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

A blonde woman and a white man with a dark beard, both wearing pajama bottoms and either a red or a pink bra, have a pillow fight on a bed.

Episode 84 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

After a year’s worth of singles and videos, the Halifax duo is finally releasing its first recorded project in the form of FLUTTER, a six-song genre-agnostic EP that’s deeply personal and incredibly catchy. Art Ross and Aaron Green return to the show a year later to dish on their music-industry immersion, why Ross’ sapphic lyrics strike all kinds of chords, and where you can see them this summer.

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