Joan Baxter, Author at Halifax Examiner

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Smiling woman wearing a black t-shirt and a pink baseball cap with the name EverWind, sits at a table at the entrance to the community hall, with a wooden floor and Nova Scotia and Canada flags on the wall, welcoming visitors to the open house for a wind farm, with people gathered around posters mounted on stands around the room.

Here’s what we know about EverWind’s proposed wind farm in Colchester County: nothing much

by Joan Baxter August 24, 2023September 26, 2023

Last evening, EverWinds hosted an “open house” in the Earltown Community Centre on Highway 311 halfway between Truro and Tatamagouche, to showcase its proposed 98-megawatt Kmtnuk wind farm with “up to 20 turbines” proposed for Colchester County. The open house featured posters mounted on stands around the hall, outlining the company’s plans for the new […]

four men and one woman lined up at a podium, all smiling. Premier TIm Houston (right), EverWind CEO and founder Trent Vichie (centre), Membertou First Nation Chief Terrance Paul (2nd from left), and other dignitaries at the signing of the MOU with Uniper and E.On. Photo contributed by EverWind

Climate

‘I’m not anti-hydrogen, I’m anti-bullshit’: Why ‘green’ hydrogen is hyped by the oil and gas industry

by Joan Baxter August 9, 2023September 11, 2023

Climate

‘Not smart for Nova Scotia’: looking under the hood of the hydrogen hype

by Joan Baxter August 8, 2023September 11, 2023

White signboard reading Northern Pulp Nova Scotia Corporation A Paper Excellence Company nestled in a leafy green grove of trees, surrounded and fronted by green hedges and a lawn.

Business and Development

Paper Excellence owns the pollution-spewing Northern Pulp Mill, has poisoned a First Nation, isn’t paying $85 million it owes Nova Scotia, and is leaving its pensioners hanging. But it’s been named one of Canada’s “best 50 corporate citizens”

by Joan Baxter July 16, 2023August 15, 2023

Morning File

Policing in Halifax is irreparably broken

by Tim Bousquet and Joan Baxter July 14, 2023July 14, 2023

I woman carrying a sign that reads "I just had sexism"

Morning File

Casual sexism in the workplace: a snapshot

by Tim Bousquet and Joan Baxter July 7, 2023July 7, 2023

Aerial view of a deep open pit at the Moose River gold mine with gravel roads spiralling down to the depths that are filled with turquoise coloured liquid, treed landscape in the foreground, and the grey waste rock hill in the upper right.

Mining

St Barbara sells off its Australian gold mine, but what happens to its mines in Nova Scotia?

by Joan Baxter July 6, 2023August 3, 2023

A sign that says Save the Lake: A better solution exists stands in a lake with low water levels. There are grasses and weeds sticking out of the lake's water and there are trees along the shoreline. In the background is a highway.

Fishery

‘It’s about to erupt into violence’: Hants County at war with itself over Lake Pisiquid

by Joan Baxter June 28, 2023July 27, 2023

Fishery

The great divide: how a tiny dam has created an ugly rift in Hants County, with politicians fanning the flames

by Joan Baxter June 27, 2023July 27, 2023

Against a dark blue background of outer space and about a quarter of planet earth on the right, with Canada and its provinces outlined in what looks like gold light, the words, in white print, "The Globe and Mail presents THE SPACE ECONOMY. What could the commercial space age mean for Canada. Underneath the slide is a note that the presenting sponsor is Maritime Launch.

Commentary

Maritime Launch Services buys itself an hour of PR from The Globe and Mail

by Joan Baxter June 22, 2023June 22, 2023

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents — Credit: Halifax Examiner. All rights reserved.

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.

Credit: Ricardo Weibezahn - ICIJ

DEFORESTATION INC

Reporter Joan Baxter is one of 140 journalists from 39 media outlets across 27 countries working collaboratively on ‘Deforestation Inc,’ a project of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which looked at the ownership structure of Paper Excellence, its relationship with Asia Pulp & Paper, and how the secretive corporate empires are devastating forests in Canada and around the world.

Find all of Baxter’s articles on the Deforestation Inc homepage.

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

2020 MASS MURDERS

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, and served 17 years in prison while maintaining his innocence. In 2019, he was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner’s Tim Bousquet tells Assoun’s story on the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong. Click here to listen to the podcast.

Author Archives: Joan Baxter

Here’s what we know about EverWind’s proposed wind farm in Colchester County: nothing much

‘I’m not anti-hydrogen, I’m anti-bullshit’: Why ‘green’ hydrogen is hyped by the oil and gas industry

‘Not smart for Nova Scotia’: looking under the hood of the hydrogen hype

Paper Excellence owns the pollution-spewing Northern Pulp Mill, has poisoned a First Nation, isn’t paying $85 million it owes Nova Scotia, and is leaving its pensioners hanging. But it’s been named one of Canada’s “best 50 corporate citizens”

Policing in Halifax is irreparably broken

Casual sexism in the workplace: a snapshot

St Barbara sells off its Australian gold mine, but what happens to its mines in Nova Scotia?

‘It’s about to erupt into violence’: Hants County at war with itself over Lake Pisiquid

The great divide: how a tiny dam has created an ugly rift in Hants County, with politicians fanning the flames

Maritime Launch Services buys itself an hour of PR from The Globe and Mail

Nova Scotia, federal government building more than 200 public housing units

Atlantic Gold gives up on another Nova Scotia mine

Councillors in favour of new Bedford library in proposed Mill Cove Ferry Terminal

Halifax councillors ask for report on school evacuation plans in wake of wildfire

Halifax council votes for four units on serviced lots, hopes to satisfy federal housing minister