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Author Archives: Joan Baxter

Joan Baxter is an award-winning Nova Scotian journalist and author of seven books, including "The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest." Website: www.joanbaxter.ca; Twitter @joan_baxter

Sign for Northern Pulp Nova Scotia Corporation A Paper Excellence Company. Photo: Joan baxter
Posted inCommentary

Canada’s Competition Commissioner okays merger that will reduce competition in Canada’s pulp and paper sector

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter December 29, 2022January 3, 2023
This aerial view of the Point Tupper site shows a rendering of EverWind's project facilities in phase one and phase two (imagine contributed by 3D Wave)
Posted inCommentary

Where will all the ‘green energy’ come from for EverWind Fuels’ ‘green hydrogen’ project?

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter December 15, 2022January 13, 2023
Aerial view of Moose River open pit gold mine showing deep pit with turquoise water in the bottom and gravel roads spiralling down into it, flat silvery surface of the tailings facility in the background as well as the massive waste rock storage pile with forested area and Moose River in the foreground. Photo by Raymond Plourde/ Ecology Action Centre
Posted inMining

Shake-up at Australian mining firm St Barbara will have big reverberations in Nova Scotia

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter December 12, 2022January 2, 2023
A white bucket truck with a man in an orange outfit in the bucket is braced on a dirt road that is blocked with downed trees by Post Tropical Storm Fiona.
Posted inCommentary

Nova Scotia’s climate risk assessment misses the present emergency

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter December 5, 2022December 7, 2022
Drone shot of a 2018 Westfor clearcut on crown land. Lake Rossignol can be seen on the top right.
Posted inForestry

Enviro groups call Sustainable Forestry Initiative ‘greenwashing’

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter December 5, 2022January 5, 2023
aerial view of a wooded area with a mix of green conifers and leafless hardwoods divided by a broad dirt road with a light cover of snow
Posted inForestry

‘Citizen scientists’ call on Houston to freeze all logging around Goldsmith Lake in Annapolis County 

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter November 25, 2022December 22, 2022
an almost deserted street in downtown Amherst, with just a few cars parked on the roadside in the distance and what looks like mostly empty storefronts except for one Deli in the foreground on the left, with a green and white banner on the antique-style lamppost that says "Live Work Play"
Posted inBusiness and Development, Government, Local News

‘Monopolies killed my hometown’: an interview with anti-monopoly advocate Andrew Cameron about the decline of Amherst, Nova Scotia

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter November 17, 2022December 19, 2022
Green Hydrogen International website pages on the "Spirit of Scotia" project in Nova Scotia shows a blue ocean vista with large wind turbines somewhere in the world, with the words "Positioning Nova Scotia as a global leader in green hydrogen production" in white letters on a black background.
Posted inClimate

‘Green’ hydrogen industry takes aim at Nova Scotia’s underground salt deposits

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter November 15, 2022November 30, 2022
An aerial shot of the open pit of the St Barbara Ltd Touquoy gold mine in Moose River, the pit has dark green water in its base and trucks have been taking waste rock into the deep pit.
Posted inEnvironment

Critics ‘extremely concerned’ as St Barbara changes gold mine proposal at Fifteen Mile Stream from one open pit to four

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter November 10, 2022November 30, 2022
A white billboard with red and blue lettering surrounded by trees and shrubs, that reads "Welcome to our mill. This is our time. We have the right product. We have the right owner and the right people!"
Posted inInvestigation

The curious case of ‘Red Roof Events’

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter November 7, 2022November 30, 2022

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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.

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