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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

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
Bright blue sky over a clearcut area in Port Wallace in July 2022, with logs and brush lying on the ground and one remaining tree in the middle of the cleared area that will become Clayton Developments' "Parks of Lake Charles." Photo contributed.
Posted inProvince House

Port Wallace development steamrolls ahead over concerns about poisoning of Barry’s Run and Lake Charles

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter November 4, 2022November 9, 2022
The sign at the main entrance to the Northern Pulp mill in Pictou County identifies it as a Paper Excellence company. Photo Joan baxter
Posted inProvince House

British Columbia Supreme Court grants Northern Pulp six-month creditor protection extension; Nova Scotia takes no position

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter October 31, 2022November 9, 2022
This black and white photo by Gerry Farrell shows the massive amount of air emissions that look like white clouds billowing from smokestacks at the Northern Pulp mill a few years ago, before the mill was closed and went into hibernation.
Posted inCommentary

Northern Pulp wants another six month delay in B.C. court and forced mediation with Nova Scotia

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter October 31, 2022November 9, 2022

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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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