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A aerial view of a quarry in a area of green forests. The quarry has gravel roads around a large open pit. There are trucks and trailers on the site. A river can been seen winding its way through the forest in the background.
Posted inNatural Resources

Mount Uniacke residents organize, submit comments as quarry owners apply for expansion

A woman with fair skin, chin length auburn hair, and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater. by Suzanne Rent September 29, 2023September 29, 2023

Northumberland Capital Corporation Inc. wants to expand its current four-hectare quarry to 40 hectares.

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Fishing boats tied up in the harbour on a foggy day reflect on calm, glass-like green and white water.
Posted inClimate

Report charts course for how Nova Scotia’s lobster fleet can switch from diesel to electric motors

A smiling white woman with wavy dark blonde hair and bangs, wearing a green top and a sweater with burgundy and white flecks. Behind her you can see dark trees. by Yvette d'Entremont September 22, 2023September 22, 2023
A sign in a field with information on a Forest Herbicide Project.
Posted inForestry

At behest of industry group, province un-published maps identifying Glyphosate spraying locations

A smiling fair skinned woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson September 20, 2023September 20, 2023
A woman with silver hair examines a hemlock seedling with a magnifying glass.
Posted inMorning File

In the Quiet and the Dark: New documentary on the people trying to save eastern hemlocks from total devastation

A smiling man with fair skin tone, a dark short beard, and dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt. by Philip Moscovitch September 19, 2023September 19, 2023
A green forested point of land juts out into blue water.
Posted inMining

Newly created Archibald Lake Wilderness Area kills Cochrane Hill gold mine proposal

by Tim Bousquet August 28, 2023August 28, 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.
Posted inMining

St Barbara withdraws environmental assessments for Nova Scotia gold mines

A woman with fair skin, chin length auburn hair, and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater. by Suzanne Rent August 15, 2023August 28, 2023
A small stream travelling through a culvert.
Posted inFishery

Officials failed to drain Lake Pisiquid in time to prevent flooding in downtown Windsor

by Tim Bousquet July 22, 2023July 22, 2023
A white man with grey hair and a beard, wearing a dark grey shirt, speaks in a hallway with doors behind him.
Posted inEnvironment

Nova Scotia Supreme Court justice dismisses fisher’s bid to reopen Avon River aboiteau

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford July 19, 2023July 27, 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.
Posted inBusiness 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”

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter July 16, 2023August 15, 2023
Five people stand next to piles of fishing rope and other trash that was gathered into piles near a shoreline.
Posted inFishery

Cleaning up ‘ghost gear’: Nova Scotians help address global issue

A woman with fair skin, chin length auburn hair, and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater. by Suzanne Rent July 15, 2023July 15, 2023

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A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents
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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.


Tractors bulldoze trees as American money rains from the sky.
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.


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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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Mount Uniacke residents organize, submit comments as quarry owners apply for expansion

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by Zane Woodford September 28, 2023September 28, 2023

NDP wants Nova Scotia municipalities to tax developers who leave lots empty

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