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Category: Fishery

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

Oceans North director says 2,300 lobster boats in the province could use electric motors, cutting fleet’s emissions by more than 60%.

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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
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
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.
Posted inFishery

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

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter June 28, 2023July 27, 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.
Posted inFishery

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

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter June 27, 2023July 27, 2023
A lake along a highway with a big rig with a blue cab driving along. There's a cell phone tower in the background.
Posted inProvince House

Minister Lohr takes heat for emergency order to open Avon River aboiteau, overriding DFO order

A smiling fair skinned woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer.Avatar photo by Jennifer Henderson and Joan Baxter June 15, 2023June 23, 2023
Lots of dead fish.
Posted inFires, Fishery, Province House

EMO Minister John Lohr said he ordered the Avon River aboiteau closed after a request from the Windsor Fire Department. But Fire Chief Jamie Juteau says he never made that request.

by Tim Bousquet June 13, 2023June 20, 2023
brown Bay of Fundy water up against the closed aboiteau in the causeway across the Avon River in Windsor, NS
Posted inFishery

Province issues emergency order to close Windsor aboiteau

A smiling fair skinned woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson June 2, 2023June 2, 2023
Floating tidal generator in the bay. Sustainable Marine Energy Canada tidal generator
Posted inEnergy, Fishery, Technology

DFO offered tidal developer one-year lease for Minas Basin site

A smiling fair skinned woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson May 18, 2023May 25, 2023

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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.


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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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