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Home » Economy » Natural Resources » Mining » Page 10

Category: Mining

Posted inMorning File

Is executive fraud behind the bankruptcy of VistaCare Communications?

by Tim Bousquet July 9, 2019July 19, 2023
The Grafton Street Glory Hole entrance to the convention centre and hotel.
Posted inMorning File

The convention centre property tax bill for this year alone is $3.6 million more than expected

by Tim Bousquet June 25, 2019July 19, 2023
Historic mining sites at Montague in Dartmouth have been closed to the public because of high arsenic in the tailings from more than 150 years ago. Two signs in French and English warn the public about high levels of arsenic nearby.
Posted inMining

After the gold rush

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter June 25, 2019November 15, 2022
Halifax Police Headquarters sign.
Posted inMorning File

The Halifax police department has a crisis of legitimacy 

by Tim Bousquet June 17, 2019July 12, 2023
Posted inMorning File

The problem with meritocracy: it destroys our humanity

by Tim Bousquet June 12, 2019July 12, 2023
Glen Assoun, a white man in his sixties with thick glasses and short hair, looks calmly into the camera.
Posted inMorning File

Halifax police try to intervene in the Glen Assoun document case

by Tim Bousquet June 6, 2019July 12, 2023
The street sign for Cornwallis Street, with two bids sitting on it.
Posted inMorning File

Here’s your chance to speak on the Cornwallis issue

by Tim Bousquet June 3, 2019July 11, 2023
"NOPE" or no to open pit excavation sign on the St. Mary's Salmon Museum.
Posted inMining

St. Barbara still intends to acquire Atlantic Gold

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter June 3, 2019November 15, 2022
Posted inMorning File

Stephen McNeil held a scripted PR event and the compliant media played along

by Tim Bousquet May 31, 2019July 11, 2023
Former Premier Stephen McNeil flanked by reporters at a media scrum
Posted inProvince House

McNeil government: if John Perkins doesn’t like being wrestled to the floor at a public meeting, he can file a complaint

A smiling fair skinned woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson May 31, 2019December 7, 2022

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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.


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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