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This aerial photo of Atlantic Gold's Touquoy open pit gold mine in Moose River shows the giant crater where the gold is mined, and the large tailings pond on the edge of Scraggy Lake. Photo is contributed.

Commentary, Environment, Mining

Canadian regulators giving Australia’s St Barbara what it wants

by Joan Baxter August 18, 2022January 9, 2023

This aerial photo of Atlantic Gold's Touquoy open pit gold mine in Moose River shows the giant crater where the gold is mined, and the large tailings pond on the edge of Scraggy Lake. Photo is contributed.

Nova Scotia Environment minister approved Signal Gold’s open pit mine at Goldboro despite concerns and criticisms from scientists in his own department

by Joan Baxter August 10, 2022November 6, 2022

This aerial shot shows the vast tailings facility at the Touquoy open pit gold mine in Nova Scotia. Photo: Simon Ryder-Burbidge

Commentary, Environment, Mining, Province House

Atlantic Gold’s parent company hints it may halt its Nova Scotia operation

by Joan Baxter June 25, 2022January 9, 2023

An aerial view of an open pit mine

Mining, Province House

Nova Scotia has a draft list of ‘critical minerals’ and gold is not on it

by Joan Baxter June 1, 2022January 9, 2023

An advisory sign that warns about high levels of arsenic, in front of a body of water

Port Wallace Gamble: the real estate boom meets Nova Scotia’s toxic mine legacy

by Joan Baxter April 13, 2022November 22, 2022

A gold tailings site

Public paying the price to clean up old gold mines

by Joan Baxter March 23, 2022November 22, 2022

A white sign for Atlantic Gold Touquoys Gold Project.

Up close and privileged: Nova Scotia’s “One Window” process gives mining execs seats at the table in the halls of power

by Joan Baxter March 19, 2022November 22, 2022

A shea tree growing in a arid landscape under a bright blue sky.

Anaconda Mining joins the gold rush on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore

by Joan Baxter February 13, 2022November 22, 2022

An aerial view in spring 2021 of the Touquoy open pit gold mine with the waste rock piles in the forefront, tailings facility to the left and the deep open pit behind that. Photo: contributed

Atlantic Gold sentenced to $250,000 fines and penalties after pleading guilty to federal and provincial environmental charges

by Joan Baxter February 11, 2022November 22, 2022

The deep crater of the open pit at the Touquoy gold mine shows roads spiralling down to the creater bottom. Photo contributed.

Anaconda joins the gold rush on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore

by Joan Baxter February 11, 2022January 29, 2023

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

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.

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

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.