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Anti-fracking parade float in Tatamagouche in 2011. It is brightly painted and features a giant tap with fire coming out.

PCs put fracking back on the agenda

by Joan Baxter April 24, 2019November 10, 2022

The tailings facility at the Touquoy gold mine. A series of covered pools sit in the middle of a snow covered landscape.

Spill at Moose River gold mine raises environmental concerns

by Joan Baxter March 15, 2019November 10, 2022

A map of Nova Scotia from a former website of Atlantic Gold, before it as acquired by St Barbara in 2019, showing the locations of the four gold projects in eastern Nova Scotia, at Touquoy in Moose River, Fifteen Mile Stream, Beaver Dam and Cochrane Hill on the banks of the St. Mary's River near Sherbrooke.

Like blood from a stone: trying to get information out of the Department of Energy and Mines

by Joan Baxter February 7, 2019November 10, 2022

A protest sign sayin "nope no open pit excavation" placed above tourism wayfinding signs for the Salmon Museum.

Friends of St. Mary’s River say “NOPE” to Atlantic Gold

by Joan Baxter January 25, 2019November 10, 2022

Shambhala leader sexually assaulted a Chilean woman, published account alleges

by Tim Bousquet and Joan Baxter July 12, 2018November 10, 2022

Fool’s Gold

by Joan Baxter June 13, 2018November 16, 2022

Fool’s Gold

by Joan Baxter May 30, 2018November 10, 2022

Fool’s gold

by Joan Baxter May 23, 2018November 18, 2022

Fool’s Gold

by Joan Baxter May 16, 2018November 18, 2022

Carbon Deal: Nova Scotia’s coal plants will stay open until 2050

by Jennifer Henderson December 1, 2016November 29, 2022

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.