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Category: Natural Resources

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

Deforestation Inc: How an email from China triggered an international investigative journalism project

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter March 1, 2023March 20, 2023
A man with a chain saw spewing dollars, standing in front of logs.
Posted inMorning File

‘Deforestation Inc.’: the Halifax Examiner goes international

A smiling white woman with long straight dark blonde hair and bangs, with half her face in dramatic shadow by Tim Bousquet and Yvette d'Entremont March 1, 2023March 1, 2023
A table setting with glasses, silverware, white coffee mugs, and salt and pepper shakers. The centrepiece on the table shows a placemat map to look like an open pit mine with layers of rock. On top there are three yellow toy trucks and bulldozers, plus a small container of colouful rock candy.
Posted inEnvironment, Mining

As Touquoy mine operation closes, company celebrates

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter February 14, 2023February 21, 2023
A jug of milk sits on a store shelf, with the price tag beneath.
Posted inAgriculture and Farming

Milk prices sour on consumers

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson February 14, 2023February 21, 2023
Red pine is a boreal species widely grown in plantations like this one in northern Nova Scotia. Photo: Joan Baxter
Posted inForestry

Nova Scotia moves forward with ‘plantation’ forestry plan

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson January 18, 2023January 18, 2023
A woman wearing a dark t-shirt and glasses speaks at a podium. In the background are three Nova Scotia flags, coloured blue, yellow and red.
Posted inMorning File

Like the rest of us, Health Minister Michelle Thompson has given up on meaningfully addressing COVID

by Tim Bousquet January 6, 2023January 6, 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 is shedding its Nova Scotia gold mine, leaving a litany of environmental concerns

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter January 4, 2023January 30, 2023
The Lafarge Brookfield cement plant. You can see a grey building, three large grey silos, and a red and white striped smokestack. In front of it is a building with a concrete sign with the word lafarge on it, and a sign attached above that has the number 50 made of the flag designs of the four Atlantic provinces.
Posted inMorning File

The international cement corporation Lafarge funded the terrorist state ISIS

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson December 30, 2022December 30, 2022
Sign for Northern Pulp Nova Scotia Corporation A Paper Excellence Company. Photo: Joan baxter
Posted inCommentary

Canada’s Competition Commissioner okays merger that will reduce competition in Canada’s pulp and paper sector

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter December 29, 2022January 3, 2023
The Brooklyn Biomass plant belching smoke
Posted inForestry

‘A farce, a sick joke’: Nova Scotia amps up burning of biomass for electricity

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson December 20, 2022December 29, 2022

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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.

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