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

by Joan Baxter March 1, 2023March 20, 2023

A man with a chain saw spewing dollars, standing in front of logs.

‘Deforestation Inc.’: the Halifax Examiner goes international

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.

Environment, Mining

As Touquoy mine operation closes, company celebrates

by Joan Baxter February 14, 2023February 21, 2023

A jug of milk sits on a store shelf, with the price tag beneath.

Agriculture and Farming

Milk prices sour on consumers

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

Nova Scotia moves forward with ‘plantation’ forestry plan

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.

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.

St Barbara is shedding its Nova Scotia gold mine, leaving a litany of environmental concerns

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.

The international cement corporation Lafarge funded the terrorist state ISIS

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

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

by Joan Baxter December 29, 2022January 3, 2023

The Brooklyn Biomass plant belching smoke

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

by Jennifer Henderson December 20, 2022December 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.