• Sign In
  • My Account
    • Receipts
  • All Categories
  • FAQ
  • Subscribe
  • Donate
  • Facebook Page
  • Twitter Username
  • About Us
    • Commenting policy
    • Terms and Conditions
  • Contact Us
  • Sign In
  • All Categories
  • Arts and Culture
    • Local History
    • Profiles
  • Black Nova Scotia
  • Commentary
  • Economy
    • Business and Development
    • Energy
    • Immigration
    • Labour
    • Natural Resources
    • Utilities
  • Education
  • Environment
    • Climate
    • Recycling and Waste Management
  • Equity and Equality
    • Accessibility
    • Families and Childcare
    • Poverty
    • Racism
  • Government
    • City Hall
    • Elections
    • Province House
  • Health
    • COVID
  • Housing
    • PRICED OUT
  • Indigenous Nova Scotia
  • Investigation
  • Journalism
  • Justice
    • Crime and Courts
    • Incarceration in Nova Scotia
  • Mass Casualty Commission
  • Mass Murders 2020
  • Morning File
  • Podcasts
  • Policing
  • Transportation
  • Women
  • How to…
  • Archives
  • About Us
    • Commenting policy
    • Terms and Conditions
  • Contact Us
  • Sign In
  • All Categories
  • Arts and Culture
    • Local History
    • Profiles
  • Black Nova Scotia
  • Commentary
  • Economy
    • Business and Development
    • Energy
    • Immigration
    • Labour
    • Natural Resources
    • Utilities
  • Education
  • Environment
    • Climate
    • Recycling and Waste Management
  • Equity and Equality
    • Accessibility
    • Families and Childcare
    • Poverty
    • Racism
  • Government
    • City Hall
    • Elections
    • Province House
  • Health
    • COVID
  • Housing
    • PRICED OUT
  • Indigenous Nova Scotia
  • Investigation
  • Journalism
  • Justice
    • Crime and Courts
    • Incarceration in Nova Scotia
  • Mass Casualty Commission
  • Mass Murders 2020
  • Morning File
  • Podcasts
  • Policing
  • Transportation
  • Women
  • How to…
  • Archives
Skip to content
Halifax Examiner

Halifax Examiner

An independent, adversarial news site in Halifax, NS

  • Sign In
  • My Account
    • Receipts
  • All Categories
  • FAQ
  • Subscribe
  • Donate
Home » Economy » Page 2

Category: Economy

A rainbow appears to come out of the roof of a two-storey brick building.
Posted inMorning File

Michelin receives $105.6 million public subsidy

by Tim Bousquet March 15, 2023March 15, 2023
muddy ground with enormous tread marks from tree harvesting and small pools of water all the way to the grey horizon with just one tiny clump of trees in the far distance
Posted inInvestigation

Deforestation Inc: Nova Scotia opts for forest certification scheme critics call ‘greenwashing’

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter March 14, 2023March 14, 2023
A white woman with glasses and wearing a black hat, dark navy winter vest over a grey sweater and grey pants stands on a snowy lot near an old barn with grey shingles. The barn has a red-rust coloured wooden door.
Posted inProfiles

Nina Newington: Taking direct action to protect Nova Scotia’s forests

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent March 13, 2023March 14, 2023
EverWind Fuels website shows the words "Renewable Energy Solutions CLEAN ENERGY FOR A BETTER FUTURE" over an aerial view of the Point Tupper industrial site where it plans to build a green hydrogen and ammonia plant.
Posted inMorning File

A New York Times report casts doubt on the viability of ‘green hydrogen’ export schemes like that approved in Nova Scotia

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson March 13, 2023March 13, 2023
An architectural rendering shows a tall tower on a sunny day, with birds in the sky, and people milling about on the streets of downtown Dartmouth.
Posted inCity Hall

26-storey tower proposed as addition to former Dartmouth post office

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford March 13, 2023March 13, 2023
This black and white photo by Gerry Farrell shows the massive amount of air emissions that look like white clouds billowing from smokestacks at the Northern Pulp mill a few years ago, before the mill was closed and went into hibernation.
Posted inInvestigation

Deforestation Inc: Paper Excellence’s rapid expansion in Canada is a ‘fibre grab’ to feed mills in China, say critics

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter March 10, 2023March 10, 2023
A red chainsaw cuts into a stump with the words "Deforestation Inc" on it.
Posted inInvestigation

Deforestation Inc: Are Paper Excellence and Asia Pulp & Paper linked companies? They say they aren’t. Here’s what we’ve learned

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter March 9, 2023March 28, 2023
Two Amazon delivery boxes against a dark background.
Posted inMorning File

Amazon HQ2 and always wishing for the big thing that will save us

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch March 7, 2023March 7, 2023
A green mao of a part of Nova Scotia with the title Species at Risk at Goldsmith Lake. The map shows locations of frosted glass whisker, blue felt, wisqoq, as well as details locations that are harvest blocks or protected by old growth policy
Posted inClimate, Forestry, Province House

Halt to logging at Goldsmith Lake a ‘huge relief’, say citizen scientists

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent March 7, 2023March 14, 2023
A woman walks by a collapsed building on a snowy day.
Posted inCity Hall

Collapsed Halifax heritage building leaves holes in streetscape and big development plans

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford March 7, 2023March 14, 2023

Posts navigation

Newer posts 1 2 3 4 … 86 Older posts
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.

LATEST NEWS

Nova Scotia basic income conference to focus on housing, poverty, income assistance issues

by Suzanne Rent March 29, 2023March 29, 2023

Swamped with offers in just days, listing for historic Acadian church taken off the market

by Suzanne Rent and Jennifer Henderson March 28, 2023March 28, 2023

Planning for national urban park at Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes moves to next stage

by Zane Woodford March 28, 2023March 28, 2023

PCs reject move to tighten language in Bill 256 to protect patients from poorly trained or unethical health care providers

by Jennifer Henderson March 28, 2023March 28, 2023

Nova Scotia wants to hire Black high school students through summer mentorship program

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter March 27, 2023March 27, 2023
  • Facebook Page
  • Twitter Username

CONTACT US

Halifax Examiner
PO Box 463
Stn. Central Halifax, NS
B3J 2P8

QCJO # Q9427428
HST # 81281 0638 RT0001

ABOUT US

  • Who we are
  • Commenting policy
  • Terms and Conditions

MY ACCOUNT

My profile, orders,
subscription,
payment details,
and receipts

SUBSCRIBE

DONATE

EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS

ARCHIVE

Canada wordmark and flag

Matthew Byard's reporting is funded by the Government of Canada

© 2023 All information and images on this site copyright Halifax Examiner, except where otherwise noted. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic