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Category: Climate

An orange and blue sunset over a lake surrounded by trees and rocks.
Posted inEnvironment

Nova Scotia gets 14 new nature reserves, wilderness areas, including area in Sackville

A woman with fair skin, chin length auburn hair, and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater. by Suzanne Rent December 12, 2022December 12, 2022
Posted inMining

Nova Scotia releases a Climate Change Action Plan just days after extending the life of the Donkin coal mine

by Tim Bousquet December 8, 2022December 9, 2022
A white bucket truck with a man in an orange outfit in the bucket is braced on a dirt road that is blocked with downed trees by Post Tropical Storm Fiona.
Posted inCommentary

Nova Scotia’s climate risk assessment misses the present emergency

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter December 5, 2022December 7, 2022
A white car with three men standing behind it.
Posted inEnergy

It’s hard to buy an electric vehicle in Nova Scotia. Here’s why

A smiling fair skinned woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson December 5, 2022December 5, 2022
A large grey building next to a pile of black coal.
Posted inBusiness and Development

Province renews Donkin Mine approval despite long history of safety violations

by Tim Bousquet December 2, 2022December 2, 2022
A man wearing a suite and tie speaks into a microphone.
Posted inCommentary

Provincial politician prevaricates: carbon edition

by Stephen Kimber November 27, 2022November 28, 2022
aerial view of a wooded area with a mix of green conifers and leafless hardwoods divided by a broad dirt road with a light cover of snow
Posted inForestry

‘Citizen scientists’ call on Houston to freeze all logging around Goldsmith Lake in Annapolis County 

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter November 25, 2022December 22, 2022
A red, white, and blue gas pump.
Posted inProvince House

Houston defends decision to cap power rates , says Nova Scotia Power should manage business

A smiling fair skinned woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson November 24, 2022November 24, 2022
A red, white, and blue gas pump showing the prices of gas.
Posted inClimate

Carbon tax coming to Nova Scotia next summer, federal minister ‘baffled’ by Houston’s pleading

A smiling fair skinned woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson November 22, 2022November 22, 2022
A large white two storey Victorian home on a corner lot with solar panels on its roof.
Posted inEnergy

Nova Scotia’s energy-efficiency programs rank among Canada’s best, report finds

A smiling fair skinned woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson November 17, 2022November 17, 2022

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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.


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Credit: Ricardo Weibezahn - ICIJ

DEFORESTATION INC

Reporter Joan Baxter is one of 140 journalists from 39 media outlets across 27 countries working collaboratively on ‘Deforestation Inc,’ a project of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which looked at the ownership structure of Paper Excellence, its relationship with Asia Pulp & Paper, and how the secretive corporate empires are devastating forests in Canada and around the world.

Find all of Baxter’s articles on the Deforestation Inc homepage.


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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.

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Nova Scotia launches review of provincial policing structure

by Zane Woodford September 29, 2023September 29, 2023

Brad Johns once again spins the revolving door of SIRT directorship, but that won’t solve the crisis of legitimacy for the police oversight board

by Tim Bousquet September 29, 2023September 29, 2023

Mount Uniacke residents organize, submit comments as quarry owners apply for expansion

by Suzanne Rent September 29, 2023September 29, 2023

Halifax MP says council can go higher on federal housing application

by Zane Woodford September 28, 2023September 28, 2023

NDP wants Nova Scotia municipalities to tax developers who leave lots empty

by Suzanne Rent September 28, 2023September 28, 2023
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