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Category: Investigation

Lobster boat with a Mi'kmaq flag moving through the waters of Pictou Harbour with the Northern Pulp mill in the background, and white plumes coming from the mill stacks into a grey sky.
Posted inEnvironment, Investigation, Province House

Northern Pulp Mill’s missing environmental data

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter July 8, 2019October 20, 2022
A photo of Glen Assoun, a white man in his fifties, in a suit and tie.
Posted inInvestigation

UPDATED: Supreme Court Justice James Chipman rules for media group in Assoun document case

by Tim Bousquet July 2, 2019July 19, 2023
Historic mining sites at Montague in Dartmouth have been closed to the public because of high arsenic in the tailings from more than 150 years ago. Two signs in French and English warn the public about high levels of arsenic nearby.
Posted inMining

After the gold rush

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter June 25, 2019November 15, 2022
A sign for SIRT, the Serious Incident Response Team
Posted inInvestigation

Raped twice by the same cop

by Maggie Rahr June 13, 2019October 20, 2022
"NOPE" or no to open pit excavation sign on the St. Mary's Salmon Museum.
Posted inMining

St. Barbara still intends to acquire Atlantic Gold

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter June 3, 2019November 15, 2022
Posted inInvestigation

The Innovation Hub of Nova Scotia: the “biomass” company you’ve probably never heard of

A smiling fair skinned woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson June 3, 2019December 7, 2022
Posted inMining

The $722 million deal

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter May 17, 2019November 10, 2022
Recent drone shot of a clearcut located between Kejimkujik National Park and Lake Rossignol.
Posted inCommentary, Environment, Investigation, Province House

Truth Be Told: Nova Scotia’s forest department hires a PR firm with forest industry ties to help it with transparency

by Linda Pannozzo May 10, 2019October 20, 2022
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 inEnvironment, Investigation, Province House

Forest Confidential

by Linda Pannozzo April 13, 2019October 20, 2022
Posted inEnvironment

Nova Scotia has a mercury problem

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter April 9, 2019November 10, 2022

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A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents
Credit: Halifax Examiner. All rights reserved.

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.


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


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.

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