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The cover of the report, Papering Over Corporate Control, Paper Excellence relationship with Asian Pulp & Paper and the Sinar Mas Group, showing a Paper Excellence-owned Domtar pulp mill against a dark blue sky and behind a body of still water.

Report: Paper Excellence, the owner of Northern Pulp, is part of the corporate group of Asia Pulp & Paper and Sinar Mas. This matters to Nova Scotians.

by Joan Baxter October 24, 2022October 27, 2022

A group of nine photos, including maps, memorials, and locations in the mass shooting

Here’s all the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020

by Tim Bousquet, Jennifer Henderson, Joan Baxter, Yvette d'Entremont, Suzanne Rent, Zane Woodford, Philip Moscovitch, Stephen Kimber, El Jones, Erica Butler, Paul Palango and Chris Murphy April 26, 2022November 3, 2023

A white man in an attic, possibly in a house. The ceiling is lined with plastic. Behind him are wobbly plastic or metal shelves, sparsely stocked with small packages of stuff. You can see a few boxes of stuff on the floor behind him.

Cops seized 11 firearms, hundreds of boxes of ammunition, and more than $130,000 in cash from Frank Eckhardt

by Tim Bousquet January 14, 2022October 20, 2022

A screenshot of Frank Eckhardt and Luis Pazos, taken from an online interview.

Controversial Cape Breton land seller Frank Eckhardt arrested for the second time in just two weeks, this time on a slew of weapons charges

by Joan Baxter December 31, 2021November 22, 2022

A white billboard with red and blue lettering surrounded by trees and shrubs, that reads "Welcome to our mill. This is our time. We have the right product. We have the right owner and the right people!"

Northern Pulp mill plans “best in class” or best in BS?

by Joan Baxter December 17, 2021November 22, 2022

F.E. Properties sign in German offering new settler advice to German speakers in Cape Breton September 2021. Photo: Joan Baxter

Developers are selling off Cape Breton, one subdivision after the other, to German-speaking non-residents. What — if anything — is wrong with that?

by Joan Baxter November 23, 2021November 22, 2022

Andreas Popp and Eva Herman May 2020 Wissensmanufaktur video

Marketing Cape Breton as a “refuge” for “clear thinkers”

by Joan Baxter November 19, 2021October 20, 2022

Gordonstoun: judge to decide if “dead duck” Annapolis council had authority to make land deal benefitting elite private school developer

by Jennifer Henderson November 16, 2021December 21, 2022

Old house with a peaked roof. It is surrounded by temporary fencing. Hanging on the fence is a sign that says Danger, Construction Zone. An orange pylon is on the road in front of the fence.

Residents of Prospect Village got “no warning, and no communication” about upcoming demolition of house

by Philip Moscovitch November 1, 2021January 23, 2023

The sign at the main entrance to the Northern Pulp mill in Pictou County identifies it as a Paper Excellence company. Photo Joan baxter

Northern Pulp is demanding it be given “more than $100 million” from the province

by Joan Baxter October 20, 2021November 22, 2022

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.

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.

To read the entire DEAD WRONG series, and articles on Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction, click here.