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A person paddles a canoe in the middle of a lake surrounded by trees, rocks, blue sky, and clouds.
Posted inEnvironment

Parks Canada spends $2.1 million on Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes park planning

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford May 23, 2023May 31, 2023
Man with grey hair and mustache, wearing a worn blue baseball cap with a Montreal Canadiens logo, and a grey sweater, standing with his back to a green gate. There is a pile of freshly cut logs down a short dirt road leading into woods.
Posted inForestry

Post-tropical storm Fiona decimated Nova Scotia’s woodlots. These ecological foresters tell us what cleanup should look like.

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter May 16, 2023May 30, 2023
Man with short brown hair and beard, wearing a green zipped hoodie and khaki trousers stands in front of a vertical brown mass of soil and roots that is the upturned root system of a large tree felled by Fiona. Behind him are several more fallen hardwood trees.
Posted inForestry

Post-tropical storm Fiona decimated Nova Scotia’s woodlots. These ecological foresters tell us what cleanup should look like.

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter May 15, 2023May 30, 2023
A satellite view of a fan-shaped dump site.
Posted inProvince House, Recycling and Waste Management

Province won’t order new water study for hazardous waste dump

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson May 8, 2023May 15, 2023
A woman holds a patient's hand.
Posted inHealth, Labour, Province House

Nova Scotia gains more CCAs, but recruiting family doctors still a challenge, committee hears

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson May 3, 2023May 10, 2023
White signboard reading Northern Pulp Nova Scotia Corporation A Paper Excellence Company nestled in a leafy green grove of trees, surrounded and fronted by green hedges and a lawn.
Posted inProvince House

Court grants Northern Pulp 4-month creditor protection extension; company lists big demands for concessions from Nova Scotia

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter May 1, 2023May 29, 2023
Inlet with fishing boats
Posted inBusiness and Development, City Hall, Province House

Commercial zoning concerns dominate Peggy’s Cove land use bylaw meeting

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch April 28, 2023May 5, 2023
Premier Tim Houston is on the telephone. Words on the screen read: "Calling all doctors Premier Tim Houston is picking up the phone to ask doctors to live and work in Nova Scotia. You'll talk to a recruiter within 24 hours and you could get a job offer within 10 days."
Posted inHealth, Province House

If Tim Houston is right, Nova Scotia is recruiting fewer doctors

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson April 28, 2023May 5, 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
Posted inForestry

Northern Pulp wants to burn biomass and sell the energy

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter April 28, 2023May 30, 2023
Two women sit in front of a microphone
Posted inAccessibility, Province House

Disabilty rights groups say historic agreement with Nova Scotia sends ‘powerful message’

A smiling white woman with wavy dark blonde hair and bangs, wearing a green top and a sweater with burgundy and white flecks. Behind her you can see dark trees. by Yvette d'Entremont April 27, 2023May 4, 2023

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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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