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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!"
Posted inEnvironment

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

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter December 17, 2021November 22, 2022

Northern Pulp is claiming that the changes it’s proposing for its 54-year-old pulp mill in Pictou County will make it “best in class.” Even the blurb that appears on the Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change page for the “mill transformation and effluent treatment facility project” includes the phrase “best in class.” And although Northern […]

Posted inCommentary, Environment

Why isn’t Northern Pulp using the wastewater treatment plant next door at Canso Chemicals? Is mercury an issue?

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter November 5, 2021October 20, 2022
Northern Pulp Mill during a shutdown in October 2019, viewed from across the lake.
Posted inEnvironment

Wastewater from Northern Pulp’s hibernating paper mill is being discharged into the Bay of Fundy

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter September 7, 2021November 22, 2022
Posted inEnvironment, Province House

Boat Harbour cleanup to be subjected to environmental review

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson April 11, 2019October 20, 2022
Posted inEnvironment

Nova Scotia has a mercury problem

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter April 9, 2019November 10, 2022
An image of stacked lumber cuts, with the edges facing out.
Posted inCommentary, Environment, Investigation, Province House

Pulp Culture

by Linda Pannozzo March 12, 2019October 20, 2022
Map from the 2000 Dillon report on Canso Chemical decommissioning showing the site location.
Posted inCommentary, Environment, Investigation, Province House

The Canso Chemicals mystery: With the chemical plant long gone, why is the company still alive? And what about all that mercury pollution?

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter March 7, 2019October 20, 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.


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.


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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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