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This aerial photo of Atlantic Gold's Touquoy open pit gold mine in Moose River shows the giant crater where the gold is mined, and the large tailings pond on the edge of Scraggy Lake. Photo is contributed.

Nova Scotia is St Barbara’s ‘black cat’

by Joan Baxter September 1, 2022January 9, 2023

Things are looking less than golden for Australia’s St Barbara Ltd, but rather than accept responsibility, board chair Tim Netscher is pointing the finger at First Nations, Canadian regulators, and COVID-19 for the company’s woes. Those woes are not small ones. On Wednesday, St Barbara reported an annual net loss of over $144 million, largely […]

A closeup of a diagram of an algorithm in a book. The algorithm has letters in squares, arranged in circles, with arrows connecting the squares.

Morning File

Breaking out of the algorithmic box

by Philip Moscovitch February 3, 2022January 25, 2023

The Killag River is an important part of the West River Sheet Harbour watershed, important wild Atlantic salmon habitat, and this photo shows the Killag River just a ston's throw downstream from the site of the proposed Beaver Dam open pit gold mine. Photo: SImon Ryder-Burbidge

Mining

“We cannot imagine two locations less suited for extractive projects such as gold mining”

by Joan Baxter December 15, 2021November 22, 2022

An aerial photo showing the Atlantic Gold open pit mine in Moose River on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia.

Mining

Atlantic Gold agrees to a tentative plea deal that would have the company pay $120,000 to the Nova Scotia Salmon Association to atone for breaking environmental rules, but ‘no deal,’ says the Salmon Association

by Joan Baxter October 26, 2021November 22, 2022

Fishery

Sea lice are decimating Atlantic salmon, and climate change is making the situation worse

by Joan Baxter May 1, 2021November 22, 2022

Environment

Small dam, big controversy

by Joan Baxter December 8, 2020November 22, 2022

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents

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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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.

Tag: Atlantic salmon

Nova Scotia is St Barbara’s ‘black cat’

Breaking out of the algorithmic box

“We cannot imagine two locations less suited for extractive projects such as gold mining”

Atlantic Gold agrees to a tentative plea deal that would have the company pay $120,000 to the Nova Scotia Salmon Association to atone for breaking environmental rules, but ‘no deal,’ says the Salmon Association

Sea lice are decimating Atlantic salmon, and climate change is making the situation worse

Small dam, big controversy

My trip to Province House, and why it makes me worry about the future

Opposition, advocates say budget misses the mark on poverty, housing crisis

Acadia student advocating for improved access to mental health care for rural Nova Scotians

AG finds weak cybersecurity at Halifax Water, putting water quality and supply systems at risk

Debra Lucas and Iris Drummond: leading the way in historic Black community of Lucasville