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Northern Pulp Mill during a shutdown in October 2019, viewed from across the lake.

The “weird” legal mechanism being used by Northern Pulp in its $450 million lawsuit against Nova Scotia

by Joan Baxter June 11, 2022January 3, 2023

This is the second of a two-part story examining how the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act is being employed in a lawsuit seeking $450 million from the province of Nova Scotia. Read Part 1 here. Three months before Mountain Equipment Co-op went to the British Columbia Supreme Court for creditor protection in 2020, Northern Pulp – […]

Sign at entrance to Northern Pulp mill saying Welcome to Our Mill.

Commentary, Environment, Province House

Northern Pulp says it is ‘insolvent’ and can’t pay its pension obligations, but it’s got plenty of cash to bankroll legal assaults on Nova Scotia’s government and laws

by Joan Baxter April 20, 2022October 20, 2022

A selection of illustrations and photos from the internet with famous women and the quote "Well behaved women rarely make history."

Morning File

Well-behaved women are rarely quoted properly

by Philip Moscovitch April 5, 2022January 30, 2023

Commentary

Northern Pulp and its wealthy owners seem intent on taking Nova Scotians to the cleaners

by Joan Baxter April 4, 2022October 20, 2022

The "Northern Pulp Nova Scotia Corporation, A Paper Excellence Company" sign.

Commentary, Environment

Northern Pulp has a new set of “friends”

by Joan Baxter March 9, 2022October 20, 2022

Commentary, Environment

Woo and sue: Northern Pulp’s strategy in Nova Scotia

by Joan Baxter October 31, 2021October 20, 2022

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

Environment

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

by Joan Baxter October 20, 2021November 22, 2022

Environment

What are Paper Excellence’s real plans for Northern Pulp?

by Joan Baxter July 21, 2021November 22, 2022

Smokestacks emitting large clouds of steam and smoke into a dark blue sky.

Environment, Province House

The province issues tough new orders to Northern Pulp

by Joan Baxter January 31, 2020October 20, 2022

The aeration pond at Boat Harbour, a body of water with scum on it.

Environment

“The province has in effect decided that it is not going to fully enforce the Boat Harbour Act”

by Jennifer Henderson and Joan Baxter January 21, 2020November 15, 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.

Tag: Boat Harbour Act

The “weird” legal mechanism being used by Northern Pulp in its $450 million lawsuit against Nova Scotia

Northern Pulp says it is ‘insolvent’ and can’t pay its pension obligations, but it’s got plenty of cash to bankroll legal assaults on Nova Scotia’s government and laws

Well-behaved women are rarely quoted properly

Northern Pulp and its wealthy owners seem intent on taking Nova Scotians to the cleaners

Northern Pulp has a new set of “friends”

Woo and sue: Northern Pulp’s strategy in Nova Scotia

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

What are Paper Excellence’s real plans for Northern Pulp?

The province issues tough new orders to Northern Pulp

“The province has in effect decided that it is not going to fully enforce the Boat Harbour Act”

Unions ask Nova Scotians to join day of action for striking Pete’s Frootique workers

Rick Perkins, natural health product champion

CN Railway files lawsuit to stop protesters from setting up blockades in Nova Scotia

Portrait project in Truro to honour Black women educators, church organist

Nova Scotia’s economy was and is deeply entwined with slavery