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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.
Posted inCommentary, Environment, Mining

Canadian regulators giving Australia’s St Barbara what it wants

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter August 18, 2022January 9, 2023

St Barbara Ltd, the Australian company that owns Atlantic Gold / Atlantic Mining NS, which operates the Touquoy open pit gold mine in Moose River and wants to open three more mines on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia, seems to be having a run of extraordinarily good fortune when it comes to decisions by […]

Posted inBusiness and Development, Commentary

A quietly negotiated trade agreement with Indonesia is a bad deal for Canada

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter July 25, 2022January 9, 2023
Northumberland Pulp's sign, a large white sign with the company name and logo, surrounded by landscaping.
Posted inCommentary, Environment, Forestry

An Indonesian company is increasingly controlling Canada’s pulp industry, but regulators seem unwilling to act

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter July 6, 2022January 9, 2023
Posted inGovernment, Province House

Action on climate change too slow, opposition says

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson June 16, 2022January 9, 2023
Posted inProvince House

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

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter June 11, 2022January 3, 2023
A row of nets line the surface of Annapolis Basin near Rattling Beach on a clear blue day.
Posted inEnvironment

Endangered wild salmon at risk from sea lice outbreak at two fish farms in Annapolis Basin

A smiling young white guy with brown hair, in his Halifax Examiner T shirt. by Ethan Lycan-Lang and Leslie Amminson December 1, 2021October 20, 2022
A woman with brown hair and an off-white shirt holds up a bristol-board sign which reads "Housing is a human right!" in capital letters, amongst a group of protesters at the police eviction of a homeless encampment at the former Memorial Library in Halifax, Aug. 18, 2021.
Posted inUncategorized

What does the word crisis even mean anymore?

A smiling young white guy with brown hair, in his Halifax Examiner T shirt. by Ethan Lycan-Lang October 14, 2021October 20, 2022
Posted inEnvironment

Paper Excellence’s very big deal

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter July 26, 2021November 22, 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
Posted inEnvironment

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

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter July 21, 2021November 22, 2022
Posted inFishery

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

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter May 1, 2021November 22, 2022

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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.


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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by Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson March 17, 2023March 17, 2023

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by Joan Baxter March 17, 2023March 17, 2023

Halifax landlord Peppermint Properties using fixed-term leases to clear out units, jack up rents

by Zane Woodford March 16, 2023March 17, 2023
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