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Action Against Canso Spaceport sign in Canso. White sign with words "WE SAY NO!" in red letters over "to the CANSO SPACEPORT" in green and black lettering.

Opposition to Canso spaceport grows

by Joan Baxter August 5, 2019November 15, 2022

I hadn’t even made it into Canso when I happened upon the first person willing and eager to speak her mind on the proposed spaceport that Maritime Launch Services wants to construct in the picturesque community at the very end of Highway 16, an area that boasts spectacular coastline, one ocean-side provincial park and another […]

Lobster boat with a Mi'kmaq flag moving through the waters of Pictou Harbour with the Northern Pulp mill in the background, and white plumes coming from the mill stacks into a grey sky.

Environment, Investigation, Province House

Northern Pulp Mill’s missing environmental data

by Joan Baxter July 8, 2019October 20, 2022

Man by Shubenacadie River at the Alton Gas site, with Mi'kmaq and Warrior flags.

Morning File

Water, water everywhere

by Philip Moscovitch April 11, 2019December 29, 2022

Environment, Province House

Boat Harbour cleanup to be subjected to environmental review

by Jennifer Henderson April 11, 2019October 20, 2022

The tailings facility at the Touquoy gold mine. A series of covered pools sit in the middle of a snow covered landscape.

Province House

Spill at Moose River gold mine raises environmental concerns

by Joan Baxter March 15, 2019November 10, 2022

An image of where the treated Northern Pulp wastewater currently flows from Boat Harbour into the Northumberland Strait, just a few hundred metres from Pictou Landing First Nation.

Commentary, Environment, Investigation, Province House

Northern Pulp’s environmental documents: missing mercury, a pulp mill that never was, and oodles of contradictions

by Joan Baxter March 5, 2019November 5, 2022

A protest sign sayin "nope no open pit excavation" placed above tourism wayfinding signs for the Salmon Museum.

Environment

Friends of St. Mary’s River say “NOPE” to Atlantic Gold

by Joan Baxter January 25, 2019November 10, 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.

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Opposition to Canso spaceport grows

Northern Pulp Mill’s missing environmental data

Water, water everywhere

Boat Harbour cleanup to be subjected to environmental review

Spill at Moose River gold mine raises environmental concerns

Northern Pulp’s environmental documents: missing mercury, a pulp mill that never was, and oodles of contradictions

Friends of St. Mary’s River say “NOPE” to Atlantic Gold

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