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Posted inProvince House

Owls Head gets provincial park designation

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent June 14, 2022January 9, 2023

Owls Head is officially Nova Scotia’s newest provincial park. In a news release on Tuesday, the province announced protection of 266 hectares of Crown lands at Owls Head in Little Harbour. “The designation of this land as a provincial park is a clear indication of our promise to protect more land in Nova Scotia,” said […]

Looking down the length of Ash Lake on a beautiful late Spring day in the Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness Area in Halifax.
Posted inCity Hall, Environment

Halifax signs agreement with Ottawa toward national park at Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford August 5, 2021October 20, 2022
Looking down the length of Ash Lake on a beautiful late Spring day in the Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness Area in Halifax.
Posted inCity Hall

Council rejects staff recommendation, agrees to $750,000 for Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes land purchase

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford July 21, 2020October 20, 2022
The Fox Lake Viewpoint in the Blue Mountain-Birch Cove wilderness area on a bright summer day.
Posted inCity Hall, Environment

Halifax council wants a park plan for Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford June 10, 2020October 20, 2022
Posted inBusiness and Development

A community rallies to save Owls Head

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent February 4, 2020November 5, 2022
A black and white photo of two men on top of the walls of some historic fort walls.
Posted inLocal History

Unearthing the city’s buried history

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent January 27, 2020November 5, 2022
Posted inCity Hall, Environment

Budget cut has environmentalists worried Halifax is forgetting about Blue Mountain–Birch Cove Lakes

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford January 7, 2020October 20, 2022
A map of Owls Head Provincial Park, filled in in green.
Posted inProvince House

Who’s protecting Owls Head park from development? Not the provincial government

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent December 18, 2019November 5, 2022
A black and white image of two men in nineteen seventies attire, speaking at what appears to be a press conference. On the left, there is a Black man in his forties, and on the right a white man of around the same age. The title "Rev. Lucius Walker community organizer" is superimposed across the photo.
Posted inUncategorized

Gnawing away at the vitals of this community, since 1970

by Erica Butler January 18, 2019October 20, 2022
Posted inCity Hall, Commentary, Environment

Six steps for making the Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness Park a reality

by Chris_Miller January 31, 2017October 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.


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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