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Atlantic Gold is going to court

The St. Barbara Limited company is facing 32 environmental charges, even as more complaints roll in.

January 20, 2021 By Joan Baxter

Just over a month after the construction company contracted by Atlantic Gold to excavate clay for the tailings facility at its open pit gold mine at Moose River assured Krista Gillis of Mooseland that the excavation work wouldn’t cause any more sedimentation in a nearby brook, it has happened again. On Saturday, January 17, Gillis...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Adele Poirier, Atlantic Gold, Atlantic Mining NS Inc, carbon neutral, climate change, climate emergency, Dartmouth Provincial Court, DDV Gold, Dustin O’Leary, Environment Canada, Fifteen Mile Stream mine, Guysborough Journal, heavy rainfall, Kip Keen, Krista Gillis, Lake Charlotte, Moose River Consolidated Project, Moose River gold mine, Nova Scotia Environment (NSE), Rachel Boomer, rainfall records, S&P Global, Scraggy Lake, Seloam Brook, Ship Harbour Long Lake Wilderness Area, St. Barbara Limited, tailings management facility (TMF), Tangier Grand Lake Wilderness Area, Touquoy mine

Lobster: the last, best fishery

Part 2: The new cod?

November 26, 2020 By Linda Pannozzo and Joan Baxter 2 Comments

Lobster stocks in Atlantic Canada have been flourishing in recent years, ironically not just because of conservation measures, but also because of two ecological disasters — the collapse of groundfish stocks and climate change. But can the lobster fishery survive with current rates and rules for harvesting as waters continue to warm and ecosystems change? […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News Tagged With: ), Albert Marshall, Alfred Fitzpatrick, bait, Bay of Fundy, Boris Worm, climate change, cod, Dalhousie University, Dan Paul, Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), Environmental Magazine, Grand Banks, groundfish, groundfish collapse, inshore fishery, Kerry Prosper, Kirby Report, lobster, lobster fishery, lobster fishing area, lobster stocks, Mi'kma'ki, Mi'kmaq, Michael Kirby, minimum legal size, Netukulimk, pelagic fish, plakton, Rémy Rochette, Richard Wahle, Rick Williams, Unama'ki Institute of Natural Resources (UINR), University of Maine, University of New Brunswick

Lobster: the last, best fishery

Part 1: Stocks are healthy, but why?

November 25, 2020 By Joan Baxter and Linda Pannozzo 2 Comments

Lobster stocks in Atlantic Canada have been flourishing in recent years, ironically not just because of conservation measures, but also because of two ecological disasters — the collapse of groundfish stocks and climate change. But can the lobster fishery survive with current rates and rules for harvesting as waters continue to warm and ecosystems change? […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured Tagged With: American Lobster Settlement Index, Bay of Fundy, berried lobsters, Browns Bank, Chris Milley, Christine Penney, Clearwater, climate change, cod, conservation measures, Darren Porter, Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), groundfish, groundfish collapse, Gulf of Maine, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Guysborough County Inshore Fishermen's Association, LFA 34, LFA 40, lobster, lobster boom in Maine, lobster fishery, Lobster Fishing Area (LFA) 41, Lobster Institute, lobster stocks, Maliseet, Marshall, Marshall 2, Marshall Decision, Melanie Wiber, Membertou First Nation, Mi'maq, moderate livelihood fishery, molting, Netukulimk, offshore lobster fishery, PEI Fishermen's Association, Peskotomuhkati, Pictou Landing First Nation, Potoltek First Nation, Premium Brands, Ready Seafood, Rémy Rochette, Richard Wahle, Sipek’natik First Nation, St. Mary's Bay, Université Sainte-Anne, University of New Brunswick, UPEI, v-notching

People use the internet differently

Morning File, Tuesday, August 4, 2020

August 4, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 21 Comments

News 1. An exercise in obfuscation I wrote this morning: The Halifax Examiner is one of eight media organizations that has been petitioning the court to unseal documents related to the RCMP’s investigation of the April 18/19 mass murders. The documents in question are the “Information to Obtain”s (ITOs) a search warrant, which the RCMP […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: climate change, Cunard Block, Design Review Committee, Develop Nova Scotia, Examiner website, Halifax boardwalk, Halifax waterfront, Jennifer Chapman, Liscombe Lodge, Morning File, sea level rise, Southwest Properties

The Borealization of Acadia

Due to climate change, warm weather-friendly trees should be dominating our forests; instead, cold-weather species are taking over. We now understand why — thanks to a phone call from the Irving company to lean on a professor's dean.

July 2, 2020 By Joan Baxter 3 Comments

A new study shows that since European settlement, the rich mix of deciduous and conifer trees in the temperate forest — known by settlers as “Acadian” forest — of the Maritimes, New England, and southeastern Quebec has undergone “borealization,” meaning there has been “widespread replacement of temperate tree species by boreal species,” which are common […]

Filed Under: Featured, Investigation Tagged With: Acadian Forest Region, anthropogenic fire, boreal, borealization, clearcutting, climate change, Donna Crossland, ecological forestry, facebook, Faculty of Forestry and Enviornmental Management, forestry, global warming, Greg Watson, high production forestry, high-grading, industrial forestry, Jason Limongelli, JD Irving, JDI, Joshua Noseworthy, Lahey report, logging, North Nova Forest Owners Co-operative, temperate forest, Tom Beckley, University of New Brunswick, Van Lantz

Halifax’s big climate change action plan is ready, but the COVID-19 budget crunch means it’s already ‘jeopardized’

June 19, 2020 By Zane Woodford 3 Comments

Halifax’s new climate change action plan aims for carbon neutral city operations in 10 years and carbon neutrality across the municipality by 2050, but the COVID-19 pandemic has put the ever-important short-term success of the plan in jeopardy. “The level of effort and timelines of this plan are ambitious and unprecedented,” reads the final chapter […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Environment, Featured, News Tagged With: CAO Jacques Dubé, carbon emissions, climate change, coronavirus, COVID-19, GHG emissions, Green Tax, HalifACT 2050, Halifax city operating budget 2020/21, Halifax municipal budget, Nova Scotia Power (NSP), pandemic

Downtown Dartmouth renewal funding restored as council finishes COVID-19 budget adjustment list

May 29, 2020 By Zane Woodford 2 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Councillors voted to restore $2 million in funding for land purchases in downtown Dartmouth, along with money for three jobs related to the city’s climate change plan and two snow-shovelling programs at their budget committee meeting on Friday. The budget committee has been meeting nearly […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: budget adjustment list, climate change, councillor Matt Whitman, Councillor Russell Walker, Councillor Sam Austin, Councillor Stephen Adams, councillor Waye Mason, COVID-19, Downtown Dartmouth plan, HalifACT 2050, Halifax city operating budget 2020/21, Halifax Water, Jane Fraser, Peter Duncan, property taxes, Sawmill River, sidewalk clearing, snow shovelling

People are finding small ways to show their sorrow

Morning File, Wednesday, April 22, 2020

April 22, 2020 By Erica Butler 3 Comments

News 1. Mass murder victims believed to number 22 Tim Bousquet reports from yesterday’s RCMP press briefing, and outlines a “vague and misleading” statement issued by the RCMP regarding the mass murder spree on the weekend in which 22 people were murdered by a single perpetrator, over almost 14 hours, in a series of Nova […]

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Crowded beaches underscore the lack of coastal access

When the pandemic is over, and Nova Scotians can once again go to the beach, do they want to do so in a way that repeats the scenes of mid-March — with the majority crowding together at a handful of public sites — while private landowners dictate access everywhere else?

April 1, 2020 By Moira Donovan 4 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. As COVID-19 forces people to re-consider basic aspects of their lives — work, school, the role of government — there’s a question particular to Nova Scotia to contemplate: How easily, in a coastal province, we can actually access the ocean? Two weeks ago, as normal […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: beaches, Chris Trider, climate change, Coastal Protection Act, coastal strategy, Cole Harbour-Lawrencetown Coastal Heritage Park System, coronavirus, COVID-19, Ecology Action Centre (EAC), Lawrencetown, Nancy Anningson, Nova Scotia Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal (TIR), pandemic, Premier Darrell Dexter, social distancing, surfing, Surfing Association of Nova Scotia, Tony Charles, Vic Ruzgys

The connections of Nova Scotia universities to slavery and why it matters

Morning File, Friday, February 14, 2020

February 14, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

News 1. Elmsdale Lumber Elmsdale Lumber used to sell most of its bark and chips to Northern Pulp, but now that the mill has closed, Elmsdale is finding new markets, reports Jennifer Henderson. “We will survive” says owner Robin Wilber, but he sees the new markets as only a short-term fix until, he says, the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Cape Breton Spectator, climate change, e-scooters, Jean Charest, lobbyist registry, Mary Campbell, Max Rastelli, Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil, Richmond Yards, Segway, Shirley Tillotson, slave plantations, slavery in Nova Scotia, Stephen Archibald and curvy treasures, Susan MacLeod, trams, University of King's College, Westwood Developments, white supremacy

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Mo Kenney. Photo: Matt Williams

Episode #18 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Mo Kenney’s new record Covers is a perfect winter companion — songs from across the rock spectrum that she’s pared down to piano or guitar and turned them into sad ballads. She joins Tara to talk about choosing and arranging them, and opens up for a frank discussion of the alcohol dependency it took a pandemic for her to confront. Plus: Movies are back (again).

This episode is available today only for premium subscribers; to become a premium subscriber, click here, and join the select group of arts and entertainment supporters for just $5/month. Everyone else will have to wait until tomorrow to listen to it.

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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. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

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