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“Pig in a poke”: die-hard proponents want to open Nova Scotia to fracking

September 14, 2018 By Joan Baxter 9 Comments

About 200 people gathered last evening in Pugwash, filling the Northumberland Community Curling Club for a debate framed around the resolution “fracking will be beneficial to Cumberland County.” The audience was, not surprisingly, clearly divided between those in favour and those against. For many, including several members of the Nova Scotia Fracking Resource and Action […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News Tagged With: Cecil Clarke, climate change, Darrel Dexter, David Wheeler, Douglas Leahey, Elizabeth Roscoe, Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin, Fracking, Friends of Science, Frontier Centre for Public Policy, Gerard Lucyshyn, Michael Bradfield, MLA John Lohr, natural gas, Nova Scotia Fracking Resource and Action Coalition (NOFRAC), Scott Armstrong, Tim Houston, Tory Rushton

Fool’s gold

Nova Scotia's Myopic Pursuit of Metals & Minerals (Part 2)

May 23, 2018 By Joan Baxter 3 Comments

A Halifax Examiner / Cape Breton Spectator investigation. This is the second in a series of articles on the push for mines and quarries in Nova Scotia. You can find Part I here. Going for gold The CEO and chairman of Vancouver-based Atlantic Gold Corporation, Steven Dean, a man with a history of international coal and […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, News, Province House Tagged With: Alastair Tiver, Anaconda Mining, Andrew Bell, arsenic from mining, Atlantic Gold Corporation, Atlantic Mining NS, Barbara Markovits, Bruce Nunn, Chrissy Matheson, Cochrane Hill mine, coronet Metals, councillor Steve Streatch, Darrel Dexter, DDV Gold, Department of Environment and Climate Change, Dufferin gold mine, Eastern Shore Forest Watch Association, Emergency Response Assistance Plan (ERAP), Fifteen Mile Stream mine, Fool’s Gold part 2, Forrest Higgins, Gary Burrill, Goldboro gold mine, James Millard, Jamie Kneen, Joan Baxter, Marla MacInnis, Mayor Bill Mills, miners’ rights, Mining Watch Canada, Minister Charlie Parker, Moose River, Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board (UARB), Oceanic Iron Ore Corp., proposed Beaver Dam mine, Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC), Rachel Boomer, Resource Capital Gold Corp., Scraggy Lake, Steven Dean, tailings water, Tom Ellard, Touquoy mine, transporting cyanide, Wayne Oakley

How the same perverse government policies led to both the convention centre disaster and the breach of information

Morning File, Friday, April 13, 2018

April 13, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

News 1. The Unisys contract The contract between the province and the contractor hired to support the software used in provincial databases — including the Freedom of Information site that was “breached” last week — was the subject of a blistering auditor general’s report in November 2016. In the early 2000s, the province adopted the AMANDA […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: AMANDA software package, Auditor General Michael Pickup, Convention Centre failure, Convention Centre is a transfer of wealth, Darrel Dexter, Department of Internal Services, Heywood Sanders, Joe Ramia, Nova Centre, Stephen Lund, Unisys contract

PRICED OUT

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.

2020 mass murders

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

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. 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.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

Subscribe to the podcast to get episodes automatically downloaded to your device — there’s a great instructional article here. Email Suzanne for help.

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