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This aerial shot shows the vast tailings facility at the Touquoy open pit gold mine in Nova Scotia. Photo: Simon Ryder-Burbidge
Posted inMining

Anaconda Mining joins the gold rush on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter February 10, 2022January 29, 2023

Gold exploration and mining companies are lining up to get at Nova Scotia’s gold, as the province undergoes a fourth gold rush. In 2017, Atlantic Gold opened the province’s first-ever open pit gold mine in Moose River, with plans to open three more along the Eastern Shore, in what it peddled to investors as its […]

A sign reading "No goldmine in our watershed, please"
Posted inCommentary, Environment

“Yacobo O’Hanley” and some other old boys have hurt fee-fees about protecting Tatamagouche’s water supply

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter January 27, 2022October 20, 2022
A blue and white sign surrounded by trees on Highway 256, which reads "Now Entering French River Watershed, Supply area for the Tatamagouche Water Utility."
Posted inEnvironment

New protected status for Tatamagouche water supply means an end to mineral exploration, mining in the watershed

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter January 25, 2022November 22, 2022
A sign that was erected near Tatamagouche saying "No Goldmine in our Watershed" after word emergegd that the province wanted to promote mineral exploration in the area. Photo contributed.
Posted inCommentary

The “Right to Know” in Nova Scotia often goes right to “no”

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter September 23, 2021November 22, 2022
Posted inMining

Gold fever is coming to Halifax

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter October 13, 2019November 15, 2022
Posted inMining

After the gold rush

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter June 25, 2019November 15, 2022
Posted inEnvironment

Fracking is back on the agenda in Nova Scotia

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter May 6, 2019November 10, 2022
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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