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Posted inProvince House

Premier pitches ‘made-in-Nova Scotia plan’ as alternative to federal carbon tax

A smiling fair skinned woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson August 19, 2022January 9, 2023

Premier Tim Houston unveiled Nova Scotia’s alternative to a federal carbon tax this morning. In January, Ottawa will beginning raising the price of carbon by $15 a tonne each year from the current $50 a tonne until the price reaches $170 a tonne by 2030. The province has argued that move would be “punitive” in […]

Two people hike along a lake. On the right is a woman with a blue backpack, and on the left, in front, is a man with a red backpack. It's an overcast day, and along the shores of the lake there are evergreen trees and steep hills.
Posted inProvince House

Feds, province announce agreements to create urban park, conserve land

A smiling fair skinned woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson August 18, 2022January 9, 2023
A man standing among a partially-felled forest points at the ground. It's a sunny day, and the trees still standing are mostly evergreens.
Posted inCity Hall

Early tree clearing approved for Dartmouth development site as opponents say they’ve found species at risk

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford July 19, 2022January 3, 2023
Posted inGovernment, Province House

Action on climate change too slow, opposition says

A smiling fair skinned woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson June 16, 2022January 9, 2023
An advisory sign that warns about high levels of arsenic, in front of a body of water
Posted inMining

Port Wallace Gamble: the real estate boom meets Nova Scotia’s toxic mine legacy

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter April 13, 2022November 22, 2022
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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.


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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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