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Testing the Limits

Part 2: The Examiner Goes on the Road in Search of an Endangered Lichen. (A Photo Essay)

March 29, 2017 By Linda Pannozzo 7 Comments

On a clear, crisp Sunday morning in March, Tim Bousquet and I drove about 30 minutes inland from Sheet Harbour, Nova Scotia to Twin Lakes, an area slated to be clearcut by Northern Pulp. As I reported in Part 1 of “Testing the Limits,” at the end of February the Abercrombie pulp giant posted several […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Environment, Featured, Province House Tagged With: Boat Harbour, boreal felt lichen, DNR, Mersey Tobeatic Research Insititute, Northern Pulp, Paul Shepard, Peter Wohlleben, Pictou Landing First Nation, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Special Management Practices, Square Lake, Suzanne Simard, Twin Lakes, Windigo

Testing the Limits: Critical Boreal Felt Lichen Habitat in Halifax County Slated to be Wiped Out

March 10, 2017 By Linda Pannozzo 3 Comments

Last week, several new forest blocks totalling 171 hectares (422 acres) appeared on the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources’ Harvest Plans Map Viewer. The blocks, posted by the Abercrombie pulp giant Northern Pulp, are located in the Twin Lakes area of Halifax County, roughly 2.5 hours from Halifax, an hour inland from Sheet Harbour. […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, News, Province House Tagged With: Andrew Fedora, boreal felt lichen, Brad Toms, Bruce Nunn, DNR, Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute, Michael Pickup, Northern Pulp, Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, Robert Cameron, Twin Lakes

Biomass, Freedom of Information and the Silence of the DNR Company Men

Part 4: The Case of the Disappearing Forest Age Class Data

January 12, 2017 By Linda Pannozzo 7 Comments

This article is Part 4 in Linda Pannozzo’s series: Biomass, Freedom of Information and the Silence of the DNR Company Men. The proceeding articles are: Part 1: Reporter Linda Pannozzo discovers just how hard provincial bureaucrats worked to ignore her questions. Part 2: An Open Letter to the FOIPOP Review Officer Part 3: What Happened When This […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, Province House Tagged With: Allan Eddy, biomass, Bruce Nunn, Catherine Tully, Chris Bailey, Darrell Huff, DNR, FOI, Frank Dunn, Jamie Simpson, Jonathan Kierstead, Matt Miller, Part 4, PSP data

Muzzling the Forest Keepers

A Field Guide to Boreal Felt Lichen and DNR Message Control

November 4, 2016 By Linda Pannozzo 9 Comments

Endangered boreal felt lichen. Photo courtesy Brad Toms. A redacted email exchange recently obtained through a Freedom of Information request revealed that on November 7, 2014, Allan Eddy, the associate deputy minister of the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, was not happy with something he had just seen. Eddy was attending the annual science conference […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, Province House Tagged With: Allan Eddy, Andrew Fedora, Bob Bancroft, boreal felt lichen, Brad Toms, Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, COSEWIC, David Richardson, Deep Cove, DNR, East Coast Environmental Law, Frances Anderson, Global Forest Watch, Irwin Brodo, Jason Hollett, Jonathan Kierstead, Jonathan Porter, Lloyd Hines, Mark Elderkin, Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute, Michael Pickup, MTRI, Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, Robert Cameron, SARA, Sherman Boates, Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve, Species at Risk Act, Tom Duck, Wolfgang Maass

Forest Tragedy

How the forest industry and compliant bureaucrats hijacked the public will

September 13, 2016 By Linda Pannozzo 7 Comments

They were heady days. It was spring of 2008 and citizens started gathering in droves in community halls to talk about why the natural world mattered to them. A few months earlier Conservative Natural Resources Minister David Morse announced that Voluntary Planning would lead a year of independent public consultations on the province’s minerals, forests, […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, News, Province House Tagged With: Allan Eddy, biomass, Bob Bancroft, Bowater, Bruce Nunn, Charlie Parker, clearcutting, David Morse, Department of Lands and Forests, DNR, Donna Crossland, Doug Macdonald, Ike Barber, John MacDonell, Jonathan Kierstead, Jonathan Porter, Lloyd Hines, Matt Miller, Nancy McInnis Leek, Natural Resources Strategy, Nova Forest Alliance, Nova Scotia Woodlot Owners and Operators Association, Peter Woodbridge, Raymond Plourde, Wade Prest

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

Two young white women, one with dark hair and one blonde, smile at the camera on a sunny spring day.

Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

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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