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Nova Scotia has laid charges for 32 environmental infractions against Atlantic Gold

by Joan Baxter December 23, 2020November 22, 2022

Mayor McCheese, a mascot of a hamburger who is also a mayor. The mascot has a tophat.

What does the mayor do?

by Philip Moscovitch September 17, 2020January 16, 2023

Atlantic Gold's booth at PDAC.

Moose River betrayal

by Joan Baxter April 3, 2020November 15, 2022

Atlantic Gold's Touquoy mine, seen from above

Atlantic Gold is waging a propaganda blitz in Nova Scotia

by Joan Baxter March 25, 2020November 15, 2022

Roughed up by the RCMP at a public meeting, John Perkins sues Atlantic Gold and the cops

by Jennifer Henderson August 13, 2019December 7, 2022

Historic mining sites at Montague in Dartmouth have been closed to the public because of high arsenic in the tailings from more than 150 years ago. Two signs in French and English warn the public about high levels of arsenic nearby.

After the gold rush

by Joan Baxter June 25, 2019November 15, 2022

Atlantic Gold security manager Terry Mosher, a smiling white man with greying hair

Setting the record straight on Atlantic Gold’s spin job

by Joan Baxter May 27, 2019November 10, 2022

RCMP violently remove and arrest citizen at public meeting about gold mine

by Joan Baxter May 24, 2019November 10, 2022

The $722 million deal

by Joan Baxter May 17, 2019November 10, 2022

The tailings facility at the Touquoy gold mine. A series of covered pools sit in the middle of a snow covered landscape.

Spill at Moose River gold mine raises environmental concerns

by Joan Baxter March 15, 2019November 10, 2022

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents — Credit: Halifax Examiner. All rights reserved.

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.

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.

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.

Read the entire series, plus articles about Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction, on the DEAD WRONG homepage.