Extinction Rebellion Nova Scotia Archives

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North Mountain opponents to aerial herbicide spraying "occupy" camp (seen from above).

Environment, Investigation, Province House

Activists “occupied” North Mountain to stop herbicide spraying, but how big of a victory was it?

by Joan Baxter September 29, 2020October 20, 2022

On Saturday September 26, the group “Don’t Spray Us – Nova Scotia Action” posted “good news” on its Facebook page with this update from Extinction Rebellion: NS Dept of Environment has informed us definitively that there will be NO further spraying of aerial herbicide on private land in Nova Scotia this fall. The area we […]

Image of the damage and destruction at Camp Hill Cemetery after Hurricane Dorian.

Local History

Stories of the dead at Camp Hill Cemetery

by Suzanne Rent October 8, 2019November 5, 2022

A group of highschool students protest climate change with signs saying "what I stand on is what I stand for", "we need to change, not the climate" and "you'll die of old age I'll die of climate change".

Commentary, Education, Province House

A tale of two protests

by Stephen Kimber May 5, 2019October 20, 2022

Anti-fracking parade float in Tatamagouche in 2011. It is brightly painted and features a giant tap with fire coming out.

Environment

PCs put fracking back on the agenda

by Joan Baxter April 24, 2019November 10, 2022

Environment, Journalism

Extinction Rebellion: we must take urgent action on climate change

by Jennifer Henderson April 12, 2019October 20, 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.

Tag: Extinction Rebellion Nova Scotia

Activists “occupied” North Mountain to stop herbicide spraying, but how big of a victory was it?

Stories of the dead at Camp Hill Cemetery

A tale of two protests

PCs put fracking back on the agenda

Extinction Rebellion: we must take urgent action on climate change

Nova Scotia launches review of provincial policing structure

Brad Johns once again spins the revolving door of SIRT directorship, but that won’t solve the crisis of legitimacy for the police oversight board

Mount Uniacke residents organize, submit comments as quarry owners apply for expansion

Halifax MP says council can go higher on federal housing application

NDP wants Nova Scotia municipalities to tax developers who leave lots empty