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An aerial photo showing the Atlantic Gold open pit mine in Moose River on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia.

Mining

Atlantic Gold agrees to a tentative plea deal that would have the company pay $120,000 to the Nova Scotia Salmon Association to atone for breaking environmental rules, but ‘no deal,’ says the Salmon Association

by Joan Baxter October 26, 2021November 22, 2022

Mining

Updated: Photos suggest that there is a tailings leak at Atlantic Gold’s Moose River gold mine

by Joan Baxter August 29, 2021November 22, 2022

Mining

Atlantic Gold paid $0 in taxes in 2019

by Joan Baxter January 27, 2021November 22, 2022

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

Province House

Spill at Moose River gold mine raises environmental concerns

by Joan Baxter March 15, 2019November 10, 2022

A map of Nova Scotia from a former website of Atlantic Gold, before it as acquired by St Barbara in 2019, showing the locations of the four gold projects in eastern Nova Scotia, at Touquoy in Moose River, Fifteen Mile Stream, Beaver Dam and Cochrane Hill on the banks of the St. Mary's River near Sherbrooke.

Province House

Like blood from a stone: trying to get information out of the Department of Energy and Mines

by Joan Baxter February 7, 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.

Tag: Fifteen-Mile Stream

Atlantic Gold agrees to a tentative plea deal that would have the company pay $120,000 to the Nova Scotia Salmon Association to atone for breaking environmental rules, but ‘no deal,’ says the Salmon Association

Updated: Photos suggest that there is a tailings leak at Atlantic Gold’s Moose River gold mine

Atlantic Gold paid $0 in taxes in 2019

Spill at Moose River gold mine raises environmental concerns

Like blood from a stone: trying to get information out of the Department of Energy and Mines

Halifax considers shrinking evacuation area, reports 151 homes lost in Tantallon fire

Travel, activity banned in Nova Scotia forests as three wildfires continue to burn

Meet the volunteers working to rescue pets from homes evacuated due to the Tantallon fire

Tantallon wildfire: blaze still ‘out of control,’ concerns about reburn, update on loss of homes

MP Rick Perkins plays the ‘Chinese’ canard