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The "Northern Pulp Nova Scotia Corporation, A Paper Excellence Company" sign.
Posted inCommentary, Environment

Northern Pulp has a new set of “friends”

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter March 9, 2022October 20, 2022

This is how the “Friends of a New Northern Pulp” describe themselves on their website: We are Nova Scotians who care deeply about our province, our forests, and our communities. We are the 36,000 Nova Scotians who own small and large woodlots. So, just one line in and the BS begins. The wording of the […]

The "Northern Pulp Nova Scotia Corporation, A Paper Excellence Company" sign.
Posted inCommentary, Environment

Woo and sue: Northern Pulp’s strategy in Nova Scotia

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter October 31, 2021October 20, 2022
The sign at the main entrance to the Northern Pulp mill in Pictou County identifies it as a Paper Excellence company. Photo Joan baxter
Posted inEnvironment

What are Paper Excellence’s real plans for Northern Pulp?

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter July 21, 2021November 22, 2022
Posted inForestry

Communications specialist: “hundreds of thousands of dollars” were spent to produce “blatant lies” for the campaign against the Biodiversity Act

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter April 15, 2021November 22, 2022
In 2017, residents of Wentworth Valley were shocked to see clearcutting on land that Northern Pulp had purchased with the 2010 loan of $75 million from the province. A wide stretch of devastated woodland is visible in the photo.
Posted inEnvironment, Province House

Well, that didn’t take long

by Stephen Kimber March 28, 2021October 20, 2022
Since January 31, 2019 the people of Pictou Landing First Nation have been counting the days until Boat Harbour closes. Yesterday, marked just 42 days.
Posted inMorning File

The Northern Pulp saga is a “really, really, really, really difficult time” for Pictou Landing First Nation

Avatar photo by Tim Bousquet and Joan Baxter December 20, 2019November 15, 2022
Recent drone shot of a clearcut located between Kejimkujik National Park and Lake Rossignol.
Posted inCommentary, Environment, Investigation, Province House

Truth Be Told: Nova Scotia’s forest department hires a PR firm with forest industry ties to help it with transparency

by Linda Pannozzo May 10, 2019October 20, 2022
Northumberland Pulp's sign, a large white sign with the company name and logo, surrounded by landscaping.
Posted inCommentary, Environment, Province House

Northern Pulp says it “cares” — but for whom and for what?

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter February 21, 2019October 20, 2022
A photo of Bill Lahey
Posted inForestry

The Lahey Review of Forest Practices is published; what does it mean?

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson August 21, 2018December 1, 2022
Posted inMorning File

Forest fairy tales and other frightening stories of Nova Scotia

Avatar photo by Tim Bousquet and Joan Baxter May 25, 2018November 6, 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.


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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.


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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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