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

Northern Pulp has a new set of “friends”

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 […]

Smokestacks emitting large clouds of steam and smoke into a dark blue sky.

Environment, Investigation

Northern Pulp’s “political game”

by Joan Baxter November 21, 2019October 20, 2022

Map from the 2000 Dillon report on Canso Chemical decommissioning showing the site location.

Commentary, Environment, Investigation, Province House

The Canso Chemicals mystery: With the chemical plant long gone, why is the company still alive? And what about all that mercury pollution?

by Joan Baxter March 7, 2019October 20, 2022

Commentary, Environment, Province House

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

by Joan Baxter February 21, 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.

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Northern Pulp has a new set of “friends”

Northern Pulp’s “political game”

The Canso Chemicals mystery: With the chemical plant long gone, why is the company still alive? And what about all that mercury pollution?

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

Today is Zane Woodford’s last day with the Halifax Examiner

Nova Scotia public housing announcement came as ‘shock’ to Bridgewater mayor

Nova Scotia must tackle energy poverty, advocates tell legislative committee

Halifax Convention Centre ‘paying for itself’ after year of higher revenues

Strang encourages Nova Scotians to get COVID, flu vaccines, but not be alarmed about rising infections