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“It pains me to tell you that the image of Canada is severely damaged”

Damning testimony in a new book reveals the horrific record of Canadian mining companies in Guatemala.

November 17, 2021 By Joan Baxter 4 Comments

Alvaro Sandoval is a Guatemalan who knows all too well what it is like to be attacked and criminalized for trying to defend his community from North American gold mining companies, and he has a message for Canadians and Americans: I would like to call on the people and politicians of Canada and the United […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Environment, Featured Tagged With: Adolfo Ich Chamán, Alvaro Sandoval, Atlantic Regional Solidarity Network (ARSN), Australia, Barrick Gold, Between The Lines, book, Breaking the Silence Network, Brian Mulroney, Canada Pension Plan (CPP), Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Canadian Ombudsman for Responsible Enterprise (CORE), Cassiday & Associates (KCA), Catherine Nolin, Charlotte Connolly, climate change, Cory Wanless, defamation, Diodora Hernández, El Estor, El Tambor mine, Export Development Canada, Fénix nickel mining project, foreign investment promotion and protection agreements (FIPAs), Genocide, George H.W. Bush, German Chub Choc, Global Affairs Canada, Goldcorp Inc, Grahame Russell, Guatemala, HMI Nickel, Hudbay, Hudbay Minerals, Ich Angélica Choc, India, Jackie McVicar, John Baird, Kappes, Latin America, limited liability, lobbying, Marlin gold mine, Maya, Maya Q’eqchi’corporate social responsibility (CSR), Mining Association of Canada, Murray Klippenstein, Newt Gingrinch, Peter Munk, Radius Gold, Rights Action, Skye Resources, Springer Nature, Tahoe Resources, TSX, TSX-Venture Exchange, University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC), William Cohen, World Bank, Yolanda Oquelí

Maritimers stranded in Guatemala frustrated by Canadian government silence

March 21, 2020 By Joan Baxter Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Indigo Christ desperately wants to come home to Halifax, but even more immediately, she wants to speak with someone from the Canadian embassy in Guatemala, or in Global Affairs Canada in Ottawa who can at least let her know what – if anything – is […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne, Global Affairs Canada, Guatemala, Indigo Christ, Krystyna Dodds, Laura Robinson, Lenora Yarkie, Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network (BTS), MP Andy Fillmore, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

PRICED OUT

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.

2020 mass murders

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

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. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Two young white women, one with dark hair and one blonde, smile at the camera on a sunny spring day.

Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

Subscribe to the podcast to get episodes automatically downloaded to your device — there’s a great instructional article here. Email Suzanne for help.

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