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Aerial view of Moose River open pit gold mine showing deep pit with turquoise water in the bottom and gravel roads spiralling down into it, flat silvery surface of the tailings facility in the background as well as the massive waste rock storage pile with forested area and Moose River in the foreground. Photo by Raymond Plourde/ Ecology Action Centre

Shake-up at Australian mining firm St Barbara will have big reverberations in Nova Scotia

by Joan Baxter December 12, 2022January 2, 2023

Just three and a half years since St Barbara Ltd bought Atlantic Gold for $722 million, the Australian company is now preparing to hand off all those Nova Scotia operations to a new junior mining company that will be called Phoenician Metals. The new junior will also own St Barbara’s Simberi mine in Papua New […]

Mr. Burns, the rich old man in The Simpsons. He's very yellow, has a receeding hairline, is wearing a green robe, and has a snifter of brandy in his hand

Here’s what’s wrong with the seniors discount

by Tim Bousquet, Yvette d'Entremont and Jennifer Henderson October 19, 2022October 27, 2022

This aerial photo of Atlantic Gold's Touquoy open pit gold mine in Moose River shows the giant crater where the gold is mined, and the large tailings pond on the edge of Scraggy Lake. Photo is contributed.

Nova Scotia Environment minister approved Signal Gold’s open pit mine at Goldboro despite concerns and criticisms from scientists in his own department

by Joan Baxter August 10, 2022November 6, 2022

A empty chamber with blue chairs, desks with microphones, and two paintings hanging next to a big chair

Business and Development, Economy, Government, Province House

Grants for seniors, gold mining, the premier’s ‘friends,’ and more from Question Period

by Jennifer Henderson July 29, 2022January 9, 2023

An advisory sign that warns about high levels of arsenic, in front of a body of water

Port Wallace Gamble: the real estate boom meets Nova Scotia’s toxic mine legacy

by Joan Baxter April 13, 2022November 22, 2022

A gold tailings site

Public paying the price to clean up old gold mines

by Joan Baxter March 23, 2022November 22, 2022

A blue and white sign surrounded by trees on Highway 256, which reads "Now Entering French River Watershed, Supply area for the Tatamagouche Water Utility."

New protected status for Tatamagouche water supply means an end to mineral exploration, mining in the watershed

by Joan Baxter January 25, 2022November 22, 2022

Front page of an old newspaper. It says The Maritime Merchant and Commercial Review, Halifax. no. 5, Thursday, July 3, 1913. Above the title is a drawing of a fly and an ad for Tanglefoot, "the sanitary fly destroyer."

Business and “grouchers” from 1892-1913

by Philip Moscovitch December 7, 2021January 25, 2023

Moose river gold mine tailings pond with Scraggy Lake in foreground (contributed)

The Examiner quizzed the four main political parties on gold mining issues. Here are their responses.

by Joan Baxter July 30, 2021November 22, 2022

Maritime Launch Services has hired a PR firm to conduct a “push poll” for its proposed spaceport in Canso

by Joan Baxter June 26, 2021November 22, 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.