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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.
Posted inCommentary, Environment, Mining

Canadian regulators giving Australia’s St Barbara what it wants

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter August 18, 2022January 9, 2023

St Barbara Ltd, the Australian company that owns Atlantic Gold / Atlantic Mining NS, which operates the Touquoy open pit gold mine in Moose River and wants to open three more mines on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia, seems to be having a run of extraordinarily good fortune when it comes to decisions by […]

An aerial view in spring 2021 of the Touquoy open pit gold mine with the waste rock piles in the forefront, tailings facility to the left and the deep open pit behind that. Photo: contributed
Posted inMining

Atlantic Gold sentenced to $250,000 fines and penalties after pleading guilty to federal and provincial environmental charges

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter February 11, 2022November 22, 2022
The deep crater of the open pit at the Touquoy gold mine shows roads spiralling down to the creater bottom. Photo contributed.
Posted inMining

Anaconda joins the gold rush on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter February 11, 2022January 29, 2023
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."
Posted inEnvironment

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

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter January 25, 2022November 22, 2022
Posted inMining

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

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter August 29, 2021November 22, 2022
Posted inMining

Who benefits from Atlantic Gold’s Nova Scotia operations?

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter June 21, 2021November 22, 2022
Posted inMining

Atlantic Gold’s lobbying blitz

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter February 5, 2021November 22, 2022
Posted inMining

After reading a Halifax Examiner article, two cops showed up at an author reading at Mount Allison University

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter January 23, 2021November 22, 2022
Posted inMining

Atlantic Gold is waging a propaganda blitz in Nova Scotia

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter March 25, 2020November 15, 2022
Posted inEnvironment

Joan Kuyek: Our job is to take our governments back from the mining interests

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter October 16, 2019November 15, 2022

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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.

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