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Northern Pulp says it is ‘insolvent’ and can’t pay its pension obligations, but it’s got plenty of cash to bankroll legal assaults on Nova Scotia’s government and laws

April 20, 2022 By Joan Baxter 2 Comments

At the end of this month, Northern Pulp and six of its affiliates will be back in the British Columbia Supreme Court, and odds are they will ask for and get yet another extension ⁠— the seventh to date ⁠— of the creditor relief they’ve been afforded under the federal Companies Creditor Arrangement Act. Northern […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Environment, Featured, Province House Tagged With: Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), BC Supreme Court, Biodiversity Act, Boat Harbour, Boat Harbour Act, boycott, British Columbia Supreme Court, Bruce Chapman, China, Companies Creditor Arrangement Act (CCAA), court monitor, creditor protection, creditor relief, Dartmouth East, default, Emera, environmental assessment, Ernst & Young, Forestry Stewardship Council (FSC), France, Friends of a New Northern Pulp, Greenpeace, Hervey Investment B.V., Hong Kong, insolvent, John Hamm, judicial review, Justice Shelley Fitzpatrick, lawsuit, Mattell, Maurice Chiasson, mediation, Netherlands, Northern Pulp, Northern Pulp Nova Scotia Corporation, Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change, Nova Scotia government, Nova Scotia Law Amendments Committee, Nova Scotia Power, Nova Scotia Superintendent of Pensions, nova scotia supreme court, NS Supreme Court, Pacific Harbour Resources Limited, Paper Excellence, Paper Excellence B.V., Paper Excellence Canada Holdings, Paper Excellence Corporation, Pictou, PR campaign, Public Affairs Atlantic, public relations, pulp mill, Robert Grant, Rodney MacDonald, Saint Gaudens, Sasha Irving, Shanghai, Sinar Mas Group, Statistics Canada’s Inter-corporate Ownership, Tarascon, tax haven, Terms of Reference, Thomas Cromwell, Tim Houston, Timothy Halman, Widjaja family

Northern Pulp and its wealthy owners seem intent on taking Nova Scotians to the cleaners

But the Pictou pulp mill has had plenty of Nova Scotian accomplices helping them fleece the province.

April 4, 2022 By Joan Baxter 3 Comments

On April 1, in the British Columbia Supreme Court, Justice Shelley Fitzpatrick issued an order that forces Nova Scotia into a “mediation” process in the BC court, where Northern Pulp and six related companies have been enjoying creditor protection since June 2020. The process will be handled by a “court appointed” monitor that Northern Pulp […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), BC Premier John Horgan, Bernie Miller, Biodiversity Act, Boat Harbour Act, Brazil, British Columbia Supreme Court, Bruce Chapman, Catalyst Paper, Companies" Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA), Competition Bureau of Canada, creditor protection, Darrell Dexter, default, deforestation, Domtar, Eldorado Brazil Celulose, environmental assessment, environmental assessment report, GI Smith, Hervey Investment B.V., Indemnity Agreement, Jackson Widjaja, John Hamm, John Savage, Justice Shelley Fitzpatrick, Kamloops, Kirby McVicar, lawsuit, Maurice Chiasson, mediation process, Netherlands, Northern Pulp, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change (NSECC), Nova Scotia Pension Benefits Act, Nova Scotia Superintendent of Pensions, nova scotia supreme court, Ontario, Paper Excellence, Paper Excellence Canada Holdings Corporation, Paper Excellence Group, Pensions, Pictou County, Public Affairs Atlantic, pulp mill, Quebec, Robert Grant, Robert Stanfield, Rodney MacDonald, Sasha Irving, Sinar Mas Group, statment of claims, Stephen McNeil, tax haven, Unifor, Widjaja family

Housing: party for a few, crisis for the rest

Morning File, Wednesday, January 5, 2022

January 5, 2022 By Philip Moscovitch 5 Comments

News 1. Woman claims in lawsuit she was repeatedly sexually abused by cops while in protection from sexual trafficking as a teen Zane Woodford reports on a lawsuit by a woman who claims she was sexually abused as a teen by officers from the Halifax police and the RCMP. The woman, identified only as “X.Y.,” […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File, PRICED OUT Tagged With: Alana Murphy, Atlantic Gold, Atlantic Mining Nova Scotia, Barbara Darby, Beaver Dam, Blue Christmas, Brian Johnston, Burnside jail, Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Robert Strang, Cochrane Hill, COVID-19, David Levin, East Coast Prison Justice Society, Graceland, Halifax Regional Police, Jennifer Henderson, lawsuit, Matt Wickham, Melaleuca, Michael Dull, Moose River, Nova Scotia Environment Act, Nova Scotia Salmon Association, Premier Tim Houston, RCMP, Reverend Bruce R.E. Sheasby, Reverend Elvis, Ryan White, sexual assault, St Barbara Ltd, Sullivan House, Tim Bousquet, Tim Halman, Touquoy, Wade Marriott, X.Y., Your Grace Land, Zane Woodford

Transcontinental says SaltWire still owes it $10 million

Morning File, Friday, October 8, 2021

October 8, 2021 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

News 1. ReconAfrica Two Nova Scotians are working to protect an ecologically fragile area in northern Namibia, reports Joan Baxter: [Calgary-based] ReconAfrica has taken out exploration licences covering 30,000 square kilometres, nearly half the size of Nova Scotia, in northern Namibia and Botswana. There are two World Heritage sites in the region — the Okavango […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: CEWS, Grant Machum, Gus Richardson, lawsuit, Patricia Lemoine, SaltWire, Transcontinental

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.

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