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

February 11, 2022 By Joan Baxter 2 Comments

Provincial court judge Alana Murphy has sentenced Atlantic Mining NS, which does business in Nova Scotia as Atlantic Gold, to pay a total of $250,000 in fines and contributions for failing to comply with federal and provincial environmental regulations at and around its Touquoy open pit gold mine in Moose River, about an hour’s drive […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News Tagged With: Atlantic Gold, Atlantic Mining NS, Beaver Dam, Cochrane Hill, David Cox, deleterious substances, Environment and Climate Change Canada, environmental charges, Fifteen-Mile Stream, Fisheries Act, gold mine, Impact Assessment Agency of Canada, Jennifer Henderson, John Perkins, Judge Alana Murphy, Marian Fortune-Stone, Meryl Jones, Mi’kmaq Conservation Group, Mining Association of Nova Scotia (MANS), Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change, Nova Scotia Salmon Association, Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC), St Barbara Ltd, Touquoy open pit gold mine, Unama'ki Institute of Natural Resources (UINR)

The justice system is destroying an innocent man

Morning File, Thursday, June 7, 2018

June 7, 2018 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

News 1. Injustice in Nova Scotia As I reported Tuesday, three Germans got drunk on a flight from Germany to Cuba and caused such a disruption that the flight had to be diverted to Halifax, where the three were arrested. Transport Canada hasn’t yet detailed what exactly happened on the plane, but here in Nova Scotia, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexander Quon, Denis Theman, drunk Germans on flight to Cuba, fire Pinecrest Video, fire Primrose Street, Glen Assoun, Judge Dan MacRury, Judge James Chipman, Marian Fortune-Stone, Mark Green, prisoners by ethnicity, Ron Fetterly, Steve Bruce, stolen police pickup truck

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

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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.

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