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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

In March 2020, the Halifax Examiner published the award-winning series, “Port Wallace Gamble: the real estate boom meets Nova Scotia’s toxic mine legacy.” The three articles (available here, here and here) looked at Clayton Developments’ proposed new and massive subdivision for Port Wallace in Dartmouth, and serious concerns about the mercury and arsenic contamination from […]

Province House

Public paying the price to clean up old gold mines

by Joan Baxter March 23, 2022November 22, 2022

This aerial shot shows the vast tailings facility at the Touquoy open pit gold mine in Nova Scotia. Photo: Simon Ryder-Burbidge

Mining

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

by Joan Baxter February 10, 2022January 29, 2023

A white billboard with red and blue lettering surrounded by trees and shrubs, that reads "Welcome to our mill. This is our time. We have the right product. We have the right owner and the right people!"

Environment

Northern Pulp mill plans “best in class” or best in BS?

by Joan Baxter December 17, 2021November 22, 2022

Commentary, Environment

Why isn’t Northern Pulp using the wastewater treatment plant next door at Canso Chemicals? Is mercury an issue?

by Joan Baxter November 5, 2021October 20, 2022

Northern Pulp Mill during a shutdown in October 2019, viewed from across the lake.

Environment

Wastewater from Northern Pulp’s hibernating paper mill is being discharged into the Bay of Fundy

by Joan Baxter September 7, 2021November 22, 2022

Montague Mines main tailings area during high water events.

Mining

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

by Joan Baxter March 1, 2020November 15, 2022

A photo of Province House on a sunny day, taken from an angle. The building is a stately four story pale stone building crowned with flagpoles.

Environment

Provincial budget update: increased surplus and debt reduction, but also large bills for cleaning up historic toxic mines and the Yarmouth ferry

by Jennifer Henderson July 25, 2019December 7, 2022

Lobster boat with a Mi'kmaq flag moving through the waters of Pictou Harbour with the Northern Pulp mill in the background, and white plumes coming from the mill stacks into a grey sky.

Environment, Investigation, Province House

Northern Pulp Mill’s missing environmental data

by Joan Baxter July 8, 2019October 20, 2022

Mining

After the gold rush

by Joan Baxter June 25, 2019November 15, 2022

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents — Credit: Halifax Examiner. All rights reserved.

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.

Credit: Ricardo Weibezahn - ICIJ

DEFORESTATION INC

Reporter Joan Baxter is one of 140 journalists from 39 media outlets across 27 countries working collaboratively on ‘Deforestation Inc,’ a project of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which looked at the ownership structure of Paper Excellence, its relationship with Asia Pulp & Paper, and how the secretive corporate empires are devastating forests in Canada and around the world.

Find all of Baxter’s articles on the Deforestation Inc 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.

Tag: mercury

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

Public paying the price to clean up old gold mines

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

Northern Pulp mill plans “best in class” or best in BS?

Why isn’t Northern Pulp using the wastewater treatment plant next door at Canso Chemicals? Is mercury an issue?

Wastewater from Northern Pulp’s hibernating paper mill is being discharged into the Bay of Fundy

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

Provincial budget update: increased surplus and debt reduction, but also large bills for cleaning up historic toxic mines and the Yarmouth ferry

Northern Pulp Mill’s missing environmental data

After the gold rush

Nova Scotia launches review of provincial policing structure

Brad Johns once again spins the revolving door of SIRT directorship, but that won’t solve the crisis of legitimacy for the police oversight board

Mount Uniacke residents organize, submit comments as quarry owners apply for expansion

Halifax MP says council can go higher on federal housing application

NDP wants Nova Scotia municipalities to tax developers who leave lots empty