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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.

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

On August 2, Nova Scotia’s Environment and Climate Change minister Tim Halman approved the proposal by Toronto’s Signal Gold for an open pit gold mine in Goldboro, on the province’s Eastern Shore. Signal Gold, which until recently was called Anaconda Mining (an anaconda is a giant snake that strangles its prey), plans to operate the […]

The Brooklyn Biomass plant belching smoke

Climate, Energy, Utilities

Despite receiving Muskrat Falls power, Nova Scotia is still burning biomass for electricity

by Jennifer Henderson June 24, 2022January 9, 2023

The deep crater of the open pit at the Touquoy gold mine shows roads spiralling down to the creater bottom. Photo contributed.

Mining

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

by Joan Baxter February 11, 2022January 29, 2023

Fishery

Sea lice are decimating Atlantic salmon, and climate change is making the situation worse

by Joan Baxter May 1, 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.

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

Despite receiving Muskrat Falls power, Nova Scotia is still burning biomass for electricity

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

Sea lice are decimating Atlantic salmon, and climate change is making the situation worse

‘This asshole bought 10 acres on P.E.I. to be alone, and then told a national magazine about it,’ and other ways to profit from rage-inducing journalism

Deforestation Inc: Canada is a ‘world laggard’ in sustainable forestry, say critics, and Paper Excellence’s expansion threatens this country’s boreal forests

Halifax landlord Peppermint Properties using fixed-term leases to clear out units, jack up rents

Justice institute to use federal funds to help Black Nova Scotians understand legal rights

Kids whose childhoods were made into social media ‘content’ are starting to speak out