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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 inBusiness and Development, Commentary

Nova Scotia is St Barbara’s ‘black cat’

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter September 1, 2022January 9, 2023

Things are looking less than golden for Australia’s St Barbara Ltd, but rather than accept responsibility, board chair Tim Netscher is pointing the finger at First Nations, Canadian regulators, and COVID-19 for the company’s woes. Those woes are not small ones. On Wednesday, St Barbara reported an annual net loss of over $144 million, largely […]

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
The Killag River is an important part of the West River Sheet Harbour watershed, important wild Atlantic salmon habitat, and this photo shows the Killag River just a ston's throw downstream from the site of the proposed Beaver Dam open pit gold mine. Photo: SImon Ryder-Burbidge
Posted inMining

Millbrook First Nation to Atlantic Gold and government regulators: “We oppose the Beaver Dam mine project”

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter January 21, 2022November 22, 2022
An attractive path through a wooded area near the site of the proposed Beaver Dam mine. Photo: Simon Ryder-Burbidge
Posted inMining

Expansion of gold mining on the Eastern Shore meeting with stiff resistance

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter November 26, 2021November 22, 2022
Posted inEnvironment

Paper Excellence holds a media show and piles on the PR

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter July 16, 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
brown Bay of Fundy water up against the closed aboiteau in the causeway across the Avon River in Windsor, NS
Posted inEnvironment

Small dam, big controversy

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter December 8, 2020November 22, 2022
Lobster on a boat, with a lifesaving ring behind it. Freshly caught lobster.
Posted inFishery

Lobster: the last, best fishery

Avatar photo by Linda Pannozzo and Joan Baxter November 26, 2020November 16, 2022
Posted inFishery

Lobster fishery at a crossroads

Avatar photo by Linda Pannozzo and Joan Baxter October 5, 2020November 16, 2022

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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.


Tractors bulldoze trees as American money rains from the sky.
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.

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