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Just when we need local reporting the most, local media outlets are scaling down operations

by Erica Butler March 25, 2020October 20, 2022

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. News 1. Draconian cuts at SaltWire This item is written by Tim Bousquet. Yesterday, Mark Lever, president of SaltWire, announced that in response to the economic fallout from COVID-19, the company is making huge, draconian cuts: Please know these decisions deeply impact our SaltWire family. This is not […]

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Environment, Province House

No federal assessment will be required for Northern Pulp’s proposed effluent treatment project

by Joan Baxter December 17, 2019October 20, 2022

Environment, Investigation

Northern Pulp’s “political game”

by Joan Baxter November 21, 2019October 20, 2022

Action Against Canso Spaceport sign in Canso. White sign with words "WE SAY NO!" in red letters over "to the CANSO SPACEPORT" in green and black lettering.

Environment

Opposition to Canso spaceport grows

by Joan Baxter August 5, 2019November 15, 2022

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Environment, Investigation, Province House

Northern Pulp Mill’s missing environmental data

by Joan Baxter July 8, 2019October 20, 2022

Environment, Province House

Boat Harbour cleanup to be subjected to environmental review

by Jennifer Henderson April 11, 2019October 20, 2022

Morning File

The CODCO comedy troupe is criminally under-recognized

by Philip Moscovitch March 14, 2019December 29, 2022

Province House

Fool’s Gold

by Joan Baxter May 30, 2018November 10, 2022

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GREENWASHING HYDROGEN EDUCATION CHALLENGE

Open to high school students in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador. Cash prizes! More info here.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Read the entire series, plus articles about Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction, on the DEAD WRONG homepage.

Tag: Minister Margaret Miller

Just when we need local reporting the most, local media outlets are scaling down operations

No federal assessment will be required for Northern Pulp’s proposed effluent treatment project

Northern Pulp’s “political game”

Opposition to Canso spaceport grows

Northern Pulp Mill’s missing environmental data

Boat Harbour cleanup to be subjected to environmental review

The CODCO comedy troupe is criminally under-recognized

Fool’s Gold

Children in care: Province claims progress made to reduce emergency placements

Sure, boycott Loblaws, but nothing will change until governments are forced to take action

Proposed class action lawsuit filed against Nova Scotia Health alleging negligence in privacy breach

Transparency needed in public-private health care partnerships, Nova Scotia committee hears

Saving the hemlocks of Hemlock Ravine Park