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Under a clear blue sky, a completely cleared landscape with brown rocky soil and some tread marks and some remnant tree branches and woody debris following a clearcut near Bass River, Nova Scotia

Commentary, Environment, Investigation, Province House

Clear as mud: How the government’s reports on Nova Scotia forests obfuscate and confuse the data

by Linda Pannozzo September 14, 2020October 20, 2022

In recent days you might have received an email from the Department of Lands and Forestry (DLF) inviting you to answer a survey about its State of the Forest report (SOF), first published in 2008, and updated in 2016. Using data collected by the DLF, the document purportedly describes the changing condition of the forest, […]

A stand within the community-proposed Ingram River Wilderness Area (IRWA). It contains a 400-year plus eastern hemlock.

Environment, Investigation

Backroad Deal

by Linda Pannozzo June 1, 2020October 20, 2022

Commentary, Environment, Province House

By Any Other Name: Nova Scotia’s Department of Lands and Forestry just made “Clearcuts” disappear

by Linda Pannozzo February 16, 2019October 20, 2022

Province House

Losing the forests for the trees: New figures show increase in clearcutting

by Jennifer Henderson March 30, 2017November 30, 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: National Forestry Database (NFD)

Clear as mud: How the government’s reports on Nova Scotia forests obfuscate and confuse the data

Backroad Deal

By Any Other Name: Nova Scotia’s Department of Lands and Forestry just made “Clearcuts” disappear

Losing the forests for the trees: New figures show increase in clearcutting

Nova Scotia COVID deaths math: 59+2=53

Hydrogen hype: ‘History will have a good laugh’ at us

Does more funding for police mean no funding for real mental health first responders?

Somebody might maybe one day look into police malfeasance in the Glen Assoun case

Department of Labour wants feedback from Nova Scotians on harassment in workplaces