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The ‘hydrogen hyperbole epidemic’ comes to Nova Scotia

by Joan Baxter September 20, 2022January 9, 2023

This is the second article in a two-part series that the Halifax Examiner is co-publishing with The Energy Mix about the “green hydrogen and ammonia” project that EverWind Fuels has proposed for Point Tupper in Nova Scotia. See Part 1 here. Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston is a big fan of EverWind’s “green hydrogen and […]

A young white man with dark air wearing a black hoodie and a Rolex, in a room with fancy modern furnishings

Arts and Culture, Mass Murders 2020, Morning File

Masculinity, as defined by a friend of a mass murderer: “Men want art work that’s a picture of a gun enlarged seven feet high”

by Tim Bousquet June 17, 2022January 9, 2023

A uniformed conservation officer driving a deep green pickup truck emblazoned with white and yellow stripes and the words "Conservation Officer"

Province House

The conservation officer shuffle: Houston government quietly moves inspection, enforcement and compliance officers out of Nova Scotia Environment and back to Natural Resources

by Joan Baxter June 15, 2022January 9, 2023

Health, Province House

The clock is ticking, but Nova Scotia is still not acting on ticks and Lyme disease

by Joan Baxter June 5, 2022January 9, 2023

Environment, Health, Province House

Get outside: national nature prescription program launches in the Maritimes

by Yvette d'Entremont April 22, 2022November 18, 2022

A silhouette of a woman standing side-on. Her face isn't visible but her hair is up in a ponytail and is lit from the side.

Province House, Women

Dalhousie researcher studying how pandemic impacted violence against women services

by Yvette d'Entremont April 21, 2022November 18, 2022

Environment

Northern Pulp is in a polluting league of its own

by Joan Baxter April 11, 2022October 20, 2022

Climate, Province House

Engineering study: three top options to protect Chignecto Isthmus will cost between $189 million and $301 million

by Yvette d'Entremont March 18, 2022November 18, 2022

An Asian woman in a beige turtleneck sweater wearing a blue disposable mask against a black background

COVID

Researcher in NB launching study to better understand long-COVID in Canadian patients

by Yvette d'Entremont March 4, 2022November 18, 2022

A stone Dalhousie University sign on a grassy median.

Environment

Dalhousie University’s decision to source “sustainable biomass” from J.D. Irving and Wagner a “piss-off”

by Joan Baxter March 1, 2022October 20, 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: New Brunswick

The ‘hydrogen hyperbole epidemic’ comes to Nova Scotia

Masculinity, as defined by a friend of a mass murderer: “Men want art work that’s a picture of a gun enlarged seven feet high”

The conservation officer shuffle: Houston government quietly moves inspection, enforcement and compliance officers out of Nova Scotia Environment and back to Natural Resources

The clock is ticking, but Nova Scotia is still not acting on ticks and Lyme disease

Get outside: national nature prescription program launches in the Maritimes

Dalhousie researcher studying how pandemic impacted violence against women services

Northern Pulp is in a polluting league of its own

Engineering study: three top options to protect Chignecto Isthmus will cost between $189 million and $301 million

Researcher in NB launching study to better understand long-COVID in Canadian patients

Dalhousie University’s decision to source “sustainable biomass” from J.D. Irving and Wagner a “piss-off”

Halifax council will consider minister’s housing demands, but height will be a sticking point

Nova Scotia expands nominee program to include paramedics, pharmacy technicians

How Nova Scotia doesn’t support women workers: let us count the ways

Riley trial: Witness admits she lied multiple times in previous testimony, including when her testimony resulted in a murder conviction for another man

Nova Scotia drops provincial portion of HST on new apartment construction