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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 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

“We cannot imagine two locations less suited for extractive projects such as gold mining”

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter December 15, 2021November 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
A double photo: a book titled A Century Ago, Halifax 1871, which has a black paper cover with aged white lettering and an illustration of a lamppost with a gold lamp. Beside it is a photo of Granville Street east. There is a wagon on the street, and a couple of ghost like people who were moving too quickly for the camera.
Posted inUncategorized

A look back at Halifax’s old streets

A smiling young white guy with brown hair, in his Halifax Examiner T shirt. by Ethan Lycan-Lang October 27, 2021October 20, 2022
Posted inMining

Atlantic Gold plans to mine “paradise”

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter March 21, 2021November 22, 2022
Posted inEnvironment

Sacrificing wild Atlantic salmon for gold

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter March 4, 2021November 22, 2022
Posted inEnvironment

Healthy Bays Network: Fish farms are not just a rural issue; people in Halifax should be concerned

A smiling white woman with long straight dark blonde hair and bangs, with half her face in dramatic shadow by Yvette d'Entremont May 27, 2020October 20, 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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