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“Hands off our protected areas, and lay off our Crown land”

The proposed Inverness airport will either encroach on or be very near to the Masons Mountain Nature Reserve, a protected nature reserve. It's not the kind of place one wants to have commercial jets “screaming in and out," says the Raymond Plourde, the Ecology Action Centre's wilderness coordinator.

July 21, 2019 By Joan Baxter Leave a Comment

In the past month or so, an awful lot of people — especially people with nothing to gain from a new airport that would serve a couple of luxury golf resorts in Inverness — have put forward more than enough good reasons for both the federal and provincial governments to tell Cabot Links and Cabot […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Environment, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Aaron Beswick, Andrew Macdonald, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), Ben Cowan-Dewar, Build Cape Breton, Cabot Links airport, Cabot Links financing, Cape Breton Island Airport Community Interest Company, Carlyle Group, Daniel Gallivan, Darlene Grant Fiander, Darrell Dexter, Francis Campbell, Frank McKenna, Inverness Airport, Inverness Beach, Jennifer Alkenbrack, Margaree Environmental Association, Mary Campbell, Masons Mountain Nature Reserve, Mike Keiser, Minister Bernadette Jordan, MP Rodger Cuzner, Neal Livingston, Raymond Plourde, Rodney MacDonald, Steven Joyce, Tom Ayers

Fool’s Gold

Nova Scotia's Myopic Pursuit of Metals & Minerals (Part 4)

June 13, 2018 By Joan Baxter 4 Comments

A Halifax Examiner / Cape Breton Spectator investigation. This is the fourth and final instalment in a series of articles on the push for mines and quarries in Nova Scotia. You can find Part I here. How the mining lobby is working to undermine environmental protection in Nova Scotia On a cold day in late November […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, Province House Tagged With: Amanda Rekunyk, Anaconda Mining, Atisthan Roach, Barry Carroll, Black Point Aggregates, Brian Fogarty, Bruce Nunn, Canadian Minerals and Metals Plan (CMMP), Dawson Brisco, Don James, Donkin coal mine, Elder Elizabeth Marshall, Erdene Resources Development Corp., Fogarty’s Cove, Fool’s Gold part 4, Frank Fogarty, Frank Leith, Garnet Rogers, Gordana Slepcev, Gretchen Fitzgerald, Joan Baxter, John Perkins, June Jarvis, Justin Brake, Kameron Collieries, Kellys Mountain, Kluscap Mountain, Lloyd Hines, MANS, Mark Parent, martin Mariette Materials, Mike MacDonald, mining lobby, Morien Resources, NS Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Peter Oram, Premier Stephen McNeil, Raymond Plourde, Rodney MacDonald, Sean Kirby, Sierra Club Canada Foundation, Stan Rogers, Stantec, Suzanne Patles, Vulcan Materials Company, Whites Point Quarry

The Convention Centre Tower Play

May 4, 2014 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

Did Halifax’s dream of being a world financial capital help Joe Ramia’s proposal, with an office tower on top, beat a higher-rated plan for the Cogswell Interchange? by Tim Bousquet This article first appeared in The Coast, on November 25, 2010. On Tuesday, February 26, 2008, Nova Scotia conquered Wall Street. That morning a chartered […]

Filed Under: Investigation Tagged With: Andy Filmore, Convention centre, Financial Centre, Joe Ramia, Peter Kelly, Rodney MacDonald, Trade Centre Limited, Wall Street

The Wrongful Conviction of Glen Assoun

In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Click here to read the Halifax Examiner's extensive reporting on the case.

DEAD WRONG

A botched police investigation and a police coverup shed light on the murders of dozens of women in Nova Scotia.

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Examiner folk The Halifax Examiner was founded by investigative reporter Tim Bousquet, and now includes a growing collection of writers, contributors, and staff. Left to right: Joan Baxter, Stephen Kimber, Linda Pannozzo, Erica Butler, Jennifer Henderson, Iris the Amazing, Tim Bousquet, Evelyn C. White, El Jones, Philip Moscovitch More about the Examiner.

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