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A gold tailings site
Posted inProvince House

Public paying the price to clean up old gold mines

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter March 23, 2022November 22, 2022

The gold rush in Upper Seal Harbour near Goldboro began with the discovery of gold in 1892 by a fellow named Howard Richardson. For the next 65 years, gold miners dug rock out of the earth in what was known as the “Richardson Belt” on the banks of Gold Brook Lake in Guysborough County. In […]

Posted inMining

Updated: Photos suggest that there is a tailings leak at Atlantic Gold’s Moose River gold mine

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter August 29, 2021November 22, 2022
Moose river gold mine tailings pond with Scraggy Lake in foreground (contributed)
Posted inMining

The Examiner quizzed the four main political parties on gold mining issues. Here are their responses.

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter July 30, 2021November 22, 2022
Posted inMining

Who benefits from Atlantic Gold’s Nova Scotia operations?

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter June 21, 2021November 22, 2022
Posted inMining

Atlantic Gold plans to mine “paradise”

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

Atlantic Gold’s lobbying blitz

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter February 5, 2021November 22, 2022
Posted inMining

After reading a Halifax Examiner article, two cops showed up at an author reading at Mount Allison University

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter January 23, 2021November 22, 2022
Posted inMining

Nova Scotia has laid charges for 32 environmental infractions against Atlantic Gold

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter December 23, 2020November 22, 2022
Posted inUncategorized

Whale sanctuary coming to Port Hilford

by Erica Butler February 26, 2020October 20, 2022
A protest sign sayin "nope no open pit excavation" placed above tourism wayfinding signs for the Salmon Museum.
Posted inEnvironment

Friends of St. Mary’s River say “NOPE” to Atlantic Gold

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter January 25, 2019November 10, 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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