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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.

Nova Scotia Environment minister approved Signal Gold’s open pit mine at Goldboro despite concerns and criticisms from scientists in his own department

by Joan Baxter August 10, 2022November 6, 2022

On August 2, Nova Scotia’s Environment and Climate Change minister Tim Halman approved the proposal by Toronto’s Signal Gold for an open pit gold mine in Goldboro, on the province’s Eastern Shore. Signal Gold, which until recently was called Anaconda Mining (an anaconda is a giant snake that strangles its prey), plans to operate the […]

A row of nets line the surface of Annapolis Basin near Rattling Beach on a clear blue day.

Environment

Endangered wild salmon at risk from sea lice outbreak at two fish farms in Annapolis Basin

by Ethan Lycan-Lang and Leslie Amminson December 1, 2021October 20, 2022

Fishery

Sea lice are decimating Atlantic salmon, and climate change is making the situation worse

by Joan Baxter May 1, 2021November 22, 2022

brown Bay of Fundy water up against the closed aboiteau in the causeway across the Avon River in Windsor, NS

Environment

Small dam, big controversy

by Joan Baxter December 8, 2020November 22, 2022

Environment

“Nature won”

by Jennifer Henderson May 30, 2020December 13, 2022

Environment, Investigation, Province House

Muzzling the Forest Keepers

by Linda Pannozzo November 4, 2016October 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: Species at Risk Act

Nova Scotia Environment minister approved Signal Gold’s open pit mine at Goldboro despite concerns and criticisms from scientists in his own department

Endangered wild salmon at risk from sea lice outbreak at two fish farms in Annapolis Basin

Sea lice are decimating Atlantic salmon, and climate change is making the situation worse

Small dam, big controversy

“Nature won”

Muzzling the Forest Keepers

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