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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 […]

This aerial shot shows the vast tailings facility at the Touquoy open pit gold mine in Nova Scotia. Photo: Simon Ryder-Burbidge
Posted inCommentary, Environment, Mining, Province House

Atlantic Gold’s parent company hints it may halt its Nova Scotia operation

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter June 25, 2022January 9, 2023
Author Joan Kuyek addresses the Water Not Gold rally.
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
Atlantic Gold's Touquoy mine, seen from above
Posted inMining

Atlantic Gold is waging a propaganda blitz in Nova Scotia

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter March 25, 2020November 15, 2022
Posted inProvince House

Roughed up by the RCMP at a public meeting, John Perkins sues Atlantic Gold and the cops

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson August 13, 2019December 7, 2022
"NOPE" or no to open pit excavation sign on the St. Mary's Salmon Museum.
Posted inMining

St. Barbara still intends to acquire Atlantic Gold

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter June 3, 2019November 15, 2022
Posted inMining

The $722 million deal

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter May 17, 2019November 10, 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
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.


Tractors bulldoze trees as American money rains from the sky.
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.

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