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Anaconda Mining joins the gold rush on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore

Part 3: From West Africa's gold fields to Canada’s ocean playground

February 13, 2022 By Joan Baxter 1 Comment

Gold exploration and mining companies are lining up to get at Nova Scotia’s gold, as the province undergoes a fourth gold rush. In 2017, Atlantic Gold opened the province’s first-ever open pit gold mine in Moose River, with plans to open three more along the Eastern Shore, in what it described to potential investors as […]

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Report: Canada’s “critically depleted” fish stocks are further threatened because the Fisheries Act doesn’t address climate change

May 14, 2021 By Joan Baxter 2 Comments

A new report on how and why climate change should be incorporated into fisheries management in Atlantic Canada and the Eastern Arctic begins with an ominous passage that serves as a stark reminder of just how tragically wrong we humans can be about the limits of the natural bounty on this planet.[i]  The report was  […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News Tagged With: Atlantic Canada, Atlantic Canadian fisheries, Atlantic cod, Australia, Bay of Fundy, climate change, Dalhousie University, Daniel Boyce, deoxygenation, Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), Eastern Arctic, fish stocks, Fisheries Act, fisheries management, fishery stock assessments, fishing, groundfish, groundfish collapse, Gulf of Maine, Gulf of St. Lawrence, invasive species, invertebrates, Ireland, Katie Schleit, lobster, melting sea ice, Newfoundland and Labrador, Ocean Frontier Institute, Oceans North, overfishing, phtytoplankton, Pierre Pepin, Scotian Shelf, shrimp, T.H. Huxley, United States

“I think the founding fathers had way too high an opinion of human nature”: Examineradio, episode #95

January 6, 2017 By Russell Gragg Leave a Comment

This week we speak with regular Examineradio guest Paul McLeod. Formerly a local journalist with Allnovascotia and the Daily News, Paul later went on to become the Chronicle Herald’s Ottawa bureau correspondent. He now covers American politics in Washington, DC for Buzzfeed. The 2016 presidential election was his introduction to the world of US-styled elections. He […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Examineradio, journalism, Nova Centre, Paul McLeod, podcast, United States

PRICED OUT

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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.

2020 mass murders

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

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. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

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Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

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