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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 steel grater sits on a wooden cutting board next to a small pile of freshly shredded ginger.

Morning File

The casual ableism of cooking snobbery

by Philip Moscovitch June 28, 2022January 30, 2023

A wintery landscape is seen on a grey day. In the foreground, there are some small evergreen trees and medium-sized bare trees poking up from frozen moss.

City Hall, Environment

Dartmouth residents raise concerns about development next to wetland

by Zane Woodford February 8, 2022October 20, 2022

Moose river gold mine tailings pond with Scraggy Lake in foreground (contributed)

Mining

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

by Joan Baxter July 30, 2021November 22, 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 — Credit: Halifax Examiner

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.

Read the entire series, plus articles about Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction, on the DEAD WRONG homepage.

Tag: wetlands

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

The casual ableism of cooking snobbery

Dartmouth residents raise concerns about development next to wetland

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

Two deaths near Portapique on eve of mass murder anniversary

More than half of all branded plastic pollution linked to 56 companies, study says

Puerto Rico might be a precursor to Nova Scotia

No ‘magic’ to phase out coal plants, committee hears

Halifax will ask province if it will give construction company access to Dartmouth Cove