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The Real Maritime King of the ring

JP Simms started dreaming of being a pro wrestler when he was eight years old and watching The Undertaker and Shawn Michaels. Now, after years of training and matches, Simms found his success in the main event and more.

September 28, 2021 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter 2 Comments

Two out of three JP Simms suddenly found himself down one fall and facing defeat in his two-out-of-three falls challenge for the Kaizen Pro Wrestling heavyweight championship this past July. His opponent, crowd favourite and heavyweight champion, Covey Christ, was now ahead. JP Simms’ expression said he knew he had to get busy. Family friend, […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured Tagged With: Covey Christ, Halifax, Jeremy Simms, JP Simms, Kaizen Pro Wrestling, Lance Storm, Nova Scotia, pro wrestling, Storm Wrestling Academy, Wrestlecentre, WWE, WWF

Paper Excellence’s very big deal

Northern Pulp’s parent company is set to acquire the North American pulp and paper giant Domtar. While the acquisition is getting very little media attention in Canada, around the world many people are worried about it — for many good reasons.

July 26, 2021 By Joan Baxter 8 Comments

It is a Very Big Deal. At 10am on Thursday, July 29, at a special virtual meeting, shareholders of Domtar, a giant in the North American pulp and paper industry, will vote on whether to accept the sale of all the corporation’s issued and outstanding shares of common stock to Paper Excellence for US$55.50 per […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News Tagged With: Alberta Wilderness Association, Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), Bloomberg, Brazil, British Columbia, BusinessWire, Catalyst Paper, CBC, China, CO2 emissions, Competition Bureau of Canada, COVID-19, creditor protection, Crofton, David Suzuki Foundation, default, deforestation, Domtar, Dryden, Eco-Business, Environmental Paper Network, Espanola, eucalyptus, Euromoney, Europe, forest fires, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), France, FSC certification, Global Forest Coalition, greenhouse gas emissions, Halper Sadeh LLP, Indonesia, Joshua Martin, Kalimantan, Kamloops, land grabbing, MacKenzie, Michael Gorman, Montral, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), North America, Northern Pulp, Northern Softwood Bleached Kraft pulp, Northern Timber Nova Scotia Corporation, Ogan Komering Ilir (OKI), OKI pulp mill, Ontario, Paper Excellence, Paper Excellence Brazil, Paper Excellence Canada, Paper Excellence Canada Holdings Corporation, peat fires, Port Alberni, Powell River, pulp and paper industry, pulp and paper mills, Quebec, Restore Our Earth, Reuters, Sara Webb, Saskatchewan, Sierra Club, Sinar Mas, Sinar Mas Group, South America, South Carolina, Stand Earth Canada, state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Sumatra, Supreme Court of British Columbia, Widjaja family, wildlife habitat, Windsor, WWF

PRICED OUT

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.

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

Two young white women, one with dark hair and one blonde, smile at the camera on a sunny spring day.

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.

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

Subscribe to the podcast to get episodes automatically downloaded to your device — there’s a great instructional article here. Email Suzanne for help.

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