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# Joan Baxter

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- ['Red flags about ‘green’ hydrogen and its purported role in tackling the climate crisis](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2025/11/01/red-flags-about-green-hydrogen-and-its-purported-role-in-tackling-the-climate-crisis/) - This article was first published by the Halifax Examiner on Sept. 2, 2025. On August 13, 2025, Kristen Overmyer submitted a complaint against EverWind Fuels to the Competition Bureau of Canada, alleging the company has been “making unsubstantiated and false, green claims promoting ammonia production from Nova Scotia renewable energy.” According to Overmyer, a Nova
- [Undermining climate progress and democracy the Carney way](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2026/02/01/undermining-climate-progress-and-democracy-the-carney-way/) - Prime Minister Mark Carney signs the White House guest book as President Donald J. Trump stands behind him in the White House on May 6, 2025. Photo by Lars Hagberg, provided by the Office of the Prime Minister © His Majesty the King in Right of Canada, 2025 (non-commercial use). This article was first published
- [Fool's gold: the resource curse strikes Nova Scotia (Part 4)](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2018/09/17/fools-gold-the-resource-curse-strikes-nova-scotia-part-4/) - This is the last in a series of four articles on the 21st century push for mining and quarrying in Nova Scotia. Earlier versions of these articles appeared in May and June 2018 in the Halifax Examiner and the Cape Breton Spectator. (I am pleased to say that this series of four articles earned a
- [As Northern Pulp dies, a big chunk of Nova Scotia is for sale. The government should buy it back](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2025/10/01/as-northern-pulp-dies-a-big-chunk-of-nova-scotia-is-for-sale-the-government-should-buy-it-back/) - This article was first published by the Halifax Examiner on August 25, 2025. Article summary: • Over the lifetime of the Northern Pulp mill, Nova Scotia lost hundreds of millions of dollars because of incompetent, naive, and complicit governments. • As Northern Pulp's billionaire Indonesian owners have opted not to build the new mill and Next to the countless hundreds of millions of dollars in loans, grants, incentives, legal fees, and giveaways of resources Nova Scotians have lavished on mill owners over the decades, another $104 million dollars to buy a vast amount of precious forest land from Northern Pulp would be a drop in the proverbial bucket.
- [Oversized pickups and SUVs: the new kings of our roads are dangerous, threatening lives and living environments (Part 3)](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2025/09/27/oversized-pickups-and-suvs-the-new-kings-of-our-roads-are-dangerous-threatening-lives-and-our-living-environments-part-3/) - bloated vehicles There is an interesting parallel between the lobbying of the auto industry and that of the tobacco industry of bygone years ... We know big cars are bad for us but we aren’t doing anything to regulate the industry.
- [Oversized pickups and SUVs: the new kings of the roads are dangerous, threatening lives and living environments (Part 2)](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2025/09/26/oversized-pickups-and-suvs-the-new-kings-of-the-roads-are-dangerous-threatening-lives-and-living-environments-part-2/) - This article was first published by the Halifax Examiner on October 25, 2024. This is the second in a series of three articles looking at the ongoing trend in North America for ever bigger and taller pickups and SUVs, and some of the problems these pose both for human health and safety, and for the The rise of the bloated, giant SUV and pickup in North America can be traced back to a law in the United States intended to double fuel efficiency in vehicles and and make automobiles more environmentally friendly. Because of heavy lobbying by U.S. automakers, light trucks were exempted from the new fuel efficiency regulations. This gave the automakers a giant loophole, big and wide enough to drive a truck through, which is what they did.
- [Oversized pickups and SUVs: the new kings of the roads are dangerous, threatening lives and living environments (Part 1)](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2025/09/26/oversized-pickups-and-suvs-the-new-kings-of-the-roads-are-dangerous-threatening-lives-and-our-living-environments-part-1/) - This article was originally published by the Halifax Examiner on October 24, 2024. It is the first of a three-part series. Part 2 is available here, and part 3 here. Why this series Just after the turn of the millennium, in 2002, American journalist Keith Bradsher wrote a book called High and Mighty. SUVs: the
- [Containing Northern Pulp's mess: A half century of toxic waste in Boat Harbour, a leaky pipeline, and what happens next in the mill saga](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2019/04/15/containing-northern-pulps-mess-a-half-century-of-toxic-waste-in-boat-harbour-a-leaky-pipeline-and-what-happens-next-in-the-mill-saga/) - This article first appeared in the Halifax Examiner on November 3, 2018. The numbers are staggering. For the past 51 years, the bleached kraft pulp mill on Abercrombie Point in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, has piped about 1.25 trillion litres of toxic effluent into Boat Harbour.[1] That’s enough to fill about half a million
- [Northern Pulp says it "cares" - but for whom and what?](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2019/07/17/northern-pulp-says-it-cares-but-for-whom-and-what/) - This article was originally published in the Halifax Examiner on February 21, 2019. “We care,” says Northern Pulp on the website it has created to spread the word that it “cares about forestry families of Nova Scotia.” The site is a vehicle for the company’s letter-writing campaign to get people in the forestry sector to
- [Nova Scotia is practically giving away ‘some of the purest water in Canada’](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2024/04/29/nova-scotia-is-practically-giving-away-some-of-the-purest-water-in-canada/) - This is the first of a two-part series looking at bottled water from Nova Scotia’s underground, how much the province charges for it, and the real value of fresh water in the midst of a climate crisis. This article looks at the withdrawal of large amounts of groundwater in Colchester County by two large corporations,
- [Nova Scotia is practically giving away ‘some of the purest water in Canada’](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2024/04/29/nova-scotia-is-practically-giving-away-some-of-the-purest-water-in-canada-2/) - This is the second of a two-part series looking at two commercial groundwater wells in Colchester County – one owned by the Sobeys company Big 8 Beverages, and the other by Canadian Springs, owned by Aquaterra. This article examines some of the environmental implications of such commercial water bottling, when the planet is experiencing not Water is a priceless resource. Without water there's no life on earth. And so the industry is selling bottled water, they're making profits from selling water, but they're essentially just selling plastic.
- [Beware, "The Epoch Times" are here ... and there, and everywhere](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2021/01/15/beware-the-epoch-times-are-here-and-there-and-everywhere/) - (An earlier version of this opinion piece appeared in the Halifax Examiner "Morning File" of January 15, 2021.) The "sample copy" of the newspaper landed innocently enough in our house. On Tuesday, January 12, 2021, Canada Post delivered a “complimentary” issue of The Epoch Times right to our door in rural northern Nova Scotia. It
- [The healing powers of trees](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2025/09/24/the-healing-powers-of-trees/) - This article was first published by the Halifax Examiner on December 27, 2024. It’s a bone-chilling morning near the top of Nuttby Mountain in the Cobequid Hills of northern Nova Scotia. About a dozen people have assembled for a late autumn walk in the woods, or more specifically, for lessons in forest health and human Forest bathing is a concept recognized decades ago in Japan, and while it has many meanings and applications, in short, it is “the simple and therapeutic act of spending time in a forest.”
- [Private equity plunderers in our midst](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2025/09/14/private-equity-plunderers-in-our-midst/) - This article was first published by the Halifax Examiner. It's March 19, 2025, and The Bay in the large mall in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, is busy, busier than it’s been in a long time, according to staff members, because – belatedly, they say – people are showing up to support the department store now that
- [Some ‘special interest groups’ seem more special than others when it comes to bending N.S. Premier Houston’s ear](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2025/09/15/some-special-interest-groups-seem-more-special-than-others-when-it-comes-to-bending-n-s-premier-houstons-ear/) - This commentary was first published in the Halifax Examiner on June 11, 2025. Back in the fall of 2024, when Tim Houston was on the stump, seeking re-election as premier of Nova Scotia, his campaign literature was littered with photos of him wearing a big toothy grin that made him look like an awfully nice,
- [The never-ending media hype about the Canso spaceport … that doesn’t exist](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2025/09/16/the-never-ending-media-hype-about-the-canso-spaceport-that-doesnt-exist/) - This commentary was first published by the Halifax Examiner on June 16, 2025. On May 2, 2025, the Canadian Geographic published a heart-warming tale, initially headlined, “From fishing to rockets — Canso, N.S. could be entering the space race: U.S.-imposed tariffs could tip the scales on a proposed spaceport near Canso, N.S.” This is the quaint
- [Taking on private equity, preventing American takeovers, and ensuring Canada is ‘Never 51’](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2025/09/21/taking-on-private-equity-preventing-american-takeovers-and-ensuring-canada-is-never-51/) - This conversation was first published by the Halifax Examiner on March 28, 2025. Private equity firms have been in the news this year. As I reported here, Canada’s oldest retailer, the iconic Hudson’s Bay Company, has declared bankruptcy and has been liquidating all but six of its 80 stores across the country. Like so many
- [Learning ‘not to hurt’ nature: Pictou County Forest School offers a classroom amidst the trees](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2024/05/22/learning-not-to-hurt-nature-pictou-county-forest-school-offers-a-classroom-amidst-the-trees/) - This article originally appeared in the Halifax Examiner in May 2023. As I've noted in recent posts on my website, because multi-billionaire Mark Zuckerberg's Meta platforms are blocking (censoring) media in Canada, this means articles published by media outlets cannot be posted or shared on any Meta platforms - not Facebook and not Instagram. This
- [Dissecting forestry industry’s deceptive PR propaganda campaign](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2024/05/19/dissecting-forestry-industrys-deceptive-pr-propaganda-campaign/) - This article was originally published by the Halifax Examiner, but because Meta platforms like Facebook and Instagram are blocking / censoring media articles in Canada, alas, the Halifax Examiner is no longer able to share its articles on these (anti-)social media platforms. Thus, if my articles are to be shared on Meta platforms, I have
- [‘Green’ hydrogen industry takes aim at Nova Scotia’s underground salt deposits](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2024/05/14/green-hydrogen-industry-takes-aim-at-nova-scotias-underground-salt-deposits/) - This article was first published by the Halifax Examiner in November 2022, but the underground grab of mineral rights in Nova Scotia by "green hydrogen" entrepreneurs escaped broad public notice at the time. CBC is now picking up on the story of possible hydrogen storage in underground salt caverns in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, so
- [Miscommunication: how government’s PR gatekeepers are increasingly controlling the message](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2024/04/28/miscommunication-how-governments-pr-gatekeepers-are-increasingly-controlling-the-message/) - | This article originally appeared in the Halifax Examiner in January 2021, but it is more relevant than ever. The provincial government may have changed, but media relations policies and lack of government openness have not. Meanwhile, media outlets and the number of journalists in Canada have continued to shrink, while the number of communications people
- [Privatization ahead for VIA’s most travelled route](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2024/04/24/privatization-ahead-for-vias-most-travelled-route/) - This, the third and final article looking at passenger rail service in Canada, was originally published by the Halifax Examiner. It delves into the decision by the federal government to privatize the most lucrative VIA Rail route in Ontario and Quebec, and what this could mean for passenger rail service in the rest of the
- [Trying to give VIA Rail a chance](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2024/04/24/trying-to-give-via-rail-a-chance/) - In this second article in a series about passenger train service in Canada – past, present and future - we look at just how dramatically passenger rail service has been diminished, the myriad problems VIA Rail faces, and at the efforts by some parliamentarians to support and protect the Crown corporation responsible for passenger rail
- [The Ocean: VIA Rail’s little old train that hopes it can](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2024/04/24/the-ocean-via-rails-little-old-train-that-hopes-it-can/) - This article, the first of a three-part series on passenger rail in Canada, was originally published by the Halifax Examiner. The introduction is here. It’s a Friday morning, which means the Ocean – VIA Rail’s thrice-weekly passenger train to Montreal – is sitting on the tracks at the VIA station in Halifax, almost ready for
- [Railroad trilogy 2024: Canada’s passenger rail service – past, present and future](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2024/04/24/railroad-trilogy-2024-canadas-passenger-rail-service-past-present-and-future/) - This article was first published by the Halifax Examiner, as the introduction to a series of three articles about passenger rail in Canada. Just after Christmas 2023, my spouse and I boarded a VIA Rail train in Truro, Nova Scotia, bound for Montreal, with a connection to Ottawa for a family gathering. I hadn’t been
- [Paper Excellence shuts down a book signing for the book, "The Mill - Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest"](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2017/12/12/what-happened-when-the-mill-protested-the-book-the-mill-fifty-years-of-pulp-and-protest/) - By Joan Baxter December 12, 2017 (updated November 29, 2022) When I held the first copy of "The Mill - Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest" in my hands five years ago, in November 2017, all I thought is: "I told the story. That is done. On to other subjects and issues now." Ha. Little
- [Northern Pulp has a new set of “friends”](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2022/04/16/northern-pulp-has-a-new-set-of-friends/) - This is how the “Friends of a New Northern Pulp” describe themselves on their website: We are Nova Scotians who care deeply about our province, our forests, and our communities. We are the 36,000 Nova Scotians who own small and large woodlots. So, just one line in and the BS begins. The wording of the
- ["Please don't sell Nova Scotia:" Additional taxes on non-resident landowners have been discussed since the 1960s. Now the debate is on again as non-residents snap up property in Cape Breton.](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2022/01/01/please-dont-sell-nova-scotia-additional-taxes-on-non-resident-landowners-have-been-discussed-since-the-1960s-now-the-debate-is-on-again-as-non-residents-snap-up-property-in-cape-breton/) - This article was originally published by the Halifax Examiner on November 28, 2021. Nova Scotia has long been a popular place not just for settlers, but in the last century it also became a popular place for non-residents — including many well-heeled Americans and Europeans — to purchase properties.[1] For decades, scholars and successive governments
- [Developers are selling off Cape Breton, one subdivision after the other, to German-speaking non-residents? What — if anything — is wrong with that?](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2022/01/01/developers-are-selling-off-cape-breton-one-subdivision-after-the-other-to-german-speaking-non-residents-what-if-anything-is-wrong-with-that/) - This article was originally published by the Halifax Examiner on November 23, 2021. Note that since it was first published, Frank Eckhardt who is featured in this article, has been arrested twice in Cape Breton, once on extortion charges, and a second time for a slew of firearms offences. Nova Scotia has long been a
- [Marketing Cape Breton as a "refuge" for "clear thinkers." Development companies selling properties to German-speaking non-residents who "want to live with the values of Germany from 1933 to 1945."](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2022/01/01/marketing-cape-breton-as-a-refuge-for-clear-thinkers/) - This article was originally published by the Halifax Examiner on November 19, 2021. Nova Scotia has long been a popular place for settlers, but in the last century it also became a popular place for non-residents — including many well-heeled Americans and Europeans — to purchase properties.[1] For decades, scholars and successive governments have debated
- [“It pains me to tell you that the image of Canada is severely damaged:” damning testimony in a new book reveals the horrific record of Canadian mining companies in Guatemala](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2022/01/01/it-pains-me-to-tell-you-that-the-image-of-canada-is-severely-damaged-damning-testimony-in-a-new-book-reveals-the-horrific-record-of-canadian-mining-companies-in-guatemala/) - This book review was originally published in the Halifax Examiner on November 17, 2021. Alvaro Sandoval is a Guatemalan who knows all too well what it is like to be attacked and criminalized for trying to defend his community from North American gold mining companies, and he has a message for Canadians and Americans: I
- [QAnon without borders](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2021/02/10/qanon-without-borders/) - An earlier version of this article appeared in the Halifax Examiner on September 13, 2020, before the US election and the storming of the Capitol in Washington on January 6, which involved many QAnon adherents. This article contains graphic descriptions of conspiracy theories about child abuse and torture that may not be suitable for all
- [Mali's Morila gold mine: "not everything glitters"](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2019/11/19/malis-morila-gold-mine-not-everything-glitters/) - November 18, 2019 This book chapter is the result of a visit to the Morila gold mine in Mali nearly 18 years ago, and is excerpted from my 2010 book, “Dust from our eyes – an unblinkered look at Africa,” published by Wolsak & Wynn in Canada and worldwide by Fahamu Books, which was shortlisted
- [Port Wallace Gamble: The real estate boom meets Nova Scotia's toxic mine legacy (Part 1)](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2021/02/02/port-wallace-gamble-the-real-estate-boom-meets-nova-scotias-toxic-mine-legacy/) - The making of a toxic mess and the uncalculated cost of previous gold rushes This is Part 1 of a three-part story, an earlier version of which appeared in March 2020 in the Halifax Examiner, about the toxic legacy from historic gold mines in Nova Scotia, which its citizens will be paying many millions of
- [Port Wallace Gamble: The real estate boom meets Nova Scotia's toxic mine legacy (Part 2)](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2021/02/02/port-wallace-gamble-the-real-estate-boom-meets-nova-scotias-toxic-mine-legacy-2/) - In the shadow of Montague Gold Mines – how historic pollution is haunting big plans for developing Port Wallace This is a story, an earlier version of which was published in the Halifax Examiner in March 2020, about the toxic legacy from historic gold mines in Nova Scotia, which its citizens will be paying many
- [Port Wallace Gamble: The real estate boom meets Nova Scotia's toxic mine legacy (Part 3)](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2021/02/02/port-wallace-gamble-the-real-estate-boom-meets-nova-scotias-toxic-mine-legacy-part-3/) - Cleaning up the historic tailings from Montague Gold Mines – does Port Wallace development hang in the balance? This is the third and final article in a series first published in the Halifax Examiner in March 2020, about the toxic legacy from historic gold mines in Nova Scotia, which its citizens will be paying many
- [Leak at Moose River gold mine raises environmental concerns](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2020/02/17/leak-at-moose-river-gold-mine-raises-environmental-concerns/) - Atlantic Gold springs an effluent leak, plugs a new mine, and sells itself to investors This article first appeared in The Halifax Examiner on March 15, 2019. By Joan Baxter Atlantic Gold’s manager of environment and permitting, James Millard, calls it a “spill” or a “loss of control” caused by a “gasket failure.” By whatever
- [Remembering Dr. Frank Plummer](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2020/02/06/remembering-dr-frank-plummer/) - Canada and the world have lost a great medical researcher, and a remarkable man. In my life - and I've had a long one - I've met only a handful of people I admired as much as I did Frank Plummer. This is my tribute to him. By Joan Baxter February 6, 2020. When I
- [The curious case of Northern Pulp’s neighbour Canso Chemicals, and why its owners keep it alive](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2019/11/28/the-curious-case-of-northern-pulps-neighbour-canso-chemicals-and-why-its-owners-keep-it-alive/) - This article first appeared in the Halifax Examiner on March 7, 2019. As decision-day approaches on Northern Pulp's proposal for a new effluent treatment facility that would be constructed very close to the Canso Chemicals site, which is heavily contaminated with mercury, I decided to republish the article here. Canso Chemicals hasn’t produced any chemicals
- [Northern Pulp's environmental documents - missing mercury, a pulp mill that never was, and oodles of contradictions](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2019/07/24/northern-pulps-environmental-documents-missing-mercury-a-pulp-mill-that-never-was-and-oodles-of-contradictions/) - This article first appeared in the Halifax Examiner on March 5, 2019. There is much to wade through in the documents that Northern Pulp submitted to Nova Scotia Environment on February 7, 2019, when it registered its “Replacement Effluent Treatment Facility” for a 50-day, Class 1 environmental assessment (EA). Citizens who wanted to comment to
- [Like blood from a stone: trying to get information out of the Nova Scotia Department of Energy and Mines](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2019/04/18/like-blood-from-a-stone-trying-to-get-information-out-of-the-nova-scotia-department-of-energy-and-mines/) - This article first appeared in the Halifax Examiner on February 7, 2019. Late last year, Nova Scotia’s Minister of Energy and Mines, Derek Mombourquette, penned an op-ed that his department sent out to the media. As I mentioned in the Halifax Examiner Morning File on January 16, 2019, the opinion piece was entitled “A little piece of
- [Friends of St. Mary's River say "NOPE" to Atlantic Gold](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2019/04/16/friends-of-st-marys-river-say-nope-to-atlantic-gold/) - (This article first appeared in the Halifax Examiner on January 25, 2019.) For many years, when the St. Mary’s River Association (SMRA) held meetings in Sherbrooke on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore, the group members’ purpose was primarily to report on the headway they were making in their efforts to achieve their vision of “Health
- [“Pig in a poke”: die-hard proponents want to open Nova Scotia to fracking](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2019/04/15/pig-in-a-poke-die-hard-proponents-want-to-open-nova-scotia-to-fracking/) - (This article was first published by the Halifax Examiner on September 14, 2018) On a late summer evening in September 2018, about 200 people gathered in Pugwash, filling the Northumberland Community Curling Club for a debate framed around the resolution “fracking will be beneficial to Cumberland County” in northern Nova Scotia. The audience was,
- [Fool's gold: the resource curse strikes Nova Scotia (Part 1)](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2018/09/10/fools-gold-the-resource-curse-strikes-nova-scotia-part-1/) - There’s a 21st century gold rush starting in Nova Scotia on Canada's Atlantic coast, just as industrial gold mining is increasingly coming into disrepute around the world. It has been described as an “environmental disaster,” which often leads to contamination of water sources on which life depends. This is the first in a series of
- [Fool's gold: the resource curse strikes Nova Scotia (Part 2)](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2018/09/11/fools-gold-the-resource-curse-strikes-nova-scotia-part-2/) - There’s a 21st century gold rush starting in Nova Scotia on Canada’s Atlantic coast, just as industrial gold mining is increasingly coming into disrepute around the world. It has been described as an “environmental disaster,” which often leads to contamination of water sources on which life depends. This is the second in a series of
- [Fool's gold: the resource curse strikes Nova Scotia (Part 3)](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2018/09/13/fools-gold-the-resource-curse-strikes-nova-scotia-part-3/) - This is the third in a series of four articles on the 21st-century push for mining and quarrying in Nova Scotia on Canada's Atlantic coast. Earlier versions of articles in this series appeared in May and June 2018 in the Halifax Examiner and the Cape Breton Spectator. (I am pleased to say that this series of
- ["Everything won't stink so bad": The countdown to the Boat Harbour closure begins](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2019/04/15/everything-wont-stink-so-bad-the-countdown-to-the-boat-harbour-closure-begins/) - (This article was first published by the Halifax Examiner on February 1, 2019.) The children of Pictou Landing First Nation didn’t mince words when they addressed the standing-room-only audience that gathered in their school gymnasium on January 31, 2019 to mark the start of the one-year countdown to the legislated closure of Boat Harbour. They
- ["Go ask God" - the homecoming of Mali's man of mysteries](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2018/02/19/go-ask-god-the-homecoming-of-malis-man-of-mysteries/) - By Joan Baxter February 18, 2018 This has been adapted from Chapter 21 of my book, “A Serious Pair of Shoes: An African Journal,” published in 2000 in Canada. I am publishing it again now after being inspired by a fascinating BBC article about Babani Sissoko, "The playboy who got away with $242 million -
- [Pottersfield Press releases new book “The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest”](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2017/11/06/pottersfield-press-releases-new-book-the-mill-fifty-years-of-pulp-and-protest/) - This book explores the power that a single industry can wield over an entire province, namely Nova Scotia in eastern Canada. It is a story that has been waiting to be told. With a powerful foreword by Elizabeth May, leader of Canada’s Green Party and Member of Parliament for Saanich-Gulf Islands, British Columbia, it has
- [Looking for healthy eating? Go to Africa!](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2016/01/13/looking-for-healthy-eating-go-to-africa-2/) - It certainly flies in the face of an awful lot of stereotypes and headlines about hunger and malnutrition, but it turns out that Africa has much to te
- [Book review: "Whitewash - The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science" by Carey Gillam](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2017/10/30/book-review-whitewash-the-story-of-a-weed-killer-cancer-and-the-corruption-of-science-by-carey-gillam/) - Book review by: Joan Baxter A few weeks ago I found myself sitting beside a retired chemical engineer at a reunion of my husband’s age-mates in Germany. I’m not sure what made the engineer decide to unleash decades worth of remorse about what his profession had done in the 1960s and 1970s, but that’s what
- [BBC Focus on Africa interviews author of "Seven Grains of Paradise: A Culinary Journey in Africa"](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2017/08/22/bbc-focus-on-africa-interviews-author-of-seven-grains-of-paradise-a-culinary-journey-in-africa/) - BBC Focus on Africa interviews Joan Baxter, a former correspondent for the program, about her new book, "Seven Grains of Paradise: A Culinary Journey in Africa", which celebrates Africa's food, farms, crops and cuisines. Listen to the interview here: August 17, 2017 BBC Focus on Africa interviews Joan Baxter The book is available as an
- [Book launch for "Seven Grains of Paradise: A Culinary Journey in Africa"](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2017/07/26/book-launch-for-seven-grains-of-paradise-a-culinary-journey-in-africa/) - On Friday, August 4, 2017, from 7 until 9 PM, Pottersfield Press will be launching the latest book by Joan Baxter, “Seven Grains of Paradise: A Culinary Journey in Africa” at “Mabel Murple’s Book Shoppe & Dreamery”, which was opened in early July by the renowned Canadian author and children’s poet, Sheree Fitch, and her
- [Challenging some myths about Africa’s food, food security and farming](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2017/07/14/challenging-some-myths-about-africas-food-food-security-and-farming/) - BY Joan Baxter July 14, 2017 (This article is the second of two adapted excerpts from Seven Grains of Paradise: A Culinary Journey in Africa, available in print and Kindle edition at Amazon.ca and as an e-pub from Amazon.com and Kobo, and in print from Nimbus.) At the beginning of the 1960s, when many African
- [Celebrating Africa’s food and farmers](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2017/07/12/celebrating-africas-food-and-farmers/) - BY Joan Baxter July 12, 2017 (This article is the first of two adapted excerpts from the book, Seven Grains of Paradise - A Culinary Journey in Africa, available in print and Kindle edition at Amazon.ca, as an e-pub globally from Amazon.com and Kobo, and in print in Canada from Nimbus.) Type “Why is Africa”
- [Pottersfield Press releases "Seven Grains of Paradise: A Culinary Journey in Africa"](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2017/05/19/pottersfield-press-releases-seven-grains-of-paradise-a-culinary-journey-in-africa/) - Press Release: May 19, 2017 In her new book, "Seven Grains of Paradise," Joan Baxter challenges many myths and explores the wealth of African food cultures and knowledge, foods and crops, and farming know-how. It flies in the face of many media headlines, but the reality is that Africa has much to teach the world
- [Yes, let’s feed the world – but with healthy food from healthy farms](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2014/11/23/yes-lets-feed-the-world-but-with-healthy-food-from-healthy-farms/) - Despite all the problems there are with Band Aid 30’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas, few would take issue with the noble sentiment of the stirring chorus line
- [Grieving for Mali](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2013/02/25/grieving-for-mali/) - In 2002, even if Mali wasn’t literally my home, my native land it sure felt it was. At that point my family and I had been living in Bamako, the Malian capital
- [The treasures of Timbuktu](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2013/02/01/the-treasures-of-timbuktu/) - Time has not been kind to this once-great centre of civilization, which in the early 1500s inspired the Spanish explorer Leo Africanus to paint a picture of
- [Billionaires at play in the fields of the poor (part 2): Beny Steinmetz](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2013/08/30/billionaires-at-play-in-the-fields-of-the-poor-part-2-beny-steinmetz/) - It’s December 2012 and workers at the Octéa diamond mine in the town of Koidu in Sierra Leone are on strike, complaining of poor wages, “appalling” working
- [Billionaires at play in the fields of the poor (part 1): Sierra Leone on a silver platter?](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2013/08/30/billionaires-at-play-in-the-fields-of-the-poor-part-1-sierra-leone-on-a-silver-platter/) - There is a great deal of buzz about Africa’s economic awakening, with some countries experiencing double-digit growth in gross domestic product that is being
- [SNAP! The sound of American food aid to Sierra Leone helping corporate America?](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2013/08/19/snap-the-sound-of-american-food-aid-to-sierra-leone-helping-corporate-america/) - For more than half a century, the American government has operated something called “Food For Peace”. A 2004 booklet from the United States Agency
- [Saved from those dangerous dried caterpillars](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2013/04/03/saved-from-those-dangerous-dried-caterpillars/) - The AP headline read “Thousands of caterpillars seized at UK airport”. Under it was the story that UK Border agents had seized several bags
- [Diamonds are not for dinner](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2013/08/12/diamonds-are-not-for-dinner/) - Half of the population of Sierra Leone was displaced by the brutal and senseless civil war that raged in the country from 1991 until 2002.
- [Farmland - the new "Blood Diamonds" in Sierra Leone?](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2013/07/01/farmland-the-new-blood-diamonds-in-sierra-leone/) - For their secret meeting, they've chosen a very small village surrounded by forest in Kpaka Chiefdom in southern Sierra Leone. About one hundred men - chiefs
- [Conservative attack ads are bullying](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2013/04/17/conservative-attack-ads-are-bullying/) - When Prime Minister Stephen Harper weighed in on the tragic story of Rehtaeh Parsons, the 17-year-old Nova Scotian who was driven to hang herself in April
- [Climate change and “wise” human beings — will our species rise to the challenge?](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2015/01/25/climate-change-and-wise-human-beings-will-our-species-rise-to-the-challenge/) - On a balmy, overcast August day, I stood at Port Joli Head in the Kejimkujik Seaside park on Canada’s Atlantic coast, nibbling on delectable little beach
- [Dear Stephen Harper – please accept this invitation to resign (and repent)](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2015/01/18/dear-stephen-harper-please-accept-this-invitation-to-resign-and-repent/) - I am worried about you, I mean truly, deeply worried about you. It’s not that you haven’t worried me before. You and your political agenda cooked up to
- [Oh, woe, Canada – a tough-love letter to my country](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2014/12/23/oh-woe-canada-a-tough-love-letter-to-my-country/) - I wish I were writing to you under better circumstances, and not when you are at such a low point in your history, so badly abused by the Harper Government
- [King Leopold's Ghost and the 21st century scramble for Africa's farms and foods](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2014/12/12/king-leopolds-ghost-and-the-21st-century-scramble-for-africas-farms-and-foods/) - About 10 million people or more perished in Belgian King Leopold’s Congo during the late 1800s and early
- [Bob Geldof, Band Aid and Do They Know Their Song May Be Harmful?](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2014/11/16/bob-geldof-band-aid-and-do-they-know-their-song-may-be-harmful/) - Bob Geldof and Band Aid have done it again. They’ve re-recorded the song “Do They Know It’s Christmas”, first performed by UK and Irish musicians 30 years
- [Burying Africa’s hopes: remembering Thomas Sankara, the revolution and how Blaise Compaoré stole it all](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2014/11/01/burying-africas-hopes-remembering-thomas-sankara-the-revolution-and-how-blaise-compaore-stole-it-all/) - Dust from our eyes: an unblinkered look at Africa
- [Ebola: How an awful disease is shredding the social fabric in West Africa](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2014/10/12/ebola-how-an-awful-disease-is-shredding-the-social-fabric-in-west-africa/) - As the fatality statistics pile up and the gruesome awfulness of the Ebola catastrophe in West Africa unfolds, I’ve been seeking escape and solace from t
- [Poor man’s food? Saving Africa's foods, ferments and farms from the "saviours"](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2013/12/13/poor-mans-food-saving-africas-foods-ferments-and-farms-from-the-saviours/) - We were meeting under a thatch roof at the makeshift headquarters of Addax Bioenergy in northern Sierra Leone. Aminata Koroma, Social Liaison Officer for the
- [Billionaires at play in the fields of the poor (part 6): prosperity for whom?](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2013/09/11/billionaires-at-play-in-the-fields-of-the-poor-part-6-prosperity-for-whom/) - There is a great deal of buzz about Africa’s economic awakening, with some countries experiencing substantial growth in gross domestic product that
- [Billionaires at play in the fields of the poor (part 5): Chinnakannan Sivasankaran](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2013/09/04/billionaires-at-play-in-the-fields-of-the-poor-part-5-chinnakannan-sivasankaran/) - In this, the fifth in a series of six articles on foreign investment in Sierra Leone's natural resources and farmland, Joan Baxter profiles another of
- [Billionaires at play in the fields of the poor (part 4): Jean Claude Gandur](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2013/09/02/billionaires-at-play-in-the-fields-of-the-poor-part-4-jean-claude-gandur/) - In this, the fourth in a series of six articles on foreign investment in Sierra Leone, Joan Baxter profiles another of five billionaire investors
- [Billionaires at play in the fields of the poor (part 3): Frank Timis](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2013/08/30/billionaires-at-play-in-the-fields-of-the-poor-part-3-frank-timis/) - This, the third in a series of six articles on foreign investment in Sierra Leone profiles another one of five billionaires, Frank Timis and his investm
- [With friends like these, Canada is sure to make enemies](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2015/01/31/with-friends-like-these-canada-is-sure-to-make-enemies/) - I've decided to republish this Op-ed now because I believe it traces the early warnings and the beginning of the end of Canada as we knew
- [Canadians pay the high costs of Stephen Harper’s Conservative propaganda machine](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2015/03/01/canadians-pay-the-high-costs-of-stephen-harpers-conservative-propaganda-machine/) - Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper is spending immense amounts of taxpayers' money to promote himself, his government, the oil and gas industry
- [It’s way more than the economy: climate change, unfettered capitalism and Canada’s election](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2015/08/30/its-way-more-than-the-economy-climate-change-unfettered-capitalism-and-canadas-election/) - “The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.” This hard truth comes from
- [Shame on the Harper Government](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2015/09/04/shame-on-the-harper-government/) - It was bad enough watching Canada’s Immigration Minister Chris Alexander on CBC's
- [Philanthrocapitalism – all the power that billions can buy](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2015/12/20/philanthrocapitalism-all-the-power-that-billions-can-buy/) - In many places and among many people, he’s revered, a man whose charitable giving accords him selfless, almost saint-like status. But it’s not a
- [Musing on the bounty in rural Sierra Leone](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/2016/01/28/musing-on-the-bounty-in-rural-sierra-leone/) - It’s a very humid and hot Saturday morning when we set out from Kenema, heading south to a village called Bongor in southeast Sierra Leone.

## Pages

- [Bio](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/bio/) - Joan Baxter is an award-winning Canadian journalist and author, development researcher and writer, and anthropologist. She is the author of seven books, for which she has won several awards. She has reported for a wide range of international and Canadian media, both from Africa and from Canada. She writes about healthy environments, food and farms,
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- [Articles & Reports](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/articles-reports/) - Show All Sources Al JazeeraArticleAccessThe new African land grab, Al Jazeera, 30 June 2011.Access BBC (selected)ArticleAccessWorld’s most profitable gold mine – but not all glitters in Morila, Mali, BBC Focus on Africa Magazine, April – June 2003, pp 33-35AccessSpoiled for choice, BBC Focus on Africa Magazine, July – September 2002, Vol 13(3), pp 26-29AccessBurying capitalism, BBC
- [Audio](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/audio/) - Sandeyah, Kailahun District, village tailor displays his workmanship In recent years Joan Baxter has reported and spoken widely on issues such as foreign direct investment in Africa, extractive industries, land rights, food sovereignty and sustainable farming. She divides her time between West Africa and Canada. BBC 3 Timbuktu, Mali – Centre of the World (Mali
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- [The Mill - Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/the-mill-fifty-years-of-pulp-and-protest/) - “The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest” (Pottersfield Press, 2017) This book explores the power that a single industry can wield over an entire province, namely Nova Scotia in eastern Canada. It is a story that has been waiting to be told. With a powerful foreword by Elizabeth May, leader of Canada’s Green
- [Seven Grains of Paradise: A Culinary Journey in Africa](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/seven-grains-of-paradise-a-culinary-journey-in-africa/) - Seven Grains of Paradise: A Culinary Journey in Africa Pottersfield Press, 2017 (ISBN 978-1-988286-02-0), paperback and e-pub In her sixth book, “Seven Grains of Paradise,” Joan Baxter challenges many myths and explores the wealth of African food cultures and knowledge, foods and crops, and farming know-how. BBC Focus on Africa BBC
- [Dust From Our Eyes: An Unblinkered Look At Africa](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/dust-from-our-eyes-an-unblinkered-look-at-africa/) - [/one_third]
- [The Hermit of Gully Lake: The Life and Times of Willard Kitchener MacDonald](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/the-hermit-of-gully-lake-the-life-and-times-of-willard-kitchener-macdonald/) - [/one_third]
- [A Serious Pair of Shoes: An African Journal](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/a-serious-pair-of-shoes-an-african-journal/) - [/one_third]
- [Strangers Are Like Children: Stories of Africa](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/strangers-are-like-children-stories-of-africa/) - [/one_third]
- [Graveyard for Dreamers: One Woman’s Odyssey in Africa](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/graveyard-for-dreamers-one-womans-odyssey-in-africa/)
- [Contributions](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/other-books/) - Benin, The Congo, Burkina Faso: Politics, Economics and Society. Contributing Author. Pinter Publishers, London, 1989. ISBN 0-86187-481-1 “Dancing a Jog on Citadel Hill.” Nova Scotia: Visions of the Future. Lesley Choyce, Editor. Pottersfield Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1-897426-07-4 “Act of God”. Atlantica: Stories from the Maritimes and Newfoundland. 2001.Lesley Choyce, Editor. Goose Lane Editions. ISBN 0-8692-309-0.
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## Books

- [The Hermit of Gully Lake: The Life and Times of Willard Kitchener MacDonald](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/book/the-hermit-of-gully-lake-the-life-and-times-of-willard-kitchener-macdonald/) - He moved far into the woods after jumping from a troop train that would have taken him to Halifax and on to Europe for World War II. In the past thirty years, as his legend grew, many people began to seek him out, squeezing into his tiny shelter to play fiddles and guitars with the
- [“The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest” (Pottersfield Press, 2017)](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/book/the-mill-fifty-years-of-pulp-and-protest-pottersfield-press-2017/) - What people are saying about the book Erica Butler, Save the humans: Heartbreaking stories of staggering greed and its catastrophic environmental impact. November 1, 2017. Atlantic Books Today #84 Fall 2017. http://atlanticbookstoday.ca/save-the-humans/: “Reading Joan Baxter’s The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest, the story of the infamous Abercrombie pulp mill in Pictou County, is
- [Seven Grains of Paradise: A Culinary Journey in Africa](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/book/seven-grains-of-paradise-a-culinary-journey-in-africa/) - BBC Focus on Africa BBC Focus on Africa interviews Joan Baxter, a former correspondent for the program, about her new book, "Seven Grains of Paradise: A Culinary Journey in Africa", which celebrates Africa's food, farms, crops and cuisines. Listen to the interview here: August 17, 2017 BBC Focus on Africa interviews Joan Baxter The book
- [Dust from our eyes: An unblinkered look at Africa](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/book/dust-from-our-eyes-an-unblinkered-look-at-africa/) - Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Joan Baxter draws on more than two decades of living in and reporting from Africa to reveal that there is more to the continent than poverty and suffering, and far more to Western involvement than benevolent charity. Alternately funny, chilling, moving and disturbing, Dust from our Eyes is
- [A Serious Pair of Shoes: An African Journal](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/book/a-serious-pair-of-shoes-an-african-journal/) - A third book about the author's life in Africa, set against the backdrop of the hardship that most Africans battle every day.
- [Graveyard for Dreamers: One Woman’s Odyssey in Africa](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/book/graveyard-for-dreamers-one-womans-odyssey-in-africa/) - Pottersfield Press, 1994. ISBN 0-919001-88-2. “. . . a richly inviting book.” – The Globe and Mail “. . . a magical book” – Peter Gzowski
- [Strangers Are Like Children: Stories of Africa](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/book/strangers-are-like-children-stories-of-africa/) - Short fiction collection. Pottersfield Press, 1996. ISBN 0-919001-98-X. “In Strangers Are Like Children, Joan Baxter reveals herself to be a new writer of immense talent and promise. The book deserves the highest praise.” – The Globe and Mail

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- ["The Mill - Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest" ... the book in twenty-two photos](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/photograpy/the-mill-fifty-years-of-pulp-and-protest-the-book-in-twenty-photos/) - For fifty years, a pulp mill in northern Nova Scotia, Canada, has polluted air and water, shaped forest policies and politics in the province, spawned controversy and caused deep divisions among people in the area. The book, "The Mill - Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest" meticulously documents the history of mill and gives voice
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- [Sierra Leone](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/photograpy/sierra-leone/)
- [Trees that feed Africa](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/photograpy/trees-that-feed-africa/) - In most of Africa, traditional farms involve trees - a practice known as agroforestry. The trees provide many, many valuable products - edible fruits and edible leaves, spices and condiments, medicines, fodder and construction materials, helping to assure food and nutritional security and livelihoods throughout the year. They also perform many ecological services - pumping

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- [nutrition](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/nutrition/)
- [NVA](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/nva/)
- [obesity](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/obesity/)
- [philanthropy](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/philanthropy/)
- [political attack ads](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/political-attack-ads/)
- [politics](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/politics/)
- [poverty](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/poverty/)
- [propaganda](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/propaganda/)
- [public relations](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/public-relations/)
- [refugees](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/refugees/)
- [revolution](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/revolution/)
- [Sierra Leone](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/sierra-leone/)
- [Stephen Harper](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/stephen-harper/)
- [subsistence farming](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/subsistence-farming/)
- [Thomas Sankara](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/thomas-sankara/)
- [refu](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/refu/)
- [african](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/african/)
- [food culture](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/food-culture/)
- [farming](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/farming/)
- [cuisine](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/cuisine/)
- [farms](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/farms/)
- [agriculture](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/agriculture/)
- [dumping](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/dumping/)
- [African cuisine](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/african-cuisine/)
- [herbicides](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/herbicides/)
- [glyphosate](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/glyphosate/)
- [forestry](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/forestry/)
- [pulp](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/pulp/)
- [Nova Scotia](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/nova-scotia/)
- [corporate capture](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/corporate-capture/)
- [pollution](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/pollution/)
- [book](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/book/)
- [pulp mill](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/pulp-mill/)
- [government](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/government/)
- [BBC](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/bbc/)
- [Babani Sissko](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/babani-sissko/)
- [Interpol](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/interpol/)
- [mining](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/mining/)
- [gold](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/gold/)
- [cyanide](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/cyanide/)
- [Mining Association of Nova Scotia](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/mining-association-of-nova-scotia/)
- [Stephen McNeil](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/stephen-mcneil/)
- [Liberal government](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/liberal-government/)
- [regulatory capture](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/regulatory-capture/)
- [Department of Natural Resources](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/department-of-natural-resources/)
- [Department of Energy and Mines](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/department-of-energy-and-mines/)
- [Atlantic Gold](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/atlantic-gold/)
- [Gary Burrill](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/gary-burrill/)
- [NDP](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/ndp/)
- [Moose River](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/moose-river/)
- [Touquoy Gold Mine](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/touquoy-gold-mine/)
- [Eastern Shore Forest Watch](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/eastern-shore-forest-watch/)
- [Beaver Dam](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/beaver-dam/)
- [Cochrane Hill](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/cochrane-hill/)
- [Fifteen Mile Stream](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/fifteen-mile-stream/)
- [Northern Pulp](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/northern-pulp/)
- [Northern Timber](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/northern-timber/)
- [water](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/water/)
- [Tatamagouche](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/tatamagouche/)
- [Prospectors and Developers of Canada Association](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/prospectors-and-developers-of-canada-association/)
- [Warwick Mountain Gold](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/warwick-mountain-gold/)
- [Wentworth Valley](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/wentworth-valley/)
- [Department of Natural Resources (DNR)](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/department-of-natural-resources-dnr/)
- [Bruce Nunn](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/bruce-nunn/)
- [Garth DeMont](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/garth-demont/)
- [Tatamagouche Water Utility](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/tatamagouche-water-utility/)
- [Anna Maest](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/anna-maest/)
- [maple syrup](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/maple-syrup/)
- [Nature Conservancy of Canada](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/nature-conservancy-of-canada/)
- [Reclaim Turtle Island](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/reclaim-turtle-island/)
- [Kluscap Mountain](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/kluscap-mountain/)
- [Sipekne’katik](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/sipeknekatik/)
- [Sean Kirby](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/sean-kirby/)
- [quarrying](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/quarrying/)
- [wilderness areas](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/wilderness-areas/)
- [Mi'kmaq](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/mikmaq/)
- [Waycobah First Nation](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/waycobah-first-nation/)
- [APTN](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/aptn/)
- [KMKNO](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/kmkno/)
- [Premier Stephen McNeil](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/premier-stephen-mcneil/)
- [Ecology Action Centre](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/ecology-action-centre/)
- [Raymond Plourde](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/raymond-plourde/)
- [Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA)](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/canadian-environmental-assessment-agency-ceaa/)
- [Vulcan Materials](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/vulcan-materials/)
- [Black Point Aggregates](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/black-point-aggregates/)
- [Fogarty's Cove](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/fogartys-cove/)
- [quarry](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/quarry/)
- [Garnet Rogers](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/garnet-rogers/)
- [Stan Rogers](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/stan-rogers/)
- [Lloyd Hines](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/lloyd-hines/)
- [Erdene Resources](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/erdene-resources/)
- [Morien Resources](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/morien-resources/)
- [Canadian Minerals and Metals Plan CMMP](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/canadian-minerals-and-metals-plan-cmmp/)
- [Steven Dean](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/steven-dean/)
- [Barbara Markovits](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/barbara-markovits/)
- [Forrest Higgins](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/forrest-higgins/)
- [fracking](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/fracking/)
- [NOFRAC](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/nofrac/)
- [David Wheeler](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/david-wheeler/)
- [Darrell Dexter](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/darrell-dexter/)
- [Pugwash](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/pugwash/)
- [Michael Bradfield](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/michael-bradfield/)
- [Tim Houston](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/tim-houston/)
- [NS Progressive Conservatives](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/ns-progressive-conservatives/)
- [Scott Armstrong](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/scott-armstrong/)
- [Elizabeth Smith-McCrossing](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/elizabeth-smith-mccrossing/)
- [Cecil Clarke](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/cecil-clarke/)
- [Gerard Lucyshyn](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/gerard-lucyshyn/)
- [Frontier Centre for Public Policy](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/frontier-centre-for-public-policy/)
- [Douglas Leahey](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/douglas-leahey/)
- [Friends of Science](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/friends-of-science/)
- [Boat Harbour](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/boat-harbour/)
- [Boat Harbour remediation](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/boat-harbour-remediation/)
- [pulp effluent](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/pulp-effluent/)
- [No Pipe](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/no-pipe/)
- [pipeline break](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/pipeline-break/)
- [Pictou Landing First Nation](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/pictou-landing-first-nation/)
- [fishers](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/fishers/)
- [Chief Andrea Paul](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/chief-andrea-paul/)
- [Rachel Boomer](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/rachel-boomer/)
- [Nova Scotia Environment](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/nova-scotia-environment/)
- [Paper Excellence](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/paper-excellence/)
- [Kathy Cloutier](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/kathy-cloutier/)
- [Friends of the Northumberland Strait](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/friends-of-the-northumberland-strait/)
- [John Hamm](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/john-hamm/)
- [Clean the Mill](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/clean-the-mill/)
- [Bruce Chapman](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/bruce-chapman/)
- [Jean Francois Guillot](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/jean-francois-guillot/)
- [Michelle Francis-Denny](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/michelle-francis-denny/)
- [A'se'K](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/asek/)
- [Chief Sidney Peters](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/chief-sidney-peters/)
- [Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi'kmaq Chiefs](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/assembly-of-nova-scotia-mikmaq-chiefs/)
- [Sherbrooke](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/sherbrooke/)
- [St. Mary's River](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/st-marys-river/)
- [salmon](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/salmon/)
- [NOPE campaign](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/nope-campaign/)
- [gold mine](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/gold-mine/)
- [Friends of St. Mary's River](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/friends-of-st-marys-river/)
- [Babe Ruth](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/babe-ruth/)
- [tourism](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/tourism/)
- [Scott Beaver](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/scott-beaver/)
- [St. Mary's River Assocation](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/st-marys-river-assocation/)
- [Archibald Lake](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/archibald-lake/)
- [eco-tourism](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/eco-tourism/)
- [Nova Scotia Salmon Association](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/nova-scotia-salmon-association/)
- [Atlantic Salmon Federation](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/atlantic-salmon-federation/)
- [Atlantic Journalism Awards](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/atlantic-journalism-awards/)
- [reclamation plan](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/reclamation-plan/)
- [Derek Mombourquette](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/derek-mombourquette/)
- [Moose River Consolidated](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/moose-river-consolidated/)
- [DDV Gold](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/ddv-gold/)
- [Atlantic Mining NS](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/atlantic-mining-ns/)
- [Project](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/project/)
- [Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act ESTMA](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/extractive-sector-transparency-measures-act-estma/)
- [Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative EITI](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/extractive-industry-transparency-initiative-eiti/)
- [James Wilt](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/james-wilt/)
- [royalty](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/royalty/)
- [The Narwhal](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/the-narwhal/)
- [UNIFOR](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/unifor/)
- [Forest Nova Scotia](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/forest-nova-scotia/)
- [fishermen](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/fishermen/)
- [NoPipe](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/nopipe/)
- [Brian Hebert](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/brian-hebert/)
- [Boat Harbour Act](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/boat-harbour-act/)
- [Friends of Northumberland Strait](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/friends-of-northumberland-strait/)
- [Bell Bay Tasmania](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/bell-bay-tasmania/)
- [Canso Chemicals](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/canso-chemicals/)
- [Clean the Mill Group](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/clean-the-mill-group/)
- [Dave Gunning](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/dave-gunning/)
- [Dillon Consulting](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/dillon-consulting/)
- [dioxins and furans](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/dioxins-and-furans/)
- [Dr. John Krawczyk](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/dr-john-krawczyk/)
- [Environment Minister Iain Rankin](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/environment-minister-iain-rankin/)
- [Environment Minister Margaret Miller](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/environment-minister-margaret-miller/)
- [Gary Porter](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/gary-porter/)
- [Greg Egilsson](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/greg-egilsson/)
- [Gulf NS Herring Federation](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/gulf-ns-herring-federation/)
- [Human Health Risk Assessment (HHRA)](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/human-health-risk-assessment-hhra/)
- [Jamie Simpson](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/jamie-simpson/)
- [KSH Consulting](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/ksh-consulting/)
- [mercury](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/mercury/)
- [Mi’kmaq Conservation Group](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/mikmaq-conservation-group/)
- [Northern Pulp effluent](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/northern-pulp-effluent/)
- [Northern Pulp environmental assessment](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/northern-pulp-environmental-assessment/)
- [oxygen delignification system](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/oxygen-delignification-system/)
- [Paper Excellence Canada](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/paper-excellence-canada/)
- [Pictou Harbour](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/pictou-harbour/)
- [Pictou Landing](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/pictou-landing/)
- [Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN)](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/pictou-landing-first-nation-plfn/)
- [Point D](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/point-d/)
- [Terri Fraser](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/terri-fraser/)
- [Toxikos](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/toxikos/)
- [Morila gold mine](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/morila-gold-mine/)
- [Randgold](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/randgold/)
- [AngloGold](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/anglogold/)
- [gold mining](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/gold-mining/)
- [Barrick gold](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/barrick-gold/)
- [Gerald Caplan](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/gerald-caplan/)
- [River Niger](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/river-niger/)
- [Bamako](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/bamako/)
- [Sahel](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/sahel/)
- [West Africa](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/west-africa/)
- [Niger](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/niger/)
- [World Bank](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/world-bank/)
- [Hamed Diane Semega](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/hamed-diane-semega/)
- [Johan Botha](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/johan-botha/)
- [Fousseini Touré](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/fousseini-toure/)
- [Sanso](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/sanso/)
- [Tsi Mariko](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/tsi-mariko/)
- [South Africa](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/south-africa/)
- [Ellen Page](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/ellen-page/)
- [censorship](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/censorship/)
- [Pottersfield Press](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/pottersfield-press/)
- [Sinar Mas](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/sinar-mas/)
- [Asia Pulp and Paper](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/asia-pulp-and-paper/)
- [fisherman](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/fisherman/)
- [Lil MacPherson](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/lil-macpherson/)
- [Pictou Lodge](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/pictou-lodge/)
- [Graham Steele](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/graham-steele/)
- [Rober Devet](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/rober-devet/)
- [Halifax Examiner](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/halifax-examiner/)
- [Pictou](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/pictou/)
- [Abercrombie Point](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/abercrombie-point/)
- [mercy](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/mercy/)
- [Linda Pannozzo](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/linda-pannozzo/)
- [Mary Gormon](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/mary-gormon/)
- [Olin Corporation](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/olin-corporation/)
- [Northern Resources Nova Scotia Corporation](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/northern-resources-nova-scotia-corporation/)
- [munitions](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/munitions/)
- [chlorine](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/chlorine/)
- [chlor-alkali](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/chlor-alkali/)
- [effluent treatment facility](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/effluent-treatment-facility/)
- [Jill Graham-Scanlan](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/jill-graham-scanlan/)
- [Ferguson MacKay](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/ferguson-mackay/)
- [contaminated sites](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/contaminated-sites/)
- [caustic soda](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/caustic-soda/)
- [Olin Canada](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/olin-canada/)
- [HIV/AIDS](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/hiv-aids/)
- [Kenya](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/kenya/)
- [medical research](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/medical-research/)
- [Manitoba](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/manitoba/)
- [chancroid](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/chancroid/)
- [STIs](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/stis/)
- [Pumwani](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/pumwani/)
- [University of Manitoba](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/university-of-manitoba/)
- [University of Nairobi](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/university-of-nairobi/)
- [Canadian National Microbiology Laboratory](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/canadian-national-microbiology-laboratory/)
- [CBC Morningside](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/cbc-morningside/)
- [Peter Gzowski](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/peter-gzowski/)
- [sex workers](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/sex-workers/)
- [Dr. Frank Plummer](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/dr-frank-plummer/)
- [Dr. Kelly MacDonald](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/dr-kelly-macdonald/)
- [Dr. Joan Kreiss](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/dr-joan-kreiss/)
- [Joshua Kimani](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/joshua-kimani/)
- [Ephantus Njagi](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/ephantus-njagi/)
- [microbiology](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/microbiology/)
- [infectious diseases](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/infectious-diseases/)
- [Majengo Clinic](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/majengo-clinic/)
- [Dr. Allan Ronald](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/dr-allan-ronald/)
- [Maryse Belanger](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/maryse-belanger/)
- [St. Barbara Ltd](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/st-barbara-ltd/)
- [James Millard](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/james-millard/)
- [Dustin O'Leary](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/dustin-oleary/)
- [open pit gold mining](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/open-pit-gold-mining/)
- [Sheet Harbour](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/sheet-harbour/)
- [mine tailings](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/mine-tailings/)
- [Sean Thompson](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/sean-thompson/)
- [Wayne Oakley](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/wayne-oakley/)
- [Chalres Clattenburg](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/chalres-clattenburg/)
- [Eastern Shore Wildlife Association](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/eastern-shore-wildlife-association/)
- [Mount POlley](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/mount-polley/)
- [British Columbia](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/british-columbia/)
- [D.D.V. Gold](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/d-d-v-gold/)
- [Scraggy Lake](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/scraggy-lake/)
- [Canadian Enviornmental Assessment Agency](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/canadian-enviornmental-assessment-agency/)
- [Friends of the St. Mary's River](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/friends-of-the-st-marys-river/)
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- [cult](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/cult/)
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- [Mount Saint Vincent University](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/mount-saint-vincent-university/)
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- [Atlantic Regional Solidarity Network (ARSN)](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/atlantic-regional-solidarity-network-arsn/)
- [Australia](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/australia/)
- [Between The Lines](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/between-the-lines/)
- [Breaking the Silence Network](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/breaking-the-silence-network/)
- [Brian Mulroney](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/brian-mulroney/)
- [Canada Pension Plan (CPP)](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/canada-pension-plan-cpp/)
- [Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/canadian-international-development-agency-cida/)
- [Canadian Ombudsman for Responsible Enterprise (CORE)](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/canadian-ombudsman-for-responsible-enterprise-core/)
- [Cassiday & Associates (KCA)](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/cassiday-associates-kca/)
- [Catherine Nolin](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/catherine-nolin/)
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- [defamation](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/defamation/)
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- [El Estor](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/el-estor/)
- [El Tambor mine](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/el-tambor-mine/)
- [Export Development Canada](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/export-development-canada/)
- [Fénix nickel mining project](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/fenix-nickel-mining-project/)
- [foreign investment promotion and protection agreements (FIPAs)](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/foreign-investment-promotion-and-protection-agreements-fipas/)
- [Genocide](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/genocide/)
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- [Global Affairs Canada](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/global-affairs-canada/)
- [Goldcorp Inc](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/goldcorp-inc/)
- [Grahame Russell](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/grahame-russell/)
- [Guatemala](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/guatemala/)
- [HMI Nickel](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/hmi-nickel/)
- [Hudbay](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/hudbay/)
- [Hudbay Minerals](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/hudbay-minerals/)
- [Ich Angélica Choc](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/ich-angelica-choc/)
- [India](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/india/)
- [Jackie McVicar](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/jackie-mcvicar/)
- [John Baird](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/john-baird/)
- [Kappes](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/kappes/)
- [Latin America](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/latin-america/)
- [limited liability](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/limited-liability/)
- [lobbying](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/lobbying/)
- [Marlin gold mine](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/marlin-gold-mine/)
- [Maya](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/maya/)
- [Maya Q’eqchi’corporate social responsibility (CSR)](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/maya-qeqchicorporate-social-responsibility-csr/)
- [Mining Association of Canada](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/mining-association-of-canada/)
- [Murray Klippenstein](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/murray-klippenstein/)
- [Newt Gingrinch](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/newt-gingrinch/)
- [Peter Munk](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/peter-munk/)
- [Radius Gold](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/radius-gold/)
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- [Skye Resources](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/skye-resources/)
- [Springer Nature](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/springer-nature/)
- [Tahoe Resources](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/tahoe-resources/)
- [TSX](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/tsx/)
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- [University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC)](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/university-of-northern-british-columbia-unbc/)
- [William Cohen](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/william-cohen/)
- [Yolanda Oquelí](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/yolanda-oqueli/)
- [Adolf Hitler](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/adolf-hitler/)
- [Alexandra Mashaghati](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/alexandra-mashaghati/)
- [Andreas Popp](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/andreas-popp/)
- [Beaver Lodge Estates](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/beaver-lodge-estates/)
- [Bras d'Or Lake](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/bras-dor-lake/)
- [Cape Breton Real Solutions](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/cape-breton-real-solutions/)
- [climate crisis](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/climate-crisis/)
- [Condor](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/condor/)
- [conspiracy theories](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/conspiracy-theories/)
- [conspiracy theorists](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/conspiracy-theorists/)
- [Crown land](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/crown-land/)
- [Der Spiegel](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/der-spiegel/)
- [Elizaveta Firsova](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/elizaveta-firsova/)
- [Eva Herman](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/eva-herman/)
- [Evans Island](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/evans-island/)
- [George Monbiot](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/george-monbiot/)
- [German Politics and Society Journal](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/german-politics-and-society-journal/)
- [German-speaking Europeans](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/german-speaking-europeans/)
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- [Golden Lake Estates](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/golden-lake-estates/)
- [Gottfried Feder](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/gottfried-feder/)
- [immigrants](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/immigrants/)
- [Inverness County](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/inverness-county/)
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- [Leibniz University Hannover](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/leibniz-university-hannover/)
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- [Michael Vogt](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/michael-vogt/)
- [non-resident landowners](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/non-resident-landowners/)
- [ocean access](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/ocean-access/)
- [Owls Head Park](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/owls-head-park/)
- [Patricia Anne Simpson](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/patricia-anne-simpson/)
- [Querdenker](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/querdenker/)
- [real estate](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/real-estate/)
- [refuge](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/refuge/)
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- [Reichsbuerger [Reich Citizens’] Movement](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/reichsbuerger-reich-citizens-movement/)
- [Richmond County](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/richmond-county/)
- [Save Owls Head Provincial Park](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/save-owls-head-provincial-park/)
- [Telegram channel](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/telegram-channel/)
- [The Guardian](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/the-guardian/)
- [Third Reich](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/third-reich/)
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- [waterfront](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/waterfront/)
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- [5G](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/5g/)
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- [Andreas Popp Lane](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/andreas-popp-lane/)
- [Antigonish County](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/antigonish-county/)
- [Canadian German Chamber of Industry and Commerce](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/canadian-german-chamber-of-industry-and-commerce/)
- [Canadian Pioneer Estates](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/canadian-pioneer-estates/)
- [Canec Land Development](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/canec-land-development/)
- [Cape Breton Eco-Village](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/cape-breton-eco-village/)
- [CBC](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/cbc/)
- [conspriracy theories](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/conspriracy-theories/)
- [COVID-19 pandemic](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/covid-19-pandemic/)
- [Evanston Road](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/evanston-road/)
- [Evanston subdivision](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/evanston-subdivision/)
- [F.E. Properties](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/f-e-properties/)
- [Frank Eckhardt](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/frank-eckhardt/)
- [German speakers](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/german-speakers/)
- [Guysborough County](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/guysborough-county/)
- [Halifax International Airport](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/halifax-international-airport/)
- [Hay Cove](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/hay-cove/)
- [Holocaust](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/holocaust/)
- [Immobilien](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/immobilien/)
- [Jewish population](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/jewish-population/)
- [Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass)](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/kristallnacht-night-of-the-broken-glass/)
- [land development companies](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/land-development-companies/)
- [Lower River Inhabitants](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/lower-river-inhabitants/)
- [Minister of Labour](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/minister-of-labour/)
- [nazi](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/nazi/)
- [Nazi Germany](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/nazi-germany/)
- [non-residents](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/non-residents/)
- [Pia Kaestner](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/pia-kaestner/)
- [Premier Tim Houston](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/premier-tim-houston/)
- [preppers](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/preppers/)
- [Property Valuation Services Corporation](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/property-valuation-services-corporation/)
- [Renate Sedlmeier](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/renate-sedlmeier/)
- [Riechsbuerger (citizens of the Reich)](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/riechsbuerger-citizens-of-the-reich/)
- [Rolf Bouman](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/rolf-bouman/)
- [Sarah Herring](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/sarah-herring/)
- [Second World War](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/second-world-war/)
- [Skills and Immigration Jill Balser](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/skills-and-immigration-jill-balser/)
- [subdivision](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/subdivision/)
- [Tom Ayers](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/tom-ayers/)
- [Victoria County](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/victoria-county/)
- [Viewpoint Nova Scotia](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/viewpoint-nova-scotia/)
- [Wissensmaufaktur](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/wissensmaufaktur/)
- [Access Nova Scotia](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/access-nova-scotia/)
- [Allan MacMaster](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/allan-macmaster/)
- [American](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/american/)
- [Anne Murray](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/anne-murray/)
- [Arthur Bull](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/arthur-bull/)
- [Assessment Act](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/assessment-act/)
- [Austria](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/austria/)
- [Blaise Theriault](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/blaise-theriault/)
- [Capped Assessment Program (CAP)](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/capped-assessment-program-cap/)
- [Coastal Communities Network](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/coastal-communities-network/)
- [Dalhousie University](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/dalhousie-university/)
- [deed transfer tax](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/deed-transfer-tax/)
- [Department of Municipal Affairs and Housing](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/department-of-municipal-affairs-and-housing/)
- [Department of Natural Resources and Renewables](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/department-of-natural-resources-and-renewables/)
- [Department of Service Nova Scotia and Internal Affairs](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/department-of-service-nova-scotia-and-internal-affairs/)
- [Donna Malone](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/donna-malone/)
- [former Premier John Hamm](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/former-premier-john-hamm/)
- [Gary Andrea](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/gary-andrea/)
- [Halifax County](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/halifax-county/)
- [Heather Breeze](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/heather-breeze/)
- [Irving](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/irving/)
- [Jim Moir](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/jim-moir/)
- [Kell Antoft](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/kell-antoft/)
- [Kip Ready](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/kip-ready/)
- [Krista Higdon](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/krista-higdon/)
- [land ownership](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/land-ownership/)
- [land titles](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/land-titles/)
- [Lunenburg County](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/lunenburg-county/)
- [mandate letter](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/mandate-letter/)
- [migrated](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/migrated/)
- [Minister of Finance and Treasury Board](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/minister-of-finance-and-treasury-board/)
- [Municipal Government Act](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/municipal-government-act/)
- [neoliberalism](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/neoliberalism/)
- [non-Nova Scotian tazpayer](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/non-nova-scotian-tazpayer/)
- [non-resident](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/non-resident/)
- [Nova Scotia Association of Realtors (NSAR)](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/nova-scotia-association-of-realtors-nsar/)
- [PEI Department of Finance](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/pei-department-of-finance/)
- [Peter Pringle](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/peter-pringle/)
- [Prince Edward Island](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/prince-edward-island/)
- [Prince Edward Island Land Protection Act](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/prince-edward-island-land-protection-act/)
- [property assessment](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/property-assessment/)
- [property taxes](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/property-taxes/)
- [Real Property Tax Act and Regulations (PEI)](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/real-property-tax-act-and-regulations-pei/)
- [tax credit](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/tax-credit/)
- [Terence Bay](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/terence-bay/)
- [Voluntary Planning Task Force on Non-Resident Land Ownership](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/voluntary-planning-task-force-on-non-resident-land-ownership/)
- [Wagner Forest Management](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/wagner-forest-management/)
- [Andy MacGregor](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/andy-macgregor/)
- [British Columbia Supreme Court](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/british-columbia-supreme-court/)
- [Claire Simonon](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/claire-simonon/)
- [Curmae Limited](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/curmae-limited/)
- [Domtar](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/domtar/)
- [Earle Miller](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/earle-miller/)
- [ecological forestry](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/ecological-forestry/)
- [effluent treatment](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/effluent-treatment/)
- [Elmsdale Lumber](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/elmsdale-lumber/)
- [environmental assessment](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/environmental-assessment/)
- [Fibre Excellence](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/fibre-excellence/)
- [forestry industry](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/forestry-industry/)
- [forestry sector](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/forestry-sector/)
- [Forestry Transition Team](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/forestry-transition-team/)
- [France](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/france/)
- [Friends of a New Northern Pulp](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/friends-of-a-new-northern-pulp/)
- [Friends of the Northumberland Strait (FONS)](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/friends-of-the-northumberland-strait-fons/)
- [Great Northern TImber](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/great-northern-timber/)
- [Healthy Forest Coalition](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/healthy-forest-coalition/)
- [Hervey Investment BV](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/hervey-investment-bv/)
- [Iris Communications](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/iris-communications/)
- [Les Flamants Roses du Trébon](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/les-flamants-roses-du-trebon/)
- [low-grade wood](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/low-grade-wood/)
- [Mike Lancaster](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/mike-lancaster/)
- [Northumberland Strait](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/northumberland-strait/)
- [Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/nova-scotia-environment-and-climate-change/)
- [Paper Excellence Canada Holdings](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/paper-excellence-canada-holdings/)
- [Paul Withers](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/paul-withers/)
- [pellets](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/pellets/)
- [Peter Oram](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/peter-oram/)
- [Peter Spicer](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/peter-spicer/)
- [Pictou County](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/pictou-county/)
- [PR campaign](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/pr-campaign/)
- [Ray Plourde](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/ray-plourde/)
- [Robin Wilbder](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/robin-wilbder/)
- [Ryan Scott](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/ryan-scott/)
- [Statistics Canada](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/statistics-canada/)
- [Tarascon](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/tarascon/)
- [tax haven](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/tax-haven/)
- [The Netherlands](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/the-netherlands/)
- [Widjaja family](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/widjaja-family/)
- [wood chips](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/wood-chips/)
- [woodlot owners](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/woodlot-owners/)
- [astroturf groups](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/astroturf-groups/)
- [corporate spin](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/corporate-spin/)
- [environment](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/environment/)
- [plastic](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/plastic/)
- [vehicle bloat](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/vehicle-bloat/)
- [pickups](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/pickups/)
- [SUVs](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/suvs/)
- [road safety](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/road-safety/)
- [autobesity](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/autobesity/)
- [bloated vehicles](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/bloated-vehicles/)
- [pickup trucks](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/pickup-trucks/)
- [pedestrians](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/pedestrians/)
- [cyclists](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/tag/cyclists/)

## Book Authors

- [Joan Baxter](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/book-author/joan-baxter/)

## Book Publishers

- [Pottersfield Press](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/book-publisher/pottersfield-press/)
- [Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/book-publisher/wolsak-and-wynn-publishers-ltd/)

## Portfolio Categories

- [forestry](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/photograpy-category/forestry/)
- [pulp industry](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/photograpy-category/pulp-industry/)
- [environment](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/photograpy-category/environment/)
- [corporate capture](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/photograpy-category/corporate-capture/)
- [Canada](https://www.joanbaxter.ca/photograpy-category/canada/)