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All in All It’s Just Another Slick in the Harbour

by Chris Benjamin August 28, 2018October 20, 2022

Hi, I’m Chris Benjamin, today’s guest writer. I’m a journalist as well as a writer and editor of books — fiction and non-fiction — and the managing editor of Atlantic Books Today Magazine. Environment and social justice are my beats. News 1. Oil spills, past and present The Canadian Coast Guard is investigating what appears to […]

Posted inCity Hall, Environment

Despite delays, city hopes Integrated Mobility Plan will be rolling in February

by Chris Benjamin July 12, 2016October 20, 2022
Posted inEnvironment, Province House

Just as the world agrees to climate change action, NS Liberals impose huge cuts to solar power

by Chris Benjamin December 18, 2015October 20, 2022
Posted inCity Hall, Investigation

Joe Metlege’s “altruistic” conflict of interest

by Chris Benjamin December 14, 2015October 20, 2022
Posted inCity Hall

Tenants want to take over Harbour City Homes properties

by Chris Benjamin August 25, 2015October 20, 2022
Posted inCity Hall, Environment

Enviro committee rejects PR company’s bid to poison Dartmouth’s lakes

by Chris Benjamin February 5, 2015October 20, 2022
Posted inCity Hall, Environment

Dartmouth’s (potentially) killer weeds

by Chris Benjamin January 16, 2015October 20, 2022
Posted inEnvironment, Province House

Something fishy: new report stops short of calling for moratorium on fish farms

by Chris Benjamin January 9, 2015October 20, 2022
A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents
Credit: Halifax Examiner. All rights reserved.

PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

You can learn about the project, including how we’re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on the PRICED OUT homepage.


Tractors bulldoze trees as American money rains from the sky.
Credit: Ricardo Weibezahn - ICIJ

DEFORESTATION INC

Reporter Joan Baxter is one of 140 journalists from 39 media outlets across 27 countries working collaboratively on ‘Deforestation Inc,’ a project of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which looked at the ownership structure of Paper Excellence, its relationship with Asia Pulp & Paper, and how the secretive corporate empires are devastating forests in Canada and around the world.

Find all of Baxter’s articles on the Deforestation Inc homepage.


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

2020 MASS MURDERS

All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.

Updated regularly.


UNCOVER: DEAD WRONG

In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder, and served 17 years in prison while maintaining his innocence. In 2019, he was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner’s Tim Bousquet tells Assoun’s story on the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong. Click here to listen to the podcast.

To read the entire DEAD WRONG series, and articles on Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction, click here.

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by Joan Baxter December 6, 2023December 6, 2023

More affordable housing solution to homelessness, provincial committee hears

by Jennifer Henderson December 6, 2023December 6, 2023

E-scooters now allowed on several municipal trails in HRM

by Suzanne Rent December 5, 2023December 6, 2023

Speed limit in Halifax neighbourhood Greenwood Heights to be lowered to 40km/h

by Suzanne Rent December 5, 2023December 5, 2023
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