Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Author at Halifax Examiner

An independent, adversarial news site in Halifax, NS

Vanessa Fells, ANSDPAD Coalition Director smiles at the camera while working from her laptop at her office.

Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society’s new advisor to work on equity, access plan

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter February 17, 2023February 24, 2023

Vanessa Fells, director at African Nova Scotian Decade for People of African Descent, to start new role at Barristers’ Society on Mar. 10.

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents — Credit: Halifax Examiner. All rights reserved.

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

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

Credit: Ricardo Weibezahn - ICIJ

DEFORESTATION INC

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

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

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

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.

Author Archives: Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society’s new advisor to work on equity, access plan

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Portrait project in Truro to honour Black women educators, church organist

Nova Scotia’s economy was and is deeply entwined with slavery

Nova Scotia whale sanctuary ‘charting path’ to final site development

How much money do we have to spend because drivers just won’t follow the rules?