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COVID

Kids, youth had highest rates of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies prior to third wave, study found

by Yvette d'Entremont July 7, 2021December 22, 2022

Child’s play: Bringing back the 1980s summer

by Yvette d'Entremont June 30, 2021December 22, 2022

A photo of a child's mat with two small toy cars on it while children in a classroom look on in the background.

Families and Childcare

Coalition releases recommendations for universal, publicly funded, not-for-profit early learning and child care

by Yvette d'Entremont June 29, 2021December 22, 2022

A store shelf with colourful boxes of tampons and pads.

Equity and Equality, Health, Women

IWK study collecting data on period poverty to advocate for free menstrual products in public washrooms

by Yvette d'Entremont June 25, 2021December 22, 2022

COVID

New national “mix and match” COVID-19 vaccine study seeking Halifax participants

by Yvette d'Entremont June 23, 2021December 22, 2022

Legal cannabis is a big hit: people support legalization and are smoking more of it, but edibles still haven’t much caught on

by Yvette d'Entremont June 21, 2021December 22, 2022

A photo of an empty syringe stuck into a model of the coronavirus, which is made out of a styrofoam ball painted purple, with multicoloured quilter's pins sticking out if it, with a white background.

COVID

COVID-19 vaccine trial in Halifax struggling to find participants

by Yvette d'Entremont June 18, 2021December 22, 2022

COVID

Hope on the horizon for COVID-19 long haulers

by Yvette d'Entremont June 16, 2021December 22, 2022

Acadia

Acadians go to court in bid for a Chéticamp electoral riding

by Yvette d'Entremont June 10, 2021December 6, 2022

The outside of the IWK Children's Emergency Department, with a few cars in the parking lot, on a sunny summer's day.

IWK chief of psychiatry: Distress calls, eating disorders up, but no overall changes in admission rates

by Yvette d'Entremont June 9, 2021December 22, 2022

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

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

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

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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.

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2020 MASS MURDERS

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

Updated regularly.

UNCOVER: DEAD WRONG

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

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

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