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Three youngish white men at a music festival. The man on the far right wears a Minor Threat t-shirt and cartoonish white sunglasses, and is singing into a mic on a stand. Two other people with festival bracelets stand beside him, mouths open in song also.

Scream Therapy: Jason Schreurs on punk, mental health, and being diagnosed with bipolar at 46

by Philip Moscovitch August 31, 2023August 31, 2023

Lighthouse in the evening.

Business and Development

New Peggy’s Cove bylaw wants ‘a world-class fishing village’ but residents decry a planning process replete with ‘lies’ and ‘favouritism’

by Philip Moscovitch August 24, 2023October 20, 2023

A white man racing on a bicycle.

Language matters: “Cyclist” vs “person biking”

by Philip Moscovitch August 22, 2023August 22, 2023

An old ticket stub for an April Wine show at the Apollo Theatre in Ardwick Manchester

Raw, ephemeral, and beautiful: Celebrating live music, no matter who’s in the band

by Philip Moscovitch August 18, 2023August 18, 2023

photo of brown and white photo frames hang in wall

The Age of Average: Why does everything look the same?

by Philip Moscovitch and Jennifer Henderson August 8, 2023August 8, 2023

Extreme close-up of a white shark, with rows of very sharp teeth visible

Education, Environment, Science

New marine field station to study great white sharks in Mahone Bay

by Philip Moscovitch August 4, 2023August 11, 2023

A cheesy-looking image of a contraption that looks like a flying jet ski, with a helmeted driver, in the air above a river.

Startup post-mortems: sad stories or comedy gold?

by Philip Moscovitch August 3, 2023August 3, 2023

a woman looking into the distance. Her face is covered in part by computer code projected onto it.

What AI gets wrong: process matters, not just results

by Philip Moscovitch July 27, 2023July 27, 2023

close up shot of app icons

‘Objectively shitty’: what the fragmentation of social media means for academics and journalism

by Philip Moscovitch and Suzanne Rent July 20, 2023July 20, 2023

Wooden building with a small ship called the Kipawo integrated into the structure, on a deck covered by a roof.

The Ship’s Company Theatre: Staying afloat in smalltown Nova Scotia

by Philip Moscovitch July 13, 2023July 13, 2023

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.