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Poverty, Profiles, Women

‘Everybody should have a cat:’ Linda Felix and Spay Day HRM rescue the felines of Halifax

by Suzanne Rent February 28, 2023March 7, 2023

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The back-to-the-office battle continues

by Suzanne Rent February 24, 2023February 24, 2023

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Women want more pockets. Here’s a history of why we don’t have a lot of them in our clothing

by Suzanne Rent and Yvette d'Entremont February 22, 2023February 22, 2023

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Fake it until you make it: do you have imposter syndrome or are you just a normal human being?

by Suzanne Rent February 16, 2023February 23, 2023

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Gentrification and how we can all have our say in how communities change

by Suzanne Rent February 9, 2023February 14, 2023

A small church with grey shingles, black shutters, and a red steeple sits on a hill while a dark stone fence runs between the sidewalk of the street and a small cemetery next to the church. In the cemetery are old headstones, with some of the stones leaning over. In the background are two storey townhouses and next to the cemetery is a multilevel house with blue siding and wooden fire escapes going down the side wall.

Stone wall at historic Little Dutch Church restored; second part of project set for spring

by Suzanne Rent February 9, 2023February 16, 2023

A two-storey building with beige siding, white trim, and a red brick front, and white doors. There's a large paved parking lot out front.

‘Just keep fighting:’ tenant wins back security deposit after landlord a no-show at hearing

by Suzanne Rent February 7, 2023February 7, 2023

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What my kid, a funeral director in training, is teaching me about life and death

by Suzanne Rent February 6, 2023February 13, 2023

A young woman stands in front of a white board with pink and yellow Post-It notes on it while several other people sit in front of laptops on a table.

Ditch the hashtags: here’s how employers can support workers’ mental health

by Suzanne Rent February 2, 2023February 2, 2023

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‘A community taking care of its own:’ Public shows support for work of Sackville area shelter

by Suzanne Rent February 1, 2023February 1, 2023

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents

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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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.