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Halifax Examiner

An independent, adversarial news site in Halifax, NS

An old red brick building covered with colourful graffiti under a blue sky. The paved parking lot has cracks in it

Fire officials: Bloomfield is a fire trap and people might die

by Tim Bousquet November 7, 2023November 7, 2023

A sixty-eight year old man with glasses.

Here’s how the Halifax Examiner was able to tell the full story of Glen Assoun’s wrongful conviction

by Tim Bousquet November 6, 2023November 6, 2023

15 years ago, we kicked an old man out of his house in order to pursue the fantasy of a superport. He died 2 years ago. Still no port.

by Tim Bousquet November 3, 2023November 3, 2023

A graph showing the percentage of people entering emergency rooms in Nova Scotia who die, by month, from January 2017 (left) to the September 2023 (right).

Nova Scotia’s ER death rate keeps increasing

by Tim Bousquet November 2, 2023November 20, 2023

Read the Halifax Examiner’s tax return

by Tim Bousquet, Yvette d'Entremont and Jennifer Henderson November 1, 2023November 1, 2023

A black and white photo of a man in a uniform at a desk.

Original Sin: The rot at the core of Halifax’s police and justice system

by Tim Bousquet November 1, 2023November 10, 2023

The front page of the Salt Lake Telegram has a headline that reads '24 killed in bus crash.'

How Schoolhouse Rock missed the story of the U.S.’s worst school bus disaster

by Tim Bousquet October 30, 2023October 30, 2023

A white man is sitting in front of Nova Scotian flags at a podium.

Bullshitter of the week: David Miller

by Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson October 27, 2023November 6, 2023

A white man with short hair and dark clothing stands in the snow, his arm on a fence, with a yellow "police line do not cross" tape running across it.

How did Halifax cops get so pervy?

by Tim Bousquet October 25, 2023October 25, 2023

The inside of a cell at Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Burnside. It's super small, and everything is painted beige. There are two bunks, one obscuring the small window. There's a tiny table bolted to the wall, and one stool bolted to the floor. The toilet sink combo is in the corner by the door. Very homey.

A judge is decrying the abuse of prisoners in Nova Scotia’s jails

by Tim Bousquet and Suzanne Rent October 23, 2023October 23, 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.

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