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Paddlers in two side by side boats, perfectly in sync, cross under a bridge.

‘We’re all in this together’: Competition, collaboration, and caring in a dragon boat and beyond

by Suzanne Rent September 19, 2023September 20, 2023

Françoise Baylis, Deb Woolway, and Lisa Vaughan signed up for dragon boating to get fit, but they ended up finding friendship, too.

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A young white woman with shoulder length brown hair and wearing a pink tank top and skirt of pastel colours smiles for the camera. She is sitting in a wheelchair that is on a lush lawn.

Profiles

‘The sun is duller today’: remembering Jen Powley

by Suzanne Rent September 19, 2023September 19, 2023

A white woman looks off to the distance while sitting in a spotlight. She has brown hair pulled back with a ringlet hanging along the side of her face. She also has a nose piercing and is wearing a red blouse.

Arts and Culture

Shattering silences: Zoë Comeau, Black Barbie, and stitching together queer stories amid the silence of Halifax Pride

by Evelyn C. White September 6, 2023September 12, 2023

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.

Morning File

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

by Philip Moscovitch August 31, 2023August 31, 2023

A smiling Black woman with reddish square frame glasses. Her hair is pulled back in bun and she is wearing a black, red, yellow, and green necklace and a black t-shirt. There is a black-and-white drawing of a man in a frame on the purple wall behind her.

Morning File

Black Hair 101, Braid Day, and celebrating Black beauty, history, and Black women in Nova Scotia

by Suzanne Rent August 29, 2023August 29, 2023

A worker in jeans, a long sleeve shirt, and wearing a hard hat and mask stands on a city sidewalk surrounded by black stones. Behind him are two other workers in hard hats inspecting stones they are digging up from an old stone wall. The stone wall runs along the sidewalk and part of it has been taken out. Behind the wall is a yellow construction fence separating the stone wall from an old cemetery behind it.

Morning File

Restoring the walls at the Little Dutch Church and the importance of gathering places

by Suzanne Rent August 24, 2023August 24, 2023

A map of Atlantic Canada, annotated with possible Viking voyages.

Morning File

What do we take away from the Vikings’ failed attempt to settle in North America?

by Tim Bousquet August 21, 2023August 22, 2023

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

Morning File

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

by Philip Moscovitch August 18, 2023August 18, 2023

A green road sign that says Ecum Secum standing along a rural highway. There are lots of trees in the background.

Morning File

Ecum Secum resident organizes petition to get cell tower for Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore

by Suzanne Rent August 15, 2023August 22, 2023

A white man holds a baby while standing to a young boy and a woman on the porch of an old building. The building has pale yellow singles, green doors, and white trim. There are two staircases leading off the porch.

Morning File

Bringing new life to Riverport’s Old Confidence Lodge

by Suzanne Rent August 10, 2023August 10, 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.

Category: Arts and Culture

‘We’re all in this together’: Competition, collaboration, and caring in a dragon boat and beyond

‘The sun is duller today’: remembering Jen Powley

Shattering silences: Zoë Comeau, Black Barbie, and stitching together queer stories amid the silence of Halifax Pride

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

Black Hair 101, Braid Day, and celebrating Black beauty, history, and Black women in Nova Scotia

Restoring the walls at the Little Dutch Church and the importance of gathering places

What do we take away from the Vikings’ failed attempt to settle in North America?

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

Ecum Secum resident organizes petition to get cell tower for Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore

Bringing new life to Riverport’s Old Confidence Lodge

Today is Zane Woodford’s last day with the Halifax Examiner

Nova Scotia public housing announcement came as ‘shock’ to Bridgewater mayor

Nova Scotia must tackle energy poverty, advocates tell legislative committee

Halifax Convention Centre ‘paying for itself’ after year of higher revenues

Strang encourages Nova Scotians to get COVID, flu vaccines, but not be alarmed about rising infections