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

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.

Bringing new life to Riverport’s Old Confidence Lodge

by Suzanne Rent August 10, 2023August 10, 2023

A white woman with long grey hair tied back and wearing a purple winter coat over a blue shirt, beige scarf, and dark pants stands in a cemetery. She's holding a cane and standing next to a tomb and two old headstones. There are buildings along a city street and tree without their leaves.

Local History, Profiles, Women

Deborah Trask: Carving her expertise in Nova Scotia’s cemeteries and gravestones

by Suzanne Rent August 8, 2023August 15, 2023

A young Black woman wearing a sweater dress with pink sleeves and a black bodice sits on a black sofa next to a pillow with colourful chevron pattern. A wall next to the sofa is painted to resemble blue bricks.

Arts and Culture, Black Nova Scotia, Labour

New union for Black artists launches in Nova Scotia to fight for fair wages, more protections

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter August 3, 2023October 20, 2023

A bowl of gumbo sits on a wooden slatted table. It has bits of meat, rice, broth, and green celery floating on top of it.

Arts and Culture, Francophone Nova Scotia

Video game developer cooks up app to share culinary creations of Nova Scotia’s Clare region

by Yvette d'Entremont August 3, 2023October 20, 2023

A white man in a black wetsuit and snorkel in the water next to a wooden dock. On top of the dock is a collection of garbage he found in the water, including bottles, an old sink, pieces of a tire, a car stereo speaker, and a glove.

Searching for treasures and trash in Nova Scotia’s lakes, rivers, and ocean

by Suzanne Rent July 27, 2023August 3, 2023

Four colourful quilts hang on the white walls of an art gallery. One quilt features a Black woman in a green dress with a basket at her feet. Another quilt features a Black woman in a red dress holding a silver bucket and walking toward a pink house. Another quilt showed a small house, with a crow, and red, black, yellow stripes, and the final quilt shows a Black woman praying and surrounded by waves of colour.

Black Nova Scotia, Local History

Nova Scotia Black artist, historian hopes Secret Codes quilt exhibit inspires younger generations

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter July 26, 2023August 2, 2023

A smiling white woman with short grey-white hair and wearing a black suit, pale blue dress shirt, and black shoes sits in a bright blue chair next to a wooden-top table. There are a few other bright blue chairs at the table, which sits against a wall of tall windows looking out onto a campus courtyard.

Education, Profiles

After a revolving door of men in the position, Kim Brooks is appointed as the first woman and openly queer president of Dalhousie University

by Evelyn C. White July 21, 2023July 28, 2023

A smiling Black woman wearing a blue headscarf, large gold earrings, and a sleeveless blue dress with a print on the collar accepts an award from a white man with grey hair and wearing a black-and-white shirt, black tie, and black pants. Behind the man and woman are another man and woman sitting at a wooden table. There are a Canadian flag and a Nova Scotian flag in the backround.

Black Nova Scotia, Profiles

Truro council honours Dr. Lynn Jones for appointment to Order of Canada

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter July 12, 2023July 19, 2023

A white sign on a post that says Viola Desmond, gravesite. In the background are several newer and older headstones on a green lawn. There are a number of trees in the background, too.

Black Nova Scotia, Local History, Profiles, Racism

Wanda Robson championed her sister Viola Desmond’s legacy; now they are honoured together at Camp Hill cemetery

by Evelyn C. White July 11, 2023July 19, 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.