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A white woman with glasses and wearing a black hat, dark navy winter vest over a grey sweater and grey pants stands on a snowy lot near an old barn with grey shingles. The barn has a red-rust coloured wooden door.
Posted inProfiles

Nina Newington: Taking direct action to protect Nova Scotia’s forests

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent March 13, 2023March 14, 2023

“If you can do it peacefully, and honorably, there’s nothing more powerful than getting in the way of what damages the earth. And it works.”

A white woman with touselled hair tied up and wearing a black shirt under black coveralls sits at a kitchen table with her hands crossed. In front of her is a sign that says We Say No to the Canso Spaceport.
Posted inProfiles

‘Her passion is Canso’: Marie Lumsden’s fight against the spaceport

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent March 8, 2023March 23, 2023
A Black woman wearing a red sweatshirt with the word SCOTIAN Since 1783 poses for a photo in front of a sign that says UPPER HAMMONDS PLAINS COMMUNITY CENTRE.
Posted inBlack Nova Scotia, Profiles, Women

Gina Jones-Wilson: volunteering to connect generations to roots of Upper Hammonds Plains

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent March 1, 2023March 9, 2023
A smiling white woman with short cropped hair, glasses, and wearing a burgundy, black, and white print top holds a tabby cat with white under its chin and on its paws. They are in a room with a window in the background, a off-white chair in the corner, and cat toys and a cat bed on the floor. A black shelving unit stores cat treats and brushes.
Posted inPoverty, Profiles, Women

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

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent February 28, 2023March 7, 2023
A woman in a wheelchair with a ventilator smiles for the camera in front of a poster for her book, 'Writing With My Eyes: Staying Alive While Dying'
Posted inBlack Nova Scotia, Profiles

‘A lasting legacy:’ Truro author who wrote book about ALS remembered for courage, compassion

A smiling Black man with a shaved head and wire rimmed glasses wears a headphone in a recording studio by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter February 21, 2023February 28, 2023
A group of people wearing dark clothing and some holding bibles stand around a casket that has flowers on top.
Posted inCommentary

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

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent February 6, 2023February 13, 2023
A headshot of a smiling Black man in a dark pinstripe suit and a blue shirt with a white collar.
Posted inBlack Nova Scotia

SIRT’s first director of African descent welcomes questions from Black community

A smiling Black man with a shaved head and wire rimmed glasses wears a headphone in a recording studio by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter December 29, 2022January 3, 2023
Detailed line drawing of a TV on a dresser, with a remote control on the floor in the foreground.
Posted inMorning File

TV or great altar? Motel of the Mysteries takes a fun look back at the present

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch December 15, 2022December 29, 2022
A black woman wearing a black head wrap and beige hoodie with UbU4U logo on it. Behind her are other hoodies in orange, yellow, and black that have Black Lives Matter logos on them.
Posted inBlack Nova Scotia, Profiles, Racism, Subscribers only

Black fashion designer relocates store to Halifax location, continues to give back to community

A smiling Black man with a shaved head and wire rimmed glasses wears a headphone in a recording studio by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter December 13, 2022December 16, 2022
A Black man with glasses, salt-and-pepper hair and a goatee, wearing a grey shirt with a small print.
Posted inBlack Nova Scotia

Black talent still facing barriers, says retiring head of African Nova Scotian Music Association

A smiling Black man with a shaved head and wire rimmed glasses wears a headphone in a recording studio by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter December 5, 2022December 5, 2022

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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.


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.

LATEST NEWS

The Mass Casualty Commission’s final report will be issued tomorrow. It will likely be thoughtful and considered, and mostly ignored.

by Tim Bousquet March 29, 2023March 29, 2023

Nova Scotia basic income conference to focus on housing, poverty, income assistance issues

by Suzanne Rent March 29, 2023March 29, 2023

Swamped with offers in just days, listing for historic Acadian church taken off the market

by Suzanne Rent and Jennifer Henderson March 28, 2023March 28, 2023

Planning for national urban park at Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes moves to next stage

by Zane Woodford March 28, 2023March 28, 2023

PCs reject move to tighten language in Bill 256 to protect patients from poorly trained or unethical health care providers

by Jennifer Henderson March 28, 2023March 28, 2023
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