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Category: Profiles

A family photo taken in front of a lighthouse. The son has his arm around his smiling bearded father while a daughter in a purple rain coat smiles at the camera alongside her mother in a pink jacket.
Posted inHealth, Profiles

‘A special gift’: Nova Scotia woman advocates for organ donation in husband’s honour

A smiling white woman with wavy dark blonde hair and bangs, wearing a green top and a sweater with burgundy and white flecks. Behind her you can see dark trees. by Yvette d'Entremont April 6, 2023April 14, 2023
A white woman with short grey hair, glasses, and wearing a red scarf under a navy blue winter coat stands outside a historic building with white shingles, red doors and shutters, and chimneys on its roof. The ground is covered with about a foot of snow and two black cannons are in the right-side of the photo.
Posted inLocal History, Profiles, Women

Heather LeBlanc: Mapping the stories of Annapolis County

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent April 5, 2023April 12, 2023
A black woman and a white woman smile for the camera.
Posted inBlack Nova Scotia, Local History, Profiles, Women

Debra Lucas and Iris Drummond: leading the way in historic Black community of Lucasville

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent March 23, 2023April 27, 2023
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
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

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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.


Tractors bulldoze trees as American money rains from the sky.
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.

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Brad Johns won’t ban NDAs, won’t say why. Why? We thought you’d never ask

by Stephen Kimber September 24, 2023September 24, 2023

The prosecution of Randy Riley rests on racist tropes of violent and animalistic Black men and a vulnerable, unquestionable white woman

by El Jones September 24, 2023September 24, 2023

Riley trial: the Crown’s own expert witness undermines Crown’s case

by Tim Bousquet September 23, 2023September 23, 2023

Halifax council will consider minister’s housing demands, but height will be a sticking point

by Zane Woodford September 22, 2023September 24, 2023

Nova Scotia expands nominee program to include paramedics, pharmacy technicians

by Yvette d'Entremont September 22, 2023September 22, 2023
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