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Detailed line drawing of a TV on a dresser, with a remote control on the floor in the foreground.

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

by Philip Moscovitch December 15, 2022December 29, 2022

Black Nova Scotia, Profiles, Racism

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

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter December 13, 2022October 20, 2023

A Black man with glasses, salt-and-pepper hair and a goatee, wearing a grey shirt with a small print.

Black Nova Scotia

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

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter December 5, 2022December 5, 2022

A woman with long dark hair and wearing a white and black striped blouse.

Black Nova Scotia

Halifax reporter named Atlantic director of Canadian Association of Black Journalists

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter November 21, 2022November 21, 2022

An older gentleman wearing a black beret and navy blazer decorated with military medals

Black Nova Scotia

‘Kind, selfless’ Black military vet remembered for giving back to Cape Breton community

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter November 12, 2022November 12, 2022

A man accepts a framed diploma of a degree. Hes wearing a red and black robe with a black cap. The man on the left is wearing a black and gold robe. He has short grey hair and a moustache

Black Nova Scotia

‘Exemplary artist’ David Woods receives honorary doctorate from Dalhousie University

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter November 6, 2022November 6, 2022

Leon Joudrey: a decent man with an impossible burden

by Tim Bousquet November 1, 2022November 7, 2023

Two smiling Black women hug each other.

Black Nova Scotia

Women from North Preston, Cherry Brook recognized for longtime work as foster parents

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter October 27, 2022October 27, 2022

A black man stands wrapped in a handmade quilt of red and white fabric. Behind him is a stage where several flags are standing.

Black Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia navy veteran receives Quilt of Valour for military service

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter October 6, 2022November 8, 2022

A Black woman wearing a black t-shirt and whose hair is tied up stands with her arms folded in an empty theatre with rows of beige chairs.

Black Nova Scotia

Local theatre company helping African Canadians break through film industry

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter October 5, 2022November 8, 2022

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.

To read the entire DEAD WRONG series, and articles on Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction, click here.