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Evelyn White, wearing a red Tshirt and red cap, stands in her garden pointing towards where she saw the cardinal.

Black Nova Scotia, Commentary

Sunday is Emancipation Day; I’ll be celebrating with Corey Wright’s watermelon mango ale and pointing to freedom

by Evelyn C. White July 29, 2021October 20, 2022

Black Nova Scotia

Mother-daughter duo’s passion for anti-racism inspired creation of information sessions for seniors

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter July 29, 2021November 7, 2022

Tamara Tynes Powell preparing a stack of campaign signs

Black Nova Scotia

Truro’s first Black candidate for MLA says she’s undeterred by recent vandalism and hate

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter July 28, 2021November 7, 2022

Black Nova Scotia

Campaign signs for Black MLA candidate burned in Truro

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter July 26, 2021November 7, 2022

NDP leader Gary Burrill, NDP Preston candidate Colter Simmonds and community activist Quentrel Provo chat at a picnic table.

Black Nova Scotia

NDP candidates say they will close suspicious activity “loophole” and end police street checks

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter July 24, 2021November 7, 2022

Black Nova Scotia

Black News File

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter July 24, 2021October 20, 2022

Black Nova Scotia

For the first time in Nova Scotia election history, all the candidates in one riding are Black

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter July 20, 2021November 7, 2022

Irma Olivier Riley and Debra Lucas standing next to a headstone in a ferny area

Honouring Lucasville’s ancestors

by Suzanne Rent July 20, 2021November 29, 2022

Black Nova Scotia

The Halifax Examiner has a telephone line dedicated to hearing your housing stories and concerns

by Tim Bousquet July 19, 2021October 20, 2022

Black and white photo of large concrete abutments across a river

The railway that never was

by Philip Moscovitch July 15, 2021January 23, 2023

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.