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The entrance to the Old Burying Grounds, with its wrought iron gates and fence.

Digging up the stories of Halifax’s Old Burying Ground

by Suzanne Rent June 24, 2021November 29, 2022

Review board finds Halifax police officer breached code of conduct in arrest of Black man in city park

by Zane Woodford June 21, 2021January 2, 2023

Being a Black woman entrepreneur in Canada

by Suzanne Rent June 3, 2021November 29, 2022

Jobs aren’t low skilled; they’re low paid and undervalued

by Suzanne Rent April 30, 2021November 29, 2022

Development proposal for old Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children property moves along

by Zane Woodford April 7, 2021January 2, 2023

Video shows Halifax police officer threatening Black man at gunpoint: “I will fill you full of fuckin’ lead”

by Zane Woodford March 27, 2021January 2, 2023

Black Nova Scotia

African Nova Scotian communities moving towards land title resolution

by Jennifer Henderson March 24, 2021December 21, 2022

The Last Taboo: Black women talk about abuse and violence

by Suzanne Rent March 4, 2021November 29, 2022

Lucasville Greenway would connect HRM community’s past to the present

by Suzanne Rent February 16, 2021November 29, 2022

Rose Fortune: a treasure in Nova Scotia’s Black history

by Suzanne Rent February 4, 2021November 29, 2022

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.