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A young Palestinian boy sits in rubble, presumably the result of bombing.

The Israel-Palestine war: consider the boy in the rubble

by Stephen Kimber October 17, 2023October 17, 2023

Show, don’t hide, the Carbon Tax

by Larry Hughes October 10, 2023October 10, 2023

A white man with short grey hair and wearing a blue suit with a purple tie.

Houston shunts problem issues beyond the next election. Let Future Tim worry about them

by Stephen Kimber October 8, 2023November 28, 2023

Nova Scotia’s Poverty Report Card — ‘F’ for filed and forgotten?

by Stephen Kimber October 2, 2023November 28, 2023

A man wearing a suit and tie and glasses clasps his hands while looking ahead.

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

by Stephen Kimber September 24, 2023November 7, 2023

A black man seated next to a potted plant leans forward.

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 25, 2023

The open wrought iron entrance gate to the courtyard of Province House in June 2021. On the stone wall is a bronze plaque reading 1726 Hollis St, and above that a copper plaque, completely green with patina, designating the building a provincial heritage property.

Houston’s new ministers, all dressed up with nothing much to say

by Stephen Kimber September 17, 2023November 20, 2023

Fail to the Chief

by Stephen Kimber September 10, 2023November 20, 2023

A stone landmark Université Sainte-Anne sign sits on green grass with blue sky above and university buildings behind it.

‘No’ means ‘no more’: Fighting rape culture at one small Nova Scotia university

by Brian Gibson September 1, 2023September 5, 2023

Apartment buildings under construction on Clyde Street in Halifax in June 2021. The new construction dwarfs an older building, which is itself only a couple of decades old. In the foreground you can see a bright blue cherry picker crane, and a yello tube through which trash drops into a dumpster. In front of the nearest building is a chain link fence, covered with multi coloured banners extolling the virtues of the construction company, the investors, and the future luxury accomodations. The banners are already worn and filthy.

10 reasons affordable housing is hard to deliver

by Jill Grant August 31, 2023September 1, 2023

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.

Read the entire series, plus articles about Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction, on the DEAD WRONG homepage.