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Category: Recycling and Waste Management

Map showing several communities whose names include the word Pubnico.
Posted inMorning File

Pick your Pubnico: recycling place names in Nova Scotia

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch July 6, 2021January 23, 2023

News 1. A tick-ing time bomb? Nova Scotia is Canada’s hotspot for Lyme disease. Yesterday, the Halifax Examiner published part 1 of Joan Baxter’s series “A plague of ticks, tick-borne diseases, and poli-ticks.”  Today, in part 2, Baxter looks at how we can minimize and manage risk related to tick bytes and Lyme. Baxter seeks […]

Posted inCity Hall

Halifax councillors to consider scaling back compost and recycling collection

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford March 25, 2021January 2, 2023
Posted inCity Hall

Halifax council committee seeks staff report on new recycling program for markers

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford March 4, 2021January 2, 2023
Posted inCity Hall

Halifax council awards $75.9 million in waste collection contracts with no living wage requirements

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford January 27, 2021January 2, 2023
Posted inMorning File

More Photos of Buildings and Food

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch January 17, 2019December 28, 2022
Posted inMorning File

No doubt the precogs have already seen this: Morning File, Wednesday, December 9, 2015

by Tim Bousquet December 9, 2015March 23, 2023
Posted inMorning File

The Andrew Younger affair and the toilet seat scandal: Morning File, Friday, November 6, 2015

by Tim Bousquet November 6, 2015March 22, 2023
Posted inMorning File

The stink of patronage: Morning File, Friday, May 29

by Tim Bousquet May 29, 2015March 9, 2023
Posted inMorning File

Crappy service: Morning File, Wednesday, February 4, 2015

by Tim Bousquet February 4, 2015March 1, 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.

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