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A Black woman with grey hair pulled back in a ponytail and wearing glasses and a red blouse smiles while sitting in a chair. Behind her are two large green panels. The panel in the front has a design of a quilt on it in black, orange, red, and green. Text at the top of the screen says "Many rivers crossed."

Black Nova Scotia, Profiles, Racism, Women

Shelley Fashan: Connecting with and fighting for her Black Nova Scotian community

by Suzanne Rent April 27, 2023May 4, 2023

Two women sit in front of a microphone

Accessibility, Province House

Disabilty rights groups say historic agreement with Nova Scotia sends ‘powerful message’

by Yvette d'Entremont April 27, 2023May 4, 2023

The front facade of a grey school building with grey steel doors and slightly damp sidewalk concrete.

Equity and Equality

Pride flag at Bay View High School destroyed by students in ‘act of discrimination’

by Yvette d'Entremont April 22, 2023April 22, 2023

A white man with grey hair, glasses, and wearing a blue jacket and jeans, stands next to a small shelter with metal siding, red trim, and a white door. A another shelter with blue trim is in the background.

Poverty, PRICED OUT, Province House

Lower Sackville shelter gets funding from province to operate into 2024

by Suzanne Rent April 20, 2023April 27, 2023

A young white woman wearing a purple top under a black apron cuts circles in a sheet of chocolate cake.

Accessibility, Labour

‘Use their gifts and talent’: How employers can be more inclusive by hiring people with disabilities

by Suzanne Rent April 11, 2023April 18, 2023

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It’s not just you. Online advertising really does suck

by Philip Moscovitch April 11, 2023April 11, 2023

A Black woman in a white nun's habit

Black Nova Scotia, Racism

Sister Act: in 1951, a young Black woman left Detroit, moved to New Brunswick, and became a Catholic nun

by Evelyn C. White April 6, 2023April 14, 2023

Hockey players in bright pink sweaters with their pronouns on their sleeves sit on the bench at a rink during a game.

Equity and Equality, Sports

‘Openly and proudly queer’: Halifax hockey team participates in PEI tournament for first time

by Philip Moscovitch April 5, 2023April 12, 2023

A young girl of about four years old with brunette hair and wearing a yellow dress sits on the examination table in a doctor's office while a doctor checks her throat. The girl's mother is standing by, holding her hand.

Equity and Equality, Health, Medical Research

Canadian researchers’ national guidelines for treating children’s pain a global first

by Yvette d'Entremont April 4, 2023April 11, 2023

A man wearing glasses and a suit with a striped shirt speaks to someone out of frame. He's sitting at a table with microphones and a stack of empty paper cups.

Poverty, Province House

Nova Scotians on income assistance worse off after new budget, lawyer tells committee

by Zane Woodford April 3, 2023April 11, 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.