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Deforestation Inc: Paper Excellence and the ‘environmental insult’ to a First Nation community

by Joan Baxter March 2, 2023March 30, 2023

Vanessa Fells, ANSDPAD Coalition Director smiles at the camera while working from her laptop at her office.

Black Nova Scotia, Justice, Racism

Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society’s new advisor to work on equity, access plan

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter February 17, 2023February 24, 2023

A Black man in a dark suit stands at a podium in front of a room of people seated in chairs. At the front of the room, next to the man at the podium, is another table of people. On the wall at the front of the room is a video screen while a tripod with a camera sits in a row in the middle of the chairs.

Black Nova Scotia, Labour, Racism

‘Going through hell:’ Black HRM worker speaks at panel on equity, inclusion in workplace

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter February 8, 2023February 15, 2023

A young Black woman smiles while sitting at a table. There are other people in the room sitting at tables wrapped with white table cloths.

Rally in support of Kayla Borden to take place same day Halifax police chief testifies at hearing

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter January 3, 2023January 3, 2023

A three-storey sandstone building with big wooden doors and a tall clock tower. In the foreground, green leaves hang over the frame.

Black Nova Scotia

Black HRM workers alleging racist treatment by management plan to rally Friday

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter December 15, 2022December 15, 2022

Black Nova Scotia, Profiles, Racism

Black fashion designer relocates store to Halifax location, continues to give back to community

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter December 13, 2022October 20, 2023

A group of people stand on either side of a black podium that has the initials NPCC for North Preston Community Centre on it.

Office of African Nova Scotian Affairs opens regional office in North Preston

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter December 12, 2022December 12, 2022

The front steps of the warm and welcoming red brick building that is the Halifax Regional Police headquarters on Gottingen Street in June 2021.

Black Nova Scotia

Family says cops racially profiled Black teen arrested at gunpoint after fight in Dartmouth

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter December 8, 2022December 9, 2022

A smiling white woman with long straight brown hair stands with her arms crossed. It is a bright, sunny day. She wears a blue dress and stands beside a tree and in front of an institutional brick building

To rename or not to rename? Mount A prof grapples with Canada’s place names in new book

by Philip Moscovitch December 6, 2022December 6, 2023

A white man with glasses and wearing a dark coloured jacket over a pale blue shirt sits at a table in front of a microphone.

Cop testifies about anti-Black racism training at Nova Scotia Police Review Board hearing

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter November 30, 2022November 30, 2022

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.

To read the entire DEAD WRONG series, and articles on Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction, click here.