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How Darrell Geddes got screwed by Air Canada and what he’s doing about it

by Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson August 9, 2021December 21, 2022

Chúk Odenigbo, a smiling young Black man standing in the woods on a misty day. He is wearing a rain jacket with its hood pulled up and has his hands in his pockets.

Black in nature

by Philip Moscovitch August 5, 2021January 23, 2023

Party leaders spar on economic policies

by Jennifer Henderson August 5, 2021December 21, 2022

Liberals roll out environmental platform

by Jennifer Henderson August 4, 2021December 21, 2022

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.

On the issues: the three major parties answer our questions

by Jennifer Henderson August 3, 2021December 21, 2022

Liberals unveil plans for affordable housing, anti-racism, and inclusion

by Jennifer Henderson July 31, 2021December 21, 2022

Health care, the environment, diversity, and inclusion main topics at first leaders’ debate

by Jennifer Henderson July 29, 2021December 21, 2022

Tamara Tynes Powell preparing a stack of campaign signs

Black Nova Scotia

Truro’s first Black candidate for MLA says she’s undeterred by recent vandalism and hate

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter July 28, 2021November 7, 2022

Nova Scotia is doing very well on the vaccination front

by Tim Bousquet July 28, 2021August 29, 2023

Campaign 2021: NDP says it leads on climate change goals, Liberals make big health care promises

by Jennifer Henderson July 28, 2021December 21, 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.

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