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A screenshot shows a website. There's a title at the top, PEPPERMINT PROPERTIES, with a menu: Home, Residential, Commercial, Availability, Apply, Forms, Contact. There's a photo of a brick building on a corner lot.

PRICED OUT, Province House

Halifax landlord Peppermint Properties using fixed-term leases to clear out units, jack up rents

by Zane Woodford March 16, 2023March 23, 2023

muddy ground with enormous tread marks from tree harvesting and small pools of water all the way to the grey horizon with just one tiny clump of trees in the far distance

Deforestation Inc: Nova Scotia opts for forest certification scheme critics call ‘greenwashing’

by Joan Baxter March 14, 2023March 14, 2023

Houston government releases $1.6 billion capital budget, heavy on highways and health care

by Tim Bousquet March 13, 2023March 20, 2023

A young boy wearing a navy ball cap, orange hooded sweatshirt and grey pants sits on a wooden wharf looking down at seagulls in the water.

Equity and Equality, Poverty, Province House

Federal benefits reduced child poverty in Nova Scotia, but ‘province did very little,’ report finds

by Yvette d'Entremont March 9, 2023March 16, 2023

A green mao of a part of Nova Scotia with the title Species at Risk at Goldsmith Lake. The map shows locations of frosted glass whisker, blue felt, wisqoq, as well as details locations that are harvest blocks or protected by old growth policy

Climate, Forestry, Province House

Halt to logging at Goldsmith Lake a ‘huge relief’, say citizen scientists

by Suzanne Rent March 7, 2023March 14, 2023

A man wearing a dark suit with a polka dot shirt and striped tie laughs at a podium. In the background are three Nova Scotia flags, coloured blue, yellow and red.

Climate, Province House, Province House, Utilities

Nova Scotia Power fails to meet renewable power mandate, faces potential $10 million fine

by Jennifer Henderson March 6, 2023March 13, 2023

Two women sit at a desk with Nova Scotian flags behind them. A sign reads "for better, faster care."

Health, Province House

Cabinet briefs: Another 4,100 patients losing family doctors, no word on carbon tax rebates

by Jennifer Henderson March 3, 2023March 10, 2023

Nature Nova Scotia slams Port Hawkesbury Paper logging deal

by Jennifer Henderson March 2, 2023March 2, 2023

A white woman with light hair, glasses, a red blouse and a orange scarf sits before a microphone and water bottle.

Are Nova Scotia’s de-carbonization programs working?

by Tim Bousquet February 28, 2023March 7, 2023

Bright blue sky over a clearcut area in Port Wallace in July 2022, with logs and brush lying on the ground and one remaining tree in the middle of the cleared area that will become Clayton Developments' "Parks of Lake Charles." Photo contributed.

Nova Scotia approves fast-tracked Port Wallace development

by Zane Woodford February 8, 2023February 8, 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.