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A blue trailer is shown parked on the street. It says "lava mae" and has male, female and accessible washroom symbols with drawings of showers above each of them. There's a door open, and wiring plugged into the trailer.

City Hall, PRICED OUT

Halifax council approves mobile shower pilot program, doubles housing grant program

by Zane Woodford September 28, 2021October 20, 2022

A Halifax Regional Police bicycle officer with his name tag covered forms part of a chain to allow a wagon full of arrested protesters to leave.

City Hall, Policing, PRICED OUT

Halifax police chief promises ‘fulsome review’ of Aug. 18 police raid on homeless camps, board to consider independent probe

by Zane Woodford September 20, 2021October 20, 2022

Two small shelters made of wood and protected with homewrap and several tents in a park.

City Hall, PRICED OUT

Volunteers call for moratorium on Halifax tent, shelter evictions after residents lose hotel rooms

by Zane Woodford September 17, 2021October 20, 2022

A $5 bill on a hardwood floor

Investigation, PRICED OUT

Nickel and dimed: How landlords skirt the law to hang onto damage deposits

by Philip Moscovitch September 9, 2021October 20, 2022

John Lohr is the minister charged with Nova Scotia’s housing file, but doesn’t seem to comprehend the housing crisis

by Tim Bousquet September 3, 2021October 26, 2023

A sign at the park at the corner of Dublin Street and Chebucto Road, now dubbed People's Park. The sign says "dear city council: offer permanent, accessible dignifying, safe housing to the unhoused. And if you will not: refrain from interferring with, intervening upon, impairing, inhibiting, persecuting, policing and criminilizing community actions and networks that seek to offer compassionate options to those living without housing."

City Hall, Investigation, PRICED OUT

People’s Park: ‘None of this is sustainable’

by Yvette d'Entremont September 1, 2021October 20, 2022

One of New Armdale Westside Housing Co-operative's former properties at 629 and 631 Herring Cove Rd. They are attached two story units with brick and red siding.

How 27 units of affordable co-op housing in Halifax were sold off for cheap

by Zane Woodford September 1, 2021January 29, 2023

A protester holds a sign reading, “A home is a human right” at the Halifax Memorial Library site.

City Hall, Investigation, PRICED OUT

Halifax council votes to use $13 million in federal money to fund 85 affordable units, pledges $500,000 in new housing spending

by Zane Woodford September 1, 2021October 20, 2022

Blair Raoul, a 63 year-old man with grey hair and a beard.

Investigation, PRICED OUT, Province House

Nova Scotia fighting to evict 63-year-old man with terminal cancer from public housing

by Zane Woodford August 30, 2021October 20, 2022

A white man in his early fifties wearing a suit sits at a podium in front of four Nova Scotia flags.

City Hall, Commentary, PRICED OUT, Province House

When developers and landlords speak, Tim Houston listens

by Stephen Kimber August 29, 2021October 20, 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.