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Map from the 2000 Dillon report on Canso Chemical decommissioning showing the site location.

Commentary, Environment, Investigation, Province House

The Canso Chemicals mystery: With the chemical plant long gone, why is the company still alive? And what about all that mercury pollution?

by Joan Baxter March 7, 2019October 20, 2022

Commentary, Environment, Investigation, Province House

Dalhousie researcher breaks silence over pulp mill’s cancer-causing air emissions

by Linda Pannozzo March 7, 2019October 20, 2022

A photo of the tidal turbine.

The abandoned tidal turbine still sits on the bottom of the Minas Basin, and taxpayers are probably on the hook for removing it

by Jennifer Henderson March 6, 2019December 7, 2022

An image of where the treated Northern Pulp wastewater currently flows from Boat Harbour into the Northumberland Strait, just a few hundred metres from Pictou Landing First Nation.

Commentary, Environment, Investigation, Province House

Northern Pulp’s environmental documents: missing mercury, a pulp mill that never was, and oodles of contradictions

by Joan Baxter March 5, 2019November 5, 2022

Public agencies lost at least $2.2 million on aioTV

by Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson March 5, 2019December 7, 2022

The Yarmouth ferry is going to Bar Harbor — a little late, and at some unknown cost…

by Jennifer Henderson February 26, 2019December 7, 2022

John Risley’s South African adventure

by Tim Bousquet February 20, 2019October 20, 2022

City Hall, Investigation

Update: HRM turns a $300,000 annual profit through police Background Checks for volunteers

by Jennifer Henderson February 12, 2019October 20, 2022

Quadriga’s Magic Ride

by Andrew D. Wright February 12, 2019October 20, 2022

A map of Nova Scotia from a former website of Atlantic Gold, before it as acquired by St Barbara in 2019, showing the locations of the four gold projects in eastern Nova Scotia, at Touquoy in Moose River, Fifteen Mile Stream, Beaver Dam and Cochrane Hill on the banks of the St. Mary's River near Sherbrooke.

Like blood from a stone: trying to get information out of the Department of Energy and Mines

by Joan Baxter February 7, 2019November 10, 2022

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.