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Why it’s important to have more than one reporter covering a story

by Tim Bousquet December 7, 2022November 8, 2023

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MP Lisa Hepfner said online news sites are ‘not news’. The Halifax Examiner sets the record straight

by Tim Bousquet November 25, 2022November 7, 2023

SaltWire discontinues at least some rural delivery

by Tim Bousquet November 24, 2022November 24, 2022

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Black Nova Scotia

Halifax reporter named Atlantic director of Canadian Association of Black Journalists

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter November 21, 2022November 21, 2022

What if Monday disappeared and no one noticed?

by Stephen Kimber October 9, 2022November 28, 2023

Commentary, Journalism, Province House, Racism

‘Frank’-ly, my dear, I don’t give a damn

by Stephen Kimber September 18, 2022January 9, 2023

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Deputy Premier Allan MacMaster: minimum wage shouldn’t be increased because inflation is making things more expensive

by Tim Bousquet September 9, 2022November 4, 2023

Crime and Courts, Journalism, Mass Casualty Commission, Policing

An RCMP officer’s evolving recollection of Brenda Forbes’ complaint about the mass murderer

by Joan Baxter July 14, 2022January 9, 2023

A screenshot of a news website, with headlines along the left side, and a photo of two people in the centre, headlined, "A note to our readers from the founders of The Coast."

The Coast sold to B.C.-based media group

by Zane Woodford April 20, 2022December 29, 2022

2 years ago today, the first cases of COVID were announced in Nova Scotia, and 35 days later the mass murders occurred; the Halifax Examiner has been here for you ever since

by Tim Bousquet March 15, 2022October 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.