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A white woman removes her mask as she prepares to speak at a podium.

Bank suing Dartmouth South-Eastern Passage councillor over trucking company’s debt

by Zane Woodford August 25, 2023October 20, 2023

A blue and white police vehicle is seen on a sunny day, parked in front of a grey building.

City Hall, Crime and Courts

Halifax Transit sued over pedestrian’s death at Bridge Terminal

by Zane Woodford August 24, 2023October 20, 2023

A grainy image shows three uniformed cops arrested a man on a sidewalk on a sunny day as people look on.

Crime and Courts, Policing

Street preacher seeks $1.2 million in unlawful arrest lawsuit against Halifax Regional Police

by Zane Woodford August 24, 2023October 20, 2023

A woman smiles and spreads her arms in a green field on the coast on a sunny day.

Incarceration in Nova Scotia

Sarah Rose Denny’s family sues Nova Scotia over Mi’kmaw mother’s pneumonia death in custody

by Zane Woodford August 24, 2023August 24, 2023

A still from the video of a Halifax Regional Police officer threatening to shoot a Black man. A blurry officer pointing a gun can be seen in the foreground, while a figure with his hands up is standing several feet away.

Crime and Courts, Policing

Black man threatened at gunpoint by Halifax cop in 2021 sues HRM

by Zane Woodford July 27, 2023August 3, 2023

The main sign that reads Police Headquarters on the HRP building on Gottingen Street in June 2021.

Crime and Courts, Policing

SIRT clears Halifax police of wrongdoing in drunk tank case that sparked lawsuit

by Zane Woodford July 27, 2023August 3, 2023

A uniformed Asian man with a grey goatee speaks to the camera in front of a brick wall.

City Hall, Crime and Courts, Policing

Halifax police sergeant accuses chief of ‘targeted intimidation, harassment and discrimination’

by Zane Woodford July 25, 2023August 1, 2023

A tree is seen on a sunny day with a strip of its bark cut out, and yellow police tape wrapped around it.

33 trees in the Public Gardens were attacked last year; 28 of them are still alive

by Tim Bousquet July 21, 2023July 21, 2023

The sign for the Micmac mall in Dartmouth, which is made of stone and sits on a lawn.

Business and Development, City Hall, Crime and Courts

HRM alleges Ramias used numbered company to avoid taxes on Dartmouth mall purchase

by Zane Woodford July 20, 2023July 27, 2023

A white man with grey hair and a beard, wearing a dark grey shirt, speaks in a hallway with doors behind him.

Nova Scotia Supreme Court justice dismisses fisher’s bid to reopen Avon River aboiteau

by Zane Woodford July 19, 2023July 27, 2023

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.