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The inside of a cell at Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Burnside. It's super small, and everything is painted beige. There are two bunks, one obscuring the small window. There's a tiny table bolted to the wall, and one stool bolted to the floor. The toilet sink combo is in the corner by the door. Very homey.

Nova Scotia provides little detail on vaccine plan for provincial jails as advocates call for action

by Zane Woodford January 14, 2021January 2, 2023

Surfer and large wave

Riding the second wave

by Philip Moscovitch November 23, 2020January 16, 2023

There hasn’t yet been a COVID outbreak in Nova Scotia’s jails, but it could still happen

by Tim Bousquet September 11, 2020August 9, 2023

Justice Minister Mark Furey at a press conference.

Equity and Equality

It’s been 18 months since Glen Assoun was fully exonerated for the crime he spent 17 years in prison for, and Justice Minister Mark Furey still hasn’t investigated police wrong-doing, apologized to Assoun, or given him final compensation

by Jennifer Henderson September 3, 2020December 13, 2022

We’re probably going to get a lot of advisories about potential COVID exposure this week

by Tim Bousquet August 31, 2020August 8, 2023

The inside of a cell at Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Burnside. It's super small, and everything is painted beige. There are two bunks, one obscuring the small window. There's a tiny table bolted to the wall, and one stool bolted to the floor. The toilet sink combo is in the corner by the door. Very homey.

Incarceration in Nova Scotia

Prisoners, acting mostly on their own, are changing the legal landscape of Nova Scotia’s jails

by Tim Bousquet August 7, 2020August 8, 2023

Michael Bryant has deleted his dickish tweet about Atlantic Canada and replaced it with a dickish apology

by Tim Bousquet August 6, 2020August 8, 2023

People use the internet differently

by Tim Bousquet August 4, 2020August 8, 2023

Dr. Robert Strang at the COVID-19 briefing, Tuesday, May 19, 2020.

In the interests of public health, Dr. Strang should call for the legislature to convene

by Tim Bousquet June 22, 2020August 2, 2023

No one expects a photo description of the Spanish Inquisition.

Economists totally did not expect the global pandemic

by Tim Bousquet May 29, 2020August 2, 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.

To read the entire DEAD WRONG series, and articles on Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction, click here.