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Paddlers in two side by side boats, perfectly in sync, cross under a bridge.

‘We’re all in this together’: Competition, collaboration, and caring in a dragon boat and beyond

by Suzanne Rent September 19, 2023September 20, 2023

Françoise Baylis, Deb Woolway, and Lisa Vaughan signed up for dragon boating to get fit, but they ended up finding friendship, too.

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A aerial rendering shows a soccer stadium with players on the field, and stands on two sides full of people. Citadel Hill is seen in the background.

City Hall

Team owner pitches $40-million, 8,500-seat permanent stadium for Wanderers Grounds

by Zane Woodford September 14, 2023September 14, 2023

A view of Fenway park from behind the first-base line, on a bright, sunny day.

Morning File

Baseball and literature: ‘We can have as much data as we want, but we always need stories’

by Philip Moscovitch July 6, 2023July 6, 2023

Hockey players in bright pink sweaters with their pronouns on their sleeves sit on the bench at a rink during a game.

Equity and Equality, Sports

‘Openly and proudly queer’: Halifax hockey team participates in PEI tournament for first time

by Philip Moscovitch April 5, 2023April 12, 2023

A German doner kebab wrapper showing a cartoony mustachioed chef with a big knife, in front of a spit of gyro meat. A plate of french fries is in the background.

Morning File

Doner vs donair: a wrap on notable sandwiches

by Philip Moscovitch March 14, 2023March 14, 2023

Commentary

Coach Brandon, his players and their parents versus mindless zero-tolerance policies

by Stephen Kimber February 26, 2023February 26, 2023

A red building with BCC PANUK on the side is seen next to a lake on a summer day. There's sand on the shoreline and a dock attached to the building, with some green grass in the foreground.

City Hall

Halifax council to consider grant of more than $250,000 for Banook Canoe Club renovation

by Zane Woodford February 24, 2023March 3, 2023

Side-by-side photos of two Black men. The man in the photo on the left is wearing a dark trench coat over a suit and colourful tie. And the man in the photo on the right is has glasses and a moustache and is wearing a beige suit over a white shirt and blue patterned tie. Both men are in a room of a house decorated with hockey memorabilia. One of the hockey jerseys has the name "Paris" on it with the number 1.

Black Nova Scotia, Local History, Sports

Two brothers to coach teams in event honouring Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter February 15, 2023February 22, 2023

Vintage box that says Smithsonian New Millennium Time Capsule. It's for a product designed for children to "give your past.... to your future."

Morning File

Time capsules are stupid

by Philip Moscovitch February 14, 2023February 14, 2023

Morning File

Before the Hockey Canada sexual assault scandal, Michael McNutt sexually abused dozens of boys, including those involved in Minor Hockey

by Tim Bousquet December 9, 2022December 9, 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.

Category: Sports

‘We’re all in this together’: Competition, collaboration, and caring in a dragon boat and beyond

Team owner pitches $40-million, 8,500-seat permanent stadium for Wanderers Grounds

Baseball and literature: ‘We can have as much data as we want, but we always need stories’

‘Openly and proudly queer’: Halifax hockey team participates in PEI tournament for first time

Doner vs donair: a wrap on notable sandwiches

Coach Brandon, his players and their parents versus mindless zero-tolerance policies

Halifax council to consider grant of more than $250,000 for Banook Canoe Club renovation

Two brothers to coach teams in event honouring Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes

Time capsules are stupid

Before the Hockey Canada sexual assault scandal, Michael McNutt sexually abused dozens of boys, including those involved in Minor Hockey

Giving people food doesn’t solve food insecurity long term, but giving people money can

Halifax councillors consider new campaign financing limits

Health care administrative professionals rally across Nova Scotia demanding better pay

Halifax Transit delays coming as Cogswell project enters second phase

New building codes coming to Nova Scotia, but still concerns about meeting energy efficiency standard