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A white woman with a short brown hairstyle and with a tattoo on her left arm wearing a black tank top and pink jeans stands on scaffolding at a construction site. In the background are highrise buildings. Two construction workers in yellow shirts and wearing hard hats are to the woman's left.
Posted inMorning File

Gentrification and how we can all have our say in how communities change

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent February 9, 2023February 14, 2023

An interview with Leslie Kern, author of Feminist City and Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies.

A rudimentary rendering of a proposed development shows a big building and some shadowy figures of trees and people playing along a path.
Posted inCity Hall

Dartmouth Cove development with 30-storey tower approved, construction years away

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford January 13, 2023January 13, 2023
On a grey winter day, the MacKay Bridge is seen in the background with the vacant lands known as Shannon Park in the foreground. On the right, there are parked cars and children playing in a field.
Posted inCity Hall

Shannon Park development agreement headed to community council

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford January 9, 2023January 10, 2023
A line of tents is seen in a baseball field on a sunny day.
Posted inPRICED OUT

Halifax designates new sanctioned tent site in Lower Sackville

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent November 1, 2022November 9, 2022
An intersection of two streets looking at a plot of land where there are trees and yellow benches.
Posted inBlack Nova Scotia, Business and Development, Housing, PRICED OUT

In Halifax, Truro, Upper Hammonds Plains, community land trusts offer a way for residents to build neighbourhoods, legacy

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent September 6, 2022January 9, 2023
A woman wearing a red shirt, denim jacket and a necklace stands in front of a building under construction. It's raining.
Posted inPRICED OUT

Halifax woman fights renoviction as municipality threatens landlord with fines

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford September 1, 2022January 3, 2023
A view of the corner of Halifax City Hall, looking down Duke Street, in June 2021. The building is dwarfed by larger, more modern buildings.
Posted inCity Hall

Surplus properties for affordable housing, cooling centres, construction noise, and more from Halifax regional council

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford August 24, 2022January 3, 2023
Three protestors stand with signs at a grassy median along a street. In the background are more protestors with signs
Posted inProvince House

Groups rally in Halifax to ask developer for ‘stop and swap’ at Eisner Cove wetland

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent August 19, 2022January 3, 2023
A bride and groom release balloons at a wedding ceremony
Posted inArts and Culture, Housing, Morning File

Going to the chapel again, and again, and again

A smiling young white guy with brown hair, in his Halifax Examiner T shirt. by Ethan Lycan-Lang August 8, 2022January 9, 2023
This map from Calyton Developments 2021 presentation shows the location of and proposed Port Wallace subdivision with Barry's Run owned by HRM in the middle, and Montague Gold Mines upstream across Highway 107 (Forest Hills Parkway), and the only road access is from Waverley Road
Posted inCity Hall, Commentary, Province House

Fast-tracking Port Wallace development threatens Lake Charles and health of future residents

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter July 4, 2022January 9, 2023

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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.


Tractors bulldoze trees as American money rains from the sky.
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.


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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.

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