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Windows and an entrance door of a bar with green beer mugs and shamrocks and gold coins painted on the glass for Paddy's Day

Setting the suds aside on St. Patrick’s Day

by Ethan Lycan-Lang March 16, 2022October 20, 2022

News 1. Halifax Examiner marks two-year anniversary of COVID in Nova Scotia Tuesday marked the two-year anniversary of COVID’s arrival in Nova Scotia. (Check out Yvette d’Entremont’s Pandemic Diary for a more detailed look at that innocent time). What followed — the pandemic, the mass murders of April 18/19, the worsening housing and homelessness crises […]

Closeup of five wineglasses arranged one next to the other, half full with several sorts of wines, red, white and rose wines. Glasses are on the table, there are some papers and pens in background as this was the detail from winetasting. Lit from both sides.

Morning File

Pandemic drinking is no joke

by Philip Moscovitch July 14, 2020January 12, 2023

Morning File

A courageous mother’s act of forgiveness and a challenge to her son’s killer

by Suzanne Rent July 29, 2019November 7, 2022

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents

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.

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.

Tag: alcohol abuse

Setting the suds aside on St. Patrick’s Day

Pandemic drinking is no joke

A courageous mother’s act of forgiveness and a challenge to her son’s killer

‘This asshole bought 10 acres on P.E.I. to be alone, and then told a national magazine about it,’ and other ways to profit from rage-inducing journalism

Deforestation Inc: Canada is a ‘world laggard’ in sustainable forestry, say critics, and Paper Excellence’s expansion threatens this country’s boreal forests

Halifax landlord Peppermint Properties using fixed-term leases to clear out units, jack up rents

Justice institute to use federal funds to help Black Nova Scotians understand legal rights

Kids whose childhoods were made into social media ‘content’ are starting to speak out