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Deputy Premier Allan MacMaster: minimum wage shouldn’t be increased because inflation is making things more expensive

by Tim Bousquet September 9, 2022January 9, 2023

News 1. Nova Scotia Power fined $375,000 This item is written by Jennifer Henderson. The Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board (UARB) has slapped Nova Scotia Power with a $375,000 fine for failing to meet performance standards established more than five years ago. The utility filed its annual report last March and the data show […]

COVID

Today’s COVID-19 update: Stephen McNeil says people should go back to work even if they’d receive more money by staying home

by Yvette d'Entremont June 3, 2020December 23, 2022

Morning File

Calling connected devices “smart” is propaganda

by Philip Moscovitch April 28, 2020January 11, 2023

Morning File

Cops, cabbies, and doctors abusing their power

by Philip Moscovitch January 24, 2020January 4, 2023

Transportation

Imagine Spring Garden Road where everyone looks the same

by Suzanne Rent September 24, 2019November 5, 2022

Uncategorized

Afua Cooper: “We need to smash those [racist] stereotypes and see the humanity in each and every one of us”

by Erica Butler May 22, 2019October 20, 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.

Tag: Alicia Draus

Deputy Premier Allan MacMaster: minimum wage shouldn’t be increased because inflation is making things more expensive

Today’s COVID-19 update: Stephen McNeil says people should go back to work even if they’d receive more money by staying home

Cops, cabbies, and doctors abusing their power

Imagine Spring Garden Road where everyone looks the same

Afua Cooper: “We need to smash those [racist] stereotypes and see the humanity in each and every one of us”

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