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Posted inInvestigation

A plague of ticks, tick-borne diseases, and poli-ticks

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter July 5, 2021November 22, 2022

This is the first article in a two-part series about ticks and tick-borne diseases in Nova Scotia — what we know about them and what we’re doing about them. Part 1 looks at some of the reasons for the tick population explosion and the increased incidence of Lyme disease, and what public health authorities are […]

Memorial cross by the side of a highway
Posted inMorning File

Grieving alone, together

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch April 21, 2020January 11, 2023
May 3, 1974: Actors dodging rubble during filming of motion picture "Earthquake" in Los Angeles, Calif., 1974 ROCK AROUND THE BLOCK--Panicked pedestrians dodge bounding boulders as a section of L.A. is "destroyed" in Universal's "Earthquake." Latest entry in Screen Disaster Derby features temblor as protagonist and a sound system designed for maximum register on the audience rictus scale.
Posted inMorning File

The “Did you survive” post-earthquake edition

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch March 2, 2020January 4, 2023
Posted inUncategorized

Whale sanctuary coming to Port Hilford

by Erica Butler February 26, 2020October 20, 2022
A blue Yaskawa robot vaguely in the shape of an arm.
Posted inMorning File

Fawning over robots

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch January 15, 2020January 4, 2023
Young woman looking over her shoulder in a tattoo parlour.
Posted inMorning File

A pinch of SALT

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch December 19, 2019January 4, 2023
Still from Night of the Living Dead
Posted inMorning File

Zombie ideas that won’t die

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch December 12, 2019January 3, 2023
Desktop version of Tourism NS website, featuring the CAT.
Posted inMorning File

A non-existent service is Nova Scotia’s top attraction

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch December 4, 2019January 3, 2023
A climate change march of several young people holding signs such as "system change not climate change".
Posted inUncategorized

“We need guts”

by Erica Butler October 29, 2019October 20, 2022
Sign on an apartment elevator reading "Sorry, out of order"
Posted inMorning File

Point, Click, Evict

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch October 24, 2019January 3, 2023

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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.

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