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The Northwood long-term care centre on Gottingen Street in Halifax.

The current indifference to COVID deaths is in stark contrast to the public anguish when the virus ripped through Northwood early in the pandemic

by Tim Bousquet October 28, 2022November 9, 2022

Nova Scotia is now experiencing about 50 COVID deaths per month, and this is before the expected fall increase in cases.

Judge with short hair and glasses and judges robe

Black Nova Scotia

Victim’s mother disappointed as court delays appeal hearing of sentence for man convicted in nail-gun shooting

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter March 24, 2022November 8, 2022

Policing

Nova Scotia RCMP officer charged with assault

by Zane Woodford March 16, 2022January 2, 2023

Left photo: Wolfville Mayor Wendy Donovan, Middle photo: close up of scratches on a Black woman in yellow blowse's neck, Right Photo: close up of shoulder patch on an RCMP uniform

Black Nova Scotia

‘This town is very racist’: African student in Wolfville speaks out about experience with RCMP, mayor after filing complaint about an assault

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter January 27, 2022November 8, 2022

Uncategorized

Dead murderers don’t murder again: Morning File, Monday, August 29, 2016

by Russell Gragg August 29, 2016October 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: assault

The current indifference to COVID deaths is in stark contrast to the public anguish when the virus ripped through Northwood early in the pandemic

Victim’s mother disappointed as court delays appeal hearing of sentence for man convicted in nail-gun shooting

Nova Scotia RCMP officer charged with assault

‘This town is very racist’: African student in Wolfville speaks out about experience with RCMP, mayor after filing complaint about an assault

Dead murderers don’t murder again: Morning File, Monday, August 29, 2016

Councillors in favour of new Bedford library in proposed Mill Cove Ferry Terminal

Halifax councillors ask for report on school evacuation plans in wake of wildfire

Halifax council votes for four units on serviced lots, hopes to satisfy federal housing minister

Feed Nova Scotia ‘not surprised’ after report gives province failing grade for poverty reduction efforts

Ambulance service in ‘critical’ state, says Nova Scotia auditor general