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Smiling white woman with hair tumbling below her shoulders. A painting of a man hangs on the salmon-coloured wall behind her.

‘Those acorns are expertly finished’: Sue Goyette takes us to the imaginary ‘Nova Scotia Forest’ of the future

by Philip Moscovitch November 8, 2022February 1, 2023

Never mind the future, you can add your own forest reviews to Google Maps right now. (The Hemlock and Hardwoods trail at Keji has five stars.)

Morning File

A long season: How baseball fosters intimacy and community

by Philip Moscovitch November 1, 2022February 1, 2023

An aerial view of sign that says Don't Spray Paraside sitting in a forest

Environment, Forestry, Health, Morning File

North Mountain residents continue protests, ask for ban on glyphosate-based aerial spraying

by Ethan Lycan-Lang September 21, 2022January 9, 2023

the cover of the book "The Man from the Train"

Labour, Morning File, Policing

Assessing mass murder: How to think about the unthinkable

by Tim Bousquet August 19, 2022January 9, 2023

Three baseball lined up on a cement rail

Arts and Culture, Indigenous Nova Scotia, Morning File

Catching a baseball: Are some things just for kids or do adults get dreams, too?

by Ethan Lycan-Lang July 6, 2022January 9, 2023

A large mass of flowers, cards, handwritten notes, stuffed toys, and Canadian flags, in front of some evergreen trees

Morning File

Missteps, Mistakes, and Miscommunications

by Philip Moscovitch April 4, 2022January 30, 2023

A double photo: a book titled A Century Ago, Halifax 1871, which has a black paper cover with aged white lettering and an illustration of a lamppost with a gold lamp. Beside it is a photo of Granville Street east. There is a wagon on the street, and a couple of ghost like people who were moving too quickly for the camera.

Uncategorized

A look back at Halifax’s old streets

by Ethan Lycan-Lang October 27, 2021October 20, 2022

Morning File

Who thinks Cornwallis would still be standing?

by Philip Moscovitch June 10, 2020January 11, 2023

Beach at Robinson's Island, in PEI National Park.

Morning File

On the beach

by Philip Moscovitch August 13, 2019December 29, 2022

Dan Kinsella, a white man in his forties, dressed for a ceremonial Hamilton Police portrait.

Morning File

New top cop Dan Kinsella: no racial profiling, just “some inequalities, some negative experiences”

by Philip Moscovitch July 10, 2019December 29, 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: baseball

‘Those acorns are expertly finished’: Sue Goyette takes us to the imaginary ‘Nova Scotia Forest’ of the future

A long season: How baseball fosters intimacy and community

North Mountain residents continue protests, ask for ban on glyphosate-based aerial spraying

Assessing mass murder: How to think about the unthinkable

Catching a baseball: Are some things just for kids or do adults get dreams, too?

Missteps, Mistakes, and Miscommunications

A look back at Halifax’s old streets

Who thinks Cornwallis would still be standing?

On the beach

New top cop Dan Kinsella: no racial profiling, just “some inequalities, some negative experiences”

Brad Johns won’t ban NDAs, won’t say why. Why? We thought you’d never ask

The prosecution of Randy Riley rests on racist tropes of violent and animalistic Black men and a vulnerable, unquestionable white woman

Riley trial: the Crown’s own expert witness undermines Crown’s case

Halifax council will consider minister’s housing demands, but height will be a sticking point

Nova Scotia expands nominee program to include paramedics, pharmacy technicians