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A two and a half storey house, green with white trim and a front porch, on a city street with a for sale sign in front of it. In the background are new apartment buildings and beside it a parking lot.

Housing: party for a few, crisis for the rest

by Philip Moscovitch January 5, 2022January 25, 2023

An attractive path through a wooded area near the site of the proposed Beaver Dam mine. Photo: Simon Ryder-Burbidge

Expansion of gold mining on the Eastern Shore meeting with stiff resistance

by Joan Baxter November 26, 2021November 22, 2022

An aerial photo showing the Atlantic Gold open pit mine in Moose River on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia.

Atlantic Gold agrees to a tentative plea deal that would have the company pay $120,000 to the Nova Scotia Salmon Association to atone for breaking environmental rules, but ‘no deal,’ says the Salmon Association

by Joan Baxter October 26, 2021November 22, 2022

Updated: Photos suggest that there is a tailings leak at Atlantic Gold’s Moose River gold mine

by Joan Baxter August 29, 2021November 22, 2022

Atlantic Gold’s imaginary conservation land

by Joan Baxter May 20, 2021November 22, 2022

Sacrificing wild Atlantic salmon for gold

by Joan Baxter March 4, 2021November 22, 2022

Atlantic Gold’s lobbying blitz

by Joan Baxter February 5, 2021November 22, 2022

Atlantic Gold paid $0 in taxes in 2019

by Joan Baxter January 27, 2021November 22, 2022

Nova Scotia has laid charges for 32 environmental infractions against Atlantic Gold

by Joan Baxter December 23, 2020November 22, 2022

The $722 million deal

by Joan Baxter May 17, 2019November 10, 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.