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Not only the lonely are lonely during COVID-19

by Suzanne Rent June 17, 2020November 6, 2022

News 1. Dead Wrong on Uncover Tim Bousquet’s podcast Dead Wrong, on CBC’s Uncover, is now live and you can listen to the first couple of episodes here. Everyone at the Examiner knows how hard he’s worked on this podcast for the past several months, but, of course, his work on the Dead Wrong series […]

A 1996 Halifax police photo of the knife that was presented at Glen Assoun's 1999 trial for the murder of Brenda Way. (Fisher Scientific was the lab company that tested the knife for blood, fingerprints, DNA, or other evidence that might connect it to the murder; it found none.)

The long, bizarre, and costly journey of the knife used to convict Glen Assoun

by Tim Bousquet November 8, 2019October 20, 2022

Dave Moore, a man in his fifties, posing for a professional photo.

“No one cares about Assoun, tsk, tsk, tsk”

by Tim Bousquet August 1, 2019October 20, 2022

Dave Moore, a man in his fifties, posing for a professional photo.

Investigation, Province House

“No one cares about Assoun, tsk, tsk, tsk”

by Tim Bousquet August 1, 2019October 20, 2022

“The only reason to go on living is so that I can kill”: A bone-chilling letter from a serial killer

by Tim Bousquet July 27, 2019October 20, 2022

A photo of Glen Assoun, a white man in his fifties, in a suit and tie.

The Assoun wrongful conviction: How Halifax police, RCMP, and prosecutorial misconduct sent an innocent man to prison and kept him there for nearly 17 years

by Tim Bousquet July 14, 2019October 20, 2022

A photo of Glen Assoun, a white man in his fifties, in a suit and tie.

The Assoun wrongful conviction: How Halifax police, RCMP, and prosecutorial misconduct sent an innocent man to prison and kept him there for nearly 17 years

by Tim Bousquet July 13, 2019October 20, 2022

BREAKING: RCMP destroyed information that would have suggested serial killer Michael McGray murdered Brenda Way; that destroyed information likely would have cleared Glen Assoun in the murder

by Tim Bousquet July 12, 2019October 20, 2022

Horsing around with taxpayers’ money for some connected guy’s get-rich-quick scheme

by Tim Bousquet March 4, 2019October 20, 2022

Glen Assoun, a white man in his sixties with thick glasses and short hair, looks calmly into the camera.

“A tale of enormous suffering”

by Tim Bousquet March 2, 2019October 20, 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.