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Deputy Premier Allan MacMaster: minimum wage shouldn’t be increased because inflation is making things more expensive

by Tim Bousquet September 9, 2022January 9, 2023

News 1. Nova Scotia Power fined $375,000 This item is written by Jennifer Henderson. The Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board (UARB) has slapped Nova Scotia Power with a $375,000 fine for failing to meet performance standards established more than five years ago. The utility filed its annual report last March and the data show […]

Business and Development, Commentary

A quietly negotiated trade agreement with Indonesia is a bad deal for Canada

by Joan Baxter July 25, 2022January 9, 2023

A man holding up a phone camera to a scene of a mountain reflecting on a clear lake

Arts and Culture, Economy, Morning File

Overexposed: put down the camera and enjoy the experience

by Ethan Lycan-Lang June 7, 2022January 9, 2023

Province House

Opposition critics react to AG’s P3 report

by Jennifer Henderson July 14, 2020October 20, 2022

Uncategorized

Canada, land of the gas guzzler

by Erica Butler January 16, 2020October 20, 2022

Province House

Will the Victoria General be replaced with a P3 hospital? The McNeil government isn’t ruling it out

by Jennifer Henderson September 30, 2016November 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.

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Deputy Premier Allan MacMaster: minimum wage shouldn’t be increased because inflation is making things more expensive

A quietly negotiated trade agreement with Indonesia is a bad deal for Canada

Overexposed: put down the camera and enjoy the experience

Opposition critics react to AG’s P3 report

Canada, land of the gas guzzler

Will the Victoria General be replaced with a P3 hospital? The McNeil government isn’t ruling it out

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