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Fenced in urban lot with people walking past it.

Fences don’t make for good neighbours

by Philip Moscovitch October 18, 2022February 1, 2023

News 1. Domestic violence support worker aims to fill housing, support gaps Halifax’s Welcome Housing and Support Services now has a worker dedicated to helping “survivors of domestic violence find housing and other services,” Suzanne Rent reports. Intimate partner case manager Kay Spurr tells Rent that intimate partner violence is often a factor in homelessness, […]

Energy, Province House

The ‘hydrogen hyperbole epidemic’ comes to Nova Scotia

by Joan Baxter September 20, 2022January 9, 2023

A screenshot of four facebook posts from the website Our Nova Scotia RCMP

National Police Federation: Nova Scotians love the RCMP!

by Philip Moscovitch August 11, 2022January 30, 2023

Large white sign in a wooded area with grassy area in front, with the words Northern Pulp Nova Scotia Corporation, A Paper Excellence Company.

Government, Morning File

Elizabeth May: the consolidation of the Canadian pulp industry is ‘a remarkable and ominous story’ covered only by Joan Baxter and the Halifax Examiner

by Tim Bousquet July 18, 2022January 9, 2023

A woman vacuums the floor while a man sits on the sofa looking at his laptop. Meanwhile, a kid sits on a chair in the corner reading a book

Morning File, Women

What’s the “one small habit” that keeps a man organized? A wife

by Suzanne Rent June 30, 2022January 9, 2023

A man with short dark hair, a moustache, and wearing a yellow rain jacket leans against a pay phone in front of a brick wall.

Arts and Culture, Health, Morning File

Calling the quarantine hotline

by Philip Moscovitch June 21, 2022January 9, 2023

A package of gum. The package is white and the text is red and green and says Wrigley's Spearmint, the perfect gum.

Arts and Culture, Business and Development, Morning File

Investors gone wild: gum, weed, and space

by Tim Bousquet June 13, 2022January 9, 2023

A bookshelf with a banner at the top that says Banned and Challenged. There is a selection of books on the shelves, with notes that are burned at the edges taped to the shelves.

Banned and challenged: it’s not wokeness gone wild that’s behind books being removed from libraries

by Philip Moscovitch April 27, 2022January 30, 2023

A screenshot of a stepcounter app

10,000 steps and other persistent bullshit

by Philip Moscovitch February 15, 2022January 25, 2023

The deep crater of the open pit at the Touquoy gold mine shows roads spiralling down to the creater bottom. Photo contributed.

Anaconda joins the gold rush on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore

by Joan Baxter February 11, 2022January 29, 2023

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.