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A smiling white woman with short cropped hair, glasses, and wearing a burgundy, black, and white print top holds a tabby cat with white under its chin and on its paws. They are in a room with a window in the background, a off-white chair in the corner, and cat toys and a cat bed on the floor. A black shelving unit stores cat treats and brushes.

‘Everybody should have a cat:’ Linda Felix and Spay Day HRM rescue the felines of Halifax

by Suzanne Rent February 28, 2023March 7, 2023

Linda Felix started Spay Day HRM in 2011 with the rescue of just one cat. Since then, she and volunteers have helped 5,800 cats in the city.

Morning File

The dirt on Black Oxygen Organics’ MLM scheme

by Suzanne Rent December 3, 2021November 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.

Read the entire series, plus articles about Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction, on the DEAD WRONG homepage.

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