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Tag: cemeteries

Several old headstones in a cemetery with large trees. In the background are the red and white striped smokestacks of the Nova Scotia Power generating plant.
Posted inMorning File

The guardian of the Tufts Cove Cemetery

A woman with fair skin, chin length auburn hair, and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater. by Suzanne Rent December 6, 2022December 6, 2022

Since 2005, Gary Wright has been mapping and taking care of the small Dartmouth graveyard where generations of his family are buried.

A portion of a map from 1884 that shows rivers, roads, and communities.
Posted inBlack Nova Scotia, Local History

Historical society hopes to restore cemetery in former Black community in Guysborough County

A woman with fair skin, chin length auburn hair, and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater. by Suzanne Rent July 28, 2022January 9, 2023
Three photos: a notebook, pen, and tomato-shaped timer; Sharon Hyman, a young white woman with sunglasses in her living room; a white storey and a half house with a fence and a sign which says "danger construction zone"
Posted inMorning File

Follow-ups from Phil

A smiling man with fair skin tone, a dark short beard, and dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt. by Philip Moscovitch November 9, 2021January 23, 2023
Irma Olivier Riley and Debra Lucas standing next to a headstone in a ferny area
Posted inLocal History

Honouring Lucasville’s ancestors

A woman with fair skin, chin length auburn hair, and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater. by Suzanne Rent July 20, 2021November 29, 2022
The entrance to the Old Burying Grounds, with its wrought iron gates and fence.
Posted inMorning File

Digging up the stories of Halifax’s Old Burying Ground

A woman with fair skin, chin length auburn hair, and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater. by Suzanne Rent June 24, 2021November 29, 2022
Posted inMorning File

How Kevin Little is helping North Dartmouth through the pandemic

A woman with fair skin, chin length auburn hair, and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater. by Suzanne Rent December 4, 2020November 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.


Tractors bulldoze trees as American money rains from the sky.
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.

To read the entire DEAD WRONG series, and articles on Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction, click here.

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