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Posted inMorning File

Sandpiper Ventures is backing a firm that purports to teach children to read by playing a game on their smart phones

by Tim Bousquet December 23, 2022December 29, 2022

If the game actually works, shouldn’t it be made freely available to everyone? Why insert a profit motive?

Two smiling Black women hug each other.
Posted inBlack Nova Scotia

Women from North Preston, Cherry Brook recognized for longtime work as foster parents

A smiling Black man with a shaved head and wire rimmed glasses wears a headphone in a recording studio by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter October 27, 2022October 27, 2022
A aerial map showing developed areas and dots with locations for wildlife
Posted inMorning File

Mapping the future of Eisner Cove Wetland

A smiling young white guy with brown hair, in his Halifax Examiner T shirt. by Ethan Lycan-Lang August 29, 2022January 9, 2023
the green roadsign to Portapique with a tartan sash tied around the post
Posted inMorning File

The inquiry into the Nova Scotia mass murders begins today; here are some of the questions we have

by Tim Bousquet February 22, 2022October 20, 2022
A photo of a child's mat with two small toy cars on it while children in a classroom look on in the background.
Posted inFamilies and Childcare

More funding on the way for child care centres as the province moves towards $10 a day child care

A smiling white woman with long straight dark blonde hair and bangs, with half her face in dramatic shadow by Yvette d'Entremont February 18, 2022November 18, 2022
A box of coloured crayons stands in the foreground while a child is slightly out of focus in the background colouring on a piece of paper.
Posted inEconomy, Families and Childcare, Province House

“It is historic”: Parents to receive immediate 25% reduction in day care costs, increasing to 50% by the end of the year

A smiling white woman with long straight dark blonde hair and bangs, with half her face in dramatic shadow by Yvette d'Entremont January 14, 2022November 18, 2022
Posted inLabour

Report: living wage in Halifax now $22.05/hour

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent November 3, 2021November 29, 2022
A photo of a child's mat with two small toy cars on it while children in a classroom look on in the background.
Posted inFamilies and Childcare

Coalition releases recommendations for universal, publicly funded, not-for-profit early learning and child care

A smiling white woman with long straight dark blonde hair and bangs, with half her face in dramatic shadow by Yvette d'Entremont June 29, 2021December 22, 2022
Posted inCOVID, Families and Childcare

Caregivers stressed about return to work with no childcare

A smiling white woman with long straight dark blonde hair and bangs, with half her face in dramatic shadow by Yvette d'Entremont June 4, 2020December 23, 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.

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