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There’s been an increase in gun violence, but the incidents don’t appear to be related

August 6, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 2 Comments

Saturday night was the kind of a perfect summer evening you might have dreamed about for months. Finally, warm enough after five to still wear shorts and a cotton top or T-shirt comfortably. Clear skies stretching the hours of daylight into a glorious sunset for the finale.  Friends had invited us to join them for […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: armed robbery, assault with a weapon, Const. John MacLeod, gun violence, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Richard George Willis, shooting, stabbing, weapon related violence

Halifax releases police union’s collective agreement

When cops are accused of wrongdoing, the public pays for their legal defence.

June 17, 2020 By Zane Woodford 3 Comments

Halifax created a new page on its website Wednesday morning, posting all of its contracts with public sector unions — including, for the first time, police. The addition follows two requests from the Halifax Examiner for the contract between the municipality and the Halifax Regional Police Association (HRPA), the union representing Halifax Regional Police officers and […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Const. John MacLeod, Freedom of Information request, Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency budget, Halifax Regional Police Association (HRPA), HRP police contract collective agreement, Patti McKelvey, Police Act, police violence

You can walk the Halifax Common, but other active transportation paths still closed, says city

Morning File, Wednesday, April 15, 2020

April 15, 2020 By Erica Butler 6 Comments

News 1. COVID-19 update: provincial projections released The province has released projections for the spread of COVID-19 in Nova Scotia, reports Jennifer Henderson from the daily provincial briefing: Nova Scotia now has over 500 people who have tested positive for COVID-19. The province released estimates today based on models that show that if compliance with […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Abolition Coalition, active transportation, Advocates for the Care of the Elderly (ACE), Bill Blair, Brynn Budden, Const. John MacLeod, coronavirus, COVID-19, El Jones, Halifax Common, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Long Term Care, nursing homes, pandemic, Parole Board of Canada (PBC), property tax deferral, Zane Woodford

PRICED OUT

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.

2020 mass murders

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

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. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Two young white women, one with dark hair and one blonde, smile at the camera on a sunny spring day.

Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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