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A closeup of a diagram of an algorithm in a book. The algorithm has letters in squares, arranged in circles, with arrows connecting the squares.
Posted inMorning File

Breaking out of the algorithmic box

A smiling man with fair skin tone, a dark short beard, and dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt. by Philip Moscovitch February 3, 2022January 25, 2023

News 1. Is a “climate action tax” different from any other tax? Halifax has a climate action plan that Zane Woodford has previously described as “woefully underfunded.” Council is thinking of changing that, by earmarking a special tax of 0.023 cents on every $100 of taxable assessed residential property value for climate-related capital projects. But, […]

Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil removes his mask as he arrives at a post-cabinet media availability. He is a white man in his fifties wearing a suit and tie, sitting in front of three Nova Scotia flags at a podium.
Posted inCOVID, Health, Province House

Nova Scotia moves to speed up COVID-19 test screening, premier says close to signing onto app

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford October 2, 2020October 20, 2022
Sign for a COVID-19 testing centre. Sign at the Clayton Park COVID-19 testing centre.
Posted inCOVID

A strange kind of normal: getting tested for COVID-19

A smiling man with fair skin tone, a dark short beard, and dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt. by Philip Moscovitch June 10, 2020January 11, 2023
The Northwood long-term care centre on Gottingen Street in Halifax.
Posted inCOVID

There are still 152 active cases of COVID-19 among Northwood residents

A smiling fair skinned woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson May 6, 2020December 12, 2022
Posted inMorning File

Let’s go on holiday… to late 1960s PEI!

A smiling man with fair skin tone, a dark short beard, and dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt. by Philip Moscovitch May 6, 2020January 11, 2023
Posted inCOVID

Halifax Transit worker who reported testing positive for COVID-19 actually tested negative

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford May 5, 2020December 29, 2022
Premier Stephen McNeil (left) and Chief Medical Officer of Health Robert Strang, at the COVID-19 briefing, Tuesday, April 28, 2020.
Posted inCOVID

Daily COVID-19 update: Three more Northwood residents have died from the disease

A smiling white woman with wavy dark blonde hair and bangs, wearing a green top and a sweater with burgundy and white flecks. Behind her you can see dark trees. by Yvette d'Entremont April 28, 2020December 23, 2022
Posted inCOVID

Ask an expert: Q & A with Dr. Tom Frieden

A smiling fair skinned woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson April 14, 2020December 7, 2022
An empty roll of toilet paper with the words "Don't panic" written on it in pen.
Posted inMorning File

There really is a toilet paper shortage (sort of)

A smiling man with fair skin tone, a dark short beard, and dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt. by Philip Moscovitch April 14, 2020January 4, 2023
Posted inUncategorized

With pride and purpose: COVID-19 Preston Response Team galvanizes Canada’s largest Black community

A Black woman with short hair and round black framed glasses, wearing a multi coloured dashiki. She is standing with her right fist raised, in front of a mural of Arethan Franklin with the word 'Respect' in big red letters. by Evelyn C. White April 9, 2020October 20, 2022

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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.

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

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