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Archival black and white image of The Home for Colored Children, a four story brick building with a flagpole out front. A small figure stands at the base of the flagpole.

Committee recommends heritage registration for former Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children

by Zane Woodford June 23, 2022January 3, 2023

A sign outside a gas station advertising the price of self-serve gas at 205.9 a litre

Stats Can: Canada’s inflation rate highest in 40 years

by Yvette d'Entremont June 22, 2022November 18, 2022

A young deer stands on the side of a road trying to get across. A white car can be seen in the distance.

Black Nova Scotia, Morning File, Transportation

When wildlife and cars collide on our highways

by Suzanne Rent June 16, 2022January 9, 2023

A woman wearing a black long sleeved shirt and a blue mask stands in front of a door way against a concrete building with light filtering on her face.

COVID

New Dal study finds Asian Canadians witnessed, experienced discrimination during COVID-19 pandemic

by Yvette d'Entremont June 15, 2022November 18, 2022

A woman with dark blonde hair wearing dark rimmed glasses wears a white mask with horizontal blue strips. The background in a black screen.

COVID

Nova Scotia senator calling for more long-COVID research

by Yvette d'Entremont June 8, 2022November 18, 2022

A great white shark cruising in deep blue water.

Dal marine biology student creates video, infographic with shark-smart tips about great whites

by Yvette d'Entremont June 6, 2022November 18, 2022

A grocery store display of various coloured apple varieties with a customer and grocery store worker in the background.

Economy, Government, Province House

Visits to food banks up, schools struggling with food program costs, public accounts committee hears

by Yvette d'Entremont June 1, 2022November 18, 2022

A close up of a person's two hands performing chest compressions on a bearded man on the ground.

Health, Province House

Bystanders can play a key role in improving survival rates from cardiac arrest, committee hears

by Yvette d'Entremont June 1, 2022November 18, 2022

A young girl looks through the blinds on a window.

Health, Poverty, Racism

New report finds poverty, systemic racism and discrimination “most urgent threats” to well-being of NS children, youth

by Yvette d'Entremont April 26, 2022November 18, 2022

A trail in the woods

Environment, Health, Province House

Get outside: national nature prescription program launches in the Maritimes

by Yvette d'Entremont April 22, 2022November 18, 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.