Dartmouth Archives - Page 2 of 3 - Halifax Examiner

Halifax Examiner

An independent, adversarial news site in Halifax, NS

A muddy bit of access road is seen a freshly cut forested area. There's an orange '5' painted on a tree that's been left standing.

Developer wants to clear trees early at fast-tracked Dartmouth development sites

by Zane Woodford May 18, 2022January 3, 2023

Three white teenaged students and their teacher on a bench, wearing matching black t-shirts

Education, Women

Dartmouth junior high students create project to raise awareness about sexual violence

by Suzanne Rent May 2, 2022October 20, 2022

The subject of the photo is an emergency shelter on green grass. It’s a cube, about 8 feet by 8 feet, with a door with a window in it. There’s no siding, but there is Home Depot-branded Tyvek house wrap, with red Tuck Tape holding it together. In the background there's a commercial building behind a fence. The word "entrance" is visible on a blue sign.

Councillor blames Halifax Mutual Aid for alleged assault in Dartmouth park

by Zane Woodford April 26, 2022October 25, 2022

An advisory sign that warns about high levels of arsenic, in front of a body of water

Port Wallace Gamble: the real estate boom meets Nova Scotia’s toxic mine legacy

by Joan Baxter April 13, 2022November 22, 2022

A gold tailings site

Public paying the price to clean up old gold mines

by Joan Baxter March 23, 2022November 22, 2022

This aerial shot shows the vast tailings facility at the Touquoy open pit gold mine in Nova Scotia. Photo: Simon Ryder-Burbidge

Anaconda Mining joins the gold rush on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore

by Joan Baxter February 10, 2022January 29, 2023

A wintery landscape is seen on a grey day. In the foreground, there are some small evergreen trees and medium-sized bare trees poking up from frozen moss.

City Hall, Environment

Dartmouth residents raise concerns about development next to wetland

by Zane Woodford February 8, 2022October 20, 2022

A woman sits on the edge of a hospital bed.

Health, Province House

Recovery support centre for people struggling with substance use, gambling addictions to open next week

by Yvette d'Entremont January 21, 2022November 18, 2022

An overhead map view of the location for the new modular housing units in Dartmouth.

Council votes to approve $3.2 million for purchase of new modular housing units for locations in Halifax, Dartmouth

by Yvette d'Entremont November 9, 2021December 22, 2022

A white man wearing a dark suit, white shirt and no tie speaks at a podium. In the background are four Nova Scotia flags, coloured blue, yellow and red.

Nova Scotia premier says he won’t fight decision on discrimination against people with mental disabilities

by Zane Woodford October 7, 2021January 2, 2023

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.

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.