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Nova Scotia Power rate-hike hearing begins today

by Jennifer Henderson September 12, 2022January 9, 2023

A 19-day hearing begins today before the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board (UARB) that will decide how much more Nova Scotians will pay on their power bills. Nova Scotia Power is requesting an average increase of 11.6% over three years that is being driven by higher costs for fossil fuel and less hydroelectricity from […]

This aerial photo of Atlantic Gold's Touquoy open pit gold mine in Moose River shows the giant crater where the gold is mined, and the large tailings pond on the edge of Scraggy Lake. Photo is contributed.

Nova Scotia Environment minister approved Signal Gold’s open pit mine at Goldboro despite concerns and criticisms from scientists in his own department

by Joan Baxter August 10, 2022November 6, 2022

Tents and wooden shelters in a park in autumn

Government, Housing, Morning File, Policing

Criminalization, disappearance, and death: the results of clearing urban encampments

by Philip Moscovitch July 19, 2022January 9, 2023

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

Commentary, Environment, Mining, Province House

Atlantic Gold’s parent company hints it may halt its Nova Scotia operation

by Joan Baxter June 25, 2022January 9, 2023

just over a dozen people stand around a fire at an open campsite surrounded by trees. They are smiling and the weather is pleasantly overcast.

Last Hope camp wraps up time at Beals Brook after province scales back planned cut

by Ethan Lycan-Lang June 23, 2022January 3, 2023

a yard sign

Owls Head gets provincial park designation

by Suzanne Rent June 14, 2022January 9, 2023

Two children running on an access road through a bright green forest on a sunny day in early summer

Morning File, Natural Resources

Public importance of private woodlots

by Ethan Lycan-Lang May 25, 2022January 9, 2023

Three Halifax Regional Police cars parked in a lot, surrounded by a tall chain link fence.

Defunding the crime beat

by Philip Moscovitch May 10, 2022January 30, 2023

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 young boy is standing in a field, facing away from the camera, wearing a slightly soiled Canadian flag wrapped around his back like a cape

Even when things are going well, the “nice” Canadian society is a myth

by Ethan Lycan-Lang February 16, 2022October 20, 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.