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Man in a room

Emera: the view from the expensive seats

by Stephen Kimber October 30, 2022November 28, 2023

You certainly wouldn’t mistake Wade Dawe for a wild-eyed radical seeking the overthrow of the capitalist system as we know it. And yet, here we are.

Nova Scotia Power wants still higher rate increases

by Jennifer Henderson October 17, 2022January 5, 2023

EverWind Fuels’ ‘green hydrogen and ammonia’ project in Nova Scotia will be partly powered by coal

by Joan Baxter September 19, 2022January 3, 2023

A stock image of colourful vegetables in a wooden box seen from overhead. They include tomatoes in red, yellow and orange, peppers, garlic and a strawberry.

Market gardens, naturalized parks, skating oval naming rights, and more from Halifax council

by Zane Woodford September 13, 2022January 9, 2023

On a sunny day, a speed skater with their arms tucked behind them skates on the oval. There's piles of snow in the background, and a sign on a fence in the foreground: "Emera Oval."

Business and Development, City Hall

Halifax staff recommend selling skating oval naming rights to Emera again, with terms and price secret

by Zane Woodford September 9, 2022January 9, 2023

A young man in a ballcap holds a phone up in front of his face.

Arts and Culture, Business and Development, Labour, Morning File

Those darn kids today. And yesterday. And decades ago

by Philip Moscovitch August 23, 2022January 9, 2023

Three baseball lined up on a cement rail

Arts and Culture, Indigenous Nova Scotia, Morning File

Catching a baseball: Are some things just for kids or do adults get dreams, too?

by Ethan Lycan-Lang July 6, 2022January 9, 2023

The Brooklyn Biomass plant belching smoke

Climate, Energy, Utilities

Despite receiving Muskrat Falls power, Nova Scotia is still burning biomass for electricity

by Jennifer Henderson June 24, 2022January 9, 2023

Nova Scotia Power rate increase: just more corporate obfuscation, jiggery-pokery and sleight of hand

by Stephen Kimber June 6, 2022January 3, 2023

a white middle aged man at a plexiglass podium

Emera has record profits, but wants more from ratepayers to move off coal

by Jennifer Henderson May 26, 2022January 3, 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.