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Vintage box that says Smithsonian New Millennium Time Capsule. It's for a product designed for children to "give your past.... to your future."
Posted inMorning File

Time capsules are stupid

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch February 14, 2023February 14, 2023

And so is colonizing other planets.

A close-up headshot of a woman.
Posted inHealth

Holthoff family to receive full report on review of mother’s death at emergency department

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson January 19, 2023January 20, 2023
A duplex. The apartment on the left has vinyl siding, and the apartment on the right has a faux brick siding.
Posted inMorning File

The housing economy: people with money prey on people struggling to simply stay alive

A smiling white woman with long straight dark blonde hair and bangs, with half her face in dramatic shadow by Tim Bousquet and Yvette d'Entremont January 18, 2023January 18, 2023
Two white women sit a large desk at a news conference. Behind them is a video screen and Nova Scotian flags.
Posted inHealth

Patient advocates, physician-first triage among improvements for emergency departments

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson January 18, 2023January 18, 2023
A woman with curly dark hair wearing a grey plaid blazer and black pants talks with a man in a dark blazer, blue shirt, and jeans. Both are wearing face masks. A woman is standing inside the doorway behind them.
Posted inHealth

Houston, health care partners talk emergency department crisis at summit

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson January 18, 2023January 18, 2023
A woman wearing a dark t-shirt and glasses speaks at a podium. In the background are three Nova Scotia flags, coloured blue, yellow and red.
Posted inHealth

Review of death at Amherst emergency department to include outside expert

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson January 14, 2023January 20, 2023
The Emergency Health Services (EHS) logo on a white ambulance. The E and S are royal blue, the S is red. Emergency Health Services is written below in italic font, and the word paramedics is below that in blue capital letters on a high visibility green stripe.
Posted inHealth

Death in Amherst emergency department raises questions about ambulance wait times

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson January 11, 2023January 11, 2023
An older man leaning on a cane stands in a darkened room silhouetted at a large window and looking outside.
Posted inHealth

Record number of ‘orphan patients’ being left at Halifax area emergency rooms, researcher says

A smiling white woman with long straight dark blonde hair and bangs, with half her face in dramatic shadow by Yvette d'Entremont December 20, 2022December 20, 2022
A female doctor with a pulled back hairstyle, wearing a black and white top and who has a stethoscope around her neck talks to a patient.
Posted inHealth, Morning File

Dealing with difficult patients in health care

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent July 14, 2022January 9, 2023
A red brick building sits on a sloping green lawn under a blue and cloudy sky. A Canadian flag flies out front
Posted inHealth, Province House

Frequent closures of emergency department at Hants Community Hospital expected this summer

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson June 23, 2022January 9, 2023
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.

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by Tim Bousquet March 21, 2023March 21, 2023

Victim of deceased former youth worker and probation officer sues Nova Scotia

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