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A closeup of a stick shift in a car with beige interior and seats.

Arts and Culture, Morning File

Stuck on stick: clinging to the manual in an automatic world

by Ethan Lycan-Lang June 29, 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 yellow detergent jug, a white plastic bag, and a Styrofoam sheet set out on garbage day.

Taking the first steps on the drastic plastic problem

by Ethan Lycan-Lang June 22, 2022January 9, 2023

A screenshot of the ArriveCAN app on a mobile phone

COVID, Morning File, Transportation

ArriveCAN app: little health benefit, big costs for Canadian travellers

by Ethan Lycan-Lang June 15, 2022January 9, 2023

A man holding a pen writes in a notebook. A white coffee cup can be seen in the background.

Arts and Culture, Morning File, Transportation

Dear diary: honest notes from a journaling journalist

by Ethan Lycan-Lang June 9, 2022January 9, 2023

A man holding up a phone camera to a scene of a mountain reflecting on a clear lake

Arts and Culture, Economy, Morning File

Overexposed: put down the camera and enjoy the experience

by Ethan Lycan-Lang June 7, 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

Tents in a park under trees with autumn leaves

Morning File, PRICED OUT

City camping: Toronto teaches Halifax another lesson about tents, parks, and homelessness

by Ethan Lycan-Lang May 17, 2022January 9, 2023

Trees lie cut in the forest behind a protestors' camp, surrounded by a thin stand of living trees

One small step for the Lahey report: the province is finally trying to speak for the trees

by Ethan Lycan-Lang May 11, 2022January 9, 2023

White coffee cup with very colourful flower swirl pattern in the latte milk.

Cafés as centres for “queer memory, identity, and place” in Halifax

by Philip Moscovitch March 29, 2022January 30, 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.