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Four photos. A young woman walking in a forest while she types on an open laptop. A person in a coffee shop with an open book, a notebook, and a fresh coffee. An unlikely table arrangement of an old typewriter, a notebook, and a pinecone. A young woman in a different coffee shop wearing a funky hat with a coffee, writing in a notebook. None of these photos are of freelance writers.

Freelancing and the grind of the personal brand

by Philip Moscovitch September 16, 2022January 30, 2023

News 1. There were 33 COVID deaths in August in Nova Scotia This item is written by Tim Bousquet. Thirty-three people in Nova Scotia died from COVID in the month of August, and the July death count has been revised upwards from nine to 22. The monthly COVID epidemiologic summaries are released on the 15th […]

Black Lady with light coloured clothing smikes for the camera with books on a bookcase in the background.

Black Nova Scotia

New web series sheds light on the Black experience in Nova Scotia

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter January 13, 2022November 8, 2022

Barb Hamilton-Hinch, a Black woman with short red hair and funky black red and grey glasses.

Black Nova Scotia

Dr. Barb Hamilton-Hinch explores the stories of loss and grief in the Black community

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter January 11, 2022November 8, 2022

Morning File

Lessons in acceptance and inclusivity from Zack’s crew

by Suzanne Rent September 27, 2021November 29, 2022

St. John the Evangelist Church in Lower Sackville in winter.

COVID, Mass Murders 2020

A time for grief

by Yvette d'Entremont April 21, 2020December 23, 2022

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.

Tag: grief

Freelancing and the grind of the personal brand

New web series sheds light on the Black experience in Nova Scotia

Dr. Barb Hamilton-Hinch explores the stories of loss and grief in the Black community

Lessons in acceptance and inclusivity from Zack’s crew

Rick Perkins, natural health product champion

CN Railway files lawsuit to stop protesters from setting up blockades in Nova Scotia

Portrait project in Truro to honour Black women educators, church organist

Nova Scotia’s economy was and is deeply entwined with slavery

Nova Scotia whale sanctuary ‘charting path’ to final site development