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Colourful vegetables in a wooden box seen from overhead.
Posted inCity Hall

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

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford September 13, 2022January 9, 2023

People all over HRM would be able to sell their own homegrown produce if councillors approve a proposed set of bylaw amendments. At its meeting on Tuesday, Halifax regional council voted to direct staff to develop amendments to legalize so-called market gardens — where food is “grown or prepared to be sold or shared with […]

Black man in an orange shirt smiles
Posted inBlack Nova Scotia

Halifax comedy show using laughter, music to help Black community heal from loss

A smiling Black man with a shaved head and wire rimmed glasses wears a headphone in a recording studio by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter September 1, 2022November 8, 2022
One player tries to block another player's shot in a basketball game.
Posted inBlack Nova Scotia

Peace Basketball Tournament returns to help promote inner peace in the Black community

A smiling Black man with a shaved head and wire rimmed glasses wears a headphone in a recording studio by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter August 21, 2022November 8, 2022
A white woman in a pink blouse, sitting, raising her index finger
Posted inPolicing

Two years after Portapique, call-takers and dispatchers are still struggling

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson June 14, 2022January 3, 2023
A woman sits at a table during testimony.
Posted inPolicing

27 minutes: the RCMP’s communications division hesitated when the public most needed to be warned about the mass murderer

by Tim Bousquet June 9, 2022January 3, 2023
A white woman smiles happily in a selfie with her partner and daughter behind her
Posted inPolicing

Bodies of five murder victims weren’t discovered by the RCMP for more than 18 hours after they were killed

by Tim Bousquet May 29, 2022January 3, 2023
A screenshot of an emergency alert
Posted inBlack Nova Scotia

RCMP: Emergency alert was “timely and accurate”

A smiling Black man with a shaved head and wire rimmed glasses wears a headphone in a recording studio by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter April 14, 2022November 8, 2022
Black lady in dark blazer, Black man in glasses and grey blazer, and Black man in dark blazer
Posted inBlack Nova Scotia

North Preston residents raise concerns, want apology after emergency alert sends out “false information”

A smiling Black man with a shaved head and wire rimmed glasses wears a headphone in a recording studio by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter April 12, 2022November 8, 2022
Barb Hamilton-Hinch, a Black woman with short red hair and funky black red and grey glasses.
Posted inBlack Nova Scotia

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

A smiling Black man with a shaved head and wire rimmed glasses wears a headphone in a recording studio by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter January 11, 2022November 8, 2022
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Michael Bryant has deleted his dickish tweet about Atlantic Canada and replaced it with a dickish apology

by Tim Bousquet August 6, 2020October 20, 2022

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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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