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A member of the Blue Jays coaching staff signs autographs at a Spring Training game

What is the pandemic doing to sports — and other — reporting?

by Philip Moscovitch January 10, 2022January 25, 2023

News 1. Omicron is testing Nova Scotia’s hospitals Jennifer Henderson digs into the effects of the current COVID-19 wave on the province’s hospitals, looking not just at those hospitalized with COVID-19, but also larger effects on the system. Her lead gets right to the point: The latest wave of COVID is putting pressure on every […]

Morning File

Changing the racist names of Nova Scotia’s geographic locations

by Suzanne Rent July 12, 2019November 7, 2022

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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What is the pandemic doing to sports — and other — reporting?

Changing the racist names of Nova Scotia’s geographic locations

‘This asshole bought 10 acres on P.E.I. to be alone, and then told a national magazine about it,’ and other ways to profit from rage-inducing journalism

Deforestation Inc: Canada is a ‘world laggard’ in sustainable forestry, say critics, and Paper Excellence’s expansion threatens this country’s boreal forests

Halifax landlord Peppermint Properties using fixed-term leases to clear out units, jack up rents

Justice institute to use federal funds to help Black Nova Scotians understand legal rights

Kids whose childhoods were made into social media ‘content’ are starting to speak out