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A black stenciled "defund the police" image on a Halifax sidewalk

City Hall, Policing

Halifax police board accepts defunding report, plans public hearing for budget

by Zane Woodford January 17, 2022October 20, 2022

The city’s police board will hold a public hearing before voting on the Halifax Regional Police budget for next year. At its virtual meeting on Monday, the Halifax Board of Police Commissioners heard presentations from Chief Dan Kinsella on the 2022-2023 operating budget including a requested 2.3% increase, and from El Jones on the report […]

A Halifax Regional Police officer in his vehicle

City Hall, Policing

Defunding report calls for better Halifax police oversight, ‘detasking,’ increased spending on affordable housing

by Zane Woodford January 14, 2022October 20, 2022

A closeup of the Halifax Regional Police Headquarters sign on the brick wall beside the front steps to their building on Gottingen Street in June 2021

Lawsuit alleges Halifax cops sexually abused 13-year-old girl

by Zane Woodford January 4, 2022October 20, 2022

Jeannette rogers, an older white woman with a black sweater, rimless glasses and a silver pixie cut, looks seriously off camera.

Corey Rogers’ mother disappointed with Nova Scotia Police Review Board decision

by Zane Woodford December 14, 2021October 20, 2022

A HRP officer and an RCMP officer stand side by side, flanked by their patrol cars, on Citadel Hill, with the downtown and harbour in the background.

Halifax tenders for police service study to examine dual HRP-RCMP model

by Zane Woodford December 13, 2021October 20, 2022

City Hall, Policing

Halifax Regional Police request $2-million budget increase

by Zane Woodford December 13, 2021October 20, 2022

City Hall, PRICED OUT

Halifax police board seeks second opinion on its authority to review response to homeless evictions protest

by Zane Woodford October 18, 2021October 20, 2022

Investigation, Journalism

The Halifax police department is going to great lengths to prevent you from knowing how Glen Assoun was wrongfully convicted

by Tim Bousquet October 17, 2019October 20, 2022

Halifax Police Headquarters sign.

The Halifax police department has a crisis of legitimacy

by Tim Bousquet June 17, 2019October 20, 2022

Glen Assoun, a white man in his sixties with thick glasses and short hair, looks calmly into the camera.

Documenting police “malfeasance” in Glen Assoun’s wrongful conviction

by Tim Bousquet June 11, 2019October 20, 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.