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Posted inCOVID

More than half of prisoners at Burnside jail have had COVID-19

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford January 14, 2022January 2, 2023

More than half of the prisoners at the Burnside jail have had COVID-19, and the outbreak isn’t over. “As of Jan. 13, the cumulative case count involving persons in custody at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility is 128,” Justice Department spokesperson Heather Fairbairn told the Halifax Examiner in an email Thursday. The prison population […]

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

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

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch January 10, 2022January 25, 2023
A wheelbarrow full of trash.
Posted inEnvironment, Morning File

Time to trash talk the litterers

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent September 24, 2020October 20, 2022
Posted inEducation

The ABCs and Maybes of school reopening

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson August 10, 2020December 13, 2022
Posted inCOVID

There’s still confusion over who will get the “pandemic premium” and when they will get it

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson July 8, 2020December 12, 2022
Posted inCOVID

One year later: health care by the numbers

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson June 17, 2020December 12, 2022
Colourful non-medical masks
Posted inCOVID

For some people, wearing a mask is “a unique kind of claustrophobia”

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch June 4, 2020January 11, 2023
Posted inCOVID

Wait times increase for long-term care

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson June 2, 2020December 13, 2022
Posted inCity Hall, Commentary, Province House

Transit passes coming for 16,800 people on income assistance, but for some, this means already paltry incomes will go down

by Erica Butler April 5, 2018October 20, 2022
Posted inProvince House

Stephen McNeil probably can’t meet his preschool pledge

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson May 17, 2017November 30, 2022

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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.


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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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