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An overhead map view of the location for the new modular housing units in Dartmouth.

Council votes to approve $3.2 million for purchase of new modular housing units for locations in Halifax, Dartmouth

by Yvette d'Entremont November 9, 2021December 22, 2022

Floor plans showing stairs on the left, and then eight rooms, each with a bed, desk and chair, and washroom with shower, toilet and sink. The rooms are labelled 201 through 208. There are two mechanical closets on either side of the hallway.

City Hall, PRICED OUT

Halifax releases more details on planned modular housing for people living in parks

by Zane Woodford October 1, 2021October 20, 2022

City Hall, Investigation, PRICED OUT

People’s Park: ‘None of this is sustainable’

by Yvette d'Entremont September 1, 2021October 20, 2022

And the winner is…

by Philip Moscovitch August 18, 2021January 23, 2023

A screenshot from a video, which shows a grassy area in a park. There is a bright blue tent in the background, and a large group of police officers in dark uniforms, standing on the path. A few protesters are visible, and one man is filming the cops on his phone. In the foreground is a hand painted sign on a park bench, and you can see the words We need, but the rest is obscured.

How not to handle homelessness

by Ethan Lycan-Lang June 23, 2021October 20, 2022

The housing crisis on the South Shore

by Suzanne Rent November 4, 2020November 29, 2022

How a proposal for tiny homes for veterans could shape Halifax’s affordable housing policy

by Zane Woodford September 24, 2020January 2, 2023

COVID

Sleeping on HRM streets: “This year is by far the worst I’ve seen”

by Suzanne Rent September 9, 2020November 7, 2022

Premier Stephen McNeil at the daily COVID-19 briefing, Sunday, April 5, 2020.

Daily COVID-19 update: Stephen McNeil doesn’t understand why disproportionate policing matters

by Tim Bousquet April 5, 2020October 20, 2022

Put homeless people in unused hotel rooms

by Tim Bousquet March 27, 2020October 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.