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Province announces new capital plan, including more hospital beds, emergency departments

by Jennifer Henderson December 15, 2022December 15, 2022

Premier Tim Houston announced details of new 10-year capital plan on Thursday, saying he wants “shovels in the ground” by end of March.

A bald man wearing a mask and a suit stands at a microphone

Government, Health

Omicron worries dominate Legislature’s Health Committee

by Jennifer Henderson April 13, 2022October 20, 2022

COVID

Frontline workers: Emergency department housekeeper

by Suzanne Rent May 29, 2020November 6, 2022

COVID

Frontline workers: Doctors

by Suzanne Rent May 27, 2020November 6, 2022

A graph of daily new reported cases of COVID-19 in Nova Scotia over time.

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Strang: “We may well have had the peak”

by Erica Butler April 29, 2020October 20, 2022

COVID

Hospitals empty beds before wave of COVID-19 admissions

by Jennifer Henderson April 2, 2020December 7, 2022

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents — Credit: Halifax Examiner. All rights reserved.

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.

Credit: Ricardo Weibezahn - ICIJ

DEFORESTATION INC

Reporter Joan Baxter is one of 140 journalists from 39 media outlets across 27 countries working collaboratively on ‘Deforestation Inc,’ a project of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which looked at the ownership structure of Paper Excellence, its relationship with Asia Pulp & Paper, and how the secretive corporate empires are devastating forests in Canada and around the world.

Find all of Baxter’s articles on the Deforestation Inc 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.

Tag: hospitals

Province announces new capital plan, including more hospital beds, emergency departments

Omicron worries dominate Legislature’s Health Committee

Frontline workers: Emergency department housekeeper

Frontline workers: Doctors

Hospitals empty beds before wave of COVID-19 admissions

How Nova Scotia doesn’t support women workers: let us count the ways

Riley trial: Witness admits she lied multiple times in previous testimony, including when her testimony resulted in a murder conviction for another man

Nova Scotia drops provincial portion of HST on new apartment construction

Nova Scotia health care administrative staff unions want province to head to bargaining table

Report charts course for how Nova Scotia’s lobster fleet can switch from diesel to electric motors