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A shot looking into the walkway that runs through Meagher Park. Tents surround it and two wooden emergency shelters stand in the background.
Posted inCity Hall, PRICED OUT

Halifax councillors tweak staff plan to designate tent sites in city parks

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford May 4, 2022October 20, 2022
Two small shelters and several tents in a park.
Posted inCity Hall, PRICED OUT

Municipal staff recommend allowing tents at a handful of Halifax-area parks

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford May 2, 2022October 20, 2022
A screenshot of Google Streetview shows a gravel parking lot on a bright sunny day. In the background is a crane. In the middle, a few buildings are seen from the back. On the foundation of one of them, GOTTINGEN is written in white and red spray paint. There are a few vehicles in the parking lot.
Posted inCity Hall, PRICED OUT

Housing Trust of Nova Scotia changing tack, abandoning development plan and buying hundreds of apartments

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford May 2, 2022October 20, 2022
The subject of the photo is an emergency shelter on green grass. It’s a cube, about 8 feet by 8 feet, with a door with a window in it. There’s no siding, but there is Home Depot-branded Tyvek house wrap, with red Tuck Tape holding it together. In the background there's a commercial building behind a fence. The word "entrance" is visible on a blue sign.
Posted inCity Hall

Councillor blames Halifax Mutual Aid for alleged assault in Dartmouth park

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford April 26, 2022October 25, 2022
Four tents surround a temporary wooden shelter at People's Park. Some patches of snow on ground. It's daytime
Posted inCity Hall, Economy, Government, PRICED OUT

Halifax councillors cool to decriminalizing sheltering in parks

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford April 21, 2022October 20, 2022
A dingy motel is seen on a cloudy day. On the sign out front, in faded letters along the top, it says Howard Johnson. Underneath, Bluenose Inn & Suites. Below that, in removable letters: MONTHLY $1000 and a phone number, and then the website for the inn, thebluenoseinn.com.
Posted inEconomy, PRICED OUT

Tenants evicted from rundown Bedford Highway hotel; landlord says it’s not a renoviction

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford April 21, 2022October 20, 2022
A grey stone building on Gottingen Street on a sunny day,
Posted inPRICED OUT, Province House

Demand for housing assistance, legal aid support on the rise since renoviction ban lifted

by Leslie Amminson April 12, 2022October 20, 2022
Posted inCOVID, Economy, Poverty, PRICED OUT

Researchers explore homelessness in Nova Scotia during early months of COVID-19

A smiling white woman with wavy dark blonde hair and bangs, wearing a green top and a sweater with burgundy and white flecks. Behind her you can see dark trees. by Yvette d'Entremont April 6, 2022November 18, 2022
A protestor holds a sign up to traffic outside Province House in Halifax. It says "N.S. has a housing crisis."
Posted inUncategorized

“Call back the house until everybody’s got one:” Protestors demand province call emergency session of legislature to deal with housing crisis

A smiling young white guy with brown hair, in his Halifax Examiner T shirt. by Ethan Lycan-Lang and Leslie Amminson November 28, 2021October 20, 2022
A photo of tiny red wooden houses lined up in a row on a wooden table
Posted inPRICED OUT

What does the term “affordable housing” really mean?

A woman with fair skin, chin length auburn hair, and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater. by Suzanne Rent November 24, 2021June 20, 2023

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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.


Tractors bulldoze trees as American money rains from the sky.
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.


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.

LATEST NEWS

Nova Scotia launches review of provincial policing structure

by Zane Woodford September 29, 2023September 29, 2023

Brad Johns once again spins the revolving door of SIRT directorship, but that won’t solve the crisis of legitimacy for the police oversight board

by Tim Bousquet September 29, 2023September 29, 2023

Mount Uniacke residents organize, submit comments as quarry owners apply for expansion

by Suzanne Rent September 29, 2023September 29, 2023

Halifax MP says council can go higher on federal housing application

by Zane Woodford September 28, 2023September 28, 2023

NDP wants Nova Scotia municipalities to tax developers who leave lots empty

by Suzanne Rent September 28, 2023September 28, 2023
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