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A female doctor with a pulled back hairstyle, wearing a black and white top and who has a stethoscope around her neck talks to a patient.

Dealing with difficult patients in health care

by Suzanne Rent July 14, 2022January 9, 2023

News 1. Lisa Banfield’s 19 years of abuse Tim Bousquet’s latest article from the documents from the Mass Casualty Commission details the abuse Lisa Banfield endured from GW for 19 years: Dozens of people knew about the abuse. Her family knew about the abuse. The Wortman family knew about the abuse. Her friends knew about […]

A man in a suit wearing glasses speaks at a podium outside an apartment building on a sunny day.

Province House

Nova Scotia offering low interest mortgages for nonprofit housing purchases

by Zane Woodford July 13, 2022January 3, 2023

City Hall

Council votes to contribute to Housing Trust of Nova Scotia’s purchase of 295 affordable homes

by Zane Woodford June 1, 2022January 3, 2023

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.

City Hall, PRICED OUT

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

by Zane Woodford May 2, 2022October 20, 2022

City Hall

Utility and review board says it can’t waive Halifax Water fees for affordable housing

by Zane Woodford October 30, 2020January 2, 2023

Housing

Densely calculated density

by Jennifer Henderson April 11, 2018November 30, 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.

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.

Tag: Housing Trust of Nova Scotia

Dealing with difficult patients in health care

Nova Scotia offering low interest mortgages for nonprofit housing purchases

Council votes to contribute to Housing Trust of Nova Scotia’s purchase of 295 affordable homes

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

Utility and review board says it can’t waive Halifax Water fees for affordable housing

Densely calculated density

Nova Scotia launches review of provincial policing structure

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

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

Halifax MP says council can go higher on federal housing application

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