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Disability rights activist Vicky Levack to move into new home this month

by Jennifer Henderson November 3, 2022November 7, 2022

Levack has been living in a nursing home for the past 10 years and has fought to have adults with disabilities moved out of institutions.

Talking anti-Black racism in the LGBTQ community

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter July 22, 2022January 9, 2023

African drummers in orange and green robes dance and drum in a street during a festival. Crowds gather to watch

Arts and Culture, Black Nova Scotia

Africa Festival of Arts and Culture returns to Halifax this week

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter July 19, 2022January 9, 2023

A steel grater sits on a wooden cutting board next to a small pile of freshly shredded ginger.

Morning File

The casual ableism of cooking snobbery

by Philip Moscovitch June 28, 2022January 30, 2023

Bald Black man with beard smiles in grey sweater. Grey Background.

Black Nova Scotia

Talking about diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism in hockey

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter March 16, 2022November 8, 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: inclusion

Disability rights activist Vicky Levack to move into new home this month

Talking anti-Black racism in the LGBTQ community

Africa Festival of Arts and Culture returns to Halifax this week

The casual ableism of cooking snobbery

Talking about diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism in hockey

Brad Johns won’t ban NDAs, won’t say why. Why? We thought you’d never ask

The prosecution of Randy Riley rests on racist tropes of violent and animalistic Black men and a vulnerable, unquestionable white woman

Riley trial: the Crown’s own expert witness undermines Crown’s case

Halifax council will consider minister’s housing demands, but height will be a sticking point

Nova Scotia expands nominee program to include paramedics, pharmacy technicians