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A large piece of brown cardboard ripped into a rectangle with the word HELP written on it in black pen lies on top of some clothing in a grocery cart.

Nova Scotians on income assistance ‘live a life of damaging poverty,’ advocate tells committee

by Yvette d'Entremont January 11, 2023January 11, 2023

Legislature’s community services standing committee meeting hears stories about vulnerable people struggling with cost of living.

Arts and Culture

Halifax’s Come From Away moment

by Suzanne Rent January 14, 2020November 5, 2022

Morning File

Another loss for local journalism

by Philip Moscovitch January 7, 2020January 4, 2023

Morning File

Zombie ideas that won’t die

by Philip Moscovitch December 12, 2019January 3, 2023

Morning File

Ain’t nothin’ goin’ on but the rent in Halifax

by Suzanne Rent May 1, 2019November 7, 2022

City Hall, Commentary, Province House

The first transit passes for people on social assistance arrive this week: a great start that still needs some tweaks

by Erica Butler July 26, 2018October 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.

Tag: income assistance

Nova Scotians on income assistance ‘live a life of damaging poverty,’ advocate tells committee

Halifax’s Come From Away moment

Another loss for local journalism

Zombie ideas that won’t die

Ain’t nothin’ goin’ on but the rent in Halifax

The first transit passes for people on social assistance arrive this week: a great start that still needs some tweaks

Halifax councillors to consider additions — and reductions — to police budget

Over the last 31 years, entire industries have collapsed, but profits for the privatized Nova Scotia Power remain protected from the realities of a changing world

‘You are not white men’: whispers to the redwoods and bros who forgot who they are

Shannon Park development agreement approved, Canada Lands commits to 20% affordability

Still more power rate increases likely