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Rainbow Haven Beach in Cow Bay on a bright summer day.

Wanna play on Canada’s ocean playground? You’ll need a car

by Suzanne Rent July 30, 2020November 6, 2022

News 1. Halifax Examiner is not major enough Yesterday, the Halifax Examiner learned it’s not one of the eight major news organizations whose reporters will be permitted at the in-person cabinet scrums, which start today. The eight news organizations whose reporters will be allowed in are Global, CTV, CBC, Radio Canada, allNovaScotia, Herald, Canadian Press, […]

City Hall, Commentary

Monday’s big changes to bus routes could be good news

by Erica Butler August 17, 2018October 20, 2022

City Hall, Commentary

Is Gottingen the right street for a bus express lane?

by Erica Butler February 22, 2018October 20, 2022

City Hall

Halifax Transit pitches Bus Rapid Transit

by Erica Butler February 14, 2018October 20, 2022

City Hall

Growing a city where transit works

by Erica Butler January 23, 2018October 20, 2022

City Hall, Commentary

Rethink: Halifax council calls for a much-needed second opinion on our bus route network

by Erica Butler December 20, 2016October 20, 2022

City Hall, Commentary

MFT changes discussion postponed to December 6

by Erica Butler November 23, 2016October 20, 2022

City Hall

Remember MFT?

by Erica Butler October 25, 2016October 20, 2022

City Hall

It’s More Than Buses: a great starting point

by Tim Bousquet September 19, 2014February 10, 2023

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: It’s More Than Buses

Wanna play on Canada’s ocean playground? You’ll need a car

Monday’s big changes to bus routes could be good news

Is Gottingen the right street for a bus express lane?

Halifax Transit pitches Bus Rapid Transit

Growing a city where transit works

Rethink: Halifax council calls for a much-needed second opinion on our bus route network

MFT changes discussion postponed to December 6

Remember MFT?

It’s More Than Buses: a great starting point

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