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Minimum wage increase is both too much and not enough

by Katie Ingram January 31, 2020October 20, 2022

News 1. Northern Pulp Joan Baxter reviews the new ministerial orders requiring environmental monitoring of the pumping of wastewater from Northern Pulp Mill into Boat Harbour as the mill winds down operations. Baxter finds that the orders are appropriately stringent, however: As the Halifax Examine reported here, in October 2018, the pipeline sprung a large […]

Halifax Police Headquarters sign.
Posted inMorning File

Cops, cabbies, and doctors abusing their power

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch January 24, 2020January 4, 2023
A sign for SIRT, the Serious Incident Response Team
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Euphemism watch: Jails are now “prisoner care facilities”

by Erica Butler December 3, 2019October 20, 2022
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It’s Living Wage Week!

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent November 6, 2019November 5, 2022
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Halifax in two acts: The Hotel Barmecide

by Tim Bousquet October 28, 2019October 20, 2022
Posted inMorning File

Not feeling the love

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch February 14, 2019December 28, 2022
A photo of Richard Butts sitting behind a podium with a plaque that says "Chief Administrative Officer." Mr. Butts is a white man in his late forties with greying hair, he rests his head on his hand in apparent exhaustion or frustration.
Posted inMorning File

Halifax CFL team: the Richard Butts connection

by Tim Bousquet November 2, 2018November 30, 2022
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A few people care that we’re destroying the planet

by Tim Bousquet October 23, 2018October 20, 2022
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Keep Uber out of Halifax

by Tim Bousquet October 2, 2018October 20, 2022
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Quackery and dog whistles: all in a day’s work for the Halifax Examiner

by Tim Bousquet June 6, 2018October 20, 2022

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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.


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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.

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MP Rick Perkins plays the ‘Chinese’ canard

by Stephen Kimber May 30, 2023May 30, 2023

Canadian health orgs want Big Tobacco lawsuit settlements to include costs to cut tobacco use

by Yvette d'Entremont May 30, 2023May 30, 2023

Halifax Fire had warned that 3 subdivisions evacuated in Tantallon fire were built with ‘inadequate water sources to fight fires’

by Tim Bousquet May 29, 2023May 29, 2023

Halifax says ‘approximately 200 homes or structures’ damaged in Tantallon fire

by Zane Woodford May 29, 2023May 29, 2023

SIRT investigating after Halifax Regional Police shot and killed a man

by Zane Woodford May 29, 2023May 29, 2023
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