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A bald man wearing a mask and a suit stands at a microphone
Posted inGovernment, Health

Omicron worries dominate Legislature’s Health Committee

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson April 13, 2022October 20, 2022

Omicron and the BA.2 variant continue to play havoc with staffing at Nova Scotia hospitals, which have postponed most non-urgent, elective surgeries for a second week, and with no end in sight. There are currently 577 health care workers off the job because they have COVID-19 or someone in their immediate family has been infected. […]

A double photo: a book titled A Century Ago, Halifax 1871, which has a black paper cover with aged white lettering and an illustration of a lamppost with a gold lamp. Beside it is a photo of Granville Street east. There is a wagon on the street, and a couple of ghost like people who were moving too quickly for the camera.
Posted inUncategorized

A look back at Halifax’s old streets

A smiling young white guy with brown hair, in his Halifax Examiner T shirt. by Ethan Lycan-Lang October 27, 2021October 20, 2022
Two photos are put together side by side. On the left a man and woman wearing sunglasses stand in front of an old aquaduct on a bright day. On the right, a man in a grey suit, white shirt and blue and white tie speaks with a flash of red behind his left shoulder.
Posted inProvince House

After a chance encounter at a park, Liberal leader Iain Rankin called the RCMP on Nicole Gnazdowsky

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford October 26, 2021October 20, 2022
A woman with brown hair and an off-white shirt holds up a bristol-board sign which reads "Housing is a human right!" in capital letters, amongst a group of protesters at the police eviction of a homeless encampment at the former Memorial Library in Halifax, Aug. 18, 2021.
Posted inUncategorized

What does the word crisis even mean anymore?

A smiling young white guy with brown hair, in his Halifax Examiner T shirt. by Ethan Lycan-Lang October 14, 2021October 20, 2022
The open wrought iron entrance gate to the courtyard of Province House in June 2021. On the stone wall is a bronze plaque reading 1726 Hollis St, and above that a copper plaque, completely green with patina, designating the building a provincial heritage property.
Posted inProvince House

Province House: PCs fix election dates, opposition parties introduce rent control, inclusionary zoning bills

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford October 13, 2021January 2, 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.


Tractors bulldoze trees as American money rains from the sky.
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.

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