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Vintage box that says Smithsonian New Millennium Time Capsule. It's for a product designed for children to "give your past.... to your future."

Morning File

Time capsules are stupid

by Philip Moscovitch February 14, 2023February 14, 2023

And so is colonizing other planets.

The atrium at the Halifax Central Library. Below you can see the main floor, and above you can see the skylight, with the staircases cris crossing in the middle of the photo.

City Hall

Council to consider $300,000 to boost Halifax Public Libraries collection

by Zane Woodford February 10, 2023February 17, 2023

A bookshelf with a banner at the top that says Banned and Challenged. There is a selection of books on the shelves, with notes that are burned at the edges taped to the shelves.

Morning File

Banned and challenged: it’s not wokeness gone wild that’s behind books being removed from libraries

by Philip Moscovitch April 27, 2022January 30, 2023

Sepia photo of six priests in cowboy style hats, clerical collars and long coats on horseback.

Morning File

The Oblates ignored the stories and abuse at residential schools

by Philip Moscovitch June 9, 2021January 23, 2023

Morning File

Libraries: First responders for communities

by Suzanne Rent March 9, 2021November 29, 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: libraries

Time capsules are stupid

Council to consider $300,000 to boost Halifax Public Libraries collection

Banned and challenged: it’s not wokeness gone wild that’s behind books being removed from libraries

The Oblates ignored the stories and abuse at residential schools

Libraries: First responders for communities

‘Routine’ forgery? Alleged woodlot theft raises suspicions about forestry industry practices

Nova Scotians urged to participate in national survey to help better understand grief

Eastern Shore residents want more services, funding from Halifax Regional Municipality

Our transportation system is ridiculous

Judge rejects Witness Protection Program’s request for a retroactive publication ban on Halifax Examiner articles, but gives the WPP everything else it asked for