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Map of downtown Halifax showing very few public toilets
Posted inMorning File

HRM: 5,490 square kilometres, 20 public toilets

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch July 8, 2020January 12, 2023

News 1. Council needs to step up on fighting anti-Black racism, says Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard In a half-hour presentation to council yesterday, Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard called on the city to go beyond statements and act on combating racism, Zane Woodford reports: The presentation, titled “Unpacking Anti‐Black Racism in the HRM: Creating Sustainable Change […]

An image of Halifax City Hall in the summer. The building is a three or more story, high Victorian style stone building with a clock tower at the centre. A paved area in front of the building is visible, with grass and small garden plantings. There are several people sitting on yellow Adirondack-style chairs and red wooden picnic tables around the space.
Posted inUncategorized

Halifax council’s shameful rejection of a living wage policy

by Tim Bousquet July 6, 2020October 20, 2022
Image of Halifax City Hall on a bright summer day. The sky is blue and there are two yellow Adirondack chairs placed out front for passerby's to sit. City Hall is a gray stone three story Victorian building with a clock tower at the center.
Posted inCity Hall

Halifax councillors wanted a living wage ordinance; staff came back with a policy that departments merely “consider” a living wage

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford July 3, 2020January 2, 2023
Canadian Sports Executive Anthony Leblanc, looking concerned and upset with several microphones pointed at him.
Posted inUncategorized

The Halifax stadium proposal: private profit for Anthony Leblanc, socialized risk for the public

by Tim Bousquet October 1, 2019October 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.


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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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