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The exterior of a store with glass doors. A sign above says Cyclesmith. There's a sandwich board outside in red with white font. A light dusting of snow is on the sidewalk.
Posted inLabour

One year with living wage policy, business booming, staff happy at Halifax bike shop

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent November 18, 2022November 18, 2022

Andrew Feenstra implemented the living wage policy at Cyclesmith in September 2021, saying it was the “right thing to do.”

Samantha Dixon Slawter stands in front of an exhibit about the story of Black beauty culture. Dixon Slawter is wearing a black t-shirt that says see it believe it. She's also wearing a face mask with a golden pattern and her hair is in an updo. She has her hand stretched out to show off one of the displays, which is sitting in a showcase window of a shop.
Posted inMorning File

Carrying on Viola’s legacy

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent November 12, 2021November 29, 2022
Posted inMorning File

Women don’t choose low-paying jobs; society just doesn’t value our work

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent March 23, 2021November 29, 2022
a photo of Katy Hines in a graveyard
Posted inMorning File

Looking for Eliza in Nova Scotia’s poor house cemeteries

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent January 26, 2021November 29, 2022
Cornwallis statue hangingin midair while being removed from its base
Posted inMorning File

Erasing history? You just didn’t do your research

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent November 20, 2020November 29, 2022
a photo of twenty one dollars and 80 cents.
Posted inMorning File

Who’s paying less than a living wage during the pandemic

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent November 18, 2020November 29, 2022
Posted inLabour

Bad news for local journalism

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent November 20, 2019November 5, 2022
Posted inMorning File

Here’s a tip: Don’t take your staff’s gratuities

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent April 12, 2019November 21, 2022
Posted inMorning File

Get out into the country, city slickers!

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent March 26, 2019November 21, 2022
Posted inMorning File

Feds invest in Sable Island cleanup

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent February 12, 2019November 21, 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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by Tim Bousquet May 31, 2023May 31, 2023

Nova Scotia Wildfires

by Tim Bousquet, Yvette d'Entremont, Philip Moscovitch, Suzanne Rent, Zane Woodford and Iris May 31, 2023May 31, 2023

Several Bedford streets evacuated due to new wildfire, potential ammonia leak

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

Halifax considers shrinking evacuation area, reports 151 homes lost in Tantallon fire

by Zane Woodford May 30, 2023May 30, 2023

Travel, activity banned in Nova Scotia forests as three wildfires continue to burn

by Suzanne Rent May 30, 2023May 30, 2023
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