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An old white church with a Nova Scotia Strong flag above the door and flowers, crosses, and other memorials out front.
Posted inHealth, Mass Casualty Commission, Morning File

There’s no meaning in mass murder

by Tim Bousquet May 16, 2022January 9, 2023

News 1. Mass murders This morning, we published another article related to the proceedings of the Mass Casualty Commission, headlined “Tech issues bedevilled the RCMP response to the mass murders of 2020.” In this article: • Did the killer listen in on the RCMP’s unencrypted radio calls? • Emergency Response Team had no GPS capability • […]

Two women, Continuing Caren Assistants, help an elderly woman in a wheelchair
Posted inHealth

Nursing homes across HRM to get 500 new long-term care beds

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson February 8, 2022October 20, 2022
Posted inCOVID

COVID clock is ticking on preparing nursing homes for a second wave

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson November 9, 2020December 13, 2022
Posted inProvince House

Eldercare advocacy groups and unions join forces to press for more nursing home funding

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson October 17, 2020December 13, 2022
Posted inHealth, Province House

Province insists nursing homes must admit more residents

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson October 2, 2020October 20, 2022
Posted inUncategorized

Today’s forecast: power outages and falling cranes

by Tim Bousquet September 22, 2020October 20, 2022
Posted inHealth, Province House

Two reports detail problems at Nova Scotia nursing homes that resulted in mass COVID-19 deaths

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson September 21, 2020October 20, 2022
Posted inCOVID

Were it not for COVID, “we probably would have got by for hundreds of years” with double rooms in nursing homes: deputy minister

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson September 9, 2020December 13, 2022
Posted inUncategorized

Michael Bryant has deleted his dickish tweet about Atlantic Canada and replaced it with a dickish apology

by Tim Bousquet August 6, 2020October 20, 2022
Posted inElections

PCs promise fix for long-term care

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson August 5, 2020December 13, 2022

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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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