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Home » Lyme disease

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Posted inHealth, Province House

The clock is ticking, but Nova Scotia is still not acting on ticks and Lyme disease

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter June 5, 2022January 9, 2023

On a recent Sunday evening, a friend — I’ll call him Ron — who lives in northern Nova Scotia discovered a tiny tick embedded in and feasting away on his arm. The area around it was red, but because the tick was so small, he couldn’t identify it, couldn’t tell whether it was a deer […]

Posted inInvestigation

A plague of ticks, tick-borne diseases, and poli-ticks

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter July 6, 2021November 22, 2022
Posted inInvestigation

A plague of ticks, tick-borne diseases, and poli-ticks

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter July 5, 2021November 22, 2022
Posted inEnvironment

“You guys have a lot of ticks”

A smiling white woman with long straight dark blonde hair and bangs, with half her face in dramatic shadow by Yvette d'Entremont April 30, 2020October 20, 2022
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Posted inMorning File

Inez Rudderham: The face of the healthcare crisis in Nova Scotia

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent April 26, 2019November 7, 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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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.

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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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