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Commentary, Crime and Courts, Mass Casualty Commission, Policing

Lisa Banfield and the search for ‘truth’

by Stephen Kimber July 17, 2022January 9, 2023

Crime and Courts, Journalism, Mass Casualty Commission, Policing

An RCMP officer’s evolving recollection of Brenda Forbes’ complaint about the mass murderer

by Joan Baxter July 14, 2022January 9, 2023

A female doctor with a pulled back hairstyle, wearing a black and white top and who has a stethoscope around her neck talks to a patient.

Health, Morning File

Dealing with difficult patients in health care

by Suzanne Rent July 14, 2022January 9, 2023

‘Just complementary and just sweet’: Lisa Banfield’s 19 years of abuse

by Tim Bousquet July 13, 2022January 3, 2023

Mass Murders 2020

Brenda Forbes tried to warn neighbours and the RCMP about the “psychopath” in Portapique years before he went on his murderous rampage. No one listened.

by Joan Baxter July 12, 2022November 6, 2022

Commentary, Government, Mass Casualty Commission, Policing, Province House

What the Mounties don’t want you to know? Everything

by Stephen Kimber June 26, 2022January 9, 2023

A young white man with dark air wearing a black hoodie and a Rolex, in a room with fancy modern furnishings

Arts and Culture, Mass Murders 2020, Morning File

Masculinity, as defined by a friend of a mass murderer: “Men want art work that’s a picture of a gun enlarged seven feet high”

by Tim Bousquet June 17, 2022January 9, 2023

The front of a pizza shop at nighttime. The store windows are outlined in neon green lighting and two neon signs say pizza slices and donair. Above the windows and door is another neon sign that says Tony's and a sign that says pizza, donairs, subs.

Unwrapping the story of the donair

by Philip Moscovitch June 14, 2022January 30, 2023

fake police car driving past two pedestrians

How the mass murderer leisurely drove through the main streets of Truro without being stopped by police

by Tim Bousquet June 6, 2022January 3, 2023

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Mass Casualty Commission, Morning File

Cpl. Rodney Peterson is “not tactically sound” and “puts us at risk” says fellow cop Nick Dorrington

by Tim Bousquet May 30, 2022January 9, 2023

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.

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.