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Home » Mass Murders

Tag: Mass Murders

the green roadsign to Portapique with a tartan sash tied around the post
Posted inMorning File

Grief and survivor’s guilt do not simply go away with time

by Tim Bousquet November 4, 2022November 9, 2022

Some 28% of people who survive mass shootings in the United States develop post-traumatic stress disorder, and mass shootings often result in a particularly difficult kind of grief known as traumatic grief.

the cover of the book "The Man from the Train"
Posted inLabour, Morning File, Policing

Assessing mass murder: How to think about the unthinkable

by Tim Bousquet August 19, 2022January 9, 2023
A bookshelf with a banner at the top that says Banned and Challenged. There is a selection of books on the shelves, with notes that are burned at the edges taped to the shelves.
Posted inMorning File

Banned and challenged: it’s not wokeness gone wild that’s behind books being removed from libraries

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch April 27, 2022January 30, 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.

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