• Black Nova Scotia
  • Courts
  • Economy
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Health
    • COVID
  • Investigation
  • Journalism
  • Labour
  • Policing
  • Politics
    • City Hall
    • Elections
    • Province House
  • Profiles
  • Transportation
  • Women
  • Morning File
  • Commentary
  • PRICED OUT
  • @Tim_Bousquet
  • Log In

Halifax Examiner

An independent, adversarial news site in Halifax, NS

  • Home
  • About
    • Terms and Conditions
    • Commenting policy
  • Archives
  • Contact us
  • Subscribe
    • Gift Subscriptions
  • Donate
  • Swag
  • Receipts
  • Manage your account: update card / change level / cancel

Visits to food banks up, schools struggling with food program costs, public accounts committee hears

June 1, 2022 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

More Nova Scotians are struggling with the rising cost of food, with record numbers turning to Feed Nova Scotia for help. The non-profit’s executive director Nick Jennery was one of several witnesses who appeared before the provincial public accounts committee on Wednesday to address rising food costs and food inflation in Nova Scotia. “Thousands of […]

Filed Under: Economy, Featured, News, Politics, Province House Tagged With: Agri-Food Analytics Lab, Carolyn Van Den Heuvel, Dalhousie University, Feed Nova Scotia, food inflation, food insecurity, food prices, Joy King, Margo Riebe-Butt, Mohammed Al-Hamdani, Mount Uniacke, Nick Jennery, Nourish Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture (NSFA), Public Accounts Committee, Standing Committee on Public Accounts, Sylvain Charlebois, Uniacke District School, Yvette d'Entremont

PRICED OUT

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.

2020 mass murders

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

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. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Episode 89 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.
A man with dark hair and slight beard, wearing a dark hoodie, looks intently at the human skull he holds in his hands

To sleep, perchance to dream — in this humidity?! Shakespeare By The Sea’s production of Hamlet — its first staged tragedy since 2019 — opens on August 5, and director Drew Douris-O’Hara and the man himself, Deivan Steele, stop by the show before rehearsal to chat. Topics include: climate change’s effect on outdoor theatre, the timelessness of Shakespeare’s most popular work, the failure of funding models in all times (not just during COVID), and the resilience of squirrels.

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

Subscribe to the podcast to get episodes automatically downloaded to your device — there’s a great instructional article here. Email Suzanne for help. You can reach Tara here.

Sign up for email notification

Sign up to receive email notification when we publish new Morning Files and Weekend Files. Note: signing up for this email is NOT the same as subscribing to the Halifax Examiner. To subscribe, click here.

Recent posts

  • The dedicated interpreters living Nova Scotia’s history August 9, 2022
  • What politicians say they will do about higher power bills stemming from delays at Muskrat Falls August 9, 2022
  • Going to the chapel again, and again, and again August 8, 2022
  • Higher power bills on the way as delays continue at Muskrat Falls August 8, 2022
  • People’s Park, the police, and the solution that isn’t August 7, 2022

Commenting policy

All comments on the Halifax Examiner are subject to our commenting policy. You can view our commenting policy here.

Copyright © 2022