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In a screenshot from a video, four police officers surround a Black man who's on the ground, pressed up against a white police car with blue decals and flashing lights on. One of the officers on the left is holding a Taser. Another on the left is leaning over the first officer. On the right, one officer has his leg on top of the man as another officer watches. The scene is captured from across the street. There's a vehicle in the right of the frame stopped. In the background, the word bagel is seen on a round decal on a shop window.

‘Next thing I know I’m getting tased:’ Nova Scotia Police Review Board hearing into 2019 arrest on Quinpool Road underway

by Zane Woodford May 26, 2022January 3, 2023

A man who was tased on a busy city street more than two years ago said Wednesday he didn’t know why he was being arrested. Clinton Fraser believed he’d done nothing wrong on Dec. 4, 2019, he told a hearing of the Nova Scotia Police Review Board in Dartmouth. But Halifax Regional Police had pulled […]

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Immigration lawyers used a Sesame Street reference to argue that Abdoul Abdi should be deported to Somalia

by El Jones June 20, 2018October 20, 2022

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents — Credit: Halifax Examiner. All rights reserved.

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.

Credit: Ricardo Weibezahn - ICIJ

DEFORESTATION INC

Reporter Joan Baxter is one of 140 journalists from 39 media outlets across 27 countries working collaboratively on ‘Deforestation Inc,’ a project of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which looked at the ownership structure of Paper Excellence, its relationship with Asia Pulp & Paper, and how the secretive corporate empires are devastating forests in Canada and around the world.

Find all of Baxter’s articles on the Deforestation Inc 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.

To read the entire DEAD WRONG series, and articles on Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction, click here.

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‘Next thing I know I’m getting tased:’ Nova Scotia Police Review Board hearing into 2019 arrest on Quinpool Road underway

Immigration lawyers used a Sesame Street reference to argue that Abdoul Abdi should be deported to Somalia

Rick Perkins, natural health product champion

CN Railway files lawsuit to stop protesters from setting up blockades in Nova Scotia

Portrait project in Truro to honour Black women educators, church organist

Nova Scotia’s economy was and is deeply entwined with slavery

Nova Scotia whale sanctuary ‘charting path’ to final site development