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A double photo: a book titled A Century Ago, Halifax 1871, which has a black paper cover with aged white lettering and an illustration of a lamppost with a gold lamp. Beside it is a photo of Granville Street east. There is a wagon on the street, and a couple of ghost like people who were moving too quickly for the camera.

A look back at Halifax’s old streets

by Ethan Lycan-Lang October 27, 2021October 20, 2022

News 1. Pandemic update: 100th Nova Scotian dies from COVID-19 A woman in her 70s has become the 100th person to die from COVID-19 in Nova Scotia. The woman lived in Nova Scotia Health’s Western Zone where a recent outbreak of the disease occurred at Valley Regional Hospital in Kentville, but the Department of Health […]

Chúk Odenigbo, a smiling young Black man standing in the woods on a misty day. He is wearing a rain jacket with its hood pulled up and has his hands in his pockets.

Morning File

Black in nature

by Philip Moscovitch August 5, 2021January 23, 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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A look back at Halifax’s old streets

Black in nature

Regulators stonewall Parliamentary committee looking into ownership of Paper Excellence

Tantallon fire contained, travel, activity ban lifted; Barrington Lake fire still out of control

Nova Scotians’ personal data has been stolen — health records and more potentially at stake

Rain helps with Tantallon fire, crews still fighting hot spots; Shelburne fire still out of control

Rain brings relief to firefighters, but Tantallon may remain a fire scene for weeks or months