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Cafés as centres for “queer memory, identity, and place” in Halifax

by Philip Moscovitch March 29, 2022January 30, 2023

News 1. First officers on the scene at Portapique testify The Mass Casualty Commission began hearings again yesterday. Tim Bousquet was there for the Halifax Examiner, covering the testimony of the first three officers to arrive on the scene in Portapique on the night of April 18, 2020. The testimony of the three officers — […]

A small fishing boat is berthed next to a dock on the waterfront, and both are dwarfed by the Crystal Serenity.

Morning File

Cruise ships are returning, but do we want them back?

by Philip Moscovitch March 10, 2022January 25, 2023

A black and white photo of people sitting on a low wall beside the Royal Bank on Spring Garden Road, beside a modern photo of a woman sitting on a lovely concrete wall with wooden seats backed by a grassy area on South Park Street.

Morning File

Discovering an exciting, strange city in an old part of town

by Philip Moscovitch December 1, 2021January 25, 2023

Three photos: a notebook, pen, and tomato-shaped timer; Sharon Hyman, a young white woman with sunglasses in her living room; a white storey and a half house with a fence and a sign which says "danger construction zone"

Morning File

Follow-ups from Phil

by Philip Moscovitch November 9, 2021January 23, 2023

Lines of cocaine, a rolled-up bill and a credit card

Morning File

Moral panic and a “fantastic claim”

by Philip Moscovitch October 7, 2021January 23, 2023

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.

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Cafés as centres for “queer memory, identity, and place” in Halifax

Cruise ships are returning, but do we want them back?

Discovering an exciting, strange city in an old part of town

Follow-ups from Phil

Moral panic and a “fantastic claim”

Brad Johns won’t ban NDAs, won’t say why. Why? We thought you’d never ask

The prosecution of Randy Riley rests on racist tropes of violent and animalistic Black men and a vulnerable, unquestionable white woman

Riley trial: the Crown’s own expert witness undermines Crown’s case

Halifax council will consider minister’s housing demands, but height will be a sticking point

Nova Scotia expands nominee program to include paramedics, pharmacy technicians