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A shot looking into the walkway that runs through Meagher Park. Tents surround it and two wooden emergency shelters stand in the background.
Posted inCity Hall

Halifax mobilizing police to clear unhoused people from Meagher Park

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford August 2, 2022January 3, 2023

The municipality is calling in the police to kick unhoused people out of a park, stoking fears, even among councillors, of a repeat of the chaos of last August. Halifax regional council held a special virtual meeting on Tuesday with one item on the agenda: “Homelessness in Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM).” There was no motion […]

A twenty dollar bill with an image of Queen Elizabeth on it.
Posted inHousing, Indigenous Nova Scotia, Morning File

Royal flush: the monarchy’s role in reconciliation and Canada today

A smiling young white guy with brown hair, in his Halifax Examiner T shirt. by Ethan Lycan-Lang May 19, 2022January 9, 2023
A shot looking into the walkway that runs through Meagher Park. Tents surround it and two wooden emergency shelters stand in the background.
Posted inCity Hall, PRICED OUT

Halifax councillors tweak staff plan to designate tent sites in city parks

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford May 4, 2022October 20, 2022
Two small shelters and several tents in a park.
Posted inCity Hall, PRICED OUT

Municipal staff recommend allowing tents at a handful of Halifax-area parks

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford May 2, 2022October 20, 2022
The subject of the photo is an emergency shelter on green grass. It’s a cube, about 8 feet by 8 feet, with a door with a window in it. There’s no siding, but there is Home Depot-branded Tyvek house wrap, with red Tuck Tape holding it together. In the background there's a commercial building behind a fence. The word "entrance" is visible on a blue sign.
Posted inCity Hall

Councillor blames Halifax Mutual Aid for alleged assault in Dartmouth park

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford April 26, 2022October 25, 2022
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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Councillor quits Peggy’s Cove Commission over ‘unfair and unreasonable position of conflict’

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Dartmouth shelter to close next week, leaving residents scrambling to find housing

by Zane Woodford May 26, 2023May 26, 2023

While Demario Chambers waited over three years for justice, the cop who beat him up was paid more than $300,000 for doing no work at all

by Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson May 26, 2023May 26, 2023

Halifax EPA pens letter to premier asking him to intervene in school support workers strike

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