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Container ship piled high with cargo.
Posted inMorning File

Oil Beach: ports, petroleum, and the pandemic

A smiling man with fair skin tone, a dark short beard, and dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt. by Philip Moscovitch February 28, 2023February 28, 2023

An interview with author Christina Dunbar-Hester.

A bright yellow and green COVID test box with a positive test in front of it.
Posted inCOVID

Scientists, experts, advocates call on feds to create action plan to address Long COVID

A smiling white woman with wavy dark blonde hair and bangs, wearing a green top and a sweater with burgundy and white flecks. Behind her you can see dark trees. by Yvette d'Entremont October 21, 2022October 27, 2022
A concrete multi floor building with garden beds out front.
Posted inHealth

IWK: Supply chain ‘robust’ but sometimes ‘we may need to be creative’

A smiling white woman with wavy dark blonde hair and bangs, wearing a green top and a sweater with burgundy and white flecks. Behind her you can see dark trees. by Yvette d'Entremont August 3, 2022November 18, 2022
Outside the Valley Regional hospital on a sunny day.
Posted inCOVID, Province House

Valley hospital’s Team Lavender supports spiritual, emotional, psychological needs of health care workers

A smiling white woman with wavy dark blonde hair and bangs, wearing a green top and a sweater with burgundy and white flecks. Behind her you can see dark trees. by Yvette d'Entremont July 29, 2022November 18, 2022
A blue banner hangs between two trees. The banner reads Halifax Light the Night Kickoff.
Posted inHealth

Work from home forever? Why one non-profit thinks it’s the way to go

A woman with fair skin, chin length auburn hair, and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater. by Suzanne Rent July 21, 2022January 3, 2023
Tents and wooden shelters in a park in autumn
Posted inGovernment, Housing, Morning File, Policing

Criminalization, disappearance, and death: the results of clearing urban encampments

A smiling man with fair skin tone, a dark short beard, and dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt. by Philip Moscovitch July 19, 2022January 9, 2023
A woman wearing a black long sleeved shirt and a blue mask stands in front of a door way against a concrete building with light filtering on her face.
Posted inCOVID

New Dal study finds Asian Canadians witnessed, experienced discrimination during COVID-19 pandemic

A smiling white woman with wavy dark blonde hair and bangs, wearing a green top and a sweater with burgundy and white flecks. Behind her you can see dark trees. by Yvette d'Entremont June 15, 2022November 18, 2022
Six shelves covered with many, many books. Not a complete mess, but not neatly organized either.
Posted inMorning File

It’s OK to get rid of books. Really.

A smiling man with fair skin tone, a dark short beard, and dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt. by Philip Moscovitch April 22, 2022January 30, 2023
A silhouette of a woman standing side-on. Her face isn't visible but her hair is up in a ponytail and is lit from the side.
Posted inProvince House, Women

Dalhousie researcher studying how pandemic impacted violence against women services

A smiling white woman with wavy dark blonde hair and bangs, wearing a green top and a sweater with burgundy and white flecks. Behind her you can see dark trees. by Yvette d'Entremont April 21, 2022November 18, 2022
A woman sitting in a wheelchair faces away from the camera as she looks out over a neighbourhood bathed in sunlight and trees.
Posted inHealth, Province House

Survey to identify and understand gaps in dementia care in Nova Scotia

A smiling white woman with wavy dark blonde hair and bangs, wearing a green top and a sweater with burgundy and white flecks. Behind her you can see dark trees. by Yvette d'Entremont April 20, 2022November 18, 2022

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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.


Tractors bulldoze trees as American money rains from the sky.
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.

Read the entire series, plus articles about Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction, on the DEAD WRONG homepage.

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