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A woman vacuums the floor while a man sits on the sofa looking at his laptop. Meanwhile, a kid sits on a chair in the corner reading a book

What’s the “one small habit” that keeps a man organized? A wife

by Suzanne Rent June 30, 2022January 9, 2023

News 1. Sable Island fog Paul Withers at CBC recently visited Sable Island where scientists are there for an international study on how to predict fog, which poses a lot of challenges for meteorology. Project leader Joe Fernando of Notre Dame University told Withers they chose Sable Island because it’s one of the foggiest places […]

The "Northern Pulp Nova Scotia Corporation, A Paper Excellence Company" sign.

Commentary, Environment

Northern Pulp has a new set of “friends”

by Joan Baxter March 9, 2022October 20, 2022

Fishery

Independent inshore lobster fishers fear the Clearwater purchase could decimate their livelihoods

by Joan Baxter November 16, 2020November 16, 2022

Morning File

The housing crisis on the South Shore

by Suzanne Rent November 4, 2020November 29, 2022

Tiny wooden building with a sign saying Father Finley Credit Union. Image from the film Moses Coady, directed by Kent Martin and produced by the National Film Board of Canada.

Morning File

A moderate livelihood

by Philip Moscovitch September 21, 2020January 16, 2023

Uncategorized

More police needed to monitor police, and more turbines needed to pay for turbines

by Erica Butler December 17, 2019October 20, 2022

A map of Hurricane Dorian's wind speed probabilities.

Morning File

Literal and metaphorical storms on the way

by Philip Moscovitch September 5, 2019January 3, 2023

Morning File

Pandora’s Box

by Philip Moscovitch July 5, 2019December 29, 2022

Morning File

If a tree in the Public Gardens could talk, what would it say? Text it and find out

by Suzanne Rent July 3, 2019November 7, 2022

An image of American science educator Bill Nye, a white man in his sixties.

Uncategorized

You’re adults now, and this is an actual crisis

by Erica Butler May 15, 2019October 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.

Tag: Paul Withers

What’s the “one small habit” that keeps a man organized? A wife

Northern Pulp has a new set of “friends”

Independent inshore lobster fishers fear the Clearwater purchase could decimate their livelihoods

The housing crisis on the South Shore

A moderate livelihood

More police needed to monitor police, and more turbines needed to pay for turbines

Literal and metaphorical storms on the way

Pandora’s Box

If a tree in the Public Gardens could talk, what would it say? Text it and find out

You’re adults now, and this is an actual crisis

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