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Stitching together a history of quilting in African Nova Scotia communities

David Woods, curator of The Secret Codes exhibit at the Confederation Centre of the Arts, says the stories of quilts have been "inspiring."

April 8, 2022 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter 1 Comment

Sixty quilts created and inspired by members of Nova Scotia’s Black communities are currently on a national tour and on exhibit at the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown, PEI. The Secret Codes: African Nova Scotian Quilts is a collaboration between the Black Artists Network of Nova Scotia (BANNS), and the Vale Quilters Association, […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured, Women Tagged With: Africa Nova Scotia, African Nova Scotian, BANNS, Confederation Centre of the Arts, David Woods, Matthew Byard, Myla Borden, PEI, Quilts

On the beach

Morning File, Tuesday, August 13, 2019

August 13, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 8 Comments

News 1. Military ban on some tattoos Lee Berthiaume reports for the Canadian Press that the military has issued new guidelines on acceptable tattoos. This after photos of a Halifax-based sailor with an “Infidel” tattoo spread online and in the media. The new rules, which apply whether a tattoo is visible or not, lay out […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: baseball, Brackley Beach, Chester Race Week, climate change, Coast Guard vessel, Councillor David Hendsbee, Dave Hebert, Gail Harding, Glenn MacDonald, Josh Healey, Kevin Richardson, Nevil Shute's On the Beach, Nova Scotia U17, ocean temperatures, PEI, right whales, Shaina Luck, Stephen Archibald and envelopes, tattoos

It’s a hard world for little things: Morning File, Tuesday, November 8, 2016

November 8, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

November Subscription Drive Philip Slayton is the author of Lawyers Gone Bad: Money, Sex and Madness in Canada’s Legal Profession; Mighty Judgment: How the Supreme Court of Canada Runs Your Life; Bay Street: A Novel; and Mayors Gone Bad. He splits his time between the south shore and Toronto. He writes: The Halifax Examiner is delivered six mornings […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adina Bresge, Alteregos, Aly Thomson, Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, Loyd Murray, Michelle Strum, North End, PEI, Philip Slayton, planes hitting animals

PRICED OUT

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.

2020 mass murders

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

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. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Two young white women, one with dark hair and one blonde, smile at the camera on a sunny spring day.

Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

Listen to the episode here.

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