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Fenced in urban lot with people walking past it.
Posted inMorning File

Fences don’t make for good neighbours

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch October 18, 2022February 1, 2023

News 1. Domestic violence support worker aims to fill housing, support gaps Halifax’s Welcome Housing and Support Services now has a worker dedicated to helping “survivors of domestic violence find housing and other services,” Suzanne Rent reports. Intimate partner case manager Kay Spurr tells Rent that intimate partner violence is often a factor in homelessness, […]

a man gesturing in front of Nova Scotia flags
Posted inCity Hall, Commentary, Government, Policing, Province House

Short Snappers from the doggiest days of summer…

by Stephen Kimber August 15, 2022January 9, 2023
The milky way at night. Two shooting stars streak across the sky
Posted inArts and Culture, Morning File

Starry with a chance of showers

A smiling young white guy with brown hair, in his Halifax Examiner T shirt. by Ethan Lycan-Lang August 12, 2022January 9, 2023
A bride and groom release balloons at a wedding ceremony
Posted inArts and Culture, Housing, Morning File

Going to the chapel again, and again, and again

A smiling young white guy with brown hair, in his Halifax Examiner T shirt. by Ethan Lycan-Lang August 8, 2022January 9, 2023
A quicksnap disposable waterproof camera in its cardboard packaging
Posted inArts and Culture, Economy, Morning File

Throwaway thoughts on throwaway cameras

A smiling young white guy with brown hair, in his Halifax Examiner T shirt. by Ethan Lycan-Lang August 3, 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

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
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 a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch July 19, 2022January 9, 2023
a closeup of cigarette butts piled on the ground
Posted inHealth, Housing, Morning File

Hidden plastics: get your butts off the ground

A smiling young white guy with brown hair, in his Halifax Examiner T shirt. by Ethan Lycan-Lang July 15, 2022January 9, 2023
A cyclist rides on a protected bicycle lane between a row of parked cars and a sidewalk, with a line of blue posts between them.
Posted inMorning File

Vision, lobbying, and high-profile stunts: lessons on how to become a cycling city

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch July 7, 2022January 30, 2023
Posted inCity Hall

Halifax police board asked to make policy on encampment enforcement

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford July 7, 2022January 3, 2023

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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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