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Halifax Regional Police cruisers lined up behind headquarters on Gottingen Street in June 2021. They're so shiny and white.
Posted inCity Hall

Council to follow new process to build Halifax police budget

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford October 25, 2022October 27, 2022

Halifax finance staff say the new process will ‘reduce the potential for confusion.’

A group of men stand around in an outdoor event. One of the men is holding a five dollar bill. Two of the men are dressed in RCMP uniforms
Posted inMorning File

RCMP: we were afraid the Freedom Fighters would attack us

by Tim Bousquet October 11, 2022January 5, 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 headshot of Brian Johnston a Black man with a moustache and metal rimmed glasses
Posted inCity Hall

Halifax denies former Const. Brian Johnston sexually assaulted girl, but admits she complained to police in 2009

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford July 29, 2022January 3, 2023
The green Portapique roadsign with a tartan sash tied on the post
Posted inJustice, Morning File, Policing

Are ‘psychological autopsies’ junk science?

by Tim Bousquet July 8, 2022January 9, 2023
A white woman in a pink blouse, sitting, raising her index finger
Posted inPolicing

Two years after Portapique, call-takers and dispatchers are still struggling

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson June 14, 2022January 3, 2023
A middle aged white man with short hair wearing a suit in front of a grey-green background.
Posted inMass Casualty Commission, Morning File, Policing

‘We really don’t need any more police officers; we really don’t need any more money’

by Tim Bousquet June 10, 2022January 9, 2023
A woman sits at a table during testimony.
Posted inPolicing

27 minutes: the RCMP’s communications division hesitated when the public most needed to be warned about the mass murderer

by Tim Bousquet June 9, 2022January 3, 2023
A white woman smiles happily in a selfie with her partner and daughter behind her
Posted inPolicing

Bodies of five murder victims weren’t discovered by the RCMP for more than 18 hours after they were killed

by Tim Bousquet May 29, 2022January 3, 2023
A woman wearing a white shirt looks over her right shoulder a man with grey hair wearing a blue suit. They're in a beige room sitting in uncomfortable chairs.
Posted inPolicing

Halifax cop claims she worried the man she tased would use a pen as a weapon

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford May 26, 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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