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A brick educational building is seen on a sunny day.
Posted inCommentary

The RCMP’s offensive PR offensive continues

by Stephen Kimber May 14, 2023May 14, 2023

As a longtime Halifax Mooseheads fan, I’ve spent some time this spring inside a downtown arena named after a bank watching our Quebec Major Junior Hockey League team compete for the Gilles Courteau trophy as their league’s best. The games on the ice have been excellent, but I often find myself drawn to what’s happening […]

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
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 fair skinned 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

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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.


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.


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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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by Zane Woodford September 29, 2023September 29, 2023

Brad Johns once again spins the revolving door of SIRT directorship, but that won’t solve the crisis of legitimacy for the police oversight board

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Mount Uniacke residents organize, submit comments as quarry owners apply for expansion

by Suzanne Rent September 29, 2023September 29, 2023

Halifax MP says council can go higher on federal housing application

by Zane Woodford September 28, 2023September 28, 2023
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