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Bright blue Halifax Infirmary signage against a blue sky.

Houston, we have an ER crisis …

by Stephen Kimber January 15, 2023January 15, 2023

The new Tim Houston has morphed into the old Stephen McNeill: arrogant, angry, self-righteous.

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A white man wih salt and pepper hair and wearing a dark suit with burgundy tie sits in front of a microphone at a dark wood desk. Behind him is a video screen that says Nova Scotia. On either side of him are blue, white, and yellow Nova Scotian flags.

Making sense out of public opinion polling nonsense

by Stephen Kimber December 11, 2022December 11, 2022

Mr. Burns, the rich old man in The Simpsons. He's very yellow, has a receeding hairline, is wearing a green robe, and has a snifter of brandy in his hand

Here’s what’s wrong with the seniors discount

by Tim Bousquet, Yvette d'Entremont and Jennifer Henderson October 19, 2022October 27, 2022

A man with salt and pepper hair and wearing a dark suit with blue tie sits at a desk in front of a lineup of Nova Scotian flags.

The new Tim Houston sounds like the old Stephen McNeil

by Stephen Kimber October 16, 2022January 5, 2023

About a dozen people stand or sit on a sidewalk in front of a red brick building. A sign above the entrance says Tacoma Family Medical Walk-In Clinic

Health, Province House

Province announces projects to recruit family doctors, improve access to health care

by Jennifer Henderson October 12, 2022October 20, 2022

Halifax council says World Junior Championship should go ahead despite Hockey Canada scandal

by Zane Woodford October 12, 2022January 3, 2023

Police in uniforms and yellow vests try to control a street party

COVID

The Battle of Larch Street: police roughing up young people probably isn’t the best approach to street parties

by Tim Bousquet October 3, 2022January 5, 2023

A man in the bucket of a yellow utility truck repairs power lines on the side of a rural road.

Province asks feds for more troops to speed up power restoration efforts

by Jennifer Henderson September 29, 2022January 5, 2023

Two rows of books are displayed on a shelf in a store window

Go ahead: judge a book by its cover

by Ethan Lycan-Lang September 28, 2022January 9, 2023

Nova Scotia will soon award system-changing health record contract

by Jennifer Henderson September 20, 2022January 3, 2023

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.