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A community rallies to save Owls Head

by Suzanne Rent February 4, 2020November 5, 2022

News 1. Zane Woodford Tim Bousquet wrote this item. After a month covering City Hall for the Halifax Examiner, Zane Woodford is leaving to write for SaltWire. He’ll be working on their new weekly newspaper, SALT. [Insert your joke here.] While we’ve seen good subscription growth from Zane’s writing, the Examiner is unable to hire […]

Public art in the New York subway of a small man with piles of coins. He hands one to a smaller figure.

Morning File

The cruelty of a cashless society

by Philip Moscovitch January 29, 2020January 4, 2023

Young woman looking over her shoulder in a tattoo parlour.

Morning File

A pinch of SALT

by Philip Moscovitch December 19, 2019January 4, 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.

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A community rallies to save Owls Head

The cruelty of a cashless society

A pinch of SALT

Time waits for no one — not for second exits to be built, not for Stephen McNeil to be summoned by Parliament

Natural Resources committee refuses to summon Paper Excellence’s Wijaya

Halifax regional council talks secondary exits in communities across HRM

Reporters get first look at heart of Tantallon Fire destruction

100,000 current, past Nova Scotia Health, IWK, and public service employees had their payroll information stolen in MOVEit breach