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A bookshelf with a banner at the top that says Banned and Challenged. There is a selection of books on the shelves, with notes that are burned at the edges taped to the shelves.

Banned and challenged: it’s not wokeness gone wild that’s behind books being removed from libraries

by Philip Moscovitch April 27, 2022January 30, 2023

News 1. Sam Austin blames volunteers for crisis shelter assault Last Saturday morning, members of the anonymous volunteer group Mutual Aid Halifax erected a crisis shelter in Starr Park in Dartmouth. On Monday, Halifax Regional Police say, someone living in the shelter assaulted a local resident who had knocked on the shelter. In a post […]

An advisory sign that warns about high levels of arsenic, in front of a body of water

Mining

Port Wallace Gamble: the real estate boom meets Nova Scotia’s toxic mine legacy

by Joan Baxter April 13, 2022November 22, 2022

Photos of Robert Devet are projected onto the old library wall at an evening memorial. A group of people solemnly stands silhouetted in the foreground.

Morning File

Remembering Robert Devet

by Philip Moscovitch October 15, 2021January 23, 2023

The candidates for District 5 (from left to right): Sam Austin and Mitch McIntyre.

City Hall, Elections

Halifax council candidate questionnaires: District 5 — Dartmouth Centre

by Zane Woodford September 24, 2020October 20, 2022

Uncategorized

Another day in Halifax: resignations, engtanglements, and delays

by Erica Butler July 31, 2018October 20, 2022

Commentary

Halifax council may ask for 40 kph speed limit in residential areas

by Erica Butler March 28, 2017October 20, 2022

City Hall, Commentary

Low income transit pass program to grow this year, but passes will still be out of reach for poorest of the poor

by Erica Butler February 1, 2017October 20, 2022

Uncategorized

Examineradio jumps the shark: Examineradio, episode #87

by Russell Gragg November 11, 2016October 20, 2022

City Hall

The Steele Auto Group does not drown kittens: Examineradio, episode #60

by Russell Gragg May 7, 2016October 20, 2022

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.

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.

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.

Tag: Sam Austin

Banned and challenged: it’s not wokeness gone wild that’s behind books being removed from libraries

Port Wallace Gamble: the real estate boom meets Nova Scotia’s toxic mine legacy

Remembering Robert Devet

Halifax council candidate questionnaires: District 5 — Dartmouth Centre

Another day in Halifax: resignations, engtanglements, and delays

Halifax council may ask for 40 kph speed limit in residential areas

Low income transit pass program to grow this year, but passes will still be out of reach for poorest of the poor

Examineradio jumps the shark: Examineradio, episode #87

The Steele Auto Group does not drown kittens: Examineradio, episode #60

Brad Johns won’t ban NDAs, won’t say why. Why? We thought you’d never ask

The prosecution of Randy Riley rests on racist tropes of violent and animalistic Black men and a vulnerable, unquestionable white woman

Riley trial: the Crown’s own expert witness undermines Crown’s case

Halifax council will consider minister’s housing demands, but height will be a sticking point

Nova Scotia expands nominee program to include paramedics, pharmacy technicians