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Tag: Serious Incident Response Team

One man holding a hammer moves a sheet of plywood to cover a door while two men watch. The house is dark red, with an old truck parked in the driveway and a vehicle covered by a blue tarp and garbage next to the house
Posted inPolicing

Halifax police shot and killed a Dartmouth man, SIRT investigating

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford August 29, 2022January 3, 2023

Nova Scotia’s Serious Incident Response Team is investigating after a Halifax Regional Police officer shot and killed a man in Dartmouth. In a news release, police said they went to Carleton Street in Dartmouth for a “weapons call involving a male armed with a firearm” on Saturday night at 8:35pm. “The suspect barricaded himself in […]

Posted inCommentary

Shopping while strolling

by Stephen Kimber October 11, 2020October 20, 2022
Former Premier Stephen McNeil flanked by reporters at a media scrum
Posted inProvince House

McNeil government: if John Perkins doesn’t like being wrestled to the floor at a public meeting, he can file a complaint

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson May 31, 2019December 7, 2022
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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