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The main entrance of the Metro Centre $48 NSF Fee Centre on a bright afternoon in June 2021. Photo taken from the grass of the Citadel, below the clock tower. There are coloured banners hanging in front of the building with illustrations of male hockey players, and in the background the behemoth of the Scotia Towers building. Two lone souls walk on the sidewalk, heading for somewhere more conducive to a nice stroll.

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Halifax to contribute $1 million to World Junior Hockey Championship

by Zane Woodford November 2, 2022November 9, 2022

Councillors said the tournament should go ahead despite the Hockey Canada scandal.

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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Halifax to contribute $1 million to World Junior Hockey Championship

Halifax considers shrinking evacuation area, reports 151 homes lost in Tantallon fire

Travel, activity banned in Nova Scotia forests as three wildfires continue to burn

Meet the volunteers working to rescue pets from homes evacuated due to the Tantallon fire

Tantallon wildfire: blaze still ‘out of control,’ concerns about reburn, update on loss of homes

MP Rick Perkins plays the ‘Chinese’ canard