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A graphic that says we do not live in a culture of consent. In the background is a photo of a dictionary definition of consent.
Posted inCommentary, Crime and Courts, Women

Legislation, education, everyday actions can foster a culture of consent

by Ann de Ste Croix September 20, 2022January 9, 2023

We do not live in a culture of consent. I was reminded of this fact when scrolling through the comments of a news article criticizing the recent ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada that maintains that “stealthing” — the act of pretending to use a condom, or removing one prior to sex without the […]

A older white man with glasses standing in his office
Posted inCommentary, Crime and Courts

Unfinished business: Donald Sobey, Derek Power, and the ‘pardoned’ sexual assault

by Stephen Kimber August 28, 2022January 9, 2023
A white woman reads a map in her car, near a beach, with her feet out the driver's side window
Posted inArts and Culture, Morning File, Women

The perks of not waiting around for anyone

A woman with fair skin, chin length auburn hair, and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater. by Suzanne Rent July 28, 2022January 9, 2023
A smiling white woman with chin length blonde hair and blue eyes
Posted inPolicing

Civilian Review & Complaints Commission to investigate how the RCMP handled sexual assault complaints from Susie Butlin

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter July 19, 2022January 3, 2023
Three white teenaged students and their teacher on a bench, wearing matching black t-shirts
Posted inEducation, Women

Dartmouth junior high students create project to raise awareness about sexual violence

A woman with fair skin, chin length auburn hair, and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater. by Suzanne Rent May 2, 2022October 20, 2022
Two photos: Elly Danica, an elderly white woman smiling happily in a comfy chair; beside that, the cover of her book, which has the word "Don't" in orange text on a brown rectangle, and "a woman's word, Elly Danica" in pale blue lettering on an abstract photo of blue rippling water
Posted inMorning File

Remembering Elly Danica

A smiling man with fair skin tone, a dark short beard, and dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt. by Philip Moscovitch March 15, 2022January 25, 2023
Halifax Regional Police cruisers lined up behind headquarters on Gottingen Street in June 2021. They're so shiny and white.
Posted inPolicing

Halifax police officer charged with sexual assault

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford February 15, 2022January 2, 2023
A headshot of Brian Johnston a Black man with a moustache and metal rimmed glasses
Posted inBlack Nova Scotia

Preacher accused of sexual assault steps aside from church duties

A smiling Black man with a shaved head and wire rimmed glasses wears a headphone in a recording studio by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter January 11, 2022November 8, 2022
An older photo of a Black man wearing black rimmed glasses and wearing a police uniform.
Posted inBlack Nova Scotia

Accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl and later fathering her child, former Halifax cop Brian Johnston is expected to resign as pastor of Zion Baptist Church in Truro

A smiling Black man with a shaved head and wire rimmed glasses wears a headphone in a recording studio by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter January 6, 2022November 8, 2022
A two and a half storey house, green with white trim and a front porch, on a city street with a for sale sign in front of it. In the background are new apartment buildings and beside it a parking lot.
Posted inMorning File

Housing: party for a few, crisis for the rest

A smiling man with fair skin tone, a dark short beard, and dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt. by Philip Moscovitch January 5, 2022January 25, 2023

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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.


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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.


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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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