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Just when we need local reporting the most, local media outlets are scaling down operations

by Erica Butler March 25, 2020October 20, 2022

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. News 1. Draconian cuts at SaltWire This item is written by Tim Bousquet. Yesterday, Mark Lever, president of SaltWire, announced that in response to the economic fallout from COVID-19, the company is making huge, draconian cuts: Please know these decisions deeply impact our SaltWire family. This is not […]

Man by Shubenacadie River at the Alton Gas site, with Mi'kmaq and Warrior flags.

Province House

Province: Sipekne’katik First Nation should blame itself for lack of consultation over Alton Gas project

by Jennifer Henderson February 20, 2020December 7, 2022

Morning File

Pandora’s Box

by Philip Moscovitch July 5, 2019December 29, 2022

Protestor Darlene Gilbert outside the straw bale house at the Shubenacadie River protest.

Environment

Alton Gas asks court for order to remove Mi’kmaw protestors from Shubenacadie River site

by Jennifer Henderson March 13, 2019December 7, 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: Sipekne’katik First Nation (Indian Brook)

Just when we need local reporting the most, local media outlets are scaling down operations

Province: Sipekne’katik First Nation should blame itself for lack of consultation over Alton Gas project

Pandora’s Box

Alton Gas asks court for order to remove Mi’kmaw protestors from Shubenacadie River site

Nova Scotia launches review of provincial policing structure

Brad Johns once again spins the revolving door of SIRT directorship, but that won’t solve the crisis of legitimacy for the police oversight board

Mount Uniacke residents organize, submit comments as quarry owners apply for expansion

Halifax MP says council can go higher on federal housing application

NDP wants Nova Scotia municipalities to tax developers who leave lots empty