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Quiz question on a blue background, which asks "Being Nova Scotia Loyal means..." and there are two buttons which read "Fun" and "Excitement".
Posted inBusiness and Development, Economy, Labour

Is your loyalty to Nova Scotia “fun” or “exciting”?

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch August 18, 2022January 9, 2023

News 1. August 18, one year later A year ago today, on August 18, 2021, I was scrolling through Twitter to see if there was anything I should mention in the day’s Morning File. The Progressive Conservatives had won a surprise majority the night before, so I knew I’d be leading with that. Then, I […]

A empty chamber with blue chairs, desks with microphones, and two paintings hanging next to a big chair
Posted inBusiness and Development, Economy, Government, Province House

Grants for seniors, gold mining, the premier’s ‘friends,’ and more from Question Period

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson July 29, 2022January 9, 2023
A double photo: a book titled A Century Ago, Halifax 1871, which has a black paper cover with aged white lettering and an illustration of a lamppost with a gold lamp. Beside it is a photo of Granville Street east. There is a wagon on the street, and a couple of ghost like people who were moving too quickly for the camera.
Posted inUncategorized

A look back at Halifax’s old streets

A smiling young white guy with brown hair, in his Halifax Examiner T shirt. by Ethan Lycan-Lang October 27, 2021October 20, 2022
An aerial photo showing the Atlantic Gold open pit mine in Moose River on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia.
Posted inMining

Atlantic Gold agrees to a tentative plea deal that would have the company pay $120,000 to the Nova Scotia Salmon Association to atone for breaking environmental rules, but ‘no deal,’ says the Salmon Association

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter October 26, 2021November 22, 2022
Posted inUncategorized

Lockdown is loosening and apples are blossoming

A smiling young white guy with brown hair, in his Halifax Examiner T shirt. by Ethan Lycan-Lang June 2, 2021October 20, 2022
Posted inMining

Survey says: Why are people calling me with pro-mining propaganda?

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter February 5, 2020November 15, 2022
Posted inUncategorized

A Tree Walk will make us all rich!

by Tim Bousquet August 22, 2019October 20, 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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Why Tracy Kitch’s inappropriate expenses weren’t discovered sooner: financial audits don’t often reveal what the public cares most about

by Tim Bousquet March 20, 2023March 20, 2023

What Michelin wants, Michelin gets… always

by Stephen Kimber March 20, 2023March 20, 2023

‘This asshole bought 10 acres on P.E.I. to be alone, and then told a national magazine about it,’ and other ways to profit from rage-inducing journalism

by Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson March 17, 2023March 17, 2023

Deforestation Inc: Canada is a ‘world laggard’ in sustainable forestry, say critics, and Paper Excellence’s expansion threatens this country’s boreal forests

by Joan Baxter March 17, 2023March 17, 2023

Halifax landlord Peppermint Properties using fixed-term leases to clear out units, jack up rents

by Zane Woodford March 16, 2023March 17, 2023
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