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Poo in the water, and other calamities

by Erica Butler August 24, 2018October 20, 2022

Good morning, folks. Erica Butler here at the Morningfile keyboard today. News 1. Burnside jail “The prisoner protest at the Burnside jail is in part sparked by the move to the direct supervision model,” reports El Jones: Both staff and prisoners say that the change to new day rooms has been disorganized, that there is […]

Image of the Morse's Tea building, a six story historic stone and brick building in downtown Halifax. There is a large sign advertising office leasing on the side of the building.

City Hall, Commentary

Your name here: Which company will jump at the opportunity to be associated with obliterating the Morse’s Teas sign?

by Tim Bousquet July 14, 2014October 20, 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.

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Poo in the water, and other calamities

Your name here: Which company will jump at the opportunity to be associated with obliterating the Morse’s Teas sign?

Nova Scotia, federal government building more than 200 public housing units

Atlantic Gold gives up on another Nova Scotia mine

Councillors in favour of new Bedford library in proposed Mill Cove Ferry Terminal

Halifax councillors ask for report on school evacuation plans in wake of wildfire

Halifax council votes for four units on serviced lots, hopes to satisfy federal housing minister