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Two women sit at a bar and are approached by a man
Posted inArts and Culture, Commentary

Finding a balm in the stories at FIN Atlantic International Film Festival

A Black woman with short hair and round black framed glasses, wearing a multi coloured dashiki. She is standing with her right fist raised, in front of a mural of Arethan Franklin with the word 'Respect' in big red letters. by Evelyn C. White September 13, 2022January 9, 2023

A (very) short list of novels adapted into movies includes To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, The English Patient by Michael Oondatje, and Room by Emma Donoghue. As far as I know, the authors applauded the book-to-screen transformations of their volumes. And then there was Vladimir Nabokov who, peeved by the film version of […]

A female doctor with a pulled back hairstyle, wearing a black and white top and who has a stethoscope around her neck talks to a patient.
Posted inHealth, Morning File

Dealing with difficult patients in health care

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent July 14, 2022January 9, 2023
A woman vacuums the floor while a man sits on the sofa looking at his laptop. Meanwhile, a kid sits on a chair in the corner reading a book
Posted inMorning File, Women

What’s the “one small habit” that keeps a man organized? A wife

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent June 30, 2022January 9, 2023
A small fishing boat is berthed next to a dock on the waterfront, and both are dwarfed by the Crystal Serenity.
Posted inMorning File

Cruise ships are returning, but do we want them back?

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch March 10, 2022January 25, 2023
A closeup of a diagram of an algorithm in a book. The algorithm has letters in squares, arranged in circles, with arrows connecting the squares.
Posted inMorning File

Breaking out of the algorithmic box

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch February 3, 2022January 25, 2023
The interior of a community food pantry. It's a plastic cabinet with wooden shelves. Shown are two shelves, one of which has a can of tomatoes, two cans of soup, and a carton of chocolate milk. The shelf below it has two plates of raw potatoes, carrots, an onion, and an apple.
Posted inMorning File

Filling a need with the Fairview Community Food Cupboard

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent January 20, 2022November 30, 2022
Robert Devet, smiling in a hat, with his glasses on the end of his nose. He's leaning forward and holding a camera.
Posted inMorning File

Robert Devet: tireless champion of justice

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch October 1, 2021January 23, 2023
Chúk Odenigbo, a smiling young Black man standing in the woods on a misty day. He is wearing a rain jacket with its hood pulled up and has his hands in his pockets.
Posted inMorning File

Black in nature

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch August 5, 2021January 23, 2023
Posted inJournalism, Province House

Introducing: The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

by Tim Bousquet October 8, 2020October 20, 2022
Posted inCommentary, Journalism

Tara Thorne and the tweet that trumped 20 years of exemplary arts coverage

by Stephen Kimber August 16, 2020October 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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Nova Scotia wants to hire Black high school students through summer mentorship program

by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter March 27, 2023March 27, 2023

The Port of Sydney discovers wind

by Tim Bousquet March 27, 2023March 27, 2023

Bedford school stabbings: the talking points memo

by Stephen Kimber March 27, 2023March 27, 2023

My trip to Province House, and why it makes me worry about the future

by Tim Bousquet March 24, 2023March 25, 2023

Opposition, advocates say budget misses the mark on poverty, housing crisis

by Jennifer Henderson March 24, 2023March 24, 2023
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