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The front of a pizza shop at nighttime. The store windows are outlined in neon green lighting and two neon signs say pizza slices and donair. Above the windows and door is another neon sign that says Tony's and a sign that says pizza, donairs, subs.
Posted inMorning File

Unwrapping the story of the donair

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch June 14, 2022January 30, 2023

News 1. “Involuntary compliance” In high school, I had a teacher whose approach to finding volunteers was to look at a group of us and say, “I need four volunteers. You, you, you, and you — you are the volunteers.” I thought about him this morning as I read Zane Woodford’s story on Halifax staff […]

Posted inMass Casualty Commission, Morning File

How RCMP commanders’ bumbling response to Portapique allowed the killer to continue his murder spree

by Tim Bousquet May 27, 2022January 9, 2023
An orange cat lying on a bed looking at a laptop screen with its eyes half closed.
Posted inMorning File

“Writing is stupid”

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch April 1, 2022January 30, 2023
A young Black woman sits on a high outcrop above a deep lake in a forested area. she's wearing lycra athletic wear and braids, and smiling over her shoulder at the vista.
Posted inBlack Nova Scotia

Local Black-owned travel company gets funding to grow

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 November 23, 2021November 7, 2022
The entrance to the Old Burying Grounds, with its wrought iron gates and fence.
Posted inMorning File

Digging up the stories of Halifax’s Old Burying Ground

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent June 24, 2021November 29, 2022
Posted inUncategorized

Commence Phase 2: waking up from COVID fatigue

A smiling young white guy with brown hair, in his Halifax Examiner T shirt. by Ethan Lycan-Lang June 16, 2021October 20, 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 inCOVID, Equity and Equality

Exploring the evidence, ethics, and pitfalls around vaccine certificates

A smiling white woman with wavy dark blonde hair and bangs, wearing a green top and a sweater with burgundy and white flecks. Behind her you can see dark trees. by Yvette d'Entremont June 2, 2021December 23, 2022
Posted inMorning File

Bullshitter of the week: Mount A president Jean-Paul Boudreau

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch March 25, 2021November 21, 2022
Fabric masks created by Masks For Humanity Atlantic Canada.
Posted inUncategorized

Nova Scotia cabinet round-up: Mandatory masks, open borders and more

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson July 31, 2020October 20, 2022

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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.


Tractors bulldoze trees as American money rains from the sky.
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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Brad Johns won’t ban NDAs, won’t say why. Why? We thought you’d never ask

by Stephen Kimber September 24, 2023September 24, 2023

The prosecution of Randy Riley rests on racist tropes of violent and animalistic Black men and a vulnerable, unquestionable white woman

by El Jones September 24, 2023September 24, 2023

Riley trial: the Crown’s own expert witness undermines Crown’s case

by Tim Bousquet September 23, 2023September 23, 2023

Halifax council will consider minister’s housing demands, but height will be a sticking point

by Zane Woodford September 22, 2023September 24, 2023

Nova Scotia expands nominee program to include paramedics, pharmacy technicians

by Yvette d'Entremont September 22, 2023September 22, 2023
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