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A bus driver navigates a corner on a sunny day.
Posted inCity Hall

No fare increase or cuts to Halifax Transit, councillors consider new supervisors for security

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford March 1, 2023March 9, 2023

Councillors approved Halifax Transit’s $38.6-million 2023-2024 operating budget.

A white woman with light hair, glasses, a red blouse and a orange scarf sits before a microphone and water bottle.
Posted inCommentary

Are Nova Scotia’s de-carbonization programs working?

by Tim Bousquet February 28, 2023March 7, 2023
A bus is seen on a busy street on a sunny day. On the front, it says 7 ROBIE.
Posted inMorning File

The province budgets $1 billion for highways and $0 for Halifax’s Bus Rapid Transit system

by Tim Bousquet January 9, 2023January 10, 2023
The airbnb logo with a little red house and lowercase letters, is seen on a sign posted on a brick building.
Posted inCity Hall

Halifax council defers short-term rental regulations, accepts transit funding, and more

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford December 14, 2022December 14, 2022
An aircraft carrier followed by three smaller ships
Posted inMorning File

There’s seamen all over town: of war, peace, and priorities

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson October 31, 2022November 9, 2022
A Halifax Transit ferry crosses the harbour on a sunny day in June 2021. It's heading for Dartmouth, and in the background you can see nearly the entire span of the Macdonald Bridge.
Posted inCity Hall

Halifax to apply for federal funding for electric Bedford ferry service, now estimated at $215 million

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford September 29, 2022January 5, 2023
Posted inCity Hall

Should Halifax put cops on buses? Committee wants report on public safety on transit

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford August 25, 2022January 3, 2023
A train sits next to a platform
Posted inHealth, Morning File

Planes, trains, and automobiles: pick your poison with travel this summer

A smiling young white guy with brown hair, in his Halifax Examiner T shirt. by Ethan Lycan-Lang July 13, 2022January 9, 2023
Community members in orange refective vests during a walk. One of the walkers has a stroller
Posted inBlack Nova Scotia

Lucasville group holding fundraising walk to lobby for safe greenway, public transit

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 June 9, 2022November 8, 2022
A Halifax Transit bus, the number 7 robie, pulls away from a bus stop on a sunny summer day.
Posted inMorning File

Cheap transit: low fares, high returns

A smiling young white guy with brown hair, in his Halifax Examiner T shirt. by Ethan Lycan-Lang May 5, 2022October 17, 2022

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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.


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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.

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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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