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Halifax housing organization creates a new role to offer support to survivors of domestic violence

by Suzanne Rent October 17, 2022October 21, 2022

A housing support organization in Halifax now has a worker who helps survivors of domestic violence find housing and other services. Kay Spurr is the intimate partner case manager at Welcome Housing and Support Services and started the role in June. Spurr’s role is funded by Reaching Home, a community-based program from Infrastructure Canada aimed […]

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents

PRICED OUT

PRICED OUT Resource List

by Suzanne Rent August 24, 2022March 15, 2023

Labour

Bad bosses and cranky customers

by Suzanne Rent June 9, 2020November 6, 2022

COVID

Rates of domestic, family violence increase in a crisis like Covid-19. But people and communities can still support those at risk

by Suzanne Rent March 28, 2020November 5, 2022

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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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.

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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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Halifax housing organization creates a new role to offer support to survivors of domestic violence

PRICED OUT Resource List

Bad bosses and cranky customers

Rates of domestic, family violence increase in a crisis like Covid-19. But people and communities can still support those at risk

Nova Scotia launches review of provincial policing structure

Brad Johns once again spins the revolving door of SIRT directorship, but that won’t solve the crisis of legitimacy for the police oversight board

Mount Uniacke residents organize, submit comments as quarry owners apply for expansion

Halifax MP says council can go higher on federal housing application

NDP wants Nova Scotia municipalities to tax developers who leave lots empty