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Elections Nova Scotia picks electronic voting contractor

by Zane Woodford February 15, 2023February 22, 2023

Scytl Canada Inc. won the contract for $349,500.

The five ladies who started WAVES, in front of the Gaetz Brook Greenway sign

Morning File

Making WAVES for women on the Eastern Shore

by Suzanne Rent August 3, 2021November 29, 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.

To read the entire DEAD WRONG series, and articles on Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction, click here.

Tag: voting

Elections Nova Scotia picks electronic voting contractor

Making WAVES for women on the Eastern Shore

How much money do we have to spend because drivers just won’t follow the rules?

Much-loved Canadian journalist in Sierra Leone is gone: remembering Stephen Douglas

More affordable housing solution to homelessness, provincial committee hears

E-scooters now allowed on several municipal trails in HRM

Speed limit in Halifax neighbourhood Greenwood Heights to be lowered to 40km/h