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Tag: Women’s Wellness Within

A steel grater sits on a wooden cutting board next to a small pile of freshly shredded ginger.
Posted inMorning File

The casual ableism of cooking snobbery

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch June 28, 2022January 30, 2023

News 1. Pat Dunn “didn’t exactly anticipate” backlash his appointment would cause Matthew Byard interviews African Nova Scotian Affairs minister Pat Dunn, almost a year after his appointment. Dunn says he was surprised by the backlash that followed his naming to the post: Dunn told the Examiner he was appointed as minister of African Nova […]

A colourful photo of various methods of birth control, including condoms, pills, and IUDs
Posted inHealth, Province House, Women

Free contraception offers significant cost savings, improvements in population health, advocates tell Standing Committee on Health

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 April 12, 2022November 18, 2022
Red apples in a row.
Posted inEducation

Is it time for more nurses in schools?

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch September 4, 2020January 16, 2023
‘Black Lives Matter’ is projected onto Halifax City Hall during a film screening in Grand Parade in June.
Posted inCity Hall, Commentary

In the midst of a crisis over policing, Halifax’s police commission has cancelled its scheduled meetings and is declining to accept public input

A smiling young Black woman with long wavy hair by El Jones June 15, 2020October 20, 2022
Posted inCOVID

Baby on board! Pregnancy and birth in the age of coronavirus

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent March 22, 2020November 5, 2022
Posted inCommentary, Province House

A case of gangrene raises health concerns at the East Coast Forensic Hospital

A smiling young Black woman with long wavy hair by El Jones December 16, 2019October 20, 2022
A pair of prisoners walk through the snow-covered grounds of the Nova Institution for Women.
Posted inCommentary

Sexual assault in prison: vulnerable women prisoners have few protections and face reprisal for reporting attacks

by Martha Paynter May 24, 2019October 20, 2022
A photo of Martha Paynter
Posted inCommentary, Province House

Nurse: We should support prisoners’ demands for better health care

by Martha Paynter August 24, 2018October 20, 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.


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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Councillors in favour of new Bedford library in proposed Mill Cove Ferry Terminal

by Zane Woodford September 27, 2023September 27, 2023

Halifax councillors ask for report on school evacuation plans in wake of wildfire

by Zane Woodford September 27, 2023September 27, 2023

Halifax council votes for four units on serviced lots, hopes to satisfy federal housing minister

by Zane Woodford September 27, 2023September 27, 2023

Feed Nova Scotia ‘not surprised’ after report gives province failing grade for poverty reduction efforts

by Yvette d'Entremont September 26, 2023September 26, 2023

Ambulance service in ‘critical’ state, says Nova Scotia auditor general

by Jennifer Henderson September 26, 2023September 26, 2023
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