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A double photo: a book titled A Century Ago, Halifax 1871, which has a black paper cover with aged white lettering and an illustration of a lamppost with a gold lamp. Beside it is a photo of Granville Street east. There is a wagon on the street, and a couple of ghost like people who were moving too quickly for the camera.

A look back at Halifax’s old streets

by Ethan Lycan-Lang October 27, 2021October 20, 2022

News 1. Pandemic update: 100th Nova Scotian dies from COVID-19 A woman in her 70s has become the 100th person to die from COVID-19 in Nova Scotia. The woman lived in Nova Scotia Health’s Western Zone where a recent outbreak of the disease occurred at Valley Regional Hospital in Kentville, but the Department of Health […]

Province House

“Those who are in a shelter or without shelter cannot self-isolate”: Halifax deals with homeless population during COVID crisis

by Jennifer Henderson March 26, 2020December 7, 2022

City Hall

YMCA drops plans for daycare from its new building

by Jennifer Henderson December 3, 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.

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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A look back at Halifax’s old streets

“Those who are in a shelter or without shelter cannot self-isolate”: Halifax deals with homeless population during COVID crisis

YMCA drops plans for daycare from its new building

Halifax won’t get federal housing funding unless it allows more density: minister’s letter to mayor

Appeals court sends Halifax cop’s complaint back to Human Rights Commission board of inquiry

Nova Scotia elections chief says Liberals’ judicial review is ‘moot’

Parents’ rights, children’s rights, and the law in Canada

Halifax needs to pick a site soon for new $100-million police headquarters, says CAO