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Apr 4, 2024 - April 2020 was a difficult time in Nova Scotia. A strange new virus was loose in the world, and no one knew what would happen. Nova Scotia was under lockdown...

Nov 26, 2025 - Councillors Laura White and Sam Austin introduced motions same day council heard presentation on 2025 Road Safety Annual Report.

Dec 5, 2025 - As with everything the Examiner does, the foremost concern for use of computer programs is the environmental and social impact of our work.

Jan 17, 2023 - The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Nova Scotia has a long history of school nurses. But their role has decreased as schools turn...

Aug 29, 2024 - Read our articles on long COVID here. Are you a Nova Scotian still struggling with symptoms three months (or longer) after testing positive for COVID-19? You...

Oct 16, 2025 - The Halifax Examiner is an independent, adversarial news site devoted to holding the powerful accountable. We pry the lid off Halifax City Hall and offer a...

Nov 28, 2025 - Countering all this takes independent and scrappy news publications that remain true to the values of holding the powerful to account.

May 29, 2024 - Joan Baxter literally wrote the book on Northern Pulp Mill — it’s called The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest. So it is Baxter who is both the...

Dec 1, 2025 - Committee votes in favour of two new intimate partner violence investigators.

Jul 10, 2024 - These lists originally appeared in Morning File from June 14 to July 8, 2024.

Oct 21, 2022 - “‘Women of Color’ have rarely had the opportunity to write about their love affairs.” The line is from an Alice Walker poem of the same title, found in her...

Apr 25, 2025 - A special investigative series by Tim Bousquet. In some ways this is the origin story both of policing in Nova Scotia and of how Black people in particular are...

Oct 21, 2022 - Martha Paynter is a nurse, nursing PhD student, and director of Women’s Wellness Within. On August 21, the prisoners at the Burnside provincial jail launched...

Feb 24, 2026 - An independent, investigative, adversarial news site based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Oct 21, 2022 - “Where did that money go?” Andrew Chang, the CBC’s National News anchor, was polite. But he was persistent. “You thought at the time that this was just...

Nov 29, 2022 - News 1. New development proposed for former Penhorn Mall location Zane Woodford reports that Clayton Developments Ltd. and Crombie REIT are looking for a...

Jul 22, 2025 - As you probably know, the Halifax Examiner has qualified for the Digital News Subscription Tax Credit, under section 118.02 of the Income Tax Act. The tax...