Halifax Regional Police officers in full uniform have been patrolling Superstore locations across the municipality in recent weeks, and neither the police or the grocery chain are keen to talk about...

My mother does not do anything stereotypically Canadian. “Why should I pay Tim Hortons to carry around their logo? They should be paying me to advertise them!” she will exclaim, and then proceed to...

This article contains graphic descriptions of assault. “That son of a bitch is dead.” That was the first thing Boe thought when she heard on April 19 that the RCMP had killed a man who on gone on a...

Hi, my name is Demario Chambers. A lot of people may know me as the 15 year-old youth who got assaulted by the police in Bedford. I am here to tell you who I am. I was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia....

A colleague suggests that I "rewrite (correct) his vision for the future with floods, hurricanes, fires, conflicts caused by climate change," but I don't have the heart for it.

In the vernacular, the phrase “to gaslight” refers to the act of undermining another person’s reality by denying facts, the environment around them, or their feelings. Targets of gaslighting are...

The Canadian Covid Society's mission is to "protect the health and safety of people in Canada against the harms of COVID and long COVID through education, engaging and empowering the public and...

Our columnist says he's had a great run, and some days he wants to continue doing this forever. But it's time.

Savvy shoppers know they can save big on a loaf of bread at Dollarama. But at more than a dozen of the Quebec-based company’s stores in Nova Scotia, there’s no bread on the shelves. Those stores have...

A 2021 AG report identified poor communication between the city's fire and planning departments.

Obviously, this is a huge loss for the Examiner, but this is the natural order of things, and a wonderful opportunity for Zane. I could not be more happy for him.

My name is Kyra Gilbert. In the last couple of days I’ve been introducing myself to people as “blanket girl.” It’s not really funny, but I feel like saying that gives me some power over my own story....

News 1. That’s one perverse god It’s come to this. At the end of October, the Gospel Light Baptist Church in Amherst hosted a four-day “camp meeting” for about 100 like-minded Baptists from across...

It's almost like watching a pea getting shuffled from under one cup to the next, and if you can't follow along, the fault is yours, not that man with the cape misdirecting you.

Halifax’s board of police commissioners voted Monday to appoint El Jones to propose a committee to define defunding the police, and Jones hopes to turn that into an opportunity for more public input...

Halifax Regional Police arrested and peppered sprayed protesters, including a child, as they helped city staff remove citizens with nowhere else to go from public land. After months of threats,...

The private equity fund that financed SaltWire’s purchase of most newspapers in Atlantic Canada is moving to dissolve the company. In documents filed with the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia Monday,...

Wentworth Valley resident Heather Matthews believes her walking companion might still be alive if the RCMP or Nova Scotia’s Emergency Measures Organization (EMO) had issued a special alert early...

One of the “personal friends” Premier Tim Houston appointed to look after consolidated Crown corporations is also the owner of a company associated with the application to infill Dartmouth Cove....

A Halifax woman celebrated a victory today after the Residential Tenancy Board rejected her landlord’s application to have her renovicted from her apartment. Stacey Gomez has lived in an apartment on...

The Houston government's irresponsible killing of the Coastal Protection Act means more of Nova Scotia will be destroyed in storms, unnecessary billions of dollars in damage will be incurred, and...

There will be a public inquiry into April’s mass shooting in Nova Scotia after all. Following significant public protest, statements from multiple Liberal MPs in opposition to an independent review,...

News 1. Phase 5 Depending on how you look at it, today is either the first day Nova Scotia starts “living with COVID” or the first day of the proof of vaccination requirement. Either way, I’m...

Max Chauvin says Halifax will need up to 40 more designated tent sites in the next 18 months.

A year ago the Houston government told Nova Scotians masking in public spaces would be a personal decision rather than a matter of public policy because Nova Scotians could take responsibility for...

News 1. Hurricane relief On Monday, Premier Tim Houston announced a number of Hurricane Fiona relief programs for Nova Scotians. Tim Bousquet was in on the conference and had details of those...

I fear buildings are going to start collapsing and an entire generation of kids will be failed at school.

The living wage in Halifax is now $26.50.

Beyond that basic question, do the anti-carbon tax protesters even make sense on their own terms?

“I have a passion for kids,” Allana Loh tells me. I knew this about Loh. Although I hadn’t met Loh until today, I knew she was an Educational Program Assistant (EPA) at Bicentennial School. That’s...

Before January 15th, everything felt good. There were new beginnings for the kids and I. We were restarting our lives. When I had gone into that Walmart that afternoon, it wasn’t just simply because...

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Nova Scotia has Canada's highest electrical rates.

There’s been a months-long degradation of COVID reporting in Nova Scotia. Through November 2021, the data provided were relatively fulsome, and as a result I was able to produced quite detailed...

Halifax Regional Police officers will soon be assigned badge numbers and new, sewn-on name tags. Chief Dan Kinsella announced the policy change during Monday’s virtual meeting of the Board of Police...

Something very serious and dangerous has been going on in Nova Scotia, and it has nothing to do with COVID.  And no, it is NOT Bill 4, the Biodiversity Act that Premier Iain Rankin’s government...

Police have arrested three youths in connection with the burning of a Pride flag at a high school in Upper Tantallon last month.  The flag was traditionally signed by 2SLGBTQIA+ students at graduat...

I’ve been writing for the Halifax Examiner since November 2016, mostly weekly columns and a few occasional features. But I’ve also been a subscriber and faithful reader since Tim Bousquet officially...

The Bayers Lake Outpatient Community Centre is scheduled to open November 20.  The facility is one component of a multi-year redevelopment plan to close the crumbling Victoria General site and build...

Councillors approved a development agreement in 2020 for an eight-storey building on the Bedford Highway.

“The Boat Harbour Act will be enforced as of January 31, 2020,” announced Premier Stephen McNeil this morning. “Northern Pulp will be ordered to stop pumping effluent into Boat Harbour. And let me be...

Today, a Nova Scotia judge ordered that some of the redactions in search warrant documents related to the RCMP’s investigation in the mass murders of April 18/19 be un-redacted. This was in response...

Nova Scotians have to deal with a bureaucratic process and waiting for phone calls to learn if they are eligible for the anti-viral treatment.

Three oceanfront cottages under construction at Little Crescent Beach in Lunenburg County are being built by Hossein Mousavi, a director of Cresco Holdings, the firm that sold an unfinished hotel at...

On the morning of April 19, 2020, Sandra McCulloch was at home, playing with her two pre-schoolers. “I had my cell phone with me, taking pictures, as we played in the backyard,” McCulloch told the...

Ryan Lutes said systemic problems in the province’s education system are behind the deepening teacher shortage crisis and need to be addressed.

A 50-year-old single mother with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) has published a new book about living with the disease. And she used a eye-gazing technology to tell her story. On Saturday,...

On April 1, in the British Columbia Supreme Court, Justice Shelley Fitzpatrick issued an order that forces Nova Scotia into a “mediation” process in the BC court, where Northern Pulp and six related...

Mayor Sylvester Atkinson said premier reneged on promise to fix health care system.

After more than four years on the job, Kinsella's last day is Sept. 15.

RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki “made a promise” to Public Safety Minister Bill Blair and the Prime Minister’s Office to leverage the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020 to get a gun control law...

It may come as a shock to some students, teachers, and parents to learn that Nova Scotia’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Robert Strang, strongly recommended masks be worn in school whenever...

An “overwhelming majority” of teachers and school specialists believe in-person learning is currently unsafe for students and staff, according to a survey distributed Tuesday by the union represent...

News 1. Annual provincial deficit on track to be lower than expected In a financial update held Wednesday, Finance Minister Allan MacMaster said the provincial deficit for this fiscal year will be...

Beloved Halifax actor Elliot Page has come out as trans today. Page was the Oscar-nominated star of the 2007 film Juno, playing a teenager facing an unplanned pregnancy. Page is now starring in the...

Steve MacKay has had enough with speeders on his street in north end Halifax. On Friday afternoon at 2:30pm, while he was working from home and watching his young son, two vehicles crashed near his...

Nova Scotia has long been a popular place for settlers, but in the last century it also became a popular place for non-residents — including many well-heeled Americans and Europeans — to purchase...

A woman being renovicted from a Halifax apartment building made her case before a residential tenancies officer on Wednesday, accusing her landlord of using shady tactics to push her out. Stacey...

That’s because the private utility’s more-than-well-compensated executives prioritize shareholders over customers, profits over service.

Yarmouth will send letters to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Premier Tim Houston, and federal ministers.

This story has been updated with a press release from the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Chiefs. Citing the risk of fire, on the evening of Thursday, June 1, John Lohr, the Nova Scotia minister...

More than 200 public school teachers showed up for a rally in Lower Sackville Wednesday afternoon.

Minimize exposure, keep windows and doors closed, says Dr. Meredith Chiasson.

Before we even start talking about forests and the recent wildfires, Wade Prest wants to tell me a story about Nova Scotia’s forests of yore. Prest is a woodlot owner, professional forester and...

'I will fill you full of fuckin’ lead,' a Halifax Regional Police officer told Robert Chan.

Bernard was a residential school survivor who became a prominent Mi'kmaw activist.

Wildfire in Barrington Lake and Shelburne County now covers more than 17,000 hectares, the largest wildfire in Nova Scotia's history.

This changed state of affairs — from near-perpetual reliability to always expecting to be without power — is a failure. When something goes from almost always good to very often terrible, something...

Council's transportation committee recommended in favour of the Brunswick Street Complete Streets Active Transportation Connection.

Regrettably, people are people. Some people will make bad choices, behave ignorantly and with wild disregard for potential consequences. But that's where government planning and policies come in.

“It’s raining,” said Halifax Deputy Fire Chief Dave Meldrum at this morning’s press briefing in Tantallon. “We’re very pleased about that rain.” Yesterday, the Tantallon Fire grew to 950 hectares,...

Resource page here Your stories News Articles Commentary What we’re working on Introduction The images of baton-wielding and pepper-spraying police violently moving protestors from city workers’ path...

Halifax Regional Police are looking for a 6.8% budget increase to $95.264 million.

Evangeline Colman-Sadd's office brought a report on HRM's cybersecurity to the Audit and Finance Standing Committee.

The Houston government's irresponsible killing of the Coastal Protection Act means more of Nova Scotia will be destroyed in storms, unnecessary billions of dollars in damage will be incurred, and...