Yvette d'Entremont, Author at Halifax Examiner

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Fires

Several Bedford streets evacuated due to new wildfire, potential ammonia leak

by Yvette d'Entremont May 30, 2023May 30, 2023

Social media reports said fire started behind Farmers Dairy Lane.

A person's left hand is touched by sunlight as they tilt their hand slightly with a cigarette between their fingers, smoke curling upwards.

Health

Canadian health orgs want Big Tobacco lawsuit settlements to include costs to cut tobacco use

by Yvette d'Entremont May 30, 2023May 30, 2023

Three striking support workers with CUPE signs that include the slogan ‘Houston, We have a problem” react positively to passersby on the road honking their horns in suppprt.

Education

Halifax EPA pens letter to premier asking him to intervene in school support workers strike

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

A young boy with curly hair and blue headphones perched over his ears sits on a brown leather couch looking out the window laughing. His dad and mom are on either side of him, also laughing.

Education

‘He matters. They matter’: Parents say EPAs deserve raise, children have right to be in school

by Yvette d'Entremont May 24, 2023May 24, 2023

Four women hold pink signs that read "Fair deal now for school support."

Education

Nova Scotia Federation of Labour calls on province to pass anti-scab legislation

by Yvette d'Entremont May 19, 2023May 19, 2023

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Health

Six new long-term care homes scheduled to open in Halifax area in 2025

by Yvette d'Entremont May 17, 2023May 24, 2023

A white box with black, blue and orange lettering that contains pills for the medical termination of pregnancy.

Health, Women

Health Canada issues warning about abortion, morning-after pills sold on ‘Dr. Pooja’ websites

by Yvette d'Entremont May 17, 2023May 24, 2023

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Families and Childcare

CCPA report: ‘Child care deserts’ leave Nova Scotia parents struggling to find licensed spaces

by Yvette d'Entremont May 16, 2023May 24, 2023

A woman wearing a mustard coloured bulky sweater and a rust coloured wool scarf wraps her arms around another person who is behind her giving her a hug.

Morning File

Lovin’ the one you’re with: Getting up close with a snuggle event in Halifax

by Suzanne Rent and Yvette d'Entremont May 11, 2023May 11, 2023

Two women sit cuddled together on a rocky outcropping with the ocean behind them on a sunny day.

Profiles

‘Never surrender’: Gifts of a decades-long friendship, new hope, and living in the present

by Yvette d'Entremont May 10, 2023May 18, 2023

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents

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.

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.

Author Archives: Yvette d'Entremont

Several Bedford streets evacuated due to new wildfire, potential ammonia leak

Canadian health orgs want Big Tobacco lawsuit settlements to include costs to cut tobacco use

Halifax EPA pens letter to premier asking him to intervene in school support workers strike

‘He matters. They matter’: Parents say EPAs deserve raise, children have right to be in school

Nova Scotia Federation of Labour calls on province to pass anti-scab legislation

Six new long-term care homes scheduled to open in Halifax area in 2025

Health Canada issues warning about abortion, morning-after pills sold on ‘Dr. Pooja’ websites

CCPA report: ‘Child care deserts’ leave Nova Scotia parents struggling to find licensed spaces

Lovin’ the one you’re with: Getting up close with a snuggle event in Halifax

‘Never surrender’: Gifts of a decades-long friendship, new hope, and living in the present

Several Bedford streets evacuated due to new wildfire, potential ammonia leak

Halifax considers shrinking evacuation area, reports 151 homes lost in Tantallon fire

Travel, activity banned in Nova Scotia forests as three wildfires continue to burn

Meet the volunteers working to rescue pets from homes evacuated due to the Tantallon fire

Tantallon wildfire: blaze still ‘out of control,’ concerns about reburn, update on loss of homes