Yvette d'Entremont, Author at Halifax Examiner

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A group of workers wearing red shirts and bearing signs that say "We deserve a living wage" and "Tim Houston, why don't you respect our work" chant during a rally outside the VG.

Health care administrative professionals rally across Nova Scotia demanding better pay

by Yvette d'Entremont September 25, 2023September 25, 2023

5,000 health care administrative professionals have been without a contract for almost three years.

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A row of over the counter medications is displayed, while a pharmacy team member with a beard and glasses and dressed in black stands behind the counter talking to a man dressed in a checkered shirt.

Nova Scotia expands nominee program to include paramedics, pharmacy technicians

by Yvette d'Entremont September 22, 2023September 22, 2023

Fishing boats tied up in the harbour on a foggy day reflect on calm, glass-like green and white water.

Report charts course for how Nova Scotia’s lobster fleet can switch from diesel to electric motors

by Yvette d'Entremont September 22, 2023September 22, 2023

A woman dressed in black and wearing a grey raincoat holds a microphone and stands next to a white-bearded man holding a picket sign that says "Ban Blood Money."

Protestors demand province stop for-profit blood plasma clinic from opening in Halifax

by Yvette d'Entremont September 20, 2023September 20, 2023

Five small, whitish dead eels float in murky brown water.

Marine scientist asks for help tracking dead eels found in Shubie canal, Dartmouth lakes

by Yvette d'Entremont September 15, 2023September 15, 2023

A stone landmark Université Sainte-Anne sign sits on green grass with blue sky above and university buildings behind it.

Campaign led by current, former Sainte-Anne students demands president take action against rape culture at Church Point campus

by Yvette d'Entremont September 12, 2023September 20, 2023

A man wearing a dark coloured hoodie stands in a stand of trees in a sunlit forest and stares up in wonder.

Indigenous Nova Scotia

Healing the hemlocks: saving ancient trees from invasive insect in Nova Scotia’s Asitu’lɨsk forest

by Yvette d'Entremont September 12, 2023September 20, 2023

A white woman with long light brown hair and wearing a purple shirt leans against a stone wall with her arms crossed.

Equity and Equality

Report: More than half of Nova Scotia’s working population not earning living wage

by Yvette d'Entremont September 7, 2023September 20, 2023

A sandstone coloured building with an entrance flanked by two large walls. A blue and white sign over the glass doors says (in French) Welcome to Sainte-Anne.

Education, Women

‘Left me there like trash’: Sainte-Anne students, staff, say university has failed to properly address sexual assault on campus

by Yvette d'Entremont September 2, 2023September 6, 2023

Nova Scotia launches public awareness campaign on hurricane preparedness

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

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.