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An old house with brown shingles, its door painted blue, and red, white, and blue Acadian flags hanging in the window. The roof of the house is also covered in a large red, white, and blue flag. The are shrubs and trees surrounding the house with a wooden bench underneath one of the windows. The sky is bright blue with no clouds.
Posted inFrancophone Nova Scotia, Local History

La Vieille Maison in Meteghan wins second place in national heritage preservation contest

A smiling white woman with long straight dark blonde hair and bangs, with half her face in dramatic shadow by Yvette d'Entremont February 24, 2023March 3, 2023
A young Black woman with long dark hair wearing a black, brown, and white print top, stands with her hands on her hips.
Posted inArts and Culture, Black Nova Scotia

‘We’re fired up:’ Halifax Black Film Festival back for first in-person event since 2020

A smiling Black man with a shaved head and wire rimmed glasses wears a headphone in a recording studio by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter February 23, 2023March 2, 2023
high angle photo of robot
Posted inMorning File

The machine-generated literary submissions have arrived

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirtA smiling white woman with long straight dark blonde hair and bangs, with half her face in dramatic shadow by Philip Moscovitch and Yvette d'Entremont February 23, 2023February 23, 2023
A stone building is seen on a sunny winter's day. There's no snow on the ground. The symmetrical building has a tall spire in the centre with a clock, and two big dormers on either side. There are also a series of three smaller dormers on each side of the central tower. The photo is taken from the right of the building.
Posted inCity Hall

Halifax councillors look to increase, not cut, arts funding

A young white man with a dark beard, looking seriously at the viewer in a black and white photo by Zane Woodford February 22, 2023March 1, 2023
Portland Street in Downtown Dartmouth on a sunny June day, around noon, in 2021. there are multi-coloured low rise buildings, a Nova Scotia flag is flying, and another one with a red and white design. Traffic seems light. There are a few people walking on the sidewalk and others enjoying a patio.
Posted inMorning File

15-minute cities: walkable urban centres are open-air prisons, apparently

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch February 21, 2023February 21, 2023
A woman in a wheelchair with a ventilator smiles for the camera in front of a poster for her book, 'Writing With My Eyes: Staying Alive While Dying'
Posted inBlack Nova Scotia, Profiles

‘A lasting legacy:’ Truro author who wrote book about ALS remembered for courage, compassion

A smiling Black man with a shaved head and wire rimmed glasses wears a headphone in a recording studio by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter February 21, 2023February 28, 2023
Side-by-side photos of two Black men. The man in the photo on the left is wearing a dark trench coat over a suit and colourful tie. And the man in the photo on the right is has glasses and a moustache and is wearing a beige suit over a white shirt and blue patterned tie. Both men are in a room of a house decorated with hockey memorabilia. One of the hockey jerseys has the name "Paris" on it with the number 1.
Posted inBlack Nova Scotia, Local History, Sports

Two brothers to coach teams in event honouring Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes

A smiling Black man with a shaved head and wire rimmed glasses wears a headphone in a recording studio by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter February 15, 2023February 22, 2023
Vintage box that says Smithsonian New Millennium Time Capsule. It's for a product designed for children to "give your past.... to your future."
Posted inMorning File

Time capsules are stupid

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch February 14, 2023February 14, 2023
A small church with grey shingles, black shutters, and a red steeple sits on a hill while a dark stone fence runs between the sidewalk of the street and a small cemetery next to the church. In the cemetery are old headstones, with some of the stones leaning over. In the background are two storey townhouses and next to the cemetery is a multilevel house with blue siding and wooden fire escapes going down the side wall.
Posted inLocal History

Stone wall at historic Little Dutch Church restored; second part of project set for spring

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent February 9, 2023February 16, 2023
An album cover by K Tel in bright colours which reads "1 funky album, Goofy Greats", with cartoons illustrating the songs listed
Posted inMorning File

K-Tel’s Goofy Greats: repackaging the hits for kids

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch February 7, 2023February 8, 2023

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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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