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Category: Families and Childcare

A child in a colourful striped shirt sits at a table colouring. In the foreground are crayons in a yellow box.
Posted inFamilies and Childcare, Province House

Missed deadline won’t impact access to federal child care funds, Nova Scotia education minister says

A smiling white woman with wavy dark blonde hair and bangs, wearing a green top and a sweater with burgundy and white flecks. Behind her you can see dark trees. by Yvette d'Entremont August 17, 2023August 28, 2023

Becky Druhan responds to NDP concerns that province failed to prepare Child Care Action Plan for 2023-2026.

Across a divided highway, a cloud of smoke rises into a blue sky behind a low hill, in front of which you can see some commercial buildings.
Posted inFires

IWK: Creating safe spaces can help reduce anxiety in children during, after wildfires

A smiling white woman with wavy dark blonde hair and bangs, wearing a green top and a sweater with burgundy and white flecks. Behind her you can see dark trees. by Yvette d'Entremont June 2, 2023June 7, 2023
A young white man in a black t-shirt, jeans, and holding a white cane and another young white man in a neon yellow t-shirt and jeans join three white women support workers on a picket line on a sidewalk.
Posted inAccessibility, Families and Childcare, Labour

Union news: school support workers on Day 5 of strike; QEII hospital cleaners won’t get bonuses

A smiling fair skinned woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson May 16, 2023May 24, 2023
A small child's right hand grasps a blue crayon to colour a series of circles on a wooden table. A small glass jar filled with multicoloured crayons rests on the table on the right.
Posted inFamilies and Childcare

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

A smiling white woman with wavy dark blonde hair and bangs, wearing a green top and a sweater with burgundy and white flecks. Behind her you can see dark trees. by Yvette d'Entremont May 16, 2023May 24, 2023
A small red piggy bank with white polka dots sits on a wooden table. There's no money in the piggy bank.
Posted inMorning File

Poverty and financial literacy: you can’t budget if you don’t have the money

A woman with fair skin, chin length auburn hair, and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater. by Suzanne Rent March 23, 2023March 23, 2023
A hand holding a smart phone that has several icons for social media platforms on its screen.
Posted inMorning File

Kids whose childhoods were made into social media ‘content’ are starting to speak out

A woman with fair skin, chin length auburn hair, and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater. by Suzanne Rent March 16, 2023March 16, 2023
A small child's hands gently pat down a green ball of play dough in a line of other primary coloured play dough sitting on a grey table.
Posted inFamilies and Childcare

Nova Scotia parents to get another 25% reduction in child care costs

A smiling white woman with wavy dark blonde hair and bangs, wearing a green top and a sweater with burgundy and white flecks. Behind her you can see dark trees. by Yvette d'Entremont November 29, 2022November 29, 2022
A young woman wearing a floral head scarf, beige sweater, and glasses stands next to a dining room table in a kitchen.
Posted inWomen

Transition house to support Muslim women opens in Halifax, first in Atlantic Canada

A woman with fair skin, chin length auburn hair, and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater. by Suzanne Rent November 17, 2022November 17, 2022
A sign outside the IWK Health Centre shows the direction of the children's emergency department and the children's building.
Posted inHealth

IWK emergency physician ‘bracing for the worst’ as hospital sees record number of patients

A smiling white woman with wavy dark blonde hair and bangs, wearing a green top and a sweater with burgundy and white flecks. Behind her you can see dark trees. by Yvette d'Entremont November 8, 2022November 8, 2022
Two smiling Black women hug each other.
Posted inBlack Nova Scotia

Women from North Preston, Cherry Brook recognized for longtime work as foster parents

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 October 27, 2022October 27, 2022

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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.


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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.


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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.

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