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Category: Equity and Equality

Posted inMorning File

Fire update: Emergency alerts should be used for most urgent threats; recisions don’t meet criteria 

A woman with fair skin, chin length auburn hair, and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater. by Suzanne Rent and Tim Bousquet June 6, 2023June 6, 2023
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
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.
Posted inEducation, Equity and Equality

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

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 26, 2023June 2, 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.
Posted inEducation, Equity and Equality, Labour

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

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 24, 2023May 31, 2023
A pride flag flies in front of a brick building.
Posted inEquity and Equality

Pride groups call for solidarity in face of increased anti-drag rhetoric in ‘moving backwards’ Nova Scotia

A smiling man with fair skin tone, a dark short beard, and dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt. by Philip Moscovitch May 18, 2023May 18, 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 banner that reads "Human rights come from my heart, not just a piece of paper."
Posted inMorning File

Moving from disability rights to disability justice

A smiling man with fair skin tone, a dark short beard, and dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt. by Philip Moscovitch May 9, 2023May 9, 2023
A smiling woman with white hair and dark rimmed glasses is wearing a grey sweater and a vibrant multicoloured scarf loosely draped around her neck.
Posted inEquity and Equality, Research

Dal scholar Françoise Baylis wins Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize for work in bioethics

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 8, 2023May 15, 2023
A black screen with a blue flame that shoots up from a pink, purple, and blue font that says Disrupt.
Posted inAccessibility, Arts and Culture

‘You have to accept us for who we are:’ TV show on AMI features Canadian artists with disabilities

A woman with fair skin, chin length auburn hair, and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater. by Suzanne Rent May 5, 2023May 15, 2023

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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.


Tractors bulldoze trees as American money rains from the sky.
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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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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.

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