The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Twelve year-old Damini Awoyiga is encouraging girls to be creative and to find their voice during the COVID-19 lockdown. A poet, singer, and award-winning author, Damini recently got a sewing machine. She says that sewing is an important skill for women whose bodies don’t always […]
Nova Scotia’s girl problem
Nova Scotia has a girl problem. We don’t have enough of them. According to a new Statistics Canada report, girls under the age of 17 in this province make up just 16.4 per cent of the female population. That’s the lowest percentage of any province or territory as of July 1, 2016, when the stats...