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Nova Scotia’s jails are routinely failing to follow their own policies for handling inmate complaints, say prison justice ...

caption Cars sporting decorations including black tassels, as seen here, decals and vanity plates are part of the culture of the Indian diaspora in Canada. Maybe you’ve noticed them driving around the ...

caption A pickup truck is parked on a street in peninsular Halifax. Rates for residential parking permits in the city are going up. Halifax Regional Council voted on Tuesday to charge heavier vehicles ...

It’s a cold, snowy afternoon, in Moncton, N.B., at Lou MacNarin School. About 18 kindergartners stand in line in the school hall, waiting to enter the Grade 4 classroom. Robert Brant Guimond, a Grade ...

The old Cape Breton Post building on George Street in downtown Sydney sits empty and for sale, with no recent hopes of a buyer. It stands like a fossil of what once was – a monument to the decline of ...

The Signal’s Eyes on the Road project explores the data and people behind pedestrian-vehicle collisions in Halifax Regional Municipality. Fourth-year and one-year journalism students in the news ...

The Northern Pulp mill in Boat Harbour is scheduled to shut down at the end of the month amid concerns about pollution and environmental racism after decades of effluent treatment. But before 1960, ...

caption Alderney Gate Public Library is a multipurpose facility in Dartmouth that was built in 1990. It has been earmarked for a environmentally-focused retrofit. Two of Halifax Regional ...

When the Halifax Explosion tore across the Narrows in 1917, it completed the destruction of a Mi’kmaq community often called Turtle Grove. That destruction had begun with the hostility and overt ...

Guilt is typically seen as a negative emotion. But for author and Dalhousie psychology and neuroscience professor Chris Moore, it was the start of a journey through healing, discovery, and a career in ...

Substantial alterations to the former Dartmouth Post Office were approved by Halifax Regional Municipality’s heritage advisory committee on Wednesday. Elizabeth Cushing, a heritage planner with the ...