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Environment

Fish on the Brink: Where Did All the Mackerel Go?

January 28, 2022 - by Moira Donovan

A fish famous for its abundance has become harder to find in many Atlantic communities

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Environment

How Do You Kill an Invasive Species? Bring In a Bigger, Meaner Species to Eat It

March 16, 2021June 30, 2022 - by Moira Donovan

Before pesticides, biocontrol was all scientists had to combat introduced insects. Now, the controversial tactic is coming back

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January/February 2021 / Justice

The New Lobster Wars

November 10, 2020November 26, 2021 - by Zoe Heaps Tennant

Inside the decades-long East Coast battle between fishers and the federal government over Mi’kmaw treaty rights

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June 2020

Murder in Old Barns

May 27, 2020June 27, 2020 - by Lindsay Jones

Why a Nova Scotia community is still searching for the killer of a beloved farmer thirty years later

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April 2020 / Business

Can the New Space Race Save Small Towns?

April 6, 2020September 28, 2020 - by Matthew Halliday

The promise of a spaceport could give a boost to a struggling Nova Scotia community

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Society

Remembering the Halifax Explosion

December 6, 2017April 2, 2020 - by Katie Ingram

On the hundredth anniversary of the disaster, we look back at how some of the city’s children miraculously survived

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July/August 2016

Bridgespotting

June 21, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Angela Mombourquette

Halifax’s Big Lift becomes an unlikely tourist attraction

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May 2016 / Society

The Shag Harbour Incident

April 18, 2016April 29, 2020 - by Chelsea Murray

One town’s mission to become the Roswell of Canada

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January/February 2016 / Society

Luck of the Draw

December 18, 2015April 7, 2020 - by Philip Moscovitch

Lottery greed invades small-town Nova Scotia

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Politics

Fits the Bill

September 30, 2015October 13, 2020 - by David Swick

A Conservative MP switches to run for the Liberals in Cumberland–Colchester, Nova Scotia

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