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Gus the gopher tortoise hangs out at the feet of Heather McKinnon Ramshaw outside the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History.

The Woman Behind the Tortoise

Meet Heather McKinnon, Gus the tortoise’s best bud

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Jan 28, 2022

The RCMP sign in Lower Sackville.

The duty to investigate

How investigative journalists helped hold police accountable during a Nova Scotia tragedy

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Dec 15, 2021

Shannon MacIntyre took photos and videos to promote Julep Restaurant’s burger for Halifax Burger Week. The restaurant hired MacIntyre to make content for Instagram.

Dishing it out

How journalists are using food to tell important stories

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Dec 9, 2021

A person looks over a newspaper filled with social media posts.

When the front page becomes the home page

Journalists’ and consumers’ relationships with news on social media

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Dec 1, 2021

A person burns section two of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

2(b) or not 2(b)

It’s time to stand up for journalists’ right to cover and the public’s right to know

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Nov 29, 2021

Photo illustration of one of the common symptoms of moral injury: guilt.

Moral Injury? Never heard of it.

Why don’t journalists know when they are suffering from a moral injury?

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Nov 23, 2021

Digital collage by Lane Harrison. Images courtesy of the Dalhousie Gazette archive.

Covering campus

How student journalists can effectively report on their own schools

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Nov 4, 2021

Many First Nations across the country used checkpoints and lockdowns to keep the novel coronavirus out of their communities as cases spiked elsewhere.

Inequalities contributed to COVID-19 surge in western First Nations

Isolated communites fared well at first, but experts say when COVID arrived crowded housing helped it spread

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Jul 13, 2021

Jonatan Carette, who was moved from foster home to foster home.

Quebec's child welfare system is badly in need of repair

Shortages in resources for foster families lead to frequent relocations of foster children

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Jul 6, 2021

Diane Fletcher-Falvey signing "round" in ASL.

Teaching hands to talk

If you live in Nova Scotia, Diane Fletcher-Falvey says, you need to know the sign for Tim Hortons

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Jun 17, 2021