CBC News Nova Scotia
3 Halifax med students open up about their hopes and concerns for the future
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- 3 Halifax med students open up about their hopes and concerns for the future
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- 5:48
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- The largest medical school class in Dalhousie University history started class this week in the midst of Nova Scotia's ongoing health-care crisis. Three students give their views.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/medical-students-start-class-1.6570102
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- 'Miracle' dog survives house fire in Debert, N.S.
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- 2:00
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Firefighters say it's nothing short of a miracle that a dog named Apollo survived a fire on Saturday that gutted a home in Colchester County.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/miracle-dog-housefire-apollo-1.6557958
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- Eelgrass can help fight climate change. This project helps replenish their shrinking meadows
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- 3:09
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Scientists and volunteers in Nova Scotia are harvesting and transplanting eelgrass, which they believe to be a front-line defence against climate change. CBC's Adam Inniss reports.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/the-secret-weapon-in-fight-against-climate-change-planting-eelgrass-1.6553071
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- A brief history of tornadoes in the Maritimes
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- 3:23
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Tornadoes? In the Maritimes? They're rare but they do happen. CBC meteorologist Ryan Snoddon looks back at the tornadoes that have touched down in the region.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/weather-tornadoes-maritimes-1.6552470
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- Nordic spas gaining popularity in Nova Scotia
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- 2:45
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- The CBC's Colleen Jones and Jeff Douglas try hot and cold therapy at Nature Folk, a space that once housed Dartmouth council meetings before amalgamation.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2055991363960
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- He was told he had 48 hours left to live. So he married his girlfriend of 17 years
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- 2:21
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Earlier this summer, 35-year-old Billy Burgoyne got the worst news anyone could receive. In the face of terminal cancer, he wasted no time making one of life's biggest decisions.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/eastern-shore-couple-got-married-after-cancer-diagnosis-1.6531392
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- FIRST PERSON | At 63, wood is the medium I use to explore my Indigenous roots
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- 4:53
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Ed Benham had to return to Nova Scotia after living away to find his calling. Through his art, he says he's continuing to reconnect with his Indigenous roots.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2055522371558
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- Sound Off: The politics of MLA salaries
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- 2:23
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- In the past 21 years, there have only been four summer sittings of Nova Scotia's legislature. On Tuesday, there will be a fifth: to debate MLA salaries.
CBC's Jean Laroche and Michael Gorman explain why.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2055152707546
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- This is what the Fortress of Louisbourg looks like as a Lego masterpiece
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- 2:12
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- A Quebec team of Lego enthusiasts have been working for more than two years to recreate the Fortress of Louisbourg in Cape Breton.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/quebec-team-makes-lego-louisbourg-1.6525600
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- Meet the Nova Scotia centenarians who've been married 80 years
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- 2:24
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Charlie and Annie Muise from Tusket, N.S., recently celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary. Their advice for other couples? Stay true to each other.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/yarmouth-couple-80-years-anniversary-annie-charlie-muise-1.6523896
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- Gurdeep Pandher is bhangra dancing his way through Nova Scotia
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- 2:27
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Gurdeep Pandher is on a cross-Canada trip in his van to spread joy, hope and positivity through bhangra dancing.
His latest stop was Nova Scotia. CBC's Colleen Jones joined him.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/gurdeep-pandher-bhangra-novascotia-joytour-1.6524842
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- FIRST PERSON | Meet a pioneer of Halifax's queer community
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- 4:55
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Tom Burns was the first chairperson of the Gay Alliance for Equality in Halifax in the 1970s. He helped manage an LGBTQ support line and would eventually open the Alternate Book Shop.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/gay-alliance-founder-remembers-when-there-were-no-gay-people-in-halifax-1.6512575
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- Dartmouth soccer players take on Olympic gold medal goalie Stephanie Labbé
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- 2:40
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Some young Nova Scotian soccer players took on an Olympic gold medalist on Monday.
Stephanie Labbé, the goalkeeper for the Canadian women’s soccer team when they won gold last summer, was in Dartmouth to share her love of the game.
CBC’s Colleen Jones reports.
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- Nova Scotia's own Kevin Bacon needs a wheelchair. Here's how his hometown is helping
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- 3:47
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Kevin Bacon is a potbellied social media celeb in Amherst, N.S. After being paralyzed in a car accident, he's in need of a wheelchair so his owners are fundraising.
CBC's Adam Inniss has Kevy B's story.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/kevin-bacon-the-pig-busted-his-legs-amherst-is-determined-to-get-him-a-wheelchair-1.6515325
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- How one tribute to a fallen RCMP officer caught a mother's attention and ignited a friendship
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- 3:08
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- A tribute to Const. Heidi Stevenson has led to a friendship between her mother and a young Dutch woman, who met the officer more than 20 years ago. CBC's Haley Ryan reports.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/how-one-tribute-to-a-fallen-rcmp-officer-caught-her-mother-s-attention-and-ignited-a-friendship-1.6511126
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- After 25 years reporting on Sable Island, Paul Withers finally gets to go
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- 3:41
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Is visiting Sable Island on your bucket list?
CBC's Paul Withers can finally cross it off his — but it wasn't exactly the easiest shoot he's ever been on.
To read more about Paul’s visit and the latest study being conducted on the island, click here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/scientists-descend-on-sable-island-for-massive-study-of-fog-1.6505897
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- Free outdoor Halifax choir is all about the melodies. But also community harmony
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- 2:10
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Hosted by Choirs for Change, Spíra is a drop-in summer choir that invites anyone a chance to sing, regardless of experience. This year it's free.
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- How N.S. Coastal Protection Act could impact future development
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- 4:45
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Anyone spending time on the coast lately has seen it — landowners infilling ocean or wetland to create more space along the shoreline.
Next year, Nova Scotia will launch its Coastal Protection Act. Many hope it will bring clarity to homeowners and developers.
CBC's Colleen Jones has the story.
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- Mi'kmaw woman highlights freedom, beauty of fancy shawl dancing
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- 3:00
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- The Mawita’jik Competitive Pow Wow, the largest competative powwow in the Atlantic region, begins in Dartmouth today.
Jesse Benjamin, who is a member of Eskasoni First Nation, is the Mi’kmaw Head Lady for the Mawita’jik. Here she is performing and talking about fancy shawl dancing.
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- N.S. woman reunited with vintage roller skates she sold 40 years ago
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- 3:02
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Renée Forrestall wanted to get back into roller-skating. Her search for the perfect skates turned up more than she was looking for.
CBC's Josh Hoffman has the unbelievable story. Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-woman-roller-skates-40-years-1.6466596
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- This Nova Scotia woman made her tiny home dream a reality | Creator Network
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- 5:17
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- The tiny home movement caught Sarah Johnson’s attention a decade ago. During the pandemic, she built her own.
This film is part of Unlocked: Housing stories by young Canadians, a national storytelling series by the CBC Creator Network. These personal stories, produced primarily by gen Zers and millennials, reveal the challenges young Canadians face finding affordable housing, their creative solutions and their hopes for the future.
Video produced for CBC by field producer Tieren Hawkins, associate producer Keigan Fisher, camera operator Joshua Saunders, sound recordist Joey Chapman and editor David Mullins.
The Creator Network collaborates with a select roster of diverse Canadian creators to amplify Canadian stories and share unique perspectives.
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- Riding the waves off Nova Scotia, this surfer says she felt cancer-free
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- 3:46
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Amber Spurrell of Dartmouth was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer last year. She found healing in the ocean.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/woman-uses-surf-therapy-after-cancer-diagnosis-1.6456174
Reporting by Will McLernon/CBC
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- The incredibly bright future of Maud Lewis
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- 4:34
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Paintings by Nova Scotia artist Maud Lewis, who died in 1970, sold for record-breaking amounts in 2021.
Experts and art lovers are trying to figure out what's driving up the prices, and if she'll soon pass $100,000 for a painting.
CBC's Jon Tattrie has this story.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/the-incredibly-bright-future-of-maud-lewis-1.6425071
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- Sound Off: The intense House session that was
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- 3:36
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- As far as sittings at the House of Assembly go, this spring session was far from uneventful. But the long days took their toll.
CBC’s Michael Gorman and Jean Laroche offer their insights on the highlights.
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- SOUNDSCAPE: Listen to the serene sound the pandemic brought into one couple’s life | Creator Network
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- 3:07
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Wairimu Maureen Waithaka and her partner find peace on their South Shore property and surrounding Crown land.
This video is part of CBC's Creator Network. The Creator Network collaborates with a select roster of diverse Canadian creators to amplify Canadian stories and share unique perspectives.
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- After two long years, what does 'Nova Scotia Strong' mean to you?
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- 3:29
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Nova Scotia Strong signs and stickers have faded and become weathered with time, but has the sentiment?
CBC News asked Nova Scotians about the sentiment and what it means to them now.
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- FIRST PERSON | I’m Ukrainian. But I will not cry over this war
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- 4:51
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- In her own words, Iryna Gerus reflects on the life experiences that lead her to a singular conclusion: tears won't help her parents escape war.
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- Sound Off: Hey, it's budget ti— oh wait, COVID is everywhere
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- 3:29
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- CBC political reporters Jean Laroche and Michael Gorman reflect on recent government decisions made as COVID cases skyrocket in Nova Scotia.
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- The close calls of Nova Scotia's mass shooting
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- 4:47
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- As Nova Scotians learn more about what happened during the horrific mass shooting in April 2020 through a public inquiry, details from other witnesses are coming into focus.
A warning: some details may be disturbing. CBC's Haley Ryan reports.
Read the full story here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/at-least-44-people-had-close-calls-with-gunman-during-nova-scotia-s-mass-shooting-1.6411437
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- Meet Devin & Shak, brothers who bonded over their love of cars | Creator Network
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- 2:02
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- On National Siblings Day, meet brothers Devin and Shak Hordagoda in Halifax, N.S. They bonded over their love for cars. Video by Marqeis Williams for CBC.
This video is part of CBC's Creator Network. The Creator Network collaborates with a select roster of diverse Canadian creators to amplify Canadian stories and share unique perspectives.
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- FIRST PERSON | We are the new moms of the pandemic. COVID took our village
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- 9:02
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- These mothers — who either had babies right before or during the pandemic — reflect on the intense period of navigating and adjusting to motherhood during COVID-19.
Watch this video on the CBC Nova Scotia website: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2019506243609
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- FIRST PERSON | At the climate crisis crossroads: a letter to my future self
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- 4:36
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- In 2020, Amelia Penney-Crocker wrote a letter a week to the prime minister, urging action on climate change. But this letter to herself 30 years in the future was one of the hardest she's had to write.
Watch this video on the CBC Nova Scotia website: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2017854531877
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- Sound Off: Omicron and Schools 101
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- 2:54
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- As COVID-19's Omicron wave continues to spread through Nova Scotia, many parents are worried about their children going to school for in-person learning.
Could the decision to keep kids in the classroom be a burden on the Houston government's track record?
The CBC's Jean Laroche, Taryn Grant and Michael Gorman break down that question in this week's Sound Off.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/schools-covid-student-absences-1.6328411
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- Hiking Nova Scotia's Bluff Wilderness Trail in winter with a drone
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- 3:10
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Explore the wintry magic of Nova Scotia's Bluff Wilderness Trail — its frozen lakes, craggy rocks and a birds-eye view of it all thanks to a drone.
Join CBC's Colleen Jones and Steve Lawrence on this snowy adventure.
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- River otters turn Halifax waterfront into a snowy slide
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- 0:44
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- These three little river otters decided to make the most of a snowy day on the Halifax Waterfront.
Petty Officer First Class Nate Dusome peeked out his window at HMCS Scotian Naval Reserve Unit and spotted the trio sliding in the snow.
After seeing his co-worker's delight, Dusome captured the otters and their adorable antics.
Happy Monday, everyone. Enjoy the snow — just like these guys.
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- Remembering Alexa McDonough, the first Canadian woman to lead a recognized political party
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- 3:58
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Alexa McDonough made history when she became the first woman to lead a recognized political party in Canada.
She was chosen leader of Nova Scotia’s New Democratic Party in 1980, a position she held for 14 years. In 1995, she won the leadership of the federal NDP.
McDonough died at a care home Saturday after a lengthy struggle with Alzheimer’s disease, her family said. She was 77.
Known affectionately as simply Alexa McDonough changed the face of politics in Canada and paved the way for other women to take their places at the pinnacles of political power.
She continued to inspire generations of New Democrats, despite retiring from politics 14 years ago.
To read more about McDonough life and legacy: www.cbc.ca/1.6314981
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- The Quiet Sun: When the COVID-19 pandemic feels like a space mission into the unknown
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- 5:00
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- In the spring of 2020, Adam Myatt was about to head on tour as a stand-up comedian.
But when the pandemic hit he found himself at home, albeit a place that suddenly felt alien and unfamiliar.
His comics have since been animated by CBC's Dave Irish and take you on a journey to The Quiet Sun.
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- This brutal voyage almost sank the Bluenose II — and a sailor was lost
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- 7:08
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- The Bluenose II nearly went down in 1969 when a storm in the Caribbean made mountains out of waves and knocked two men into the sea.
Only one would be saved.
New research by CBC Nova Scotia uncovered footage of that brutal voyage, a trip recounted by some of the surviving crew members.
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- 532-year-old N.S. hemlock claims record for oldest tree in the Maritimes
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- 4:27
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Nova Scotia only has a tiny fraction of old-growth forest left, but thanks to research completed this summer, the province can lay claim to having the oldest tree on record in the Maritimes.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/old-growth-forest-natural-resources-department-research-old-tree-1.6255685
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- Heartfelt letters, diary reveal thoughts of N.S. veteran during WWII
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- 4:03
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Herb Peppard was a soldier in the Second World War. The Truro, N.S., man died in 2019 but his legacy lives on among those who knew him and at the Army Museum in Halifax.
His wartime stories tell only a fraction about the man himself. It's his diaries and letters home that help paint the portrait of the highly decorated soldier as a true family man.
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- Records tell the incredible story of one Mi'kmaw soldier during WWI
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- 3:54
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- An estimated 4,000 Indigenous soldiers enlisted across Canada in the First World War. In Eastern Canada, Mi'kmaq and Malisset sent nearly half of their eligible male population.
Many details of their stories have been lost to time but records help tell the story of Stephen Toney, a Mi'kmaw cooper-turned-sniper.
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- Sound Off: Amendment after amendment, the end of the fall sitting draws near
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- 2:45
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- As the days grow shorter, the number of days left in the House of Assembly's fall sitting become fewer. With the current session likely to wrap up in the next week or so, the CBC's Jean Laroche and Michael Gorman look back at Tim Houston's first sitting as premier.
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- Sound Off: What to expect in the early days of Nova Scotia's new government
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- 4:49
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- It's still early days for the new Progressive Conservative government in Nova Scotia, but its priorities are coming into focus.
Sound Off walks you through what's happened so far and what's on the horizon for Premier Tim Houston, his cabinet and the opposition parties.
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- Solving the mystery of the portrait hidden the walls of a Halifax home
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- 3:01
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Inside the walls of a Halifax home, a couple found a mystery portrait: it's a black and white image that shows a woman from about 100 years ago.
The home is set in the Hydrostone neighbourhood, an area where many families resettled after the Halifax Explosion and the current homeowners wonder if the woman might have moved there at that time.
Does she look familiar?
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- Rebecca Thomas's powerful poem We are Gathered honours residential school survivors
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- 3:23
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Indigenous poet Rebecca Thomas's piece, We are Gathered, honours those who died at residential schools — and shines a light on the painful legacy left behind for the survivors' and their descendents.
Her poem was created for the first National Day of Truth and Reconcilation as people gathered to reflect on the need for ongoing reconcilation in Canada.
As families gather this weekend, there is still plenty to reflect upon.
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- How this Nova Scotia man turned a volunteer project into a Lego business
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- 2:58
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Jason Pyett was volunteering at his daughter's elementary school in rural Nova Scotia to run workshops to teach kids to get creative with Lego in 2019.
Now he's built his own business — doing what many kids would consider a dream job. He designs and constructs commissioned works out of Lego.
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- This Nova Scotia woman has finally settled a battle for $490K in child support
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- 2:59
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- After more than eight years of fighting over child support, Angela Power is happy she's reached a settlement with her ex-husband.
She used the money to pay off about $100,000 in student debt her children had accrued — and her persistence has inspired others.
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- Nova Scotia's only deaf soccer ref is rising in the ranks
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- 4:14
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- Matt Ayyash talks about how it feels to be Nova Scotia's only deaf soccer referee and what it means to win official of the year in 2016.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/matt-ayyash-soccer-nova-scotia-referee-deaf-1.5959331
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- Sound Off: What happened on election night and what's to come
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- 3:32
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- The CBC's Jean Laroche and Michael Gorman break down what happened on election night and what's to come with the new Progressive Conservative majority in Nova Scotia.
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- Sound Off: Election Edition — What you need to know before voting day in Nova Scotia
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- 3:40
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
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- More than 100,000 Nova Scotians have already voted.
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How tight will the race be between the Nova Scotia Liberals, the Progressive Conservatives and the NDP?
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Jean Laroche and Michael Gorman break it down for you.
