Fast forward to junior high. A 12-year-old Dillon gets home from basketball. After school he’s usually alone for a few hours.

Backlash against the Mi’kmaw fisheries in Nova Scotia made headlines in the fall of 2020. But the fight for treaty rights goes back decades, even across generations. An ancient Mi’kmaw concept based ...

In February 1990, Today show host Deborah Norville was introducing a segment on the NBC morning show about the debut of a new graphic-design tool: Photoshop. “A picture may no longer be worth a ...

Thanks for following along with our reporters, photographers and editors as we worked to bring the energy of Nocturne to life here on The Signal. Under glowing pods and soft floral scents, Night ...

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 ...

Sarah Jeffers sat down and cried after opening her mailbox on Tuesday morning. Inside was an unfamiliar newspaper, filled with what she described as racism and hate. The publication, the Epoch Times, ...

Emily Grant, 35, wasn’t feeling left out—just left out of the conversation. “The less I connected with people my age, I felt it,” she says. “There are lots of great people my age, but they have ...

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 ...

Alexander Panetta knew he was on the way out. Panetta, having spent 12 years in the United States, most recently as CBC News’ Washington correspondent, has felt his attitude towards covering news sour ...

A growing movement is working to change our attitudes toward death and dying, and offering alternatives to traditional funeral arrangements. “You may or may not buy a hat in your life, but you will ...

NDP candidate Rod Wilson has won the Halifax-Armdale riding, securing the district for the NDP for the first time since the Liberals took it over in 2013. Wilson beat incumbent Liberal candidate Ali ...

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, ...