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

In the Halifax, N.S., music scene, Lydia Langille is building more than songs – she’s building connection between herself and ...

Two women sit across from each other in a dimly lit room. On the table between them rest three decks of cards, a notepad, and ...

Art of all kinds has long been a vessel for stories. Ceramics, specifically, have been a fact of human expression for a long ...

He can’t understand why cigarettes are so expensive here. Why do Pall Malls cost more than $20? Back home, he smoked Lucky ...

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Leica Hardy has been directing the Nutcracker in Halifax for all of its 33 years. The girl stands, poised and collected. Then, taking two quick steps, she springs into the air. Her arms are straight ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...