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Halifax Explosion:
CBC Archives looks at the Dec. 6, 1917, explosion.

Photo gallery:
Your photos of winter.

Eco-friendly gifts:
Alternative presents.

Immigration and language:
Mapping the sound and look of Canada.

Your interview:
A meteorologist takes your questions on winter weather.

Your health:
Garlic: the versatile herb.

How a Taser works:
The anatomy of the X26.

Curling:
2007 Canadian Open.

Overboard:
The CBC's Fifth Estate looks at what happened the night Laura Gainey was swept off a tall ship.

Online bookings:
Planning a trip? Watch for the strings attached to deals.

INTERACTIVE:
School statistics

The latest figures on publicly funded education.

Alpine Skiing 2007-08:
10 Canadians who could carve out a name this season.

May I help you?
CBC looks at customer service.

In the Arts:
Explore the Maritimes arts scene.

Canada's casualties:
Military deaths in Afghanistan.

CBC Archives:
The Voice of Hockey: Foster Hewitt

Cops in Canada:
Number of police up, crime rate down: report

The lady vanishes:
The fifth estate investigates the case of Heli Munroe.

Child Care:
Our next big issue?

Health spending:
The cost just keeps going up.

Private Schools:
Are they worth the cost?

Era message:
Buck 65's spooky new album explores the year 1957.

Employment Picture:
Where the jobs are in Canada.

Buying a Home:
How much is that house, really?

Noel's fury:
CBC cameras catch the sights and sounds of storm Noel. (runs 3:22)

CBC Digital Archives: Springhill Mining Disasters:
In the 1950s, A Nova Scotia town suffered two tragic disasters.

Canadian Charity:
How does Nova Scotia compare?

Apprenticeships:
Sorry, you're not hired.

Canadian
government:

Equalization for the 21st century.

Nursing homes:
Residential care facilities by province.

Sounds like Canada:Click to listen to RealAudio file
Shelagh talks with Bob Bancroft, a wildlife and fisheries biologist and award-winning woodlot owner in Pomquet, Nova Scotia. (runs 17:02 RealAudio)

Click to view the CBC Radio feature

CBC Radio 3 Sessions:
This week on the Sessions podcast, an exclusive session with Halifax's Wintersleep.

The National:
Halifax boy gives hockey money to Vietnamese orphan for surgery. (runs 2:42 l Windows Media)

Fall 2007:
Brilliant colours, warm weather.

Profile:
Standing on the shoulders of Sidney.

CBC Radio 3:
Buck 65 Interview UNCUT.

Demographics:
Mapping Canada's new family relationships.

Urban trees:
Maintaining a vital resource.

EMPLOYMENT:
Age and jobs

Where Canada's older workers stay in the work force.

Canada's oil and gas:
Who produces what.

Canso Causeway:
The Causeway turns 52.

Wheel deal:
Canada's urban bike policies.

Parking costs:
See how Halifax compares with the price of parking around the globe.

Canada in
Afghanistan:

In the line of duty: Canada's casualties.

Phoenix mission:
Dalhousie scientist monitors Martian probe's findings.

East Coast World Music Summit:
Listen to the live-to-air special for CBC Radio which brought together 13 musicians from very diverse backgrounds.

Pugwash conference:
CBC Archives looks at the 1957 meeting of the minds.

Rick Mercer: Tug Boat Driving
Rick does donuts in Halifax Harbour. (runs 5:30 Windows Media)

Bard in the Rough:
Shakespeare goes outside in the summer.

Take it green:
Nova Scotia mulls deposit on coffee cups.
(runs 2:04)

Green Cities:
What Canada's municipalities do to fight climate change.

Real estate: Who's booming?
Home prices and apartments rents in Canada.

Interactive: History of health expenditures
Find out how Nova Scotia compares to the other provinces.

Sailboat shopping bags:
A Nova Scotia company takes old sails and transforms them into stylish and strong shopping bags.
(runs 6:05)

Interactive: Wait times
Find out how Nova Scotia compares to the other provinces.

Arena Air:
CBC News tests pollution levels in arenas in Halifax and four other cities.

Greening 3 cities:
- Halifax (runs 6:10)
- Sudbury (runs 8:03)
- Toronto (runs 5:54)

Ocean Innovation:
Nova Scotia firms find opportunities in deep waters.

Technology & Science:
Atlantic skywatchers awed by lunar eclipse. (runs 1:36 Windows Media)

Tidal power:
Once more into the Bay of Fundy

Grow 'n' Row:
Fact is stranger than fiction. A Windsor, NS man grows gigantic pumpkins - fit to travel. (runs 4:52 Windows Media)

Blue Marlin:
The world's largest heavy-lift ship prepares to load giant oil rigs in Halifax harbour.
(runs 3:09)

Amistad Journey: A life-changing experience
In August, three African Nova Scotian teenagers sailed from Halifax to Portland aboard the Freedom Schooner, Amistad. In 1839, the original Amistad carried 49 captive Africans on a terrible journey that ultimately led to their freedom. On-board footage provided by Wojtek Wacowski. (runs 6:33)

Driven to create:
Catching up with Maritime art sensation Jack Bishop.

Family Viewing:
The photographs of Jaret Belliveau

Maritimes This Week:Click to view page
Download the best radio stories from the past seven days.

Date-rape warning:
Reporter Darryl Kyte talks to a woman who believes she was slipped a "date-rape" drug.
(runs 2:12)

Maersk Dubai:
Ten years ago, a container ship arrived in Halifax carrying dark secrets. Sailor Rudy Miguel tells CBC News about a decision that changed his life forever. (runs 5:38)

Getting green:
Lawn expert Tim Treguno shares some tips. (runs 2:18)

A school for Sudan:
Jacob Deng is living in Halifax but he can't stop thinking about his war-ravaged home. Jacob tells reporter Dan O'Connell his dream. (runs 2:50)

Heading west:
The boom in Fort McMurray is having an effect on Cape Breton. Wendy Martin explains. (runs 5:16)

Birth of a Novel:
Ami McKay and the midwives of Nova Scotia

Hunt for U-190:
The search is on for the wreck of a German submarine that brought the Second World War to the shores of Nova Scotia. Rob Gordon reports. (runs 2:03)

 
Past features
Your Photos
Nova Scotians assess the damage from storm Noel.
 
Photo gallery
A sea of pink floods the hallways of one Nova Scotia school as part of an anti-bullying campaign.
 
A Soldier's Story
Pte. Jeremy Dobson is back from Afghanistan. Read his online diary.
 
Your View
RCMP are investigating after a Nova Scotia man accompanied his wife to Switzerland so she could kill herself.
 
PM tells N.S.: Take us to court over equalization
Your thoughts of the war of words between Nova Scotia and Ottawa on equalization and offshore money.
 
Your View: Litter
Is litter cluttering your streets? Read your stories.
 
The Commonwealth Games 2014
A Prize Worth Winning?
 
A Night on the Town
Is downtown Halifax a violent place? CBC talks to victims, police and many others to find out.
 
Nova Scotia Premier Rodney MacDonald under fire
More information is coming out about former cabinet minister Ernie Fage's accident.
 
2006 Year in Review Maritimes quiz
Test yourself on N.S. N.B. and P.E.I. news.
 
Afghanistan
Portraits of fallen soldiers from Nova Scotia.
 
Squabbling costs school board members their jobs
Was firing the elected Halifax school board and replacing it with an appointee the right thing to do?
 
Help Wanted
A special CBC News at Six series that looks at the increasingly difficult time Nova Scotia employers are having finding enough workers.
 
Reporter's Notebook: Youth violence
A look at life inside for the worst teen offenders.
 
Canada's war brides
Love and war overseas.
 
Alberta Bound: Turning back the tide
CBC News explores the social and economic impact of migration from the Maritimes to Alberta.
 
Adieu L'Acadie… Hello Alberta
A five part series about the large number of Acadians who are working in Alberta.
 
Nova Scotia Votes 2006
Get all the results, as well as indepth election features.
 
Reporter's Notebook
David Pate looks at one sex offender's story.
 
The Robin Tomah story
To hell and back.
 
Cape Breton Coal
From 1672 to the present, CBC News Online explores the history of coal mines in Cape Breton.
 
Reporter's Notebook
Researcher monitors fitness via satellite.
 
Seals on Pictou IslandClick to view page in a new window
A lack of ice has forced thousands of grey seals to birth their pups on islands in the Northumberland Strait.
 
Lessons in rural life
CBC reporter David Pate visits Middle River to learn why residents are fighting to save their school.
 
Meet the Parents
CBC Nova Scotia looks at the demands facing today's family.
 
Aboard the Charles de GaulleClick to view page in a new window
A photo gallery of the visiting French aircraft carrier.
 
Fire on ChicoutimiClick arrow to view page
A timeline of a tragedy. Photo gallery: Inside Chicoutimi Click to view page in a new window
 
Wet and wild:Click to view page in a new window
See pictures and video of the flooding in the Bridgewater area.
 
Nova Scotia budget 2005
Our coverage and details from the 2005 provincial budget.
 
Beautiful & Deadly Sable Island
CBC Radio explores the 42 km long sand bar of the southeast coast of Nova Scotia.
 
Knowledge House
It was supposed to put Nova Scotia on the high-tech map. With its educational software, Knowledge House was going to change the way students learned in the classroom and make its investors rich along the way.
 
Joseph Howe
CBC journalist Jim Nunn explores the life, loves, dreams and failures of Nova Scotia's great visionary.
 
Direstrait
The decline of Lobster Fishing Area 25.
 
Nova Scotia Votes 2003
Full provincial election coverage.
 
Halifax Explosion
CBC Archives looks at the Dec. 6, 1917, collision and explosion in Halifax Harbour.

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