Nicola Seguin

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Nicola Seguin is a TV, radio, and online journalist with CBC Nova Scotia, based in Halifax. She often covers issues surrounding housing and homelessness. If you have a story idea, email her at nicola.seguin@cbc.ca or find her on twitter @nicseg95.

Latest from Nicola Seguin

Halifax real estate listings advertising fixed-term leases as financial asset for buyers

Some real estate listings for multi-unit buildings in Halifax are advertising that tenants on a type of lease that doesn't automatically renew every year are an asset to potential buyers, citing income potential.

'Seeking a Physician': 96 and doctorless, N.S. senior turns to the classifieds

Dorothy Lamont, 96, lives independently in her downtown Dartmouth home, still growing her own vegetables in her backyard every summer. But her biggest worry is not having a family doctor.

Neighbour hands RCMP days of footage leading up to disappearance of N.S. children

As RCMP remain tight-lipped about the investigation into the disappearance of Lilly and Jack Sullivan, a neighbour says she has turned over trail camera footage at the request of investigators spanning five days before they were reported missing.

Experts point to anomalies in 'unprecedented' case of missing N.S. children

Two weeks after two young siblings vanished without a trace from a rural Nova Scotia community, experts are pointing to anomalies in what they say is an unprecedented case that deviates from the typical markers of a missing children investigation.

Q&A: Expert sheds light on difficulty of finding children missing in the woods

Robert Koester, an expert in lost person behaviour, says a search for missing children in a rural or wilderness area is "a very difficult, time-consuming search."

She was at high risk of being killed by her ex. It still took 6 months to get dedicated housing support

A woman who survived multiple attacks by her ex says when she tried to access financial support to leave her home, she was repeatedly denied the province's housing benefit for survivors of gender-based violence due to program policies.

She felt like she was being watched. Then she found a hidden camera in her bathroom

A young single mother in Digby County recently fled her home after finding a camera in the bathroom of her rental unit. She wants to warn others who may be staying in unsafe housing for lack of options.

'Taking a hammer to the humanities:' Profs say SMU slashing arts courses, putting jobs at risk

Saint Mary's University administration says it is normal practice to add and drop courses leading up to a new academic year, but the union representing part-time professors says the number of arts courses being lost is well above average.

N.S. scoops up land at Shannon Park for $16.8M, expects 600 affordable units to be built

The Nova Scotia government has confirmed to CBC News it is in the process of purchasing two parcels of federally owned land at the former military site.

This former Dartmouth office building will soon be affordable housing

Marine House in Dartmouth will soon be a home for more than 60 people. The former office building has been sold to the Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Society for redevelopment into affordable housing.