Nicola Seguin

Reporter

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 tenants in 'precarious housing situations' band together to fight renovictions

As one tenant of PreCor Property Management began fighting what she says is a questionable renoviction, she realized other tenants in more buildings were facing eviction attempts too. Then they started working together.

Halifax man sentenced to life in prison for murdering mother in fit of rage

Jonathan William Pinsky was charged last October after the body of Delina (Lana) Pinsky was found in the storage area of a Halifax condominium. 

After fighting for repairs for almost 10 years, this Halifax tenant says the system is broken

A Halifax tenant has spent almost a decade trying to get her landlord to rectify flooding issues in her unit. She feels she's no closer to a resolution and believes the residential tenancy system has no teeth.

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.