Halifax Communauté Nouvelles

Northwood’s Halifax campus residents are the recipients and inspiration for a well-received blanket drive.

Trapper, three months old, is one of five new puppies the Canadian National Institute for the Blind has recently brought to Halifax as guide dogs in training. Applications to be paired with a guide dog have gone up 300 per cent since the start of the pandemic, according to a CNIB news release.

The AIDS Coalition of Nova Scotia is launching its first Red Scarf Project in Halifax and is looking for volunteer knitters to help the cause. The Red Scarf Project, which has been adopted across Canada, aims to raise awareness about HIV treatment and prevention, how the virus affects people and what still needs to be done.

If you're patient, have lots of spare time and love puppies, the CNIB might have the perfect gig for you. The national organization that supports Canadians who are blind or visually impaired is looking for volunteers to help raise the next generation of guide dogs.

Jimmy Smith is a long-time volunteer with a northern N.S. fire department, but now he's the one needing help

As the sun sets on a Friday evening in October, People’s Park is bustling. At the Chebucto Road green space, known as Meagher Park before it became a community of unhoused locals, residents are eating goulash made by a volunteer, someone else is sorting through donated winter jackets and a man plays hacky sack while talking with his friends.