How much is Bay Ferries being paid to operate the Yarmouth-Maine ferry service on behalf of the province and taxpayers? How much profit does it make? Those are the questions the Progressive Conservatives have been asking since filing a Freedom of Information request back in May 2016. Yes, 2016. Yesterday, Progressive Conservative leader Tim Houston...
COVID clock is ticking on preparing nursing homes for a second wave
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. The clock is ticking on the potential for a second wave of COVID-19 at long-term care homes in Nova Scotia. The question is, despite what we know now, are we any better prepared to cope than we […]
Business case for P3 Outpatient Centre is finally made public
Some new light was shed today on the province’s controversial decision to choose a public-private-partnership (P3) model to build new healthcare facilities to replace the crumbling Victoria and Centennial buildings at the VG site of the QE2 Health Care Centre. Last July, the former auditor general reported the secret process used to determine if P3...
University enrolments survive COVID punch
The number of full-time students attending Nova Scotia’s 11 universities this year dropped by 2.9%, for a total of 39,619 students. The decline was more pronounced in this province than for the Atlantic region as a whole where full-time enrolment was down only 1.3%. However, the number of international students who pay more than double...
It can take up to 10 days to get COVID test results in Nova Scotia
Morning File, Wednesday, October 28, 2020
News 1. Police Review Board hearing continues “The supervisor in charge of a Halifax Regional Police officer who arrested a Black man after he was found in a city park after hours said he was shocked to learn the incident had ended in arrest, but he said the constable was right to demand the man’s […]
Seaport Market continues to struggle, and the cruise business won’t recover any time soon
During a year in which the COVID-19 virus disrupted manufacturing and supply chains around the world, the Port of Halifax kept chugging along. CEO Captain Allan Gray, newly arrived from Australia last November, oversaw a year which included a crippling CN Rail strike, the loss of a big customer (Northern Pulp accounted for 4% of...
“COVID refugees”: with low numbers of new cases, Nova Scotia is seeing an influx of people avoiding disease hot spots
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. “COVID Refugees.” That’s how Dave Rapson describes why he’s currently living in Nova Scotia instead of the United States, where he’s a full-time economics professor at the University of California in Davis. Like all his colleagues, Professor […]
Eldercare advocacy groups and unions join forces to press for more nursing home funding
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. For the first time in Nova Scotia, two eldercare advocacy groups have joined forces with unionized healthcare workers to push the provincial government to address chronic labour shortages and underfunding affecting thousands of seniors requiring nursing home care. Below is the coalition’s call to action: […]
Hospitals won’t see blanket closures during second wave of COVID
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The president of the Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA) says if there is a second wave of COVID-19, hospitals will not react as they did the first time — essentially cancelling all but emergency and cancer treatments for a period of several months. Instead, hospitals […]
Leo Glavine takes on troubled Health portfolio
Premier Stephen McNeil has appointed one new minister and shuffled responsibilities among existing cabinet ministers to fill the gaps left by three ministers who have resigned their responsibilities to campaign to become the next Liberal leader and premier. Former Health minister Leo Glavine, who held the job from 2013-2017, is back at Health in the […]
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