The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. “We’re not out of the woods yet,” Dr. Robert Strang told journalists at Wednesday’s briefing on the COVID-19 virus and vaccine rollout program. Premier Iain Rankin spoke of “concerning trends” that include potential community spread of COVID-19 […]
New Premier Iain Rankin should revisit costly and environmentally harmful biomass directive
When the new premier and cabinet are sworn in today, one item on their agenda should be a return visit to a directive the McNeil government gave to Nova Scotia Power last May. The directive has led to increased burning of biomass (aka “trees”). According to a decision released by the Utilities and Review Board […]
Nature Nova Scotia calls out province’s logging plan
“Disappointed.” That’s the word that stands out in the submission by Nature Nova Scotia to the third version of forest management guidelines to implement ecological forestry or “a gentler touch” on harvesting Crown lands that are neither protected areas (absolutely no cutting) nor reserved for intensive cultivation by forestry companies. These somewhere in-between Crown lands […]
Judge rules that Yarmouth ferry management fee should be made public, but allows for an appeal
Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Richard Coughlan has ordered the province to reveal the cost of the annual fee it pays to Bay Ferries Limited [BFL] to manage the ferry service between Yarmouth and Maine. The judge described as “merely possible or speculative” the claims by the company that the information was “commercially sensitive” and […]
Major overhaul promised for Nova Scotia homecare
The homecare system that allows senior citizens and disabled adults to remain in their homes is in the process of being re-designed to give clients more control over who provides the service. “It’s about increasing choice and flexibility across the system,” said Vicki Lopez-Elliott, senior executive director of Continuing Care for the Department of Health. […]
COVID is challenging effort to recruit more doctors
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. The flow of physicians moving to Nova Scotia has slowed during a year when travel restrictions killed job fairs and on-site visits to Nova Scotia communities anxious to attract international medical graduates. The good news is the […]
Iain Rankin is Nova Scotia’s new premier
Iain Rankin is the new Liberal leader and will be sworn in as Nova Scotia’s 29th Premier. The 37-year-old former minister of the Environment won on the second ballot with 52.4% of the total weighted vote. Halifax MLA and Labour Minister Labi Kousoulis was second with 47.59%t. Former Health minister Randy Delorey finished third. “This is […]
Premier Stephen McNeil and Business Minister Geoff MacLellan say good-bye to each other, and to us
Today was Premier Stephen McNeil’s last cabinet meeting after seven years as “the boss.” The scrum with reporters was preceded by an announcement by Business Minister and Glace Bay MLA Geoff MacLellan that he does not intend to re-offer when the next election is called. “It feels like the end of the road,” said MacLellan. […]
Nova Scotia is the only province that hasn’t yet closed its large adult residential centres
Most of the 525 people living in such institutions have intellectual disabilities, acquired brain injuries, chronic mental illness, or physical disabilities. They'd live better lives in smaller homes in the community.
“There are now 1700 people, vulnerable people, enduring their days in institutions, waiting in group homes, waiting with ageing parents, waiting for that promised right to live with supports in their community,” said Wendy Lill, an advocate for people with disabilities who chairs the Community Homes Action Group. “How much longer are they going to […]
The boat that won’t float
For the third year in a row, the Yarmouth ferry will not sail. The province could end the ferry contract today, but it insists the ferry will one day be a success.
The Yarmouth ferry to Maine will not operate this summer due to public safety concerns around COVID-19. The Department of Transportation Infrastructure and Renewal made the announcement today. It will be the third consecutive year the service has not run and the third consecutive year taxpayers will be billed an undisclosed amount to keep it […]
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