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About Yvette d'Entremont

Yvette d’Entremont is a bilingual (English/French) journalist writing news and features for The Halifax Examiner. She's also a journalism instructor at the University of King's College. email: [email protected]; Twitter

Community health centres need stable funding, a seat at the table, advocates tell public accounts committee

May 12, 2022 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

Community-based health organizations helping keep Nova Scotians out of emergency departments need stable provincial funding and a seat at the table, the Standing Committee on Public Accounts heard Wednesday. “Of course, money is always at the root of it. But what we really want to convey is that we are partners in the fight against […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health, Politics, Province House Tagged With: Abbey Ferguson, Chester, community-based health, Department of Health and Wellness, Deputy Minister Jeannine Lagassé, Halifax Sexual Health Centre, Leigh Heide, Lorraine Burch, Marie-France LeBlanc, MLA Brendan Maguire, MLA Claudia Chender, MLA Susan Leblanc, North End Community Health Centre, Nova Scotia Association of Community Health Centres, Our Health Centre, Sexual Health Nova Scotia, Standing Committee on Public Accounts

80% of respondents to national survey say long-COVID negatively impacted their brain health

May 10, 2022 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

When Tanaeya Taylor became infected with COVID-19 in March of 2020, she never imagined she’d still be struggling with the effects two years later. Three months after first contracting the virus, Taylor found herself battling dizziness, severe motion sickness, numbness on the right side of her body, chest pain and pressure, ongoing rapid heart rate […]

Filed Under: COVID, Featured, Health, News, Women Tagged With: @longerthancovid, brain fog, COVID long haulers, COVID Long Haulers Support Group Canada, COVID-19, Integrated Chronic Care Service (ICCS), long COVID, Neurological Health Charities Canada, neurological symptoms COVID, Susie Goulding, Tanaeya Taylor, TikTok, VINEx, Yvette d'Entremont

NS drops non-resident property tax

May 5, 2022 By Yvette d'Entremont 4 Comments

Premier Tim Houston says he’s putting his personal pride aside and dropping the controversial non-resident property tax introduced by his Progressive Conservative government in the spring budget. “The reputation of our province is more important than any policy, and it’s certainly more important than my personal pride,” Houston told reporters on Thursday afternoon. “Nova Scotia […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: deed transfer tax, non-resident property tax, Nova Scotia Progressive Conservatives, Premier Tim Houston, Yvette d'Entremont

Advocates say gender-affirming health care access crisis in Nova Scotia worsening as barriers increase

Only provider of gender-affirming surgery no longer offering services, two key specialists no longer taking referrals.

May 4, 2022 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

Nova Scotia may have the highest proportion of trans and gender diverse individuals in Canada, but advocates say those who need to access gender-affirming health care are facing increased barriers and lives are at risk. In a media release Tuesday evening, the non-profit Halifax Sexual Health Centre (HSHC) said its members learned on Monday of […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health, Province House Tagged With: Abbey Ferguson, Department of Health and Wellness, GACNS, Gender Affirming Care Nova Scotia, gender affirming surgery, gender-affirming care, Halifax Sexual Health Centre, MSI, Nova Scotia Health, NSH, transgender

New study shows getting COVID-19 when pregnant increases risks of hospitalization, premature birth, ICU admissions

May 3, 2022 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

As the country faces a sixth pandemic wave, a new study shows getting COVID-19 while pregnant “significantly” increases risks of hospitalization, ICU admission, and premature birth. The Canadian surveillance study, Association of SARS-CoV-2 Infection During Pregnancy With Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes, was published online Monday by the Journal of the American Medical Association. It included […]

Filed Under: COVID, Featured, Health, News, Province House, Women Tagged With: COVID, COVID-19, COVID-19 in pregnancy, COVID-19 vaccines, Dr. Deborah Money, Journal of the American Medical Association, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, UBC, University of British Columbia, vaccination, vaccines in pregnancy, Yvette d'Entremont

Canadian Blood Services to end restrictions on blood donations from men who have sex with men

April 28, 2022 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

Health Canada has given Canadian Blood Services the green light to end the three-month donor deferral period in place for sexually active men who have sex with men. Instead of a blanket ban, the policy change means Canadian Blood Services will focus on sexual behaviour associated with a higher risk of infection. When implemented later […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health, News Tagged With: blood ban, blood donation, Canadian Blood Services, Dr. Graham Sher, gay men, Health Canada, plasma donation, three month ban, Yvette d'Entremont

New report finds poverty, systemic racism and discrimination “most urgent threats” to well-being of NS children, youth

April 26, 2022 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

A new report on the well-being of Nova Scotia’s children and youth has found that while many are doing well, far too many are being left behind. The ‘One Chance to be a Child’ report was released Tuesday. Described as the first “comprehensive snapshot” of child and youth well-being in the province, the data profile […]

Filed Under: COVID, Education, Featured, Health, News, Province House Tagged With: child poverty, Dalhousie University, Department of Pediatrics, Healthy Populations Institute, Nova Scotia, One Chance to be a Child, poverty, Sara Kirk, systemic racism and discrimination, Yvette d'Entremont

Here’s all the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020

April 26, 2022 By Tim Bousquet, Jennifer Henderson, Joan Baxter, Yvette d'Entremont, Suzanne Rent, Zane Woodford, Philip Moscovitch, Stephen Kimber, El Jones, Erica Butler, Paul Palango and Chris Murphy

April 2020 was a difficult time in Nova Scotia. A strange new virus was loose in the world, and no one knew what would happen. Nova Scotia was under lockdown — restaurants and bars were closed, schools were online, health orders prohibited people from gathering socially, and the disease had entered the Northwood retirement home. […]

Filed Under: Featured, Investigation, News, Policing Tagged With: Debert, Enfield, Hunter Road, inquiry, Mass Casualty Commission (MCC), Mass murder, Nova Scotia massacre, Onslow Fire Hall, Portapique, RCMP, shooting, Shubenacadie, SIRT, Wentworth

Get outside: national nature prescription program launches in the Maritimes

April 22, 2022 By Yvette d'Entremont 1 Comment

From walking on a trail to digging in a garden, swimming in a lake, or simply sitting on a park bench, evidence shows connecting with nature increases energy, creativity and concentration, and reduces stress, anxiety, and chronic pain. So stop and smell the roses, because the next time you visit your healthcare provider you just […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health, News, Province House Tagged With: BC Parks Foundation, Dalhousie University, Emma McDermott, evidence-based nature, health behaviour, Nature, nature prescriptions, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, P.E.I., Parks Prescription, PaRx, Shannon Johnson, Yvette d'Entremont

Dalhousie researcher studying how pandemic impacted violence against women services

April 21, 2022 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

How did the pandemic impact violence against women services, what did women experience while accessing them, and how can providers, policymakers, and funders best respond in future? Alexa Yakubovich is looking at those questions as one of three Dalhousie University researchers who recently received Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) funding for projects focused on […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Women Tagged With: Alexa Yakubovich, Canadian Institutes for Health Research, CIHR, COVID-19, Dalhousie University, MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, pandemic, St. Michael's Hospital, University of New Brunswick, University of Toronto, VAW, violence against women, Women's College Hospital, Yvette d'Entremont

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PRICED OUT

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PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

You can learn about the project, including how we’re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on the PRICED OUT homepage.

2020 mass murders

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.

Updated regularly.

Uncover: Dead Wrong

In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

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Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

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