The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Maria Boutilier started working in the housekeeping department at the Halifax Infirmary in the fall of 2019. Back then, she didn’t know that in several months she’d be working on the frontline of a pandemic. Boutilier has worked in various roles at the QEII for […]
What to do if you’re lost in the woods
Morning File, Thursday, May 28, 2020
News 1. Healthy Bays Network: Fish farms are not just a rural issue; people in Halifax should be concerned Yvette d’Entremont reports on the newly-created Healthy Bays Network (HBN), a group of several community organizations opposed to open-net finfish farms in Nova Scotia. The group is opposed to New Brunswick-based seafood company Cooke Aquaculture subsidiary […]
Frontline workers: Grocery store staff
"We’re not heroes; we’re hashtags."
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. As a grocery store employee, Aaron (we’re not using his real name so he doesn’t face disciplinary action from his employer) is an essential worker, but like many retail employees, he’s not being treated that way. COVID-19 has exposed the importance of frontline workers in […]
Frontline workers: Doctors
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Anyone going to the emergency department at the Halifax Infirmary will notice some changes. First, you’ll go through a pre-triage process in the vestibule at the front doors. There, two nurses will screen for COVID-19 symptoms. Patients showing symptoms are sent directly to a room […]
Frontline workers: cab drivers
There are fewer taxies on the road these days, but they are very clean.
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Halifax cab driver David Buffett says he’s never spent so much time cleaning his cab, which he cleans and sanitizes several times a day. He pays special attention to the interior and exterior door handles and the backseat on the passenger side where most customers […]
The prices and penalties women pay in a pandemic
Morning File, Monday, May 25, 2020
News 1. Dear Mr. Premier, I know you’re busy but … Stephen Kimber has some suggestions on how Premier Stephen McNeil can appoint a public inquiry into last month’s shootings. As Kimber points out, McNeil already has an example to follow: The public inquiry into the Westray mine disaster on May 9, 1992. Two days […]
Frontline workers: Nurses
“If it was happening to us, we’d want help. We have to care for each other and the elderly. This is nothing we’ve ever lived through.”
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Two weeks ago, Tracy d’Entremont started working at a long-term care facility in Halifax to help during the COVID-19 crisis. “It has been the most stressful and rewarding experience,” d’Entremont says. She works eight-hour shifts, from 7am to 3pm helping mostly with residents’ medications. She […]
Building a better bystander
Morning File, Thursday, May 21, 2020
News 1. Cracks are forming in the RCMP cone of silence Paul Palango, a former senior editor at the Globe and Mail and author of three books on the RCMP, writes about the cone of silence the RCMP have covered themselves in over the last five weeks since the killings in Nova Scotia. Palango wrote […]
Share, but don’t scare with, the COVID-19 information
Morning File, Wednesday, May 13, 2020
News The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. 1. COVID-19 update Mary Campbell at the Cape Breton Spectator gives us the daily update on COVID-19. Dr. Robert Strang announced just one new positive case of COVID-19, and fortunately no new deaths. Here are the numbers: Total new cases: 1 Total cases: 1,020 Total hospitalized: 9 […]
All hail the queen bees
Morning File, Thursday, May 7, 2020
News 1. Search continues for missing boy Searchers in Truro are still looking for a three-year-old boy who went missing Wednesday afternoon. Dylan, who is described as having brown hair, rosy cheeks and a green left eye and blue right eye, was visiting his grandmother when he disappeared. CBC reports that Dylan’s grandfather, Norman Brown, […]
- 1
- 2
- 3
- …
- 8
- Next Page »