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, […]
The heroes on Northwood’s Pandemic Relief Team don’t earn a living wage
Morning File, Tuesday, May 5, 2020
News The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. 1. COVID and the class of 2020-ish Jennifer Henderson reports on the situation of graduating health sciences students, who not only lost their spring convocations, but also their mandatory 10-12 weeks of “hands-on” experience they usually complete in hospitals and clinics. Student nurses, physiotherapists, […]
Stable owners look to feds to pony up with financial help
Morning File, Thursday, April 30, 2020
News 1.“COVID cluster” info misleads health care providers — and the public Tim Bousquet looks at all the “Covid clusters” the Nova Scotia Health Authority has mapped and how they are being used by healthcare providers. The information in those clusters is being used to deny people medical attention. Bousquet got the list of 10 […]
Male violence: “A pandemic in its own right”
Not long after Sunday’s mass killings, signs started emerging that the tragedy may have started with an act of domestic violence. Those who knew the killer said he was jealous and had a complicated relationship with his girlfriend. On Friday, RCMP confirmed that a woman the killer had been in a relationship with was either […]
Calls for answers and calls for kindness
Morning File, Thursday, April 23, 2020
News 1. The anatomy of failure: How and why the emergency alert system was not activated when a mass murderer was roaming around Nova Scotia Tim Bousquet, Jennifer Henderon, Yvette d’Entremont, and Joan Baxter did some excellent reporting on the question of why the emergency alert system wasn’t activated early on Sunday. Bousquet, Henderson, d’Entremont, […]
How to heal with furry companions
Like humans, pets can experience trauma and grief, but they and their owners can recover together.
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. As stories and photos of the victims from the weekend’s mass shooting circulate on social media and news websites, there are other victims’ stories we’re learning now, too. They are the pets of the victims, some of whom were injured in the shootings themselves. There […]
Pharmacists and COVID-19: new pressures, weaknesses in the drug supply, and increased dispensing fees
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Peter Jorna owns Scotia Pharmacy on Gottingen Street and Nova Scotia Pharmacy on Coburg Road in Halifax. His COVID-19 protocols for each store are a bit different. Jorna closed the interior of Scotia Pharmacy, but workers will deliver products at the door to customers, and […]
COVID-19 and lessons from Southern Ontario’s Basic Income Experience
Morning File, Thursday, April 16, 2020
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. News 1. Graphed: COVID-19 in Nova Scotia, April 15, 2020 Thirty-two more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Nova Scotia. That brings the total to 549. Nine people are in hospital with four of those in ICUs. 137 people have fully recovered. Three people […]
Kids and parents are reaching out for help during COVID-19 crisis
Morning File, Thursday, April 9, 2020
News 1. Graphed: COVID-19 in Nova Scotia, April 8, 2020 Thirty-two new people in Nova Scotia have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the province’s total to 342 people. Eleven people are currently hospitalized; 77 people have fully recovered, and one person has died. Here’s a look at the numbers: Read the full story here. 2. […]
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