News 1. COVID-19 update: the lockdown continues Well, the lockdown in Nova Scotia will continue for a few more weeks. School will continue online as will the restrictions, and the number of new cases is coming down, although very slowly. Tim Bousquet and Zane Woodford have Wednesday’s update on COVID-19 in the province. Two more […]
Finding the Pathways to Justice
Morning File, Thursday, May 13, 2021
News 1. COVID-19 update: 149 cases and a pause on AstraZenena Tim Bousquet has the latest COVID-19 update and all the details, graphs, and breakdowns. The province announced on Wednesday there are 149 new cases of COVID-19. One hundred and nineteen of those cases are in the Central Zone. There are 73 people in hospital […]
Parents, don’t worry about your kids’ screen time — you’re doing your best
Morning File, Thursday, May 6, 2021
News 1. COVID-19 update: 175 new cases Yesterday a new record high of COVID-19 cases was announced in the province. Tim Bousquet has all the data, graphs, demographics, testing schedules, and more. Of the 175 new cases, 149 of those are in the Nova Scotia Health Central Zone. There’s a total of 1203 cases in […]
Jobs aren’t low skilled; they’re low paid and undervalued
Morning File, Friday, April 30, 2021
News 1. COVID-19 update Tim Bousquet has all the latest on COVID-19 in the province, including details on new cases, variants, demographics, testing, vaccination, and potential exposure advisories. Seventy new cases of the virus were announced on Thursday. There are 548 active cases of the virus in Nova Scotia. Bousquet has the breakdown of where the […]
“People grieve differently:” How Nova Scotians remember
Morning File, Monday, April 19, 2021
News 1. COVID-19 update: Eight new cases; two schools closed Eight new cases of COVID-19 were announced on Sunday. That’s a weekend total of 15. There are now 49 active known cases in the province. Tim Bousquet has all the graphs and updates. The new cases include a second staff member at Glasgow Hall, a […]
Dartmouth tenants head to social media to find Hope for Highfield
“I love the community, I love the people, I could love my apartment, but it will take all of us coming together in the hope we can clean up the community together."
Cindy Fowler has lived in Highfield Park in a two-bedroom apartment with her five-year-old son for just about four years. After years of dealing with issues in her apartment in the building at 76 Highfield Park Drive and hearing about problems from other tenants, Fowler decided to get everyone together to ask for improvements in the buildings […]
Who’s paying the price for payday and high-interest loans?
Morning File, Thursday, April 15, 2021
News 1. Communications specialist: “hundreds of thousands of dollars” were spent to produce “blatant lies” for the campaign against the Biodiversity Act Joan Baxter has a fascinating piece on the Stop Bill 4 ad campaign from the Concerned Private Landowners Coalition, which doesn’t really exist, against the Biodiversity Act. Baxter talks to a local communications […]
Time to change the rules for drinking in public
Morning File, Tuesday, April 6, 2021
News 1. COVID-19 update: Three new cases Tim Bousquet has the latest update on COVID-19. Three new cases of the virus were announced in the province on Monday, all of which are in Nova Scotia’s Health Central Zone. One case is related to travel outside Atlantic Canada, one is a close contact of a previously […]
Virtual events open up the world
Technology plays catch up as events head online, making them more accessible to people with disabilities.
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. Jewelles Smith is a human rights expert, scholar, and academic researcher who’s completing her PhD. This winter Smith attended a conference in Ireland and didn’t even have to leave home. “It was really amazing for me academically and […]
Archiving the history of Nova Scotia’s LGBT seniors
Morning File, Tuesday, March 30, 2021
News 1. “The battle doesn’t end” in fighting barriers in the city Zane Woodford talks with Milena Khazanavicius about a fence that is now surrounding a development at the corner of North and Oxford streets. Khazanavicius is blind and she and her guide dog, Louis, were out for a walk on Sunday morning when they […]
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