The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Social distancing? Self-isolating? What does it all mean? What should I be doing? Here’s how the province’s chief medical officer, Dr. Robert Strang, has explained how we should be acting. I’ve transcribed Strang’s comments at a press conference Wednesday, only slightly editing for clarity. “It’s […]
Halifax Transit will cut service by 30% on Monday
Morning File, Friday, March 20, 2020
News 1. Daily update I’ll be reporting on the daily updates from the province for the duration. Here was yesterday afternoon’s: • There are two more positive COVID-19 cases in Nova Scotia, bringing the total to 14. Both of the new cases are travel-related. One of the 14 people has recently been hospitalized; “they are […]
Daily COVID-19 update: new spending on response, and a prohibition on evictions
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The latest: • There are two more positive COVID-19 cases in Nova Scotia, bringing the total to 14. Both of the new cases are travel-related. One of the 14 people has recently been hospitalized; “they are doing well,” said Dr. Robert Strang; • The Nova […]
Daily COVID-19 update: more closures, but the Irving Shipyard, which employs 1,300 people, is still open
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Five more people in Nova Scotia have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, bringing the total to 12. All 12 cases are either people who travelled from other countries to Nova Scotia, or connected to those cases. They range in age from their 30s through […]
(Updated) Latest COVID-19 restrictions: no gatherings of 50 people; take-out food only; bars to close: hospitals reduce services
There are two new presumptive cases of COVID-19 in Nova Scotia, bringing the total to seven. One of the two newest cases is travel-related, said Dr. Robert Strang, the province’s chief medical officer. The other case is “related to” one of the previous Covid-19 cases, said Strang. Strang would not say where the people live […]
Stephen McNeil: Community response can head off worst-case Covid scenario
The Halifax Examiner is providing all Covid-19 coverage for free. Two more Nova Scotians have tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total to five. Three were announced yesterday. The two are a Halifax area couple (a man and a woman) in their 50s who have not travelled outside of Nova Scotia. They are presumed to […]
Covid-19 is in Nova Scotia; schools and day cares ordered closed, international travellers must self-isolate
In response to the three presumptive positive tests for Covid-19 in Nova Scotia, Premier Stephen McNeil has ordered school and day care closures and is requiring that all people self-isolate after international travel. The new actions were announced at a press conference Sunday afternoon. Dr. Robert Strang, the province’s chief medical officer of health, said […]
Covid-19 and the housing market: Nova Scotia should immediately implement rent controls
Morning File, Friday, March 13, 2020
News 1. Fish farms Linda Pannozzo attended all three of Cermaq’s “open houses” on the South Shore, meant to reassure residents about the company’s plans for fish farms in Nova Scotia. Things did not go well. People at the meetings raised a litany of concerns, including about pollution, sea lice, and (especially) the effect on […]
How the search for a white and black Crown Vic led to the discovery of a trove of firearms
Morning File, Friday, March 6, 2020
News 1. Nova Scotia’s “world class” gold Joan Baxter spent the last four days attending the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention in Toronto, (see her mid-convention report here) and concludes her visit with a look at Nova Scotia’s claim that it has “world class” gold, and I have to include this photo […]
“Coronavirus Convention”
Joan Baxter is reporting on an international mining convention in Toronto for the Halifax Examiner; here's what's happened so far.
Hundreds of protestors from a network of 50 organizations blocked the entrances to the Toronto Convention Centre on Sunday in a “People Before Profit: Evict the Corporate Villains!” rally to protest the opening of the four-day Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) annual convention. For four hours they sang, shouted, danced, drummed, and decried […]
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