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How safe is dentistry in the pandemic? Dalhousie researchers aim to find out

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The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. Dental and dental hygiene students and staff continue to regularly attend Canadian college and university campuses during the pandemic, but little is known about the occupational risks they face working in university dental clinics, labs, and offices. […]

Former city lawyer wins fight with Halifax Water over pipe under her property

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A lawyer who used to work for the municipality has won a personal legal battle with Halifax Water over a pipe running under her property in Dartmouth. In a decision released Friday, a three-judge panel of the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal ruled in favour of Kirby Eileen Grant, ordering Halifax Water to pay her...

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10 new cases announced in Nova Scotia: new restrictions imposed in Halifax area

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The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. Untraceable outbreaks in multiple communities in the Halifax area have prompted Nova Scotia’s Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Robert Strang to impose new restrictions on the Halifax area. The new restrictions are: restaurants and licensed establishments […]

You should get a COVID test, even if you have no symptoms

Morning File, Friday, February 26, 2021

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News 1. Community spread The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. Eight new cases of COVID-19 were announced in Nova Scotia yesterday (Thursday, Feb. 25) — the highest number of new cases in a day since Jan. 12, when there were also eight new […]

What does a recovery of the tourism industry look like?

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The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. The “devastating” impacts of COVID-19 on Atlantic Canada’s tourism sector and the policies that could support a post-pandemic recovery were discussed during an online forum hosted by the MacEachen Institute on Thursday. “There’s a new player in […]

Councillors approve staff plan to reduce — but not eliminate — use of pedestrian push buttons

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Pedestrians will have to push a button to cross at fewer intersections in the municipality later this year following a vote on Thursday by council’s Transportation Standing Committee. There are 278 signalized intersections (those with traffic lights) across Halifax Regional Municipality, Taso Koutroulakis, the city’s manager of traffic management and traffic authority, told the committee...

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A sidewalk runs through it

Morning File, Thursday, February 25, 2020

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News 1. Small communities an ocean apart are polluted by the same corporate behemoth Joan Baxter brings us the story of the Flamants Roses de Trébon,  a group of activists in the south of France fighting pollution from a pulp mill. Stop me if any of this sounds familiar. The mill is owned by Paper […]

The French Connection

People in southern France are battling pollution at a paper mill owned by a corporate behemoth: Paper Excellence Canada, the owner of the Northern Pulp Mill in Nova Scotia

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They call their association the “Les Flamants Roses du Trébon” or LFRT (Flamingos of Trébon), and it’s a collective of residents in southern France who are fighting to have the six-decades-old Fibre Excellence Tarascon pulp mill in the province of Alpes-Côte d’Azur clean up its environmental act.  French media report that the mill is owned...

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