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Ambulance service in ‘critical’ state, says Nova Scotia auditor general

by Jennifer Henderson September 26, 2023September 26, 2023

Kim Adair’s report, released on Tuesday, includes 14 recommendations.

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A group of workers wearing red shirts and bearing signs that say "We deserve a living wage" and "Tim Houston, why don't you respect our work" chant during a rally outside the VG.

Labour

Health care administrative professionals rally across Nova Scotia demanding better pay

by Yvette d'Entremont September 25, 2023September 25, 2023

A row of over the counter medications is displayed, while a pharmacy team member with a beard and glasses and dressed in black stands behind the counter talking to a man dressed in a checkered shirt.

Health

Nova Scotia expands nominee program to include paramedics, pharmacy technicians

by Yvette d'Entremont September 22, 2023September 22, 2023

A woman sits on a bench in front of the Halifax Infirmary's emergency department.

Labour

Nova Scotia health care administrative staff unions want province to head to bargaining table

by Suzanne Rent September 22, 2023September 22, 2023

A woman dressed in black and wearing a grey raincoat holds a microphone and stands next to a white-bearded man holding a picket sign that says "Ban Blood Money."

Health

Protestors demand province stop for-profit blood plasma clinic from opening in Halifax

by Yvette d'Entremont September 20, 2023September 20, 2023

A water fountain in a Halifax-area school in September 2020. It has been blocked off from use with plastic sheeting.

Province House

As testing drops off, Nova Scotia opts for signage to fix lead in schools’ water

by Zane Woodford September 11, 2023September 11, 2023

Three youngish white men at a music festival. The man on the far right wears a Minor Threat t-shirt and cartoonish white sunglasses, and is singing into a mic on a stand. Two other people with festival bracelets stand beside him, mouths open in song also.

Morning File

Scream Therapy: Jason Schreurs on punk, mental health, and being diagnosed with bipolar at 46

by Philip Moscovitch August 31, 2023August 31, 2023

A smiling white woman wearing a white jacket with a blue collar.

Morning File

Halifax doctor wrote a death certificate for a woman more than a year before she died

by Tim Bousquet August 17, 2023August 17, 2023

COVID

More than 75% of Canadians had been infected with virus that causes COVID-19 by March 2023, report finds

by Yvette d'Entremont August 15, 2023August 16, 2023

A young Black woman wearing a grey toque and jacket over a striped top speaks as a woman of colour and a white man look on from her left. All three people are sitting at a table with microphones on it. Behind them in a pink fabric sign hanging in the window that says MSI for Migrant Workers now.

Health, Labour

Migrant worker with cancer has application for temporary health care approved by feds

by Suzanne Rent August 14, 2023August 28, 2023

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents — Credit: Halifax Examiner. All rights reserved.

PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

You can learn about the project, including how we’re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on the PRICED OUT homepage.

Credit: Ricardo Weibezahn - ICIJ

DEFORESTATION INC

Reporter Joan Baxter is one of 140 journalists from 39 media outlets across 27 countries working collaboratively on ‘Deforestation Inc,’ a project of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which looked at the ownership structure of Paper Excellence, its relationship with Asia Pulp & Paper, and how the secretive corporate empires are devastating forests in Canada and around the world.

Find all of Baxter’s articles on the Deforestation Inc homepage.

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

2020 MASS MURDERS

All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.

Updated regularly.

UNCOVER: DEAD WRONG

In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder, and served 17 years in prison while maintaining his innocence. In 2019, he was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner’s Tim Bousquet tells Assoun’s story on the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong. Click here to listen to the podcast.

Category: Health

Ambulance service in ‘critical’ state, says Nova Scotia auditor general

Health care administrative professionals rally across Nova Scotia demanding better pay

Nova Scotia expands nominee program to include paramedics, pharmacy technicians

Nova Scotia health care administrative staff unions want province to head to bargaining table

Protestors demand province stop for-profit blood plasma clinic from opening in Halifax

As testing drops off, Nova Scotia opts for signage to fix lead in schools’ water

Scream Therapy: Jason Schreurs on punk, mental health, and being diagnosed with bipolar at 46

Halifax doctor wrote a death certificate for a woman more than a year before she died

More than 75% of Canadians had been infected with virus that causes COVID-19 by March 2023, report finds

Migrant worker with cancer has application for temporary health care approved by feds

Nova Scotia launches review of provincial policing structure

Brad Johns once again spins the revolving door of SIRT directorship, but that won’t solve the crisis of legitimacy for the police oversight board

Mount Uniacke residents organize, submit comments as quarry owners apply for expansion

Halifax MP says council can go higher on federal housing application

NDP wants Nova Scotia municipalities to tax developers who leave lots empty