The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The province has released its Back to School plan. (Click here to read it.) There are three scenarios mapped out in the plan: Full Reopening, a “blended” model, and At Home Learning. Full Reopening The intention is that all schools will fully open on September […]
Nursing home operators go public with call for better paid staff, updated facilities
Starting today, Public Health is allowing for contact between visitors and residents, but some nursing homes have lost insurance coverage and so aren't allowing that visitation.
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. “Enough Talk” is the title of a nine-page statement released Tuesday by a group representing the majority (83%) of 96 licensed nursing homes in the province. The Nursing Homes of Nova Scotia Association (NHNSA) is fed up with government inaction when it comes to long-identified […]
Corporate shell game
Part 2: Northern Pulp-affiliated companies say that without major concessions, they won't be able to pay back nearly $86 million they owe to the province of Nova Scotia. So far, however, the government has not caved, and is not agreeing to new financing.
Part 1 of this two-part series examined the corporate empire behind Paper Excellence Canada and the Northern Pulp mill in Pictou County, which is ultimately owned by a family worth many billions. In this article, we take a closer look at the petition to the British Columbia Supreme Court by the Northern Pulp group of...
Churchill: our schools will open 100 per cent… unless they don’t
It's easy to understand why the government's school-opening plan is still more hope than certainty. What's less easy to understand — or forgive — is its business-as-usual secrecy, which has created unnecessary anxiety among students, parents, teachers and business.
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. It’s hard not to sympathize with those charged with deciding whether and how to re-start the province’s public schools. There are the many known unknowns, of course, but there are also too many unknown unknowns, not to mention — or forget — all the unthinkable […]
Schools to open at 100% capacity
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Public Schools will re-open at full capacity in the fall, said Nova Scotia’s Education Minister Zach Churchill following yesterday’s Cabinet meeting. “Our plan is basically to get students back to school at 100% capacity with full curriculum,” said Churchill. “We know that’s where they are […]
In order to prop up tourism industry, the McNeil government considers doing away with the 14-day self-isolation requirement for travellers from the rest of Canada
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Nova Scotians will learn today whether and when Premier Stephen McNeil will ease restrictions to allow people from provinces outside Atlantic Canada to visit without being required to self-isolate for 14 days. On a telephone conference call following yesterday’s meeting of Cabinet ministers, the premier […]
Province: Alex Cameron was a rogue employee who ignored orders to give up his “conquered peoples” argument
The province of Nova Scotia has filed with the court its statement of defence of Alex Cameron’s constructive dismissal lawsuit. Cameron was the provincial lawyer who argued in court briefs and in oral arguments before the court that the province had no legal obligation to consult with the Sipekne’katik First Nation about the Alton Gas...
Shelter workers also call for public inquiry into mass murder
Nova Scotia transition house workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) are adding to the chorus of voices calling for a public inquiry into the mass shooting murders of April 18-19. Members of CUPE’s Nova Scotia Transition House Sector Committee (NSTHSC) issued a media release Thursday morning demanding the provincial and federal […]
Opposition critics react to AG’s P3 report
“The auditor general has said today that governments pay a premium when they bring in private companies to build and maintain public infrastructure,” said Susan Leblanc, the NDP’s Transportation and Infrastructure critic. “Without the Public Accounts Committee or the Legislature meeting, the public doesn’t have access to the information necessary about whether this is a...
Auditor General gives thumbs-up to P3 build for new hospital
Replacing the crumbling Victoria General hospital will be the largest infrastructure project in the province’s history with no estimated timeline for when an expansion at the Halifax Infirmary site and a new Bayers Lake Community Outpatient Centre will be completed. It will cost at least $2 billion (undoubtedly more once the bids come in) and...
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