The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Two more residents of the Northwood long-term care facility have died from COVID-19 related illness. The two newest deaths brings a total of five residents of Northwood who have died with the disease, and nine people who have died overall in Nov Scotia. The disease […]
Nursing home workers are moving between multiple facilities. That’s a big problem.
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. There are now 98 confirmed cases of COVID-19 among residents and employees at eight long-term care homes in Nova Scotia. At least two of the four deaths to date were former residents of nursing homes. The largest case clusters are at The Admiral in Dartmouth […]
Daily COVID-19 update: Is the disease spreading in nursing homes because they don’t pay workers enough?
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. A Cape Breton woman in her 80s died from COVID-19 today; she is the fourth person in Nova Scotia to die from the disease. She had underlying health issues. And yesterday, 27 more people tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total to 606. Eleven people […]
Daily COVID-19 update: as of last night, Northwood nursing home had 59 cases
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Thirty more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Nova Scotia, bringing the total to 579. Eleven people are currently hospitalized, four of them in ICUs; 176 people have fully recovered. Three have died. During Thursday’s provincial update, Dr. Robert Strang, Nova Scotia’s chief medical […]
Daily COVID-19 update: Zero businesses have been charged with violating the public health orders
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Thirty-two more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Nova Scotia, bringing the total to 549. Nine people are currently hospitalized, four of whom are in ICUs; 137 people have fully recovered. Three people have died. We have various graphic representations of the disease’s progress […]
Nova Scotia’s pandemic projections released
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Nova Scotia now has over 500 people who have tested positive for COVID-19. The province released estimates today based on models that show that if compliance with distancing measures and closures remain in place, Nova Scotia could expect to see nearly 1,500 people test positive […]
Nova Scotia’s nursing homes now experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks
Dozens of staff and residents in at least seven long-term care facilities have tested positive for the disease.
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. As of the Easter weekend*, 16 residents and 10 employees at the Northwood long-term-care complex in Halifax tested positive for COVID-19. The nursing home’s website says all 26 — plus four more staff who provide homecare services — have exhibited mild to moderate symptoms. Medical […]
Daily COVID-19 update: Stephen McNeil doubles down on the construction loophole, and additionally says now is not the time to reflect on health care workers’ concerns
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Tim Bousquet writes: One more person has died in Nova Scotia from COVID-19, bringing total deaths to three. The latest person to die was a man in his 80s, in the HRM. Twenty-nine more people have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total to 474. […]
Mining Association of Nova Scotia uses the pandemic to promote its own agenda
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Times of crisis evoke a lot of different responses from different industries, corporations, and those who lobby for them. According to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, thousands of companies are rising to the occasion of the COVID-19 crisis, switching or creating new production lines to try […]
Northern Pulp statement off-base and ill-timed during the COVID-19 crisis
At 4:38pm yesterday, Northern Pulp sent out a two-page statement to media. That’s right; moments after provincial employees would have gone home (or at least shut down their work accounts on their computers because they are already working from home to respect public health directives), and after many journalists would have logged off for the […]
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