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Teachers: political parties are ignoring school reopening

August 10, 2021 By Yvette d'Entremont 4 Comments

The head of the union representing Nova Scotia’s teachers says with four weeks to go before schools reopen and no back-to-school plan yet provided by the province, teachers are on edge. “I’m really disappointed that no party in this election campaign has made a safe return to school a central plank of its campaign platform. […]

Filed Under: Education, Featured, Health, News Tagged With: 2021 Nova Scotia Election, Back to School plan, COVID-19 and public schools, Laura Hobbs, Nova Scotia Teachers Union (NSTU), Paul Wozney, safe return to school plan 2021, Yvette d'Entremont

Nova Scotia is safe for school children and would-be municipal politicians… but not for Liberal MLAs

The McNeil Liberal government sends kids back to school and orders municipal elections to proceed as planned, but its MLAs refuse to commit to continuing to meet, even virtually, during the pandemic. Welcome to another week in Hypocrisy.

September 13, 2020 By Stephen Kimber 3 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. It was just another week in our paradoxical parallel-universe paradise. On Tuesday, September 8, 2020, more than 120,000 public school students and their 10,000 teachers, along with thousands of more bus drivers, janitors, support staff — all of them interconnected in some infectious, no-degrees-of-separation way […]

Filed Under: Commentary, COVID, Education, Featured, Province House Tagged With: Back to School plan, COVID-19, Health Committee, Public Accounts Committee

Sleeping on HRM streets: “This year is by far the worst I’ve seen”

Morning File, Wednesday, September 9, 2020

September 9, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 1 Comment

News 1. Were it not for COVID, “we probably would have got by for hundreds of years” with double rooms in nursing homes: deputy minister Jennifer Henderson reports on Tuesday’s meeting of the legislature’s Health Committee, the first meeting in six months, to talk about the pandemic and preparedness. Chief medical officer Dr. Robert Strang […]

Filed Under: COVID, Featured, Morning File Tagged With: affordable housing, Back to School plan, COVID-19, Eric Jonsson, exposure Canada Games Centre, homelessness, homeschooling, Justine Taylor Hyslop, Krystal Acker-West, Navigator Street Outreach Program, Public Health, shelter, sleeping rough

“You are responsible for your own safety”

Morning File, Tuesday, August 11, 2020

August 11, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 5 Comments

News 1. Go with the flow: new attempt at tidal power to launch next year Jennifer Henderson reports on a new effort to generate electricity using Bay of Fundy tides: A renewed effort is underway to harness Bay of Fundy tidal power using a floating platform technology with six mounted turbines to capture wave energy. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Back to School plan, camping, COVID-19, Halifax Sexual Health Centre, hand dryers, handwashing, Joy A Stevens, lighthouses, neoliberal garbage, Peggy's Cove, physical distancing, public washrooms, school reopening, Shaina Luck, signage, Stanhope

When will Nova Scotia finally have a woman premier?

Morning File, Monday, August 10, 2020

August 10, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 1 Comment

News 1. Today is Prisoners’ Justice Day; here’s what it means to me A former provincial prisoner writes about what Prisoners’ Justice Day, which is today, August 10, means to them. Prisoners’ Justice Day was started by a group of prisoners who got together on Aug. 10, to remember Ed Nalon, who died in a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Back to School plan, Campaign School for Women, Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), Equal Voice, Judy Haiven, Michael Gorman, Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women, Nova Scotia Liberal Party, Premier Caroline Cochrane, Premier Rita Johnson, Premier Stephen McNeil, school reopening, woman premier, women in politics

The ABCs and Maybes of school reopening

August 10, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 3 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Some sense of normalcy.  That’s what most children, parents, and teachers yearn for — a better learning environment than what was cobbled together when COVID-19 erupted this winter.  Top paediatricians and child psychologists at the Toronto Sick Kids Hospital and IWK agree that kids need […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Back to School plan, Brendan Elliott, contact tracing, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dr. Theresa Tam, Education Minister Zach Churchill, Heather Fairbairn, masks, Nova Scotia Teachers Union (NSTU), pandemic, Paul Wozny, Public Health, school reopening

Parents, teachers say Nova Scotia needs a plan for outdoor learning

July 31, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 2 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Getting kids outside and into nature to learn has plenty of benefits, but some parents and teachers say they’re not sure how outdoor classrooms and outdoor learning, which the province is encouraging in its back-to-school plan, could work this upcoming school year. Stacey Rudderham is […]

Filed Under: Education, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Back to School plan, Cam Collyer, coronavirus, COVID-19, Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Doug Hadley, Evergreen, Halifax Regional Centre for Education (HRCE) privacy breach, outdoor classrooms, outdoor learning, pandemic, return to school plan, social distancing, Stacey Rudderham, Violet MacLeod

Back to school plan is released

July 22, 2020 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Education, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Back to School plan, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dr. Andrew Lynk, Dr. Robert Strang, IWK, pandemic, school reopening

PRICED OUT

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents
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.

2020 mass murders

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

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. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Two young white women, one with dark hair and one blonde, smile at the camera on a sunny spring day.

Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

Listen to the episode here.

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