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Documents show horrors at Northwood during COVID outbreak

Residents "likely haven’t had a bath in a week as their hair is all greasy. They often wet but do not get changed." And residents who had tested positive roamed around among residents who were presumed negative.

August 4, 2020 By Yvette d'Entremont 2 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. In a report released Tuesday, the Nova Scotia Government Employees Union (NSGEU) chronicles what it’s calling “government neglect and delay” that contributed to the deaths of 53 seniors at Northwood’s Halifax campus during the COVID-19 outbreak. The 23-page ‘Neglecting Northwood’ report was written using Nova […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Colin Stevenson, Continuing Care Assistants (CCA), coronavirus, COVID-19, long term care (LTC), Neglecting Northwood report, Northwood, Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union (NSGEU), NSGEU president Jason MacLean, pandemic, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Susan Stevens, Vickie Sullivan

(Can we stop) talkin’ ’bout our generations?

Morning File, Tuesday, November 26, 2019

November 26, 2019 By Erica Butler 5 Comments

November Subscription Drive: How a paywall can actually make a newspaper better Christine Schmidt in Nieman Lab writes about the Shawnee Mission Post, a local news site started in Johnson County, Kansas in 2010, which relied on advertising-only until it converted to a paywall in 2017. The paper still has advertising (in the form of […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: all female lobster crew, Aly Thompson, Brendan Carr, Carmelle d’Entremont, Christine Schmidt, Colin Stevenson, David Costanza, Gail Atkinson, generations, Janet Davidson, Jay Senter, King's Co-op Bookstore, Laura Fraser, Lindsay Peach, Michael Gorman, millennials, Nine Locks, Northern Pulp effluent, Northern Pulp proposal, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), OK boomer, parking rates, Shaun O'Hearn, Shawnee Mission Post, subscriber supported journalism, sunshine list, Tim Guest, Utah Phillips

Science will determine just how much you people are pissing off your bartenders

Morning File, Tuesday, March 12, 2019

March 12, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 3 Comments

I’m Suzanne Rent and I’m filling in for Tim this morning. You can follow me on Twitter @Suzanne_Rent News 1. Here’s a tip: Be nice to your servers and bartenders Oh, how I can relate to this story. Vanessa Myers, a psychology graduate student at Saint Mary’s University, is researching how customer interactions affect the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alton Gas, basic income, Basic Income Nova Scotia, bedsores, bipolar disorder, blood pressure, Chrissy Dunnington, Claire Sethuram, Colin Stevenson, cop’s gun stolen, Dr. Martin Alda, Elizabeth (Mandy) Kay-Raining Bird, Elizabeth Marshall, Finland basic income pilot project, Friendly Divas, Jennifer Henderson, John Ferguson, Lucy MacLeod, menstrual equity, Mincome, Nova Scotia Health Authority, Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board (UARB), period poverty, Richard Woodbury, Sara Spike, servers and bartenders, Small History Nova Scotia, Suzanne Lively, Tom Ayers, Vanessa Myers, Yvette d'Entremont

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Mo Kenney. Photo: Matt Williams

Episode #18 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Mo Kenney’s new record Covers is a perfect winter companion — songs from across the rock spectrum that she’s pared down to piano or guitar and turned them into sad ballads. She joins Tara to talk about choosing and arranging them, and opens up for a frank discussion of the alcohol dependency it took a pandemic for her to confront. Plus: Movies are back (again).

This episode is available today only for premium subscribers; to become a premium subscriber, click here, and join the select group of arts and entertainment supporters for just $5/month. Everyone else will have to wait until tomorrow to listen to it.

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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.

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