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97% of Halifax employees fully vaccinated against COVID-19

Staff who didn't get their first dose by November 3 could face "employment consequences" starting this Thursday.

December 14, 2021 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

Fewer than 145 out of about 4,000 employees of Halifax Regional Municipality are still unvaccinated, and they could be placed on unpaid leave this week. “As of Friday, December 10, 97 per cent of municipal staff have presented proof of full vaccination, of which 99.5 per cent of Halifax Regional Fire & Emergency (HRFE) and […]

Filed Under: City Hall, COVID, Featured, News Tagged With: COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Halifax Public Libraries, Halifax Regional Council, Halifax Regional Police, Halifax Water

Children ages six months to five years needed for Moderna COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial

November 23, 2021 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

A clinical trial examining the safety and effectiveness of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine in very young children has started recruiting participants between the ages of six months to five years in Halifax. With Health Canada’s announcement on Friday that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine is now approved for use in children ages five to 11, the only group […]

Filed Under: COVID, Featured, Health, News Tagged With: Canadian Center for Vaccinology, COVID, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Dr. Joanne Langley, Health Canada, IWK Health Centre, KidCOVE, KidCOVE study, Moderna, Yvette d'Entremont

Dr. Christine Chambers: ‘All parents want to do the right thing’ on vaccines for their children

With approval of COVID-19 vaccine for kids between the ages of 5 and 11 expected soon, a Halifax pediatric pain researcher shares how to prepare children before, during, and after vaccination.

November 18, 2021 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

When Yousef Bishara, 11, was told the COVID-19 vaccine could be approved for children between the ages of 5 and 11 by the end of next week, he quickly glanced at his mother and uttered an excited ‘Oh yay! I didn’t know that.’ The sixth grader from Yarmouth County is excited at the prospect of […]

Filed Under: COVID, Featured, Health, News Tagged With: #itodoesnthavetohurt, Bishara, Canadian Paediatric Society, Christine Chambers, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Dalhousie University, Dr. Supriya Sharam, fear of needles, fear of vaccines, Health Canada, IWK, Meuse Bishara, needle anxiety, needle phobia, pediatric pain, Pfizer, Solutions for Kids in Pain, vaccine hestiancy, Yarmouth County, Yvette d'Entremont

Robert Devet: tireless champion of justice

Morning File, Friday, October 1, 2021

October 1, 2021 By Philip Moscovitch 10 Comments

News 1. Annual provincial deficit on track to be lower than expected In a financial update held Wednesday, Finance Minister Allan MacMaster said the provincial deficit for this fiscal year will be lower than expected. Jennifer Henderson reports here: Instead of a deficit of $585 million dollars predicted in the spring budget introduced by the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Allan MacMaster, Clint Eastwood, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Cry Macho, debt, deficit, Innovacorp, Jennifer Henderson, Kenneth Turan, Matthew Byard, Meta Materials, Premier Tim Houston, Robert Devet, Tara Thorne, Tideline, Tim Bousquet

If and when a coronavirus vaccine is developed, will people vaccinate their children?

June 3, 2020 By Yvette d'Entremont 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. If and when a COVID-19 vaccine is developed and made available, how many Canadians intend on vaccinating their children? That’s the question Halifax researcher Christine Lackner says we need to answer in order to better understand whether we can meet the minimum 80% threshold required […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: anti-vaxxer, Christine Lackner, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, pandemic

Ask an expert: Q & A with Dr. Tom Frieden

April 14, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Tom Frieden, a former director of the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta as well as a former Commissioner of Health for New York City, was interviewed about coronavirus yesterday by reporter Helen Branswell. Branswell, who used to work for the Canadian Press, now writes […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Center for Disease Control (CDC), coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 testing, COVID-19 vaccine, Helen Branswell, masks, pandemic, Tom Frieden, World Health Organization (WHO)

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

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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