The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The Nova Scotia government has extended the State of Emergency until April 19 to try and contain the spread of COVID-19. These include physical distancing measures, the continued closure of nursing homes and hospitals to visitors, the shutdown of most small businesses, parks, and all […]
Graphed: COVID-19 in Nova Scotia, April 2, 2020
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Twenty new people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Nova Scotia, bringing the total to 193. The Halifax Examiner will be publishing these graphs daily, as a separate post. New known cases of COVID-19 by date Total known cases of COVID-19 by date […]
Hospitals empty beds before wave of COVID-19 admissions
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The arrival of COVID-19 has increased the pressure on the Department of Health, the Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), and the Department of Community Services to empty out long-stay patients to make room for an expected surge of hospitalizations. Two dozen new cases a day […]
Separating the science from the scams: Timothy Caulfield on COVID-19 misinformation
Morning File, Thursday, April 2, 2020
News 1. Graphed: COVID-19 in Nova Scotia There are 20 new cases of COVID-19 in Nova Scotia. That’s a total of 173 cases in the province. Here’s a look at the graphs of the cases and testing. Read the full article here. 2. Hateful slurs disrupt online gatherings El Jones writes about the increase in […]
Crowded beaches underscore the lack of coastal access
When the pandemic is over, and Nova Scotians can once again go to the beach, do they want to do so in a way that repeats the scenes of mid-March — with the majority crowding together at a handful of public sites — while private landowners dictate access everywhere else?
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. As COVID-19 forces people to re-consider basic aspects of their lives — work, school, the role of government — there’s a question particular to Nova Scotia to contemplate: How easily, in a coastal province, we can actually access the ocean? Two weeks ago, as normal […]
Drive-thrus and social distancing
Customers are not always respecting the risk they're bringing to service people.
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. A manager working at a busy Halifax drive-thru restaurant says despite stringent measures and precautions, she’s concerned about potential community spread of COVID-19 via drive-thrus. That’s why she’s urging members of the public to do their part. “People really think that the drive-thru thing is […]
Graphed: COVID-19 in Nova Scotia, April 1, 2020
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Twenty new people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Nova Scotia, bringing the total to 147. The Halifax Examiner will be publishing these graphs daily, as a separate post. New known cases of COVID-19 by date Total known cases of COVID-19 by date […]
Co-parenting through the pandemic
Family court doesn't want to intervene at this time, so "common sense must prevail."
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. You’ve heard the directives so many times now it seems almost silly to repeat them: Stay at home, limit interactions, stay far apart. But there is one group of people regularly travelling back and forth between households: children with co-parents who don’t live together. In […]
Hateful slurs disrupt online gatherings
As racialized and marginalized communities move online in response to COVID-19, they are increasingly the targets of organized racist and sexist attacks.
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The social isolation measures around COVID-19 have caused communities to adapt quickly to new forms of interacting. As in-person gatherings have shut down, online platforms have become popular places not only for business meetings and university lectures, but also for music performances, information forums, protests, […]
Are Nova Scotian tenants being left behind?
Morning File, Wednesday, April 1, 2020
News 1. COVID-19 numbers Yesterday, Nova Scotia announced results of 738 new tests for COVID-19. Those tests showed 20 new people testing positive, bringing the total number of people who have contracted the disease in Nova Scotia to 147, with four people in hospital, and 10 fully recovered. Check out the rest of Tim’s graphs […]
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