• Black Nova Scotia
  • Courts
  • Economy
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Health
    • COVID
  • Investigation
  • Journalism
  • Labour
  • Policing
  • Politics
    • City Hall
    • Elections
    • Province House
  • Profiles
  • Transportation
  • Women
  • Morning File
  • Commentary
  • PRICED OUT
  • @Tim_Bousquet
  • Log In

Halifax Examiner

An independent, adversarial news site in Halifax, NS

  • Home
  • About
    • Terms and Conditions
    • Commenting policy
  • Archives
  • Contact us
  • Subscribe
    • Gift Subscriptions
  • Donate
  • Swag
  • Receipts
  • Manage your account: update card / change level / cancel

COVID-19 update: Northwood residents are still dying, and still being infected, despite an emergency plan announced four weeks ago

May 15, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Today, the province announced that four more residents of Northwood have died with COVID-19. That brings the total number of coronavirus-related deaths at the nursing home to 49, and the provincial total (including Northwood) to 55. At today’s briefing, Dr. Robert Strang, the province’s chief […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: coronavirus, Daily COVID-19 update, Dr. Robert Strang, Northwood, pandemic

Share, but don’t scare with, the COVID-19 information

Morning File, Wednesday, May 13, 2020

May 13, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 5 Comments

News The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. 1. COVID-19 update Mary Campbell at the Cape Breton Spectator gives us the daily update on COVID-19. Dr. Robert Strang announced just one new positive case of COVID-19, and fortunately no new deaths. Here are the numbers: Total new cases: 1 Total cases: 1,020 Total hospitalized: 9 […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: anti-Chinese racism, basic income, Brad Anguish, Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), Caremongering-HFX, Carly Robinson, coronavirus, Councillor Lindell Smith, COVID-19, COVID-19 fraud, Daily COVID-19 update, David Leonard, Dr. Robert Strang, Erin Bromage, Institute for Canadian Citizenship, Jamie Cooke, Jeff Thomson, Kathryn Hill, Kelly Denty, Laura Cattari, Mary Campbell, Mary Chisholm, masks, MediaSmarts, misinformation, Northwood, Nova Scotia Plant Fairies, Nova Scotia Wine Fairies, pandemic, Paul Davis, scams, Scott Santens, Senator Kim Pate, Social Policy Framework, Southern Ontario Basic Income Experience, Stacy Lee, Tamarack Institute, The Walrus Magazine, wine mommy

Daily COVID-19 update: hospitals may soon resume services that were put on hold in anticipation of huge coronavirus caseload that hasn’t materialized

May 6, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. All seven new cases of COVID-19 reported by the province today are at Northwood. There are no new deaths. The total number of positive diagnoses across Nova Scotia stands at 998 but two-thirds of these people are now recovered. The majority of active cases (211 […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: coronavirus, Daily COVID-19 update, Dr. Robert Strang, Janet Simm, Northwood, Nova Scotia Government & General Employees Union (NSGEU), pandemic, Premier Stephen McNeil

Daily COVID-19 update: Three more deaths at Northwood, but Strang defends the facility

May 5, 2020 By Zane Woodford 2 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Northwood did everything it could to limit the spread of COVID-19, said Nova Scotia’s chief public health officer, even as the province announced three more deaths at the facility. “It’s tragic,” Dr. Robert Strang said during Tuesday’s COVID-19 update. “It breaks my heart when I […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: coronavirus, Daily COVID-19 update, Dr. Robert Strang, Northwood, pandemic, Premier Stephen McNeil

Daily COVID-19 update: Nova Scotia eases restrictions; parks are open, but beaches and playgrounds remain closed

May 1, 2020 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. One more person at Northwood has died with COVID-19, the 23rd resident of that nursing home to die with the disease. A total of 29 people in Nova Scotia have died with the disease, including the 23 at Northwood. As of today, there have been […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Daily COVID-19 update, Dr. Robert Strang, easing restrictions, Kent Martin, Northwood

Daily COVID-19 update: Three more Northwood residents have died from the disease

April 28, 2020 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Three new COVID-19-related deaths were announced by the province on Tuesday, all having occurred at Northwood long-term care home in Halifax. That brings the total number of deaths to 27. The province also announced 15 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing Nova Scotia’s total to […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19 testing, Daily COVID-19 update, domestic violence, Domestic Violence Death Review Committee, Dr. Robert Strang, health care workers, homeless housing, Long Term Care, mass shooting murder Portapique, Minister Chuck Porter, Minister Kelly Regan, Minister Mark Furey, Mobile Outreach Street Health (MOSH), Northwood, pandemic, pandemic premium, Premier Stephen McNeil

Calling connected devices “smart” is propaganda

Morning File, Tuesday, April 28, 2020

April 28, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 3 Comments

News 1. Daily COVID-19 update (sans briefing) There hasn’t been a provincial COVID-19 briefing since Friday, but the province has continued to release numbers daily. The Cape Breton Spectator’s Mary Campbell has generously given the Examiner permission to republish info from her daily COVID-19 update. Here are yesterday’s numbers, from Campbell: Numbers Total new cases: 27 […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alicia Draus, Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety, Cape Breton Spectator, coronavirus, Daily COVID-19 update, David Fraser, digital legacy, Dr. Monika Dutt, Dr. Robert Strang, Francis Campbell, Halifax Transit, Jennifer Watts, Mary Campbell, missing people, museums, Olivia Malley, pandemic, Petnet feeder, Portia Clark, school reopening, Shaina Luck, smart appliances, smarthome, social media, worker safety, workplace deaths

Daily COVID-19 update: 18 of the 24 Nova Scotians who have died with the disease were residents of Northwood

April 26, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The COVID-19-related deaths of seven more residents of the Northwood nursing home were announced over the weekend, bringing the total number of deaths from the disease at the facility to 18. That’s three-quarters of all 24 COVID-19-related deaths in Nova Scotia. The disease may take […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: coronavirus, Daily COVID-19 update, Northwood, pandemic

Daily COVID-19 update: Four more seniors have died with the disease

April 23, 2020 By Yvette d'Entremont 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The province announced 55 new COVID-19 cases in the province on Thursday afternoon, the largest single- day increase so far. There were also four more deaths associated with the disease, all reported at long-term care facilities. Three deaths occurred at the Northwood long-term care facility […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: coronavirus, Daily COVID-19 update, Dr. Robert Strang, emergency alert system, Greg Mercer, Northwood, pandemic, Premier Stephen McNeil

Daily COVID-19 update: Northwood outlines its plan

April 20, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Forty-six new cases of COVID-19 were identified yesterday, the highest number since the pandemic arrived in mid-March. Thirty-six of the 46 cases are at Northwood’s Long-Term Care facility in Halifax. Nova Scotia now has a total of 721 confirmed cases. Twelve people are currently in […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Continuing Care Assistants (CCA), coronavirus, Daily COVID-19 update, Janet Simm, Josie Ryan, Long Term Care, Northwood, nursing homes, pandemic

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • Next Page »

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.

Subscribe to the podcast to get episodes automatically downloaded to your device — there’s a great instructional article here. Email Suzanne for help.

You can reach Tara here.

Sign up for email notification

Sign up to receive email notification when we publish new Morning Files and Weekend Files. Note: signing up for this email is NOT the same as subscribing to the Halifax Examiner. To subscribe, click here.

Recent posts

  • Weekend File, July 2, 2022 July 2, 2022
  • Nova Scotia’s second busiest emergency department is dealing with record-breaking overcapacity June 30, 2022
  • What’s the “one small habit” that keeps a man organized? A wife June 30, 2022
  • Stuck on stick: clinging to the manual in an automatic world June 29, 2022
  • Halifax council votes to plan for Centennial Pool replacement, support universal basic income, and more June 28, 2022

Commenting policy

All comments on the Halifax Examiner are subject to our commenting policy. You can view our commenting policy here.

Copyright © 2022