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Is it time for more nurses in schools?

September 4, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Nova Scotia has a long history of school nurses. But their role has decreased as schools turn to other health professionals. And in the midst of a pandemic, that may be a problem. “Nurses have this ability to to look at the individual child — […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: COVID-19, Doug Hadley, Halifax Regional Centre for Education (HRCE), Lesley Mulcahy, Martha Paynter, MLA Claudia Chender, MLA Tim Halman, pandemic, Relentless School Nurse blog, Robin Cogan, school nurses, Women's Wellness Within

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

A tale of two protests

While officials moved quickly to respond to student protests about the cancellation of high school rugby, they were quick to erect roadblocks when students wanted to protest climate change.

May 5, 2019 By Stephen Kimber

“In my view, kids should be in class.” Premier Stephen McNeil March 2019 “Something is happening here But you don’t know what it is, Do you, Mr. Jones?” Ballad of a Thin Man Bob Dylan (1965) One Friday. Two student protests. Two very different (immediate) results. On Friday at noon — less than 24 hours...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Education, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Citadel High School, climate change, Doug Hadley, Education Minister Zach Churchill, Extinction Rebellion Nova Scotia, Fridays for Future, Greta Thunberg, Ivan Andreou, Joe Morrison, Premier Stephen McNeil, rugby, student activism, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Willa Fisher

School board to close Dartmouth and Bedford classrooms for refugees and immigrants learning English

February 8, 2017 By Jennifer Henderson

Nearly 200 adult immigrant students are taking a democratic action that many people born in this country never have. They’ve have signed petitions addressed to local Liberal Members of Parliament, Nova Scotia Immigration Minister Lena Diab, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau begging for their help in keeping an English language program going in its present...

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Filed Under: Education, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Belal Alhamwi, Doug Hadley, English as an Additional Language (EAL), Forsyth Education Centre, Gerry Mills, Immigrant Settlement Association of Nova Scotia, Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada, IRCC, ISANS, layoff notices

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

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Episode 80 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Singer-songwriter Willie Stratton has wandered a number of genre paths, starting with raw acoustic folk as a teen phenom, moving through surf rock as Beach Bait, and landing in a Roy Orbison-style classic country on his new album Drugstore Dreamin’. Ahead of his release show at the Marquee on Friday, he stops in to explain why mixing influences makes the best art, how he approaches the guitar, and what he likes about his day job as a barber.

Listen to the episode here.

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