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Dr. Lisa Barrett: ‘Every day that we live through this we’re ticking off more immunity’

January 27, 2022 By Yvette d'Entremont 1 Comment

As we slog through yet another pandemic winter, many are exhausted by the never-ending nature of it and weary of the ongoing uncertainty. The Halifax Examiner reached out to Dalhousie University infectious disease specialist, physician and researcher Dr. Lisa Barrett to talk about this current wave, people’s fears, and why she believes there’s light at […]

Filed Under: COVID, Featured, Health, News Tagged With: COVID-19, Dalhousie University, Dr. Lisa Barrett, endemic, infectious disease, long COVID, Omicron, Paxlovid, schools, subvariant BA.2, Yvette d'Entremont

There hasn’t yet been a COVID outbreak in Nova Scotia’s jails, but it could still happen

Morning File, Friday, September 11, 2020

September 11, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

News 1. COVID-19 and provincial jails Provincial jails have not seen a major breakout of COVID-19. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the jails have improperly infringed on prisoners’ rights, and the programs, policies, and supports that were implemented in order to prevent COVID infections in jails have been defunded; as a […]

Filed Under: COVID, Featured, Morning File Tagged With: 911 attacks, Amanda McDougall, Archie MacKinnon, Blindspot: The Road to 911, Cape Breton Autonomy Group, CBRM, Chris Abbass, COVID-19 in prison, COVID-19 in provincial jails, decarceration, Dr. Adelina Iftene, Dr. Lisa Barrett, Jim O'Grady, John Howard Society Nova Scotia (JHSNS), Kevin MacEachern, Mary Campbell, mayoral candidates, pandemic, racism Queens County

Nova Scotia’s Director of Correctional Services suggests that being in jail is safer than being in the broader community. That’s just false

March 29, 2020 By El Jones 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. In a letter submitted to the courts, John Scoville, the Director of Correctional Services, outlines protective measures taken to avoid a outbreak of COVID-19, and then ends with the suggestion that being in jail is safer than being in the broader community during the pandemic: […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Dr. Claire Bodkin, Dr. Lisa Barrett, Dr. Nanky Rai, Dr. Robert Strang, jail during pandemic, John Scoville, Nova Scotia Corrections, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), prison during pandemic, Senator Kim Pate, Stan MacDonald, Trevor McGuigan

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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