There’s no need to panic about Nova Scotia’s current COVID-19 situation. But using N95 and KN95 masks instead of cloth and medical masks in public won’t hurt, and you should be worrying more about the number of people at your holiday gatherings instead of how many are grabbing food from the same plate of hors […]
How not to handle homelessness
Morning File, Wednesday, June 23, 2021
News 1. Halifax police officer testifies he didn’t think Corey Rogers needed medical assistance “One of the officers who arrested Corey Rogers the night he died testified Tuesday that although Rogers was intoxicated and needed to be dragged into his cell, he didn’t think the 41-year-old needed medical attention,” writes Zane Woodford in his continuing […]
“A crisis that hits any part of the world or segment of society also affects us”
Morning File, Tuesday, June 22, 2021
News 1. At the time of Corey Rogers’ death, HRP had no policy on spit hoods, and officers had no training in using the hood place on him Zane Woodford reports on the first day of the Police Review Board hearing into the conduct of the three officers who arrested Corey Rogers in June 2016. […]
Commence Phase 2: waking up from COVID fatigue
Morning File, Wednesday, June 16, 2021
No excuse to skip the gym this morning, Halifax… News 1. COVID-19: the road to reopening continues Why not have a few friends over for dinner tonight? At 8 o’clock this morning, Nova Scotia moved into “Phase 2” of its reopening plan, easing some of the province’s current public health restrictions. The news was officially […]
The Oblates ignored the stories and abuse at residential schools
Morning File, Wednesday, June 9, 2021
News 1. Gold and silver awards for Examiner contributors at the Atlantic Journalism Awards Congratulations to the members of the Examiner team who won gold and silver at yesterday’s Atlantic Journalism Awards. Rather than being held in-person, of course, the event was online, with winners announced via YouTube videos. Yvette d’Entremont won gold in the […]
Exploring the evidence, ethics, and pitfalls around vaccine certificates
"Everybody who cannot get one of these documents is going to experience a decrease in freedom relative to what others in the population can do," bioethicist says
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. At some point in the not too distant future, vaccine certificates are expected to be a requirement for international travel. But what should they look like and what issues must be taken into consideration? Dalhousie University Research […]
Can we finally hope to hope?
We have a new provincial government that at least seems to be making the right progressive noises. COVID-19 vaccines are headed our way. And spring is in the air...
The first hint that the change of Nova Scotia government might be more than a simple shuffling of shop-worn deck chairs did not come from the new government. It landed on the day before Iain Rankin was even sworn in as premier. On Feb. 22, Bay Ferries Ltd. issued a “media advisory,” publicly releasing information...
‘Saving lives is more important than business’
Last week's pre-emptive response to our latest COVID spike from many local restaurants, bars and small businesses — all of which are suffering financially — was encouraging. And should encourage the rest of us to do our part too.
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. What intrigued me about Stephen McNeil’s “time to take some tough measures… wake-up call” on COVID at his briefing last Tuesday afternoon was not the premier’s own stay-the-blazes-home-again announcement, but the pronouncements that preceded it. On Monday, […]
Reacting to a COVID cluster of 9 cases in Clayton Park, province imposes new restrictions on households of travellers
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. The flurry of advisories of potential COVID exposures over the weekend is related to a cluster of nine interrelated cases in Clayton Park, Dr. Robert Strang, Nova Scotia’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, said at a news […]
The housing crisis on the South Shore
Morning File, Wednesday, November 4, 2020
It’s November and that means it’s subscription drive time here at the Halifax Examiner. Your subscriptions are what support the Examiner and its writers. So, I’m writing today’s Morning File because of your support. I started reading the Examiner in its early days when it was a one-man show with Tim writing Morning Files and […]
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