Today, many businesses that have been shuttered since March re-opened their doors. But it was far from business as usual. The Halifax Examiner spoke with several owners about what the new normal looks like. It wasn’t yet 10am on Friday and eight people had already tried to get into Carlos Barbershop without an appointment. Less […]
COVID-19 update: No new cases, drive-in celebrations allowed for Nova Scotia high school grads
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. With no new COVID-19 cases announced Friday, Nova Scotia’s chief medical officer of health is loosening up the rules to let communities hold drive-in high school graduation celebrations. Dr. Robert Strang announced the plan during Friday’s COVID-19 briefing with Premier Stephen McNeil after both […]
Caregivers stressed about return to work with no childcare
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Parents and caregivers struggling with a lack of childcare options as the economy reopens tomorrow have started sharing their stories via an online form set up by the Nova Scotia NDP. While services like salons, barber shops, spas, gyms and dine-in restaurants shut down since […]
Today’s COVID-19 update: Stephen McNeil says people should go back to work even if they’d receive more money by staying home
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The province’s COVID-19 media briefing on Wednesday was heavily focused on Friday’s reopening of services like salons, barber shops, spas and dine-in restaurants shut down since March. “Today’s another good day in terms of cases,” Premier Stephen McNeil said, opening the briefing with the announcement […]
For the first time since the outbreak started, Nova Scotia announces no new known cases of COVID-19
Gathering limits are increased from 5 people to 10 people.
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The first three known cases of COVID-19 in Nova Scotia were announced on March 15, for testing conducted the previous day. Every day since then, there have been announcements of more cases, with a one-day high of 55 new known cases on April 22. The […]
Halifax councillors consider saving snow shovelling from COVID-19 cuts
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Councillors hope to save a program that makes for more comprehensive snow clearing on the Halifax peninsula. During a budget committee meeting on Friday — the continuation of the rebuilding of the city’s recast COVID-19 budget with $85 million in cuts — councillors voted in […]
“Bubble families” unlikely for Nova Scotia
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. It will be sometime next week before Nova Scotians get a glimpse of how restrictions will be eased once the province has gone two weeks without a new case of COVID-19. The Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Robert Strang, said he expects to be […]
Daily COVID-19 update: Nova Scotia eases restrictions; parks are open, but beaches and playgrounds remain closed
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 […]
Strang: “We may well have had the peak”
Morning File, Wednesday, April 29, 2020
News 1. Murderer escaped Portapique within 10 minutes of police arriving Tim Bousquet provides an update on what we know about the mass murder which started in Portapique, Nova Scotia on April 18, based on new information released yesterday by RCMP Support Services Officer Darren Campbell. New information includes: • 435 witnesses have been identified, […]