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“There’s no need to panic right now”

Consider using N95 and KN95 masks in public, follow new gathering limits, and get tested regularly, Halifax-based epidemiologist Kevin Wilson advises Nova Scotians.

December 14, 2021 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: COVID, Featured Tagged With: Antigonish, COVID masks, COVID-19, Delta, Dr. Robert Strang, epidemiologist, epidemiology, Kevin Wilson, kn95, n95, Nova Scotia, Omicron, rapid testing, Yvette d'Entremont

What’s the deal with Ivermectin and COVID?

A Q&A with Dr. Edward Mills, the principal investigator in the TOGETHER Trial, a Canada-led clinical trial evaluating the role of Ivermectin and other repurposed drugs

June 14, 2021 By Linda Pannozzo 6 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. According to Dr. Edward Mills, the TOGETHER Trial is one of the largest randomized clinical trials in the world evaluating the effectiveness of repurposed drugs, such as ivermectin, in the early treatment of COVID-19.  Mills is the principal investigator in the trial and […]

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Mundane and extraordinary mysteries

Morning File, Thursday, May 14, 2020

May 14, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 5 Comments

News 1. Don’t start stressing out over who will be part of your “bubble family” yet Jennifer Henderson covered yesterday’s COVID-19 briefing for the Halifax Examiner, and reports that we shouldn’t expect the province to adopt the bubble family concept anytime soon. (The idea behind bubble families is that you choose one or two other […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: bubble families, coronavirus, COVID-19, Emma Wilkie, epidemiology, Halifax Stanfield International Airport, Helen Branswell, influenza, journalism, local media, local news, local newspapers, Maclean's, mass murder shooting spree, Ministry of Mundane Mysteries, Northwood, Outside the March, pandemic, Premier Stephen McNeil, Project Pandemic, RCMP inquiry, Spanish flu, Stephen Mayer

Daily COVID-19 update: The grim math of epidemiology

April 8, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Thirty-two new people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Nova Scotia, bringing the total to 342. Eleven people are currently hospitalized, and five of those are in Intensive Care Units (ICU); 77 people have fully recovered; and one person has died. The Halifax Examiner graphs […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Cape Breton Regional Hospital (CBRH), coronavirus, COVID-19 testing, Daily COVID-19 update, Dawn Foster, Dr. Robert Strang, epidemiology, Nicole Sullivan, pandemic, restrictive measures, social distancing

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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