The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Maria Boutilier started working in the housekeeping department at the Halifax Infirmary in the fall of 2019. Back then, she didn’t know that in several months she’d be working on the frontline of a pandemic. Boutilier has worked in various roles at the QEII for […]
Frontline workers: Doctors
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Anyone going to the emergency department at the Halifax Infirmary will notice some changes. First, you’ll go through a pre-triage process in the vestibule at the front doors. There, two nurses will screen for COVID-19 symptoms. Patients showing symptoms are sent directly to a room […]
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, […]
Hospitals empty beds before wave of COVID-19 admissions
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The arrival of COVID-19 has increased the pressure on the Department of Health, the Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), and the Department of Community Services to empty out long-stay patients to make room for an expected surge of hospitalizations. Two dozen new cases a day […]