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Strang: “We may well have had the peak”

Morning File, Wednesday, April 29, 2020

April 29, 2020 By Erica Butler 7 Comments

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, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brad Anguish, Brendan Elliott, coronavirus, councillor Bill Karsten, Councillor David Hendsbee, councillor Matt Whitman, councillor Shawn Cleary, Councillor Stephen Adams, councillor Steve Streatch, COVID-19, Dr. Brendan Carr, Dr. Robert Strang, easing restrictions, hospitals, household bubbles, intensive care, Jacques Dubé, Jennifer Russell, Larry Haiven, Lean Healthcare, Mayor Bill de Blasio, murder shooting spree timeline, New Brunswick, Northwood, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), pandemic, pedestrian safety, reopening hospitals, Saskatchewan, social distancing, Sue Goyette

Hospitals empty beds before wave of COVID-19 admissions

April 2, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia (AHANS), Alternate Level of Care (ALC), coronavirus, COVID-19, Department of Community Services (DCS), Department of Health and Wellness (DHW), Dr. Brendan Carr, hospitals, intensive care, Jim Graham, Lynette MacLeod, Minister Randy Delorey, North End Community Health Clinic, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), pandemic

COVID-19: who should live and who could die?

We need to have that discussion, even if none of us want to. But we also need to have a larger conversation about the societal changes we need to make to make a better, more liveable world for the future.

March 22, 2020 By Stephen Kimber 4 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Last week, a friend emailed me with what he suggested was an idea for an Examiner column. I’d been meaning to contact him. We usually get together a few times a year for lunch and the opportunity to share our inevitably smarter-than-those-in-charge solutions to the […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: coronavirus, coronavirus in Italy, COVID-19, intensive care, Lisa Rosenbaum, vulnerable populations, Yascha Monk

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Brian Borcherdt. Photo: Anna Edwards-Borcherdt

Brian Borcherdt came of age in Yarmouth in the 1990s. When he arrived in Halifax, the city’s famous music scene was already waning, and worse, the music he made was rejected by the cool kids anyway. After decades away from Nova Scotia, he and his young family have settled in the Annapolis Valley, where he’ll zoom in to chat with Tara about his band Holy Fuck’s endlessly delayed tour, creating the Dependent Music collective, and the freedom and excitement of the improvised music he’s making now. Plus: Bringing events back in 2021.

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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.

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