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Researcher: nursing home COVID deaths reveal “fault lines” in care for elderly

May 6, 2020 By Yvette d'Entremont 3 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. A Halifax researcher is hoping the tragic toll COVID-19 has taken on long-term care residents provides an opportunity to address and fix long standing “fault lines” in the system.  “I’m just beside myself. I think the tragedy in my mind is that this pandemic in […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, elder care, Harbourstone Enhanced Care, Janice Keefe, long term care (LTC), Northwood, pandemic

The nursing home “expert advisory panel” is prohibited from recommending radical or costly changes

September 6, 2018 By Jennifer Henderson

When law enforcement agencies confront a potentially dangerous situation which they need to defuse quickly, they send in a Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) team. When governments face a potentially damaging political issue they create a panel. After the deaths of three former nursing home residents linked to badly infected bedsores, months of mounting complaints...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Advocates for the Care of the Elderly (ACE), bedsores, Cheryl Smith, Gary MacLeod, Greg Archibald, Health and Wellness Minister Randy Delorey, Janice Keefe, Jennifer Henderson, Long Term Care, NDP leader Gary Burrill, nursing homes, Protection of Persons in Care Act, Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI)

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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