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It was ground zero for coronavirus deaths in Nova Scotia, but now Northwood is recovering

June 13, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The CEO of Northwood says the Halifax long-term care facility is entering a recovery period. COVID-19 swept through the nursing home, infecting 345 residents and staff. Fifty-three people died. As of this past week, Northwood now has no active cases. Two dozen elderly residents who […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Department of Health and Wellness (DHW), Janet Simm, Josie Ryan, long term care (LTC), masks, NDP leader Gary Burrill, Northwood, Northwood class action lawsuit, NSGEU, pandemic, physical distancing, Premier Stephen McNeil

45 Northwood residents have died with COVID-19

The disease has now spread into the non-nursing home part of the complex, apparently via a room for smokers.

May 13, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 3 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The death toll continues to climb at the Northwood nursing home in Halifax. Northwood CEO Janet Simm and Executive Director Josie Ryan held an online briefing today to report three more residents have died, bringing the total to 45 at the 485-bed complex. Equally discouraging […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, EHS, Glen Haven Manor, Janet Simm, Josie Ryan, long term care (LTC), Manor Smoke Room, masks, NATIONAL Public Relations, Northwood, NS Health Authority, nursing homes, pandemic, Shannex, VON

There are still 152 active cases of COVID-19 among Northwood residents

May 6, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Northwood is in the process of creating more private rooms to try to prevent the death toll from climbing further. Thirty-five residents have died from COVID-19 and Northwood CEO Janet Simm acknowledged during a news briefing this afternoon that grim number may go higher, given […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 testing, Janet Simm, Josie Ryan, Northwood, pandemic

Daily COVID-19 update: Northwood outlines its plan

April 20, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Forty-six new cases of COVID-19 were identified yesterday, the highest number since the pandemic arrived in mid-March. Thirty-six of the 46 cases are at Northwood’s Long-Term Care facility in Halifax. Nova Scotia now has a total of 721 confirmed cases. Twelve people are currently in […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Continuing Care Assistants (CCA), coronavirus, Daily COVID-19 update, Janet Simm, Josie Ryan, Long Term Care, Northwood, nursing homes, pandemic

Northwood Manor reserves an entire floor for residents who may contract COVID-19

The disease is now appearing in nursing homes across the province, but the province won't say what policies are being implemented to protect residents who remain healthy.

March 31, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The confirmed COVID-19 infection of four staff and two residents at three other nursing homes in the province has prompted Northwood Inc. to step up its preparations. With 485 beds at its Halifax location, Northwood is one of the largest nursing home operators in Nova […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: care homes, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dr. Robert Strang, Josie Ryan, Katherine VanBuskirk, Lewis Hall, Magnolia Manor, Northwood, pandemic, R.K. MacDonald Nursing Home, Shannex, Shannon Kerr, 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

Two young white women, one with dark hair and one blonde, smile at the camera on a sunny spring day.

Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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