The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Don’t the early months of the pandemic feel like an awful long time ago? I remember the first few times I went to Halifax to get groceries. I hadn’t driven anywhere in about 10 days, and the whole experience was exhausting. I lined up to […]
The pandemic diaries
Thousands of Nova Scotians are documenting their daily lives through the coronavirus crisis
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. What do you miss most about pre-pandemic life? What worries you? How do you feel about the reopening? Has the pandemic provided any silver linings? These are just some of the questions being asked by St. Francis Xavier University psychology professor Karen Blair as part […]
Stable owners look to feds to pony up with financial help
Morning File, Thursday, April 30, 2020
News 1.“COVID cluster” info misleads health care providers — and the public Tim Bousquet looks at all the “Covid clusters” the Nova Scotia Health Authority has mapped and how they are being used by healthcare providers. The information in those clusters is being used to deny people medical attention. Bousquet got the list of 10 […]
The PDA fix: public displays of affection could improve your health
Researcher Karen Blair was in Toronto’s gay village recently counting the number of couples walking by holding hands. Over one 15-minute period, researchers saw nine mixed sex couples walk by holding hands and just one same sex couple. “Even just realizing that 10 years after same sex marriage has been legalized, same sex couples in Canada are still not equally comfortable holding hands — that’s still saying something.”
Will a little PDA keep the doctor away? Public displays of affection like hand holding, hugging, or smooching on the street corner are coming under the microscope at St. Francis Xavier University, where Karen Blair, an assistant professor of psychology, is trying to determine how they affect human health. “My overall hypothesis is generally that...