Step out of lockdown and into “PHASE 1” of reopening, Nova Scotia. May we never look back … News 1. COVID-19 update Reopening, “Phase 1” As of 8am today, lockdown restrictions in Nova Scotia are lightening (slightly). We’re now in “phase 1” of the province’s reopening plan. Among the changes in restrictions: You can now […]
The Pandemic Diaries: we weren’t so great about mask-wearing and struggled with relationships
Strengths, vulnerabilities, and our changing attitudes towards masks highlighted in new reports.
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 […]
Prisoners, acting mostly on their own, are changing the legal landscape of Nova Scotia’s jails
Today, Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Kevin Coady published a decision, saying that the way two prisoners at the Burnside Jail are being held in solitary confinement is unfair, and he wants the jail administrators to address the situation, and if they don’t within 14 days, he wants to see the prisoners in court, potentially […]
Child’s play: kids’ physical activity levels are plummeting during pandemic
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. A national survey suggesting physical activity levels of Canadian children plummeted during the pandemic has researchers hoping the summer serves as a reboot for families. The survey was published last week in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. Tilted ‘Impact of the […]
Why we need a full public inquiry into the Nova Scotia massacre
Is it a crazy idea that the Nova Scotian mass murderer was a police informant? Consider the historic context: while he was an RCMP informant, Dany Kane killed 11 people.
We are now about to enter our fourth month since that horrendous weekend of April 18-19, when 22 people were murdered in an unprecedented rampage in Nova Scotia by the madman denturist the Halifax Examiner is identifying as “GW.” From the outset we’ve known two things: 1) GW was a psychopathic, revenge-seeking maniac and 2) […]
Report: Canadians plan to avoid restaurants ‘for the foreseeable future’
Take-out and delivery kept many businesses afloat throughout the pandemic, but we're more wary when it comes to dining-in.
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. We may have embraced ordering take-out and delivery food throughout the pandemic, but a majority of Canadians say dining in at restaurants is off the table for the foreseeable future. That’s one of the takeaways of a new survey released Tuesday. The COVID-19 restaurant survey […]
“Bubble families” unlikely for Nova Scotia
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. It will be sometime next week before Nova Scotians get a glimpse of how restrictions will be eased once the province has gone two weeks without a new case of COVID-19. The Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Robert Strang, said he expects to be […]
Hanna Garson: a young lawyer dedicated to the long, slow fight for prison justice
It’s a Tuesday morning, and I’m sitting in courtroom 302 of the Halifax Supreme Court watching two prisoners, Geevan Nagendran and Tyquan Downey, face the lawyer for the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility (Burnside). I text Hanna Garson, “I’m watching the most upsetting habeas in court right now.” She texts back, “what courtroom?” Two minutes […]
Three men say they were sexually abused as teenagers at the Nova Scotia Youth Training Centre
Morning File, Friday, September 7, 2018
News 1. Child sex abuse Three men allege that they were sexually abused as teenagers when they were housed at the Nova Scotia Youth Training Centre in Bible Hill. The Nova Scotia Youth Training Centre was an institution for young people with mental disabilities. I’m withholding the men’s full names until and unless they want to be […]