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There’s no meaning in mass murder

Morning File, Monday, May 16, 2022

May 16, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

News 1. Mass murders This morning, we published another article related to the proceedings of the Mass Casualty Commission, headlined “Tech issues bedevilled the RCMP response to the mass murders of 2020.” In this article: • Did the killer listen in on the RCMP’s unencrypted radio calls? • Emergency Response Team had no GPS capability • […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health, Morning File Tagged With: Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program (AIPP), Barbara Adams, Continuing Care Assistants (CCA), Health Association of Nova Scotia (HANS), Immigration, Janet Simm, Jennifer Henderson, Katherine VanBuskirk, long term care (LTC), Mary Lee, Murray Stenton, Northwood, Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC), Shannex

Nursing homes across HRM to get 500 new long-term care beds

February 8, 2022 By Jennifer Henderson Leave a Comment

Barbara Adams, Minister of Seniors and Long-term Care, issued a call for suppliers interested in building 500 new single rooms in nursing homes across the Halifax Regional Municipality. It’s the first major announcement of new construction since the Progressive Conservatives took office and it comes at a time when there are more than 1,900 frail […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health Tagged With: long term care (LTC), nursing homes

COVID clock is ticking on preparing nursing homes for a second wave

November 9, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. The clock is ticking on the potential for a second wave of COVID-19 at long-term care homes in Nova Scotia. The question is, despite what we know now, are we any better prepared to cope than we […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: COVID-19, COVID-19 Resilience Stream, Department of Health, Dr. Chris Lata, long term care (LTC), Marla MacInnis, Northwood review, Nova Scotia Health Authority, nursing homes, Nursing Homes Association of Nova Scotia (NHANS), Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Regional Care Units, Steve Warburton, Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal (TIR)

Eldercare advocacy groups and unions join forces to press for more nursing home funding

October 17, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. For the first time in Nova Scotia, two eldercare advocacy groups have joined forces with unionized healthcare workers to push the provincial government to address chronic labour shortages and underfunding affecting thousands of seniors requiring nursing home care. Below is the coalition’s call to action: […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Advocates for Care of the Elderly (ACE Group), Anne Gillies, Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 Resilience Infrastructure Stream, Ellen Gaudet, Families for Quality Eldercare, Janet Hazelton, Jesslyn Dalton, long term care (LTC), Megan Tonet, Northwood, Nova Scotia Government and General Employees (NSGEU), Nova Scotia Health Coalition (NSHC), Nova Scotia Nurses Union (NSNU), Nova Scotians for Long-term Care Reform, pandemic, Paul Curry, Robert Silverstein, Shannex, Unifor

Province insists nursing homes must admit more residents

October 2, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 3 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Health minister Randy Delorey told reporters after a cabinet meeting yesterday that it is unacceptable for long-term care homes to maintain more than a 3% vacancy rate when the wait list for care has ballooned to over 1,500 elderly people, many of whom are taking […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health, News, Province House Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Dr. Kevin Orrell, Health Minister Randy Delorey, long term care (LTC), Marla MacInnis, Michelle Lowe, Northwood, Northwood review, nursing homes, Nursing Homes Association of Nova Scotia (NHANS), pandemic

Today’s forecast: power outages and falling cranes

Morning File, Tuesday, September 22, 2020

September 22, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Weather There will be weather this afternoon, and then again Wednesday morning. It won’t be as bad as it could be, but will still be plenty powerful. As someone once said: charge your devices and order Chinese food. (Copy link for this item) 2. Expert: GW was not an informant “On Monday, Judge […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: child in car trunk Yarmouth, COVID-19, long term care (LTC), mass shooting murder Portapique, Northwood, Northwood Review Panel, nursing homes, RCMP secrecy

Two reports detail problems at Nova Scotia nursing homes that resulted in mass COVID-19 deaths

But while the recommendations in the Northwood report are public, the findings are not.

September 21, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. COVID-19’s remorseless advance through the Northwood facility in Halifax this spring caused 53 deaths, and exposed gaps in a system which is supposed to protect our most vulnerable citizens. In the wake of those events, the province will spend $26 million over the next year, […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health, News, Province House Tagged With: COVID-19, Dr. Chris Lata, Dr. Lynn Stevenson, Health Minister Randy Delorey, Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC), long term care (LTC), Murray Stenton, NDP leader Gary Burrill, Northwood, Northwood class action lawsuit, Northwood Review Panel, NSGEU, nursing homes, Patsy Rawding, PC leader Tim Houston, Safe ReStart, Shelley Jones

Were it not for COVID, “we probably would have got by for hundreds of years” with double rooms in nursing homes: deputy minister

September 9, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 4 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The legislature’s Health Committee met yesterday for the first time in six months to talk about the government’s response to the pandemic and future preparedness. “All in all, we have fared well,” said Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Robert Strang, pointing to just a […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: colorectal cancer screening, COVID-19, Dr. Kevin Orrell, Dr. Robert Strang, Dr. Shelley McNeil, Health Committee, long term care (LTC), mammograms, Michele Lowe, MLA Susan Leblanc, Northwood, Nursing Homes of Nova Scotia Association (NHNSA), PC leader Tim Houston

Michael Bryant has deleted his dickish tweet about Atlantic Canada and replaced it with a dickish apology

Morning File, Thursday, August 6, 2020

August 6, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

News 1. Mass murder investigation Jennifer Henderson tells me that in the not-for-attribution technical briefing on the provincial budget update, reporters were told that as of May 30, an extra $3.2 million was spent to hire additional RCMP officers and civilians to investigate the mass murders of April 18/19. Those additional police investigators included 30 […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: body cameras, Canadian Civil Liberties Association, cells data, dickish tweet, gun violence, Information to Obtain (ITO), long term care (LTC), mass murder investigation, Michael Bryant, Portapique mass shooting murder spree, RCMP investigation, self-isolation, virtual meetings

PCs promise fix for long-term care

August 5, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson Leave a Comment

Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative leader Tim Houston held an outdoor news conference in front of the Melville Heights seniors’ home in Halifax today. Houston is promising to Nova Scotians that if they elect his party to form the next government, he will create 2,500 single rooms in nursing homes over the next three years. About […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: assisted living, Continuing Care Assistants (CCA), COVID-19, health care workers, Homes for Special Care Act, long term care (LTC), Melville Heights, Nova Scotia Nurses Union, nursing homes, PC leader Tim Houston, PC MLA Barbara Adams, supportive housing

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PRICED OUT

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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

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

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