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Nurses aren’t signing up for jobs despite Nova Scotia Health’s offer of bonuses

June 16, 2022 By Jennifer Henderson 5 Comments

While tens of thousands of patients wait for their postponed elective surgeries to be rescheduled, Nova Scotia Health (NSH), which operates the acute care system, continues to struggle to find enough staff and beds to deal with the backlog. According to data from NSH, two months ago there were approximately 1,555 vacancies for registered nurses […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health, Province House Tagged With: Brendan Elliott, Christian Dubé, Department of Health and Wellness, GEM, Health minister Michelle Thompson, Jennifer Henderson, licensed practical nurses, Long Term Care, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Health, nurses, Ocean View Continuing Care Centre, Quebec, registered nurses, Shannex

NS budget: big spending on health care, new taxes on non-residents

March 29, 2022 By Jennifer Henderson 2 Comments

The PCs got elected on a promise to “fix health care” and they warned it would be expensive. The operating budget for 2022-2023 predicts a deficit or shortfall of $506.2 million. Spending on health care has increased $413.4 million from last year to reach $5.7 billion. During last summer’s election campaign, Tim Houston said it […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health Tagged With: Allan MacMaster, budget, health care, Jennifer Henderson, Long Term Care, Nova Scotia, Premier Tim Houston, Vicky Levack

Home care in NS needs more funding, resources, and attention, CCPA-NS researcher says

March 2, 2022 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

A Nova Scotia researcher says the provincial government must do more to improve home care services in the province. “More and more people are calling for home care as an alternative to long term care, and yet we’re not seeing the funding and resources or even the media attention there,” Mary Jean Hande said in […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health Tagged With: acute care, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS), CARP Nova Scotia, CCAs, home care, home care Manitoba, home care Nova Scotia, Long Term Care, Mary Jean Hande, Monitor Mag, Tim Houston, Yvette d'Entremont

Province to spend $96.5 million to renovate nursing homes, add new long-term care beds

Rankin: renovations to include replacing shared bathrooms, adding single rooms to add "greater focus on infection prevention and control."

July 9, 2021 By Jennifer Henderson 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. On Friday, Premier Iain Rankin announced plans to spend $96.5 million to renovate 17 long-term care facilities across the province and add 264 new nursing home beds in the long-term care homes in Nova Scotia Health’s Central […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health Tagged With: COVID-19, Department of Health and Wellness, Gary Burrill, Jennifer Henderson, Long Term Care, Melville Lodge, Mike Kelloway, Northwood, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Health Central Zone, Nova Scotia Liberals, PC leader Tim Houston, Premier Iain Rankin, seniors

Commence Phase 2: waking up from COVID fatigue

Morning File, Wednesday, June 16, 2021

June 16, 2021 By Ethan Lycan-Lang 5 Comments

No excuse to skip the gym this morning, Halifax… News 1. COVID-19: the road to reopening continues Why not have a few friends over for dinner tonight? At 8 o’clock this morning, Nova Scotia moved into “Phase 2” of its reopening plan, easing some of the province’s current public health restrictions. The news was officially […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Atlantic bubble, bars, Blaine and Tracey Hefler, Camp Mockingee, COVID-19, Dr. Robert Strang, Ethan Lycan-Lang, fully vaccinated, Long Term Care, Lucasville, Lucasville Community Association, Lucasville Road, masks, museums, North West Community Council, Nova Scotia, Phase 2, Phase 3, Phase 4, Phase 5, Pisiquid Canoe Club, Premier Iain Rankin, reopening, reopening plan, restaurants, restrictions, school buses, Shayne Vipond, social distancing, Timber Trails Mobile Park, Tourism, travel, vaccinated, vaccines, Windsoe

Northwood Inquiry? No need. McNeil and Delorey have this. Uh…

Fifty-three residents died in Northwood's long-term care home during COVID-19. Long-term care residents accounted for 92 per cent of all COVID-19 deaths in Nova Scotia. And yet the premier sees no need for a public inquiry, legislative oversight, legislation... anything. Does that make you feel better?

June 21, 2020 By Stephen Kimber 9 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Nothing to see here folks. Nothing to talk about. Nothing to know you need to know because… well, you know. And even if there was, we shouldn’t. We can’t. Know. You know… “Our committees unanimously voted to adjourn and suspend committee meetings,” explained the Explainer-in-Chief […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House Tagged With: COVID-19, Health Minister Randy Delorey, Long Term Care, Northwood, Stephen McNeil

Shiny budget surpluses versus investing in long-term care

Our current crisis in long-term care, now in the spotlight because of COVID-19, is the result of lots of choices governments have made. We need a public inquiry to hold them accountable, and to make sure our long-term care future is better than its past.

May 31, 2020 By Stephen Kimber

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Choices? Crushing health care unions versus investing in long-term care? Slashing $8 million from the provincial budget for grants to long-term health care facilities versus investing in long-term care? Boasting about shiny budget surpluses versus investing in long-term care? Cutting taxes for corporations versus investing...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: COVID-19, Long Term Care, Northwood, Stephen McNeil

Daily COVID-19 update: Three more Northwood residents have died from the disease

April 28, 2020 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Three new COVID-19-related deaths were announced by the province on Tuesday, all having occurred at Northwood long-term care home in Halifax. That brings the total number of deaths to 27. The province also announced 15 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing Nova Scotia’s total to […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19 testing, Daily COVID-19 update, domestic violence, Domestic Violence Death Review Committee, Dr. Robert Strang, health care workers, homeless housing, Long Term Care, mass shooting murder Portapique, Minister Chuck Porter, Minister Kelly Regan, Minister Mark Furey, Mobile Outreach Street Health (MOSH), Northwood, pandemic, pandemic premium, Premier Stephen McNeil

No “pandemic premium” for Nova Scotia health care workers

Ontario and Quebec have increased the pay for the continuing care assistants, nurses, and dietary and cleaning staff working in nursing homes during the COVID-19 crisis. It's a recognition that those workers are both needed and putting their own health at risk. But Premier Stephen McNeil has rejected calls to give this province's frontline workers similar recognition; in Nova Scotia, they'll continue on with the same low pay they've always received.

April 28, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 9 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Over the weekend, Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced that Ontario will pay “a pandemic premium” of $4 an hour to continuing care assistants (CCAs), licensed practical nurses (LPNs), as well as dietary and cleaning staff who work in long-term care homes, group homes, home-care, and […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Continuing Care Assistants (CCA), coronavirus, COVID-19, licensed practical nurse (LPN), Linda MacNeil, Long Term Care, Marla MacInnis, Northwood, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), nursing homes, pandemic, pandemic premium, Premier Doug Ford, Premier François Legault, Premier Stephen McNeil, Unifor

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

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2020 mass murders

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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.

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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.

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

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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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