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After resisting, Nova Scotia comes through with “pandemic premium” for frontline health care workers

“We would like to see a living wage every day... If you can do it in a pandemic, you should be able to do it all the time. Make it a meaningful change.”

May 8, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 2 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Nova Scotians who work in nursing homes, publicly-funded home-care, hospitals, and ambulances will receive a one-time lump sum of $2,000 this July in recognition of their efforts during the pandemic. The news was announced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday. A news release from the […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), coronavirus, COVID-19, Essential Health Care Workers Program, long term care (LTC), Louise Riley, Marla MacInnis, Northwood, pandemic, pandemic premium, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

Nursing home workers are moving between multiple facilities. That’s a big problem.

April 17, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 2 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. There are now 98 confirmed cases of COVID-19 among residents and employees at eight long-term care homes in Nova Scotia. At least two of the four deaths to date were former residents of nursing homes. The largest case clusters are at The Admiral in Dartmouth […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Continuing Care Assistants (CCA), COVID-19, Long Term Care, Louise Riley, Northwood, nursing homes

Nova Scotia’s nursing homes now experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks

Dozens of staff and residents in at least seven long-term care facilities have tested positive for the disease.

April 14, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 4 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. As of the Easter weekend*, 16 residents and 10 employees at the Northwood long-term-care complex in Halifax tested positive for COVID-19. The nursing home’s website says all 26 — plus four more staff who provide homecare services — have exhibited mild to moderate symptoms. Medical […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Continuing Care Assistants (CCA), coronavirus, COVID-19, Dr. Robert Strang, Long Term Care, Louise Riley, masks, Northwood, nursing homes, pandemic, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), physical distancing, Premier Stephen McNeil

More police needed to monitor police, and more turbines needed to pay for turbines

Morning File, Tuesday, December 17, 2019

December 17, 2019 By Erica Butler 4 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp “Yesterday, four days before his announcement was due on the Northern Pulp effluent treatment proposal, and less than 24 hours before the deadline for the provincial environment minister to announce his decision, federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson released a statement saying that he had ‘decided not to designate […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anjuli Patil, bedsore death, Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Carrie Low, Chrissy Dunnington, Jesse Thomas, Louise Riley, Mi'kmaw Place Names, More Caring Hands, Nova Scotia Power (NSP), Pam Berman, Parkstone Enhanced Care, Paul Withers, pedestrian vehicle collisions stats, police budget, Police Chief Dan Kinsella, Polly Trottenberg, Rick Salutin, Robert Devet, Shannex, tidal turbine retrieval, Uber, Vision Zero

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Keonté Beals. Photo: Keke Beatz

Episode #21 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

The young R&B artist Keonté Beals — Tara’s former NSCC student, by the way — started out singing in church in North Preston and performing popular covers before digging into who he is an artist. On his debut album KING, he sings about love, loyalty, and authenticity. He zooms in for a chat about its creation, his children’s book, and how not even a pandemic can keep him down.

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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.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

About the Halifax Examiner

Examiner folk The Halifax Examiner was founded by investigative reporter Tim Bousquet, and now includes a growing collection of writers, contributors, and staff. Left to right: Joan Baxter, Stephen Kimber, Linda Pannozzo, Erica Butler, Jennifer Henderson, Iris the Amazing, Tim Bousquet, Evelyn C. White, El Jones, Philip Moscovitch More about the Examiner.

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