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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)

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, 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

Acting Nova Scotia AG finds disorganized approach to identifying and cleaning up contaminated sites

July 28, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson

The government of Nova Scotia has a process for identifying potential contaminated sites in the province — 69 of which are abandoned mines — but has no coordinated approach to manage or prioritize their cleanup. That’s one of the troubling conclusions contained in a performance audit released today by acting Auditor General Terry Spicer. It’s...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: abandoned gold mines, Acting Auditor General Terry Spicer, contaminated sites, Marla MacInnis, toxic tailings, Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal (TIR)

Nova Scotia government doles out $10 million more for Northern Pulp

The effluent pipeline may have been turned off but the provincial money pipeline continues to flow 

May 12, 2020 By Joan Baxter

The Nova Scotian government will be giving Paper Excellence, the parent company of Northern Pulp and a corporation linked to the multi-billionaire Widjaja family of Indonesia, still more millions. This time, the amount is $10 million. Northern Pulp still owes the province $85 million from previous loans. And the company still owes $65 million on...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: A’se’K, Boar Harbour, Boat Harbour remediation project, Bruce Chapman, Environmental Racism, Ken Swain, Kristina Shannon, Marla MacInnis, Northern Pulp, Northern Pulp effluent, Paper Excellence, Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN), Premier Stephen McNeil

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

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

Moose River betrayal

In 2008, the approval of the Moose River gold mine was conditioned on the mining company giving the province hundreds of acres of conservation land within four years; 12 years later, there's still no approved plan in place.

April 3, 2020 By Joan Baxter Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. On March 31, the Australian company St. Barbara, which last year acquired Atlantic Gold with its open pit gold mine at Moose River and a project to open three more mines along Nova Scotia’s Eastern shore, sent investors a COVID-19 update. It stated: St Barbara’s […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Investigation, News Tagged With: Atlantic Gold, Barbara Markovits, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dustin O’Leary, Eastern Shore Forest Watch Association, Ecology Action Centre (EAC), Health Protection Act, Marla MacInnis, Maryse Belanger, Minister Mark Parent, Moose River gold mine, pandemic, Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC), Rachel Boomer, social distancing, St. Barbara Limited, Touquoy mine

Virtual doctors’ visits now OK: physicians and province strike deal

March 24, 2020 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The president of the organization representing Nova Scotia’s doctors says they’ve reached an agreement with the province that will enable more physicians to virtually meet with patients. “Basically doctors can bill for seeing people as long as it’s for something where they don’t have to […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Gary Ernest, Marla MacInnis, virtual doctors

Puzzling developments with Cape Breton’s non-existent container terminal

Morning File, Monday, January 20, 2020

January 20, 2020 By Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson 2 Comments

News 1. Walmart incident “When a young black woman accused the Halifax police of racially profiling and abusing her in connection with an alleged shoplifting incident at Walmart last week, officials did what officials do,” writes Stephen Kimber. “They obfuscated, they passed the buck, they pretended to take it seriously.” Click here to read “Can […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brookfield Asset Management, Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway (CBNS), Desmond Cole, Egyptian artifacts, Emma Davie, facebook, Frank McKenna, Genesee & Wyoming, Geoff MacLelllan, Jack Julian, Jim Pomeroy, King's Co-op Bookstore, Marla MacInnis, Mary Campbell, mummies, Museum of Natural History, new Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (AGNS) RFP, Nova Scotia Health Authority, Paul MacKay, Peter Bigelow, racial profiling, Russian Internet Research Agency, Santina Rao, Sydney container terminal, YMCA

Imagine Spring Garden Road where everyone looks the same

Morning File, Tuesday, September 24, 2019

September 24, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 9 Comments

News 1. Naturalists go to court “Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Christa Brothers will decide whether the Minister of Lands and Forestry has failed to live up to the obligations set out in the Endangered Species Act to protect wildlife in the province,” reports Jennifer Henderson: “We seek the Court’s assistance as a last resort,” […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alicia Draus, Anne McLellan, Brett Ruskin, Brian Muldoon, Cermaq, collapsed crane removal, Cooke Aquaculture, Darrell Dexter, Dorothy Grant, EcoJustice, Evan Williams, exposure, fish farms, Glen Cooke, global warming, Graeme Benjamin, Hany El Naggar, Harbourside Engineering Consultants, housing affordability, Howard Ramos, Income inequality, Janice Harvey, Kathleen McNab, Kelly Cove Salmon, left hand turns, lobster fishery, Marla MacInnis, menstrual products in schools, Michigan Lane, Minister Labi Kousoulis, Minister Lloyd Hines, Nicole Munro, period poverty, Peter MacKay, Protect Liverpool Bay (PLB), R&D Crane Operator Ltd, rent control, Robert Devet, Sabino Urciuoli, sinkhole Trans Canada Highway, Spring Garden Road redesign

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Brian Borcherdt. Photo: Anna Edwards-Borcherdt

Brian Borcherdt came of age in Yarmouth in the 1990s. When he arrived in Halifax, the city’s famous music scene was already waning, and worse, the music he made was rejected by the cool kids anyway. After decades away from Nova Scotia, he and his young family have settled in the Annapolis Valley, where he’ll zoom in to chat with Tara about his band Holy Fuck’s endlessly delayed tour, creating the Dependent Music collective, and the freedom and excitement of the improvised music he’s making now. Plus: Bringing events back in 2021.

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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

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