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Community health centres need stable funding, a seat at the table, advocates tell public accounts committee

May 12, 2022 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

Community-based health organizations helping keep Nova Scotians out of emergency departments need stable provincial funding and a seat at the table, the Standing Committee on Public Accounts heard Wednesday. “Of course, money is always at the root of it. But what we really want to convey is that we are partners in the fight against […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health, Politics, Province House Tagged With: Abbey Ferguson, Chester, community-based health, Department of Health and Wellness, Deputy Minister Jeannine Lagassé, Halifax Sexual Health Centre, Leigh Heide, Lorraine Burch, Marie-France LeBlanc, MLA Brendan Maguire, MLA Claudia Chender, MLA Susan Leblanc, North End Community Health Centre, Nova Scotia Association of Community Health Centres, Our Health Centre, Sexual Health Nova Scotia, Standing Committee on Public Accounts

The romance of the typewriter

Morning File, Monday, November 15, 2021

November 15, 2021 By Philip Moscovitch 4 Comments

Good morning! We are halfway through the annual Halifax Examiner November subscription drive. Of course, you can subscribe any old time, but it’s particularly helpful if you subscribe in November. Why? Well, it gives the Examiner a good idea of what it can budget for reporting in the coming year. Is there money to launch […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Canadian Association of Physician Assistants, David Hayes, Duncan Idaho, Dune, emergency room closures, family doctors, Golden Girls, Matthew Byard, MLA Susan Leblanc, Philip Moscovitch, Saliva, Stephen Kimber, Stilgar, Suzanne Rent, Tim Covell, Tim Houston, typewriter

Tim Houston’s Progressive Conservatives win majority government

August 18, 2021 By Zane Woodford 1 Comment

Tim Houston’s health care-focused campaign resonated with voters across the province, if the results are any indication, with the the Progressive Conservative Party trouncing the Liberals on the way to a majority government. “We made history in this election. And not just here in Nova Scotia, but in all of Canada. We proved that just […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: ambulance crisis, anti-abortion demonstration, Antigonish, Argyle Cumberland North, Bill Casey, Brendan Maguire, Claudia Chender, Dartmouth South, doctor shortage, election, Greg Morrow, Guysborough-Tracadie, Health caree, Iain Rankin, Jennifer Henderson, Labi Kousoulis, lizabeth Smith-McCrossin, Lloyd Hines, Michelle Thompson, MLA Susan Leblanc, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Liberal Party, Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Party, Randy Delorey, Susan Le, Suzanne Lohnes-Croft, Suzy Hansen, Tim Houston, Zane Woodford

Business case for P3 Outpatient Centre is finally made public

November 4, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson

Some new light was shed today on the province’s controversial decision to choose a public-private-partnership (P3) model to build new healthcare facilities to replace the crumbling Victoria and Centennial buildings at the VG site of the QE2 Health Care Centre.  Last July, the former auditor general reported the secret process used to determine if P3...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bayers Lake Community Outpatient Centre, Deloitte, Deputy TIR Minister Paul LaFleche, EllisDon, Gary Porter, Halifax Infirmary, John O’Connor, MLA Lisa Roberts, MLA Susan Leblanc, P3, QE2 Redevelopment Project, Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal (TIR), Value For Money analysis

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

Nursing home operators go public with call for better paid staff, updated facilities

Starting today, Public Health is allowing for contact between visitors and residents, but some nursing homes have lost insurance coverage and so aren't allowing that visitation.

July 22, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. “Enough Talk” is the title of a nine-page statement released Tuesday by a group representing the majority (83%) of 96 licensed nursing homes in the province. The Nursing Homes of Nova Scotia Association (NHNSA) is fed up with government inaction when it comes to long-identified […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID liability, COVID-19, Dr. Robert Strang, Enough Talk, insurance, long term care (LTC), masks, Michele Lowe, MLA Susan Leblanc, Northwood, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), nursing homes, Nursing Homes of Nova Scotia Association (NHNSA), pandemic, Public Health

Opposition critics react to AG’s P3 report

July 14, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson

“The auditor general has said today that governments pay a premium when they bring in private companies to build and maintain public infrastructure,” said Susan Leblanc, the NDP’s Transportation and Infrastructure critic. “Without the Public Accounts Committee or the Legislature meeting, the public doesn’t have access to the information necessary about whether this is a...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Auditor General Michael Pickup, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Christine Saulnier, Community Outpatient Centre, coronavirus, COVID-19, Deborah Bayer, Halifax Infirmary, hospital parkade, Kasian Architecture, MLA Susan Leblanc, MLA Tim Halman, Nova Scotia Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal (TIR), P3 hospital, pandemic, PPP Canada, SaskBuilds

“I have never dealt with a landlord like this”

Tenant in north end Dartmouth building gets rent increase of 45% after making complaints about safety and maintenance issues.

July 5, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 3 Comments

A Dartmouth woman recently got a rent increase of 45% for what she believes is retaliation for making complaints about safety and maintenance issues in the building where she lives. Kimberly Rankin has lived at 6 Nivens Avenue in north end Dartmouth since January 2019. But this year, she started reporting issues around the building. […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: 6 Nivens Avenue, 77 Farrell Street, affordable housing, Ann Organ, co-op housing, Darcy Gillis, Dartmouth Housing Help, Elias Metlej, Kimberly Rankin, M-200 bylaw, Maggie-Jane Spray, Mario Morrison, MLA Susan Leblanc, non-profit housing, North Dartmouth rental market, Northview Apartment REIT, renoviction, rent control, Residential Tenancies, Tracey Morrison

Province issues bids for baby biomass plants

February 4, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson

The province has issued a tender to build and operate a half-dozen small-scale biomass plants that will heat government buildings around the province by November of this year. The plants will run on wood chips supplied by private woodlot owners and are being advertised by the Department of Lands and Forestry as both a response...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: biomass, Dalhousie Agricultural Campus, Department of Lands and Forestry (DLF), Forestry Transition Team, Minister Iain Rankin, MLA Susan Leblanc, woodchips

How the proposed Summer Street parking garage fits into province’s plan to replace the Victoria General Hospital

January 30, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson

The largest infrastructure project in the province’s history got the once-over from the legislature’s Public Accounts Committee yesterday. It will be at least the end of 2026 before the patients putting up with what some doctors have described as “third world conditions” in the leaking Victoria General Hospital will be moved out. The bad news...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Armoyan Group, Bengal Lancers, Centre Plan, councillor Waye Mason, Deputy TIR Minister Paul LaFleche, Gary Porter, Halifax Infirmary, John O’Connor, MLA Claudia Chender, MLA Susan Leblanc, Museum of Natural History, parking garage Summer Street, Partners for Care, Paula Bond, QE2 redevelopment, QEII redevelopment, Victoria General Hospital (VG), Wanderers Grounds

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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.

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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.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

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Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

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