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CCA pay increase ‘a good start… but we’re not done’

February 9, 2022 By Yvette d'Entremont 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. The day after a conference call where he heard directly from continuing care assistants (CCAs) across Nova Scotia, Premier Tim Houston announced a 23% wage increase for the sector. The announcement was made during Wednesday’s provincial COVID-19 […]

Filed Under: Economy, Featured, Health, News, Province House Tagged With: Barbara Adams, Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Continuing Care Assistants (CCA), CUPE NS, Louise Riley, Nan McFadgen, Premier Tim Houston, wage increase, Yvette d'Entremont

Union leaders call for pay parity for LPNs

July 22, 2020 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Five unions representing licensed practical nurses (LPNs) held a press conference this morning to call for pay equity for nurses across the province. The call comes a month after an adjudicator awarded LPNs working at the former Capital District Health Authority a 12% pay increase, […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Capital District Health Authority, Cathy Retieefe, IWK, Jason MacLean, licensed practical nurse (LPN), Nan McFadgen, Northwood review, Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union (NSGEU), QE2, Service Employees International Union (SEIU)

A P3 replacement for the Victoria General is very much on the agenda

After the disastrous P3 school fiasco, why would the province build a hospital through a public-private partnership?

September 9, 2016 By Jennifer Henderson

Seven companies with offices across Canada and a few global companies with offices around the world have submitted their proposals to manage the ambitious, multi-million dollar project to replace the crumbling Victoria General Hospital. Cannon Design is headquartered in the United States. HOK is an international firm that has built the Rogers Arena in Edmonton and...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bert Clark, Chris Parsons, Common Design, HOK, Nan McFadgen, P3, Plenary Group, Terry Smith-Lamothe, VG Hospital, Victoria General

PRICED OUT

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents
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!

Listen to the episode here.

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