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Premier Tim Houston orders ‘Friends of a New Northern Pulp’ sign removed from Minister Pat Dunn’s constituency office window

March 21, 2022 By Joan Baxter 1 Comment

  The ‘Friends of a New Northern Pulp’ sign in the window of the New Glasgow constituency office of African Nova Scotian Affairs Minister and Pictou Centre MLA Pat Dunn probably won’t be there much longer. On Friday, and then again Monday, the Halifax Examiner received photographs of the constituency office with the sign from […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: African Nova Scotian Affairs, Catherine Klimek, effluent, Elmsdale Lumber, emissions, environmental assessment, Friends of a New Northern Pulp, New Glasgow, Northern Pulp, Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change, Paper Excellence, Pat Dunn, PC caucus, Pictou Centre, Pictou County, pulp mill, Robin Wilber, Tim Houston, Todd Veinotte

Pharmacists, nurse practitioners to provide collaborative health care in pilot project at two Nova Scotia pharmacies

February 25, 2022 By Yvette d'Entremont 1 Comment

A new pilot project announced by the province in New Glasgow in on Friday morning will see pharmacists and nurse practitioners in Truro and New Glasgow providing health care through a model being called ‘Pharmacist Walk-In Clinic +’. “It’s a collaborative approach, and it’s anticipated to alleviate some of the pressure on local emergency departments […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health, News, Province House Tagged With: Beverley Zwicker, collaborative care model, Karen Oldfield, Lawtons, Michelle Stewart, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia College of Pharmacists, Nova Scotia Health, NSH, Pat Dunn, Pharmacist Walk-In Clinic +, Sobeys, Truro, walk-in clinics, Yvette d'Entremont

Bria’s story

Braxton Dort wrote a book about his little sister and the rare genetic disorder she lives with. It's one of the many ways this New Glasgow family works to increase awareness about TANGO2.

September 3, 2021 By Joan Baxter 4 Comments

Three years ago, when he was just seven years old, Braxton Dort started making voice recordings with the help of his mother Kara. He wanted to tell people about his little sister, Bria, who has a rare genetic disorder called TANGO2. A year later, Braxton decided to turn his sister’s story into “A Book About […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health Tagged With: Aberdeen Hospital, American Family Physician Journal, Baylor College of Medicine, cardiac arrhythmia, COVID-19, David Skidmore, Donna Cameron, exome, genetic disorder, geneticist, genome, Germany, Halifax, Houston, IWK Hospital, Kara Dort, Matt Dort, metabolic crisis, mitochrondrial disease, neurodegeneration, New Glasgow, no pipe, Northern Pulp, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Early Childhood Development Intervention Services (NSECDIS), protein-coding gene, rhabdomyolysis, Seema Lalani, TANGO2, TANGO2 Research Foundation, Texas, The Netherlands

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

Two young white women, one with dark hair and one blonde, smile at the camera on a sunny spring day.

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.

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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