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There’s no meaning in mass murder

Morning File, Monday, May 16, 2022

May 16, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

News 1. Mass murders This morning, we published another article related to the proceedings of the Mass Casualty Commission, headlined “Tech issues bedevilled the RCMP response to the mass murders of 2020.” In this article: • Did the killer listen in on the RCMP’s unencrypted radio calls? • Emergency Response Team had no GPS capability • […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health, Morning File Tagged With: Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program (AIPP), Barbara Adams, Continuing Care Assistants (CCA), Health Association of Nova Scotia (HANS), Immigration, Janet Simm, Jennifer Henderson, Katherine VanBuskirk, long term care (LTC), Mary Lee, Murray Stenton, Northwood, Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC), Shannex

Province to spend $96.5 million to renovate nursing homes, add new long-term care beds

Rankin: renovations to include replacing shared bathrooms, adding single rooms to add "greater focus on infection prevention and control."

July 9, 2021 By Jennifer Henderson 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. On Friday, Premier Iain Rankin announced plans to spend $96.5 million to renovate 17 long-term care facilities across the province and add 264 new nursing home beds in the long-term care homes in Nova Scotia Health’s Central […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health Tagged With: COVID-19, Department of Health and Wellness, Gary Burrill, Jennifer Henderson, Long Term Care, Melville Lodge, Mike Kelloway, Northwood, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Health Central Zone, Nova Scotia Liberals, PC leader Tim Houston, Premier Iain Rankin, seniors

Eldercare advocacy groups and unions join forces to press for more nursing home funding

October 17, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. For the first time in Nova Scotia, two eldercare advocacy groups have joined forces with unionized healthcare workers to push the provincial government to address chronic labour shortages and underfunding affecting thousands of seniors requiring nursing home care. Below is the coalition’s call to action: […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Advocates for Care of the Elderly (ACE Group), Anne Gillies, Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 Resilience Infrastructure Stream, Ellen Gaudet, Families for Quality Eldercare, Janet Hazelton, Jesslyn Dalton, long term care (LTC), Megan Tonet, Northwood, Nova Scotia Government and General Employees (NSGEU), Nova Scotia Health Coalition (NSHC), Nova Scotia Nurses Union (NSNU), Nova Scotians for Long-term Care Reform, pandemic, Paul Curry, Robert Silverstein, Shannex, Unifor

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, Health, 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

450 Northwood workers still haven’t received their “pandemic premium”

September 29, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Approximately 450 hourly paid people who worked at Northwood have yet to receive a one-time payment of up to $2,000 to recognize their dedication during the pandemic this spring. They aren’t the only ones waiting for their pay but could be among the most deserving […]

Filed Under: COVID, Economy, Featured, Health, Investigation, News Tagged With: Northwood, pandemic premium

Today’s forecast: power outages and falling cranes

Morning File, Tuesday, September 22, 2020

September 22, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Weather There will be weather this afternoon, and then again Wednesday morning. It won’t be as bad as it could be, but will still be plenty powerful. As someone once said: charge your devices and order Chinese food. (Copy link for this item) 2. Expert: GW was not an informant “On Monday, Judge […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: child in car trunk Yarmouth, COVID-19, long term care (LTC), mass shooting murder Portapique, Northwood, Northwood Review Panel, nursing homes, RCMP secrecy

Two reports detail problems at Nova Scotia nursing homes that resulted in mass COVID-19 deaths

But while the recommendations in the Northwood report are public, the findings are not.

September 21, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. COVID-19’s remorseless advance through the Northwood facility in Halifax this spring caused 53 deaths, and exposed gaps in a system which is supposed to protect our most vulnerable citizens. In the wake of those events, the province will spend $26 million over the next year, […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health, News, Province House Tagged With: COVID-19, Dr. Chris Lata, Dr. Lynn Stevenson, Health Minister Randy Delorey, Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC), long term care (LTC), Murray Stenton, NDP leader Gary Burrill, Northwood, Northwood class action lawsuit, Northwood Review Panel, NSGEU, nursing homes, Patsy Rawding, PC leader Tim Houston, Safe ReStart, Shelley Jones

On Monday, Health Minister Randy Delorey will…

Well... Delorey 'may' unveil some part of some pre-selected, non-binding recommendations from a secret, penalty-of-six-months-in-prison-for-talking-about review his government-commissioned into the deaths of 53 residents at Northwood this spring. The government's selective secrecy is deliberate, and its purpose is obvious.

September 20, 2020 By Stephen Kimber 2 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. On Monday, September 21, 2020, Health Minister Randy Delorey will … Well, he may unveil some part of some pre-selected, non-binding recommendations from a secret, penalty-of-six-months-in-prison-for-talking-about review his government-commissioned into the deaths of 53 residents at Northwood this spring. Some part? Delorey received the actual […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Health Minister Randy Delorey, Northwood, Northwood review, NSGEU, Stephen McNeil

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

Documents show horrors at Northwood during COVID outbreak

Residents "likely haven’t had a bath in a week as their hair is all greasy. They often wet but do not get changed." And residents who had tested positive roamed around among residents who were presumed negative.

August 4, 2020 By Yvette d'Entremont 2 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. In a report released Tuesday, the Nova Scotia Government Employees Union (NSGEU) chronicles what it’s calling “government neglect and delay” that contributed to the deaths of 53 seniors at Northwood’s Halifax campus during the COVID-19 outbreak. The 23-page ‘Neglecting Northwood’ report was written using Nova […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Colin Stevenson, Continuing Care Assistants (CCA), coronavirus, COVID-19, long term care (LTC), Neglecting Northwood report, Northwood, Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union (NSGEU), NSGEU president Jason MacLean, pandemic, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Susan Stevens, Vickie Sullivan

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PRICED OUT

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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

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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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