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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

The NSHA’s STI clinic is closed. What does that mean for people who need testing?

July 9, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Visit the NSHA’s STI and STD clinic website, and you’re greeted by a message in big red letters: THE STI/STD CLINIC IS CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. WE APOLOGIES (sic) FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE. The health authority shut down the clinic early in the pandemic, and there […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aids Coalition of NS (ACNS), coronavirus, COVID-19, Garry Dart, Halifax Sexual Health Centre, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), pandemic, Rene Ross, Sexual Health Centre, Sexual Health Centre for Cumberland County, STDs, STIs, syphilis, Todd Hatchette

HRM: 5,490 square kilometres, 20 public toilets

Morning File, Wednesday, July 8, 2020

July 8, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 4 Comments

News 1. Council needs to step up on fighting anti-Black racism, says Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard In a half-hour presentation to council yesterday, Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard called on the city to go beyond statements and act on combating racism, Zane Woodford reports: The presentation, titled “Unpacking Anti‐Black Racism in the HRM: Creating Sustainable Change […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: abolish nuclear weapons, Ashoka Mukpo, Carolyn Ray, Councillor Lindell Smith, councillor Tony Mancini, defund police, depression, domestic violence, factory farming, food systems, Ian Mosby, Joseph Rotblat, living wage policy, Marcus Gee, mental health, mental illness, municipal public toilets, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), public toilets, Pugwash Peace Conferences, school reopening, Shannon Proudfoot, Stephen Augustine, Thinkers Lodge Pugwash, Uncover: Dead Wrong podcast, World Bank

Take this volunteer “job” and shove it

Morning File, Thursday, July 2, 2020

July 2, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 5 Comments

News 1. The casino crapshoot Rob Csernyik has an incredible investigative piece on the casinos in Nova Scotia and how locals, not high-rolling tourists, became the big spenders. Csernyik looks back before the first casino opened by ITT Sheraton in the summer of 1995. A poll from 1993 showed that 57.7 respondents were against the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adrienne Power, Black Lives Matter, buxom wenches, Casino, Centre Plan, Chantel Moore, Colchester Historeum, Cork Street, COVID-19, defund the police, Department of Health and Wellness, Don't work for free, Dr. Chris Lata, Ejaz Ahmed Choudry, Foundry Hil, Gary Burrill, Glen Assoun, Halifax Regional Police, ITT Sheraton, IWK, Jane Wright, Ku Klux Klan, LMNO Properties, Lynn Stevenson, Matt Smith, mental illness, mobile crisis unit, museums, Northwood, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), PC leader Tim Houston, People Against Casinos in Nova Scotia, pirates, Portland Street, Quality-improvement Information Protection Act, Randy Delorey, Regis Korchinski-Parquet, shooting, social work, STEM Montessori Academy of Canada, Sydney, T. Chandler Haliburton, T.A. Scott Architecture + Design Limited, Truro, Uncover, volunteering, wellness checks

NSHA working on fix for swamped blood collection appointment line

Patient frustrated by booking system: 'There's no way to leave a message, no online service. Just call over and over until you win the privilege of being on hold for 30-60 mins'

June 17, 2020 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

  The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The Nova Scotia Health Authority says it’s aware of — and working on a solution for — the overwhelmed blood collection appointment line in the Halifax area. Frustrated patients in the NSHA’s Central Zone (which includes Halifax) are reporting the need to make repeated […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Anita Muise, blood collection, coronavirus, COVID-19, Jenna Young, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), pandemic, QEII Health Sciences Centre, social distancing

One year later: health care by the numbers

June 17, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson Leave a Comment

Exactly a year ago, the Halifax Examiner reported on a rally in downtown Halifax that attracted about 75 people concerned about overcrowded emergency rooms, inadequate mental health services, and too few places for seniors requiring long-term care.  The rally was advertised through a Facebook group called “Nova Scotia Healthcare Crisis.” Among those in the crowd […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: COVID-19, emergency room closures, Health Committee, Health Minister Randy Delorey, Heather Fairbairn, Janet Knox, Keith MacCormick, Leslie Tilley, long term care (LTC), Minister Leo Glavine, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), Nova Scotia Healthcare Crisis, One Person One Record, Paula Minnikin, Rebecca Brewer, Rob Miller, Valley Regional Hospital

We’re told to socially distance, but people are hooking up and having sex

Sexual health advocates worry people are avoiding STI testing for fear of being judged for straying outside their bubbles.

June 11, 2020 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Despite the pandemic, provincial sexual health centres are dealing with increased demands for information and a steady stream of requests for STI (sexually transmitted infection) testing. “I know through friends and clients that there are a lot of people who aren’t necessarily respecting all of […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Kate Calnan, Lesley Mulcahy, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), pandemic, Rene Ross, safe sex, sex, Sexual Health Centre, sexually transmitted blood borne infection (STBBI), social distancing, STIs

A strange kind of normal: getting tested for COVID-19

June 10, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. “Tilt your head back,” the nurse says. Her name is Belinda. She is warm, friendly, and reassuring — and she is about to stick a swab that looks like an enormous flexible Q-tip far up my nose. “If you need to cough,” Belinda says, “turn […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Carla Adams, coronavirus, COVID-19 testing, Donald G. McNeil Jr, Joanne Bealy, masks, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), pandemic

The Torstar sale leaves a gaping hole in the Canadian news scene, but journalism can still thrive

Morning File, Wednesday, May 27, 2020

May 27, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

News 1. COVID-19 updates “A woman in her 80s who had an underlying medical condition has died after contracting the COVID-19 virus. She was a resident of the HRM but not a resident of Northwood or any other long-term care home,” reports Jennifer Henderson: The news came at today’s daily briefing by Dr. Robert Strang, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: coronavirus, councillor Waye Mason, COVID-19, electric buses, fast ferries, forest fires, Halifax Transit, Jim Rudderham, Jordan Bitove, Josh Rubin, journalism, Lands and Forestry Minister Iain Rankin, legacy media bailouts, Navigator, NordStar Capital, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), pandemic, Paul Rivett, rapid transit service, Toronto Star, Torstar

Frontline workers: Doctors

May 27, 2020 By Suzanne Rent Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Anyone going to the emergency department at the Halifax Infirmary will notice some changes. First, you’ll go through a pre-triage process in the vestibule at the front doors. There, two nurses will screen for COVID-19 symptoms. Patients showing symptoms are sent directly to a room […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, doctors, Dr. Chris Randell, Dr. Constance LeBlanc, emergency, frontline, Halifax Infirmary, hospitals, Janet MacIntyre, masks, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), pandemic, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

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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

Examiner folk The Halifax Examiner was founded by investigative reporter Tim Bousquet, and now includes a growing collection of writers, contributors, and staff. Left to right: Joan Baxter, Stephen Kimber, Linda Pannozzo, Erica Butler, Jennifer Henderson, Iris the Amazing, Tim Bousquet, Evelyn C. White, El Jones, Philip Moscovitch More about the Examiner.

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