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Two women, Continuing Caren Assistants, help an elderly woman in a wheelchair
Posted inHealth

Nursing homes across HRM to get 500 new long-term care beds

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson February 8, 2022October 20, 2022

Barbara Adams, Minister of Seniors and Long-term Care, issued a call for suppliers interested in building 500 new single rooms in nursing homes across the Halifax Regional Municipality. It’s the first major announcement of new construction since the Progressive Conservatives took office and it comes at a time when there are more than 1,900 frail […]

The Northwood nursing home on Gottingen Street in Halifax.
Posted inCOVID

COVID clock is ticking on preparing nursing homes for a second wave

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson November 9, 2020December 13, 2022
Nova Scotia Health Minister Randy Delorey speaks to reporters during a post-cabinet media availability. He is a white man in his forties, wearing a suit. He sits at a desk in front of several Nova Scotia flags.
Posted inHealth, Province House

Province insists nursing homes must admit more residents

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson October 2, 2020October 20, 2022
The Northwood nursing home on Gottingen Street in Halifax.
Posted inHealth, Province House

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

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson September 21, 2020October 20, 2022
Nova Scotia Progressive Conservation leader Tim Houston speaking to reporters about his party's long term care plan outside Melville Heights on Wednesday afternoon.
Posted inElections

PCs promise fix for long-term care

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson August 5, 2020December 13, 2022
The several-story Admiral long-term care home in Dartmouth, a brick and white accent building.
Posted inHealth

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

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson July 22, 2020December 13, 2022
A protestor holding a cardboard sign that says "end systemic racism."
Posted inMorning File

We need to keep talking about racism

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch June 16, 2020January 11, 2023
The Northwood nursing home on Gottingen Street in Halifax.
Posted inCOVID

Wait times increase for long-term care

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson June 2, 2020December 13, 2022
The Northwood long-term care centre on Gottingen Street in Halifax.
Posted inCOVID

45 Northwood residents have died with COVID-19

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson May 13, 2020December 12, 2022
The Northwood nursing home on Gottingen Street in Halifax.
Posted inCommentary

Double Exposure

by Linda Pannozzo May 7, 2020October 20, 2022

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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.


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Find all of Baxter’s articles on the Deforestation Inc homepage.


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Halifax Examiner’s Tim Bousquet tells Assoun’s story on the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong. Click here to listen to the podcast.

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