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

November 9, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. The clock is ticking on the potential for a second wave of COVID-19 at long-term care homes in Nova Scotia. The question is, despite what we know now, are we any better prepared to cope than we […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: COVID-19, COVID-19 Resilience Stream, Department of Health, Dr. Chris Lata, long term care (LTC), Marla MacInnis, Northwood review, Nova Scotia Health Authority, nursing homes, Nursing Homes Association of Nova Scotia (NHANS), Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Regional Care Units, Steve Warburton, Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal (TIR)

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

How Halifax got its hands on 100,000 N95-equivalent masks as the pandemic hit Nova Scotia

June 8, 2020 By Zane Woodford 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. On March 17, when Nova Scotia had just had its first confirmed case of COVID-19, Halifax placed an order for 100,000 masks. Amid a global shortage, the city found a connection through a seemingly unlikely source — a lighting company based in Bedford, Nichent Energy […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Erin DiCarlo, masks, N95 masks, Nichent Energy Inc, pandemic, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Terry Klironomos

Here’s what Day One of the New Normal looked like

From barbers to restaurants, business was booming as Nova Scotia economy reopened.

June 5, 2020 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

Today, many businesses that have been shuttered since March re-opened their doors. But it was far from business as usual. The Halifax Examiner spoke with several owners about what the new normal looks like. It wasn’t yet 10am on Friday and eight people had already tried to get into Carlos Barbershop without an appointment. Less […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Carlos Barbershop, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dave Ramage, Dr. Robert Strang, easing restrictions, Eve Arsenault, Finbar's Irish Pub, Julie Taylor, Manimal Athletics Training Centre, masks, Michael Casey, Pamela Casey, pandemic, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), reopening business, Ryan Staples, Skin Decision, social distancing

“We need answers and justice. This tragedy cannot have been for nothing.”

A woman launching a lawsuit against Northwood for the death of her mother from COVID-19 speaks with the Halifax Examiner.

June 3, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. “Fifty-three families have lost their loved ones at Northwood due to COVID-19, and we need answers and justice,” said Erica Surette. “This tragedy cannot have been for nothing.” Surette is the first member of a proposed class-action lawsuit launched Tuesday against Northwood Care Group Inc. […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Erica Surette, long term care (LTC), masks, Murray Stenton, Northwood class action lawsuit, pandemic, Patricia West, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Ray Wagner

Northwood hit with lawsuit

June 2, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Northwood Care Group Inc. has been hit with a class-action lawsuit filed by lawyer Ray Wagner on behalf of a woman whose 66-year-old mother was a Northwood Centre resident who got COVID-19 and died on April 22. The lawsuit alleges Northwood should not have moved […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Erica Surette, Northwood, Northwood class action lawsuit, pandemic, Patricia West, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Ray Wagner

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)

“Bubble families” unlikely for Nova Scotia

May 13, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. It will be sometime next week before Nova Scotians get a glimpse of how restrictions will be eased once the province has gone two weeks without a new case of COVID-19. The Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Robert Strang, said he expects to be […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: bubble families, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 recovery, domestic violence, Dr. Robert Strang, easing restrictions, lockdown, masks, Northwood, pandemic, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Premier Stephen McNeil, RCMP inquiry

Double Exposure

The pandemic has pushed back the curtain on how decades of austerity have left Canadians and the health care system more vulnerable.

May 7, 2020 By Linda Pannozzo 7 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. By April 13, Nova Scotia’s State of Emergency had been in effect for 23 days, schools were closed, most businesses shuttered, and people were feeling the effects of the “lock down.” At the daily COVID-19 briefing, Premier Stephen McNeil and Dr. Robert Strang, the province’s […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Auditor General Michael Pickup, Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), Carole Shively, CD Howe Institute, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dennis Raphael, Dr. Robert Strang, economic insecurity, El Jones, ER Closures, essential workers, Fraser Institute, health care, Inez Rudderham, living wage, long term care (LTC), Michael Tutton, neoliberalism, Northwood, NS state of emergency, nursing homes, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), pandemic, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), personal support worker (PSW), poverty, Premier Stephen McNeil, public health care spending, Sheldon Cohen, social determinants of health, Stephen Harper, stress, wait times, World Health Organization (WHO)

Nova Scotia’s nursing homes now experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks

Dozens of staff and residents in at least seven long-term care facilities have tested positive for the disease.

April 14, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 4 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. As of the Easter weekend*, 16 residents and 10 employees at the Northwood long-term-care complex in Halifax tested positive for COVID-19. The nursing home’s website says all 26 — plus four more staff who provide homecare services — have exhibited mild to moderate symptoms. Medical […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Continuing Care Assistants (CCA), coronavirus, COVID-19, Dr. Robert Strang, Long Term Care, Louise Riley, masks, Northwood, nursing homes, pandemic, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), physical distancing, Premier Stephen McNeil

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Phyllis Rising — Rebecca Falvey (left) and Meg Hubley. Photo submitted

Episode #19 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Meg Hubley and Rebecca Falvey met as theatre kids at Neptune and have been friends ever since. As Phyllis Rising — that’s right, Mary Tyler Moore hive — they’re making films, plays, and are in production on The Crevice, a three-part sitcom streaming live from the Bus Stop in March. They stop by to talk with Tara about its development, their shared love of classic SNL and 90s sitcoms, and the power of close friendship. Plus: A new song from a new band.

This episode is available today only for premium subscribers; to become a premium subscriber, click here, and join the select group of arts and entertainment supporters for just $5/month. Everyone else will have to wait until tomorrow to listen to it.

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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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