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A bald man with a beard and wearing a white lab coat stands at a podium during an announcement. Behind him are three women and a few signs, including one blue sign that says "Pharmacist, primary care clinic."

Health

Pilot project to allow pharmacists to treat patients for minor ailments, chronic diseases

by Jennifer Henderson January 31, 2023January 31, 2023

Eleven pharmacies in Nova Scotia to take part in project starting Wednesday, Feb. 1.

Graham MacKenzie is a white man with short brown hair, seen here wearing a blue pharmacist's scrub top, holding his book titled "Healthy Logic".

Morning File

A prescription for logic- and evidence-based healthy living

by Suzanne Rent February 28, 2022November 30, 2022

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents — Credit: Halifax Examiner. All rights reserved.

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.

Credit: Ricardo Weibezahn - ICIJ

DEFORESTATION INC

Reporter Joan Baxter is one of 140 journalists from 39 media outlets across 27 countries working collaboratively on ‘Deforestation Inc,’ a project of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which looked at the ownership structure of Paper Excellence, its relationship with Asia Pulp & Paper, and how the secretive corporate empires are devastating forests in Canada and around the world.

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

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

2020 MASS MURDERS

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, and served 17 years in prison while maintaining his innocence. In 2019, he was fully exonerated.

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

Tag: pharmacies

Pilot project to allow pharmacists to treat patients for minor ailments, chronic diseases

A prescription for logic- and evidence-based healthy living

Nova Scotia COVID deaths math: 59+2=53

Hydrogen hype: ‘History will have a good laugh’ at us

Does more funding for police mean no funding for real mental health first responders?

Somebody might maybe one day look into police malfeasance in the Glen Assoun case

Department of Labour wants feedback from Nova Scotians on harassment in workplaces