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Rhetoric ramps up over non-resident property tax

Morning File, Tuesday, May 3, 2022

May 3, 2022 By Philip Moscovitch 14 Comments

News 1. Pitch your tent here … or else A Halifax staff report proposes sanctioning overnight tenting in some parks, and evicting people from all others in the municipality. The staff report, by parks and recreation special projects manager Max Chauvin and parks and recreation executive director Maggie MacDonald, comes to council today, Zane Woodford […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Abegweit, Amanda Mull, Canada Fitness Awards, co-operative movement, Confederation Bridge, COVID-19, Diane Marleau, Dr. Deborah Money, employment, Epekwitk, exercise, fitness, Halifax city council, homelessness, housing, Maggie MacDonald, Max Chauvin, non-resident landowners, pregnancy, Presidential Fitness Test, PRICED OUT, Raymond Sewell, salaries, SARS-CoV-2, tax policy, taxation, The Atlantic, University of British Columbia, youth employment

New study shows getting COVID-19 when pregnant increases risks of hospitalization, premature birth, ICU admissions

May 3, 2022 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

As the country faces a sixth pandemic wave, a new study shows getting COVID-19 while pregnant “significantly” increases risks of hospitalization, ICU admission, and premature birth. The Canadian surveillance study, Association of SARS-CoV-2 Infection During Pregnancy With Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes, was published online Monday by the Journal of the American Medical Association. It included […]

Filed Under: COVID, Featured, Health, News, Province House, Women Tagged With: COVID, COVID-19, COVID-19 in pregnancy, COVID-19 vaccines, Dr. Deborah Money, Journal of the American Medical Association, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, UBC, University of British Columbia, vaccination, vaccines in pregnancy, Yvette d'Entremont

Nova Scotia can demonstrate public sector leadership in sexual health by committing to free contraception for all

April 12, 2022 By Martha Paynter Leave a Comment

Everyone has sexual health over the course of their entire lives. This morning I was invited to speak to the Nova Scotia Standing Committee on Health about access to birth control and sexual health services, and I used this opportunity to remind the new PC government that the universal experience of sexual health should be […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Health, Politics, Province House, Women Tagged With: abortion care, birth control, Canadian Pediatric Society, contraception, Family Pharmacare Program, gender-affirming care, IUD, Martha Paynter, menstruation, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Women’s Choice Clinic, pregnancy, provincial budget, sexual health, Standing Committee on Health, Wellness Within

Baby on board! Pregnancy and birth in the age of coronavirus

Lack of pre-natal and delivery supports and concerns about social isolation worry those who are pregnant and at home with babies.

March 22, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Martha Miller is 32 weeks pregnant and at home with her two-year-old son in Cole Harbour. She hasn’t seen her doctor in three weeks, even though she’s supposed to have a doctor visit every two weeks now. An appointment she had this past week for […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Dartmouth Family Resource Centre, Martha Miller, Martha Paynter, Michelle Brunet, Nova Scotia Doula Association, pregnancy, Renée Curry, Wendy Fraser, Women's Wellness Within

PRICED OUT

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents
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

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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