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Eldercare advocacy groups and unions join forces to press for more nursing home funding

October 17, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. For the first time in Nova Scotia, two eldercare advocacy groups have joined forces with unionized healthcare workers to push the provincial government to address chronic labour shortages and underfunding affecting thousands of seniors requiring nursing home care. Below is the coalition’s call to action: […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Advocates for Care of the Elderly (ACE Group), Anne Gillies, Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 Resilience Infrastructure Stream, Ellen Gaudet, Families for Quality Eldercare, Janet Hazelton, Jesslyn Dalton, long term care (LTC), Megan Tonet, Northwood, Nova Scotia Government and General Employees (NSGEU), Nova Scotia Health Coalition (NSHC), Nova Scotia Nurses Union (NSNU), Nova Scotians for Long-term Care Reform, pandemic, Paul Curry, Robert Silverstein, Shannex, Unifor

Wait times increase for long-term care

June 2, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. If there was any doubt there are not enough places for people who need long-term care, the pandemic should lay that notion to rest. According to numbers provided by the Department of Health and Wellness yesterday, the wait-list for nursing home beds grew by 200 […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Bethany House, coronavirus, COVID-19, Heather Fairbairn, long term care (LTC), Melville Gardens, NDP leader Gary Burrill, Northwood, nursing homes, pandemic, Parkland Antigonish, Shannex

Halifax developer proposes 23-storey tower for Robie Street under baked-in Centre Plan exception

May 27, 2020 By Zane Woodford

  Developer Danny Chedrawe submitted a new proposal for his Robie Street property this week, seeking approval for a 23-storey tower next to the Willow Tree site. The proposal, submitted by WSP Canada Inc. on behalf of Chedrawe’s Westwood Developments and posted on the city’s website on Monday, is for a development agreement on the...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: affordable housing, Armco, Carl Purvis, Centre Plan, Christina Lovitt, Councillor Lindell Smith, Danny Chedrawe, density bonusing, Shannex, Westwood Developments, Willow Tree development

45 Northwood residents have died with COVID-19

The disease has now spread into the non-nursing home part of the complex, apparently via a room for smokers.

May 13, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 3 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The death toll continues to climb at the Northwood nursing home in Halifax. Northwood CEO Janet Simm and Executive Director Josie Ryan held an online briefing today to report three more residents have died, bringing the total to 45 at the 485-bed complex. Equally discouraging […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, EHS, Glen Haven Manor, Janet Simm, Josie Ryan, long term care (LTC), Manor Smoke Room, masks, NATIONAL Public Relations, Northwood, NS Health Authority, nursing homes, pandemic, Shannex, VON

Who’s hiring during COVID-19?

April 8, 2020 By Suzanne Rent and Jennifer Henderson Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. I (Suzanne Rent) haven’t done a list of terrible-paying jobs in some time. But on the weekend when Tim Bousquet shared a tweet from Stanfield’s saying they were hiring more staff to help them make medical gowns, I thought I’d look into what companies are […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Arctic patrol boats, Atlantic Splash Adventure, Canada Post, Carla Adams, COVID-19, employment in NS, Gillian Costello, Irving Shipyard, Jane's Next Door, JD Irving, job ad, job hunting, Loblaw, Mark Boudreau, Michael Lowe, Nate Martin, Northwood, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), Nursing Homes of Nova Scotia Association (NHNSA), Paladin Security, Shadow Security, Shannex, social distancing, Sproule Lumber, Tom Ormsby, Valérie Chartrand

Northwood Manor reserves an entire floor for residents who may contract COVID-19

The disease is now appearing in nursing homes across the province, but the province won't say what policies are being implemented to protect residents who remain healthy.

March 31, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The confirmed COVID-19 infection of four staff and two residents at three other nursing homes in the province has prompted Northwood Inc. to step up its preparations. With 485 beds at its Halifax location, Northwood is one of the largest nursing home operators in Nova […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: care homes, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dr. Robert Strang, Josie Ryan, Katherine VanBuskirk, Lewis Hall, Magnolia Manor, Northwood, pandemic, R.K. MacDonald Nursing Home, Shannex, Shannon Kerr, social distancing

With the hyper-financialization of housing, private equity firms and REITs are making obscene profits on the backs of everyday people in Dartmouth and Halifax

Morning File, Friday, February 28, 2020

February 28, 2020 By Tim Bousquet and Joan Baxter 11 Comments

News 1. Covid-19 I found yesterday’s New York Times’ The Daily podcast quite helpful in understanding the coronavirus, the threats of it, and the likely outcomes. The Guardian’s explainer is useful as well. The short of it: unless some surprise treatment emerges, this will probably become a global pandemic along the lines of the Spanish Flu […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Armco Capital, convention centre hotel, COVID-19, Cynthia van Kooten, financialization of housing, George Armoyan, Graeme Benjamin, Herveen Sachdeva, Highfield Park, Highfield Park Residential Inc., Hotel Barmecide, Howard Njoo, Jason Shannon, Katherine Williams, Michael Gorman, Michael Lawless, MLA Hugh MacKay, Patrick Condon, Penny Lawless, Prospectors and Developers of Canada Association (PDAC), Province House firearm, Public Health Agency of Canada, Push, REIT, Ron Meagher, Shannex, Sutton Place Hotel, Tedros Adhanom, Theresa Tam, Toronto Public Health (TPH), Urchin Properties, Willow Tree development

More police needed to monitor police, and more turbines needed to pay for turbines

Morning File, Tuesday, December 17, 2019

December 17, 2019 By Erica Butler 4 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp “Yesterday, four days before his announcement was due on the Northern Pulp effluent treatment proposal, and less than 24 hours before the deadline for the provincial environment minister to announce his decision, federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson released a statement saying that he had ‘decided not to designate […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anjuli Patil, bedsore death, Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Carrie Low, Chrissy Dunnington, Jesse Thomas, Louise Riley, Mi'kmaw Place Names, More Caring Hands, Nova Scotia Power (NSP), Pam Berman, Parkstone Enhanced Care, Paul Withers, pedestrian vehicle collisions stats, police budget, Police Chief Dan Kinsella, Polly Trottenberg, Rick Salutin, Robert Devet, Shannex, tidal turbine retrieval, Uber, Vision Zero

Halifax Transit moving forward together, but without some Beaver Bankers

Morning File, Thursday, December 5, 2019

December 5, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 8 Comments

News 1. 198 workers out of a job as Web.com closes Yarmouth location Almost 200 employees at Web.com in Yarmouth were told yesterday that their location is shutting down next year. The company offers internet services to businesses and has locations in New Glasgow and Halifax. The Yarmouth location has been operating for 18 years. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Beaver Bank bus route, Bryony House, bus route plan, Cedarstone Enhanced Care, councillor Lisa Blackburn, Debert Court, Dion Mouland, Doctors Nova Scotia, Dominique Amit, Erin DiCarlo, Fadila Chater, Halifax Transit, Health and Wellness Minister Randy Delorey, Jenna Young, Katherine VanBuskirk, Ken Wilson, Kevin Chapman, Kristin Gardiner, logging scars, Lyle Mailman, Maria MacIntosh, Matt Dagley, Mayor Pam Mood, Melissa Walton, Moving Forward Together (MFT), National Housing Co-Investment Fund, Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI), Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), nursing homes, Ocean View, Sandy Ross, Shannex, Small History Nova Scotia, Special Care Act, taser, Tina Comeau, Web.com, Wildlands League

“Neoliberal bullshit” basic income

Morning File, Thursday, September 19, 2019

September 19, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 8 Comments

News 1. No charges in case of woman who died of horrific bed sore Chrissy Dunnington died from complications of a pressure sore (often called a bed sore) in March 2018. She was 40 years old. Dunnington had been living at the Parkstone Enhanced Care home, owned by Shannex, in Clayton Park for 18 months. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Allan MacMaster, bedsore death, Bill Spurr, Centre Plan, Charles Murray, Chrissy Dunnington, collapsed crane removal, crane incident, density bonusing, Dorothy Dunnington, Elizabeth McMillan, Green Party, Guaranteed Livable Income (GLI), Hurricane Dorian, John Wesley Chisholm, lower Halifax speed limits, Mark Reynolds, Mary-Dan Johnston, Mayor Mike Savage, Minister Labi Kousoulis, Parkstone Enhanced Care, police officer stealing, Shannex, Stuart Peddle, Universal Basic Income (UBI), uranium mining, Zane Woodford

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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.

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