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Pharmacists, nurse practitioners to provide collaborative health care in pilot project at two Nova Scotia pharmacies

February 25, 2022 By Yvette d'Entremont 1 Comment

A new pilot project announced by the province in New Glasgow in on Friday morning will see pharmacists and nurse practitioners in Truro and New Glasgow providing health care through a model being called ‘Pharmacist Walk-In Clinic +’. “It’s a collaborative approach, and it’s anticipated to alleviate some of the pressure on local emergency departments […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health, News, Province House Tagged With: Beverley Zwicker, collaborative care model, Karen Oldfield, Lawtons, Michelle Stewart, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia College of Pharmacists, Nova Scotia Health, NSH, Pat Dunn, Pharmacist Walk-In Clinic +, Sobeys, Truro, walk-in clinics, Yvette d'Entremont

From heroes to zeroes… the pandemic bottom line

For supermarkets, hero pay was always more about PR than rewarding employees' above-and-beyond work. They're ready to move on and step back. But the rest of us should take the opportunity to have the important conversation we need to have around a permanent guaranteed annual income.

June 28, 2020 By Stephen Kimber 5 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Long ago and far away — which is to say on March 22, 2020, while much of the known world shuttered in place against the new and frightening worldwide COVID-19 pandemic — Galen Weston, the executive chair of Loblaw Companies Ltd., better known to you […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: COVID-19, hero pay, Sobeys, Superstore

Frontline workers: Grocery store staff

"We’re not heroes; we’re hashtags."

May 28, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. As a grocery store employee, Aaron (we’re not using his real name so he doesn’t face disciplinary action from his employer) is an essential worker, but like many retail employees, he’s not being treated that way. COVID-19 has exposed the importance of frontline workers in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), cashiers, coronavirus, COVID-19, frontline, Graeme Benjamin, grocery workers, hero pay, living wage, Loblaws, masks, pandemic, retail, Sheila Block, Sobeys, social distancing

Halifax woman says she was racially profiled by Wal-Mart employees who wrongfully accused her of theft, then beaten by police

January 16, 2020 By El Jones 18 Comments

Santina Rao was at the Walmart at the Halifax Shopping Centre on Wednesday when she was accused of stealing by store staff, assaulted by the police, and arrested. Rao was shopping with her two young children, age 3 and 15 months. She paid for $90 worth of items in the electronics department. The cashier told […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: African United Baptist Association, Andrella David, Desmond Cole, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Mayann Francis, police brutality, Police Chief Dan Kinsella, Santina Rao, shopping while Black, Sobeys, Walmart

Sears stiffs its employees while vulture capitalists profit

“Just six dollars,” the woman behind the counter said cheerfully. “Gotta love health benefits.” “Actually,” replied the man, “I’m losing mine.”

July 10, 2017 By Stephen Kimber

On Friday, I was mindlessly meandering the aisles of my local Superstore, foraging for food and filling time, when I chanced on a conversation at the pharmacy. A man was paying for a prescription. “Just six dollars,” the woman behind the counter said cheerfully. “Gotta love health benefits.” “Actually,” replied the man, “I’m losing mine.”...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: first contract, labour, Lawtons, Pensions, Sears, Sobeys

Local goons: Examineradio, episode #77

September 2, 2016 By Russell Gragg 3 Comments

  This week we speak with Rhiannon Makohoniuk, the Dalhousie Student Union’s Vice-President Internal, about the university’s decision not to fully fund the nascent Sexual Assault Hotline. The university claims that, based on a report they won’t release to the public, the partial funding they offered was adequate. But who needs safe students when you can send billionaires […]

Filed Under: Featured, Province House Tagged With: Chronicle Herald, Dalhousie, Examineradio, labour, Lisa Roberts, NDP, podcast, racial profiling, sexual assault, Sobeys, strike

Making Halifax Home: Morning File, Tuesday, August 30, 2016

August 30, 2016 By Lewis Rendell 2 Comments

Today’s Morning File is written by Lewis Rendell. I’m one of a handful of guest writers filling in for Tim as he’s on vacation. News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Dalhousie’s sexual assault helpline scaled back after funding dispute As Heidi Pearson reports for Global, Dalhousie University’s volunteer-driven helpline for […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrella David, Anjuli Patil, Creep Catchers, Frank Lewis, Heidi Pearson, James Murtagh, John Collyer, Katie Hagen, Monty Mosher, Sobeys, Stephen Kimber

Dead murderers don’t murder again: Morning File, Monday, August 29, 2016

August 29, 2016 By Russell Gragg 5 Comments

Today’s Morning File is written by Russell Gragg. I’m the producer of Examineradio, the Halifax Examiner’s weekly podcast. I also handle the syndication for Canadaland, Canada’s only media criticism program. I’m the Station Director at CKDU Radio, and co-host of The Commute, the station’s Friday afternoon drive-time show. I don’t really sleep anymore. News Views Noticed […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andy Arsenault, assault, boycott, ferry, Graham Steele, Halifax-Needham, Lisa Roberts, racial profiling, Sobeys, taxi, Yarmouth

Bagpipe lung is coming for you: Morning File, Tuesday, August 23, 2016

August 23, 2016 By Lewis Rendell 3 Comments

Today’s Morning File is written by Lewis Rendell. I’m filling in for Tim this morning while he takes a much needed vacation. News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Hit-and-run seriously injures cyclist in St. Margaret’s Bay On Monday morning a bike commuter was hit by a truck that left the scene. As […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: ACORN, African United Baptist Association of Nova Scotia, Andrella David, AUBA, Carly Stagg, Chris Huskilson, Gratitude at Work, Haley Ryan, John Risley, MIT, Richard Florizone, Sobeys, Stephen Kimber, Tim Lane

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!

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