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We’re told to socially distance, but people are hooking up and having sex

Sexual health advocates worry people are avoiding STI testing for fear of being judged for straying outside their bubbles.

June 11, 2020 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Despite the pandemic, provincial sexual health centres are dealing with increased demands for information and a steady stream of requests for STI (sexually transmitted infection) testing. “I know through friends and clients that there are a lot of people who aren’t necessarily respecting all of […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Kate Calnan, Lesley Mulcahy, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), pandemic, Rene Ross, safe sex, sex, Sexual Health Centre, sexually transmitted blood borne infection (STBBI), social distancing, STIs

Report: Canadians plan to avoid restaurants ‘for the foreseeable future’

Take-out and delivery kept many businesses afloat throughout the pandemic, but we're more wary when it comes to dining-in.

June 9, 2020 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. We may have embraced ordering take-out and delivery food throughout the pandemic, but a majority of Canadians say dining in at restaurants is off the table for the foreseeable future. That’s one of the takeaways of a new survey released Tuesday. The COVID-19 restaurant survey […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Howard Ramos, lockdown, pandemic, physical distancing, restaurants, social distancing, Sylvain Charlebois

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

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

Province no longer paying for hotels for Halifax homeless shelter residents

May 7, 2020 By Zane Woodford 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The provincial government has stopped paying for hotel rooms for dozens of people who were moved out of a temporary homeless shelter last month following a confirmed case of COVID-19. And while federal funding is now covering the bill, the local association tasked with doling […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia (AHANS), coronavirus, COVID-19 and vulnerable populations, homeless housing, Jim Graham, Krista Higdon, Out of the Cold Shelter, pandemic, Reaching Home program, social distancing

Let’s go on holiday… to late 1960s PEI!

Morning File, Wednesday, May 6, 2020

May 6, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 4 Comments

News 1. COVID-19 update: Strang defends Northwood as deaths mount Zane Woodford covered yesterday’s COVID-19 briefing by premier Stephen McNeil and chief medical officer of health Robert Strang. The good news: new daily cases were in the single digits again, with just six reported. The bad news: three more deaths, bringing the provincial total to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: COVID-19 clusters, COVID-19 testing, fake cop, false positive, Feed Nova Scotia, food banks, Halifax Infirmary, Halifax Transit Burnside garage, impersonating police officer, Mary Jane Hampton, masks, Michael Gorman, Nebal Snan, park reopening, Prince Edward Island (PEI), Rachel Delano, social distancing, Tourism

No dawdling over coffee: Nova Scotia farmers’ markets take their operations online

May 6, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. For a lot of shoppers, going to a farmers’ market is about more than just getting groceries. It’s a ritual. “I love this place… I love the complete package. It’s like family,” said Alex Pearson, then retail manager for the Garrison Brewery shop, when I […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Alex Pearson, Amy McCann, Antigonish Farmers' Market, coronavirus, COVID-19, Doug Frazier, farmers market, Farmers' Markets of Nova Scotia (FMNS), Halifax Seaport Farmers' Market, Justin Cantafio, Lane Farguson, Lee DePonte, Local Food Marketplace, Neighbourhood Goods, online ordering, online shopping, pandemic, social distancing, Wolfville Farmers' Market

Strang: “We may well have had the peak”

Morning File, Wednesday, April 29, 2020

April 29, 2020 By Erica Butler 7 Comments

News 1. Murderer escaped Portapique within 10 minutes of police arriving Tim Bousquet provides an update on what we know about the mass murder which started in Portapique, Nova Scotia on April 18, based on new information released yesterday by RCMP Support Services Officer Darren Campbell. New information includes: • 435 witnesses have been identified, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brad Anguish, Brendan Elliott, coronavirus, councillor Bill Karsten, Councillor David Hendsbee, councillor Matt Whitman, councillor Shawn Cleary, Councillor Stephen Adams, councillor Steve Streatch, COVID-19, Dr. Brendan Carr, Dr. Robert Strang, easing restrictions, hospitals, household bubbles, intensive care, Jacques Dubé, Jennifer Russell, Larry Haiven, Lean Healthcare, Mayor Bill de Blasio, murder shooting spree timeline, New Brunswick, Northwood, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), pandemic, pedestrian safety, reopening hospitals, Saskatchewan, social distancing, Sue Goyette

People are finding small ways to show their sorrow

Morning File, Wednesday, April 22, 2020

April 22, 2020 By Erica Butler 3 Comments

News 1. Mass murder victims believed to number 22 Tim Bousquet reports from yesterday’s RCMP press briefing, and outlines a “vague and misleading” statement issued by the RCMP regarding the mass murder spree on the weekend in which 22 people were murdered by a single perpetrator, over almost 14 hours, in a series of Nova […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: active transportation, basic income, beg buttons, Brynn Budden, Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), climate change, coronavirus, COVID-19, covid-19 violation tickets, Dr. Robert Strang, Earth Day, exceptional white male syndrome, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Harry Sullivan, Ira Reinhart-Smith, Joy McCabe, mass killing spree Nova Scotia, murder spree Nova Scotia, Northwood, Onslow Belmont Fire Brigade, Pamela Palmater, pandemic, parks, pedestrians, Portapique, Rachel McLay, RCMP Nova Scotia, RCMP shooting Lower Onslow, Senator Frances Lankin, Senator Kim Pate, Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), shooting rampage, sidewalks, social distancing

Child’s play: researchers want to know what kids are doing with unstructured time

April 22, 2020 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The fact that Jessie-Lee McIsaac’s toddler wanders into the room while the Mount Saint University professor is being interviewed about her latest project highlights just how different life is for families in a COVID-19 world. The researcher and her team at the university’s Early Childhood […]

Filed Under: Education, Featured, News Tagged With: child's play, Christine McLean, coronavirus, COVID-19, Jessie-Lee McIsaac, pandemic, playing, social distancing, working from home

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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.

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