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What it means to live with COVID

"We need to be very careful about letting down our guard too much at this point," says Dr. Scott Halperin, professor of pediatrics and microbiology and immunology at Dalhousie University and infectious disease at the IWK Health Centre.

March 17, 2022 By Yvette d'Entremont 5 Comments

On Monday, children across Nova Scotia are set to return to their schools after this week’s March Break. While some restrictions will remain in place for the health care system, students will be re-entering classrooms on the same day that the province enters Phase 3 of its reopening plan. Public health and school public health […]

Filed Under: COVID, Featured, Health, News Tagged With: ATU Local 508, BA.2 subvariant, Canadian Center for Vaccinology, CITF, COVID-19, COVID-19 Immunity Task Force, Dalhousie University, Dr. Scott Halperin, Halifax Transit, IWK Health Centre, mask mandate, mask requirements, masking in schools, Nova Scotia, NS Pediatric Pandemic Advisory Group, Omicron, pediatric vaccination, Phase 3, reopening plan, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Health Organization (WHO), Yvette d'Entremont

Exploring the evidence, ethics, and pitfalls around vaccine certificates

"Everybody who cannot get one of these documents is going to experience a decrease in freedom relative to what others in the population can do," bioethicist says

June 2, 2021 By Yvette d'Entremont 5 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. At some point in the not too distant future, vaccine certificates are expected to be a requirement for international travel. But what should they look like and what issues must be taken into consideration? Dalhousie University Research […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Angus Reid, carding, COVID-19, Dalhousie University, digital COVID certificate, Dr. Robert Strang, European Commission, European Union, Francoise Baylis, Health Canada, immuno-privilege, Michael Crawford, Natalie Kofler, Nova Scotia, poll, sunset clause, technological creep, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, The Telegraph, Tourism, travel, United Nations World Committee on Tourism Ethics, University of Windsor, vaccine certificates, vaccine passports, vaccines, WHO, World Health Organization (WHO)

The possible horrible legacy of the “coronavirus convention”

Against suggestions that it be cancelled, 23,000 people from around the world attended a mining convention in Toronto in March. Now, a government mining official from Burkina Faso who attended the convention has tested positive for COVID-19, and the disease threatens to decimate that country.

March 29, 2020 By Joan Baxter 11 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free When this global health crisis finally ends, as it will one day, there will be much soul-searching about what could have been done better, and how we could have prevented the spread of the virus and the pandemic. In Canada, one of the lessons learned […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Alex Black, Allan Woo, Andy Abraham, Bonnie Henry, Burkina Faso, coronavirus, Coronavirus Convention, COVID-19, Dr. Herveen Sachdeva, Dr. Theresa Tam, Dr. Vinita Dubey, Felix Lee, Gabriel Friedman, James West, Jerry-Jonas Mbasha, Kristy Kenny, Laurentian University, McEwen Mining, Minister Oumarou Idani, Minister Seamus O’Regan, Pacific Dental Convention, Premier Doug Ford, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC), Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), Rio2 Ltd, Rob McEwen, Scott Ansel, Shannon Kerr, Sun Peak Metals Corp, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Toronto Public Health (TPH), Troilus Gold Corp, World Health Organization (WHO)

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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