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Parents, don’t worry about your kids’ screen time — you’re doing your best

Morning File, Thursday, May 6, 2021

May 6, 2021BySuzanne Rent2 Comments

新闻1。COVID-19 update: 175 new cases Yesterday a new record high of COVID-19 cases was announced in the province. Tim Bousquet has all the data, graphs, demographics, testing schedules, and more. Of the 175 new cases, 149 of those are in the Nova Scotia Health Central Zone. There’s a total of 1203 cases in […]

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Jobs aren’t low skilled; they’re low paid and undervalued

Morning File, Friday, April 30, 2021

April 30, 2021BySuzanne Rent4 Comments

新闻1。COVID-19 update Tim Bousquet has all the latest on COVID-19 in the province, including details on new cases, variants, demographics, testing, vaccination, and potential exposure advisories. Seventy new cases of the virus were announced on Thursday. There are 548 active cases of the virus in Nova Scotia. Bousquet has the breakdown of where the […]

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“People grieve differently:” How Nova Scotians remember

Morning File, Monday, April 19, 2021

April 19, 2021BySuzanne Rent1 Comment

新闻1。COVID-19更新:八个新病例;两个,那ols closed Eight new cases of COVID-19 were announced on Sunday. That’s a weekend total of 15. There are now 49 active known cases in the province. Tim Bousquet has all the graphs and updates. The new cases include a second staff member at Glasgow Hall, a […]

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Dartmouth tenants head to social media to find Hope for Highfield

“I love the community, I love the people, I could love my apartment, but it will take all of us coming together in the hope we can clean up the community together."

April 15, 2021BySuzanne Rent3 Comments

Cindy Fowler has lived in Highfield Park in a two-bedroom apartment with her five-year-old son for just about four years. After years of dealing with issues in her apartment in the building at 76 Highfield Park Drive and hearing about problems from other tenants, Fowler decided to get everyone together to ask for improvements in the buildings […]

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Who’s paying the price for payday and high-interest loans?

Morning File, Thursday, April 15, 2021

April 15, 2021BySuzanne Rent8 Comments

新闻1。Communications specialist: “hundreds of thousands of dollars” were spent to produce “blatant lies” for the campaign against the Biodiversity Act Joan Baxter has a fascinating piece on the Stop Bill 4 ad campaign from the Concerned Private Landowners Coalition, which doesn’t really exist, against the Biodiversity Act. Baxter talks to a local communications […]

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Time to change the rules for drinking in public

Morning File, Tuesday, April 6, 2021

April 6, 2021BySuzanne Rent3 Comments

新闻1。COVID-19 update: Three new cases Tim Bousquet has the latest update on COVID-19. Three new cases of the virus were announced in the province on Monday, all of which are in Nova Scotia’s Health Central Zone. One case is related to travel outside Atlantic Canada, one is a close contact of a previously […]

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Virtual events open up the world

Technology plays catch up as events head online, making them more accessible to people with disabilities.

April 6, 2021BySuzanne RentLeave a Comment

哈利法克斯审查员提供所有COVID-19浸erage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. Jewelles Smith is a human rights expert, scholar, and academic researcher who’s completing her PhD. This winter Smith attended a conference in Ireland and didn’t even have to leave home. “It was really amazing for me academically and […]

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Archiving the history of Nova Scotia’s LGBT seniors

Morning File, Tuesday, March 30, 2021

March 30, 2021BySuzanne Rent12 Comments

新闻1。“The battle doesn’t end” in fighting barriers in the city Zane Woodford talks with Milena Khazanavicius about a fence that is now surrounding a development at the corner of North and Oxford streets. Khazanavicius is blind and she and her guide dog, Louis, were out for a walk on Sunday morning when they […]

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Virtual health care: “We jumped a generation and started catching up”

Doctors and patients support the move away from in-person doctor visits, but recognize there are limits.

March 25, 2021BySuzanne Rent1 Comment

哈利法克斯审查员提供所有COVID-19浸erage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. For Elizabeth Hopkins, a visit to her family doctor usually means taking two buses on a two-hour round trip from Halifax to Lower Sackville. Those visits with her would last about 10 minutes. When the COVID-19 pandemic […]

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Women don’t choose low-paying jobs; society just doesn’t value our work

Morning File, Tuesday, March 23, 2021

March 23, 2021BySuzanne Rent7 Comments

新闻1。Nurse recruitment during the pandemic is challenging, but going reasonably well Jennifer Henderson reports on the recruitment of retired or inactive nurses needed to work in testing centres, vaccines clinics, and as contact tracers. So far, 508 nurses have stepped up. To get the nurses ready to go back to work, the College […]

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PRICED OUT

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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 thePRICED OUT homepage.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

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Episode 66 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

It’s been a pandemic full of learning and experimenting for Gabrielle Papillon, whose latest recordShoutis an art-pop celebration of self. That includes building and producing from a home studio, mentoring with producer friends, composing and presenting an original musical (very common), and managing to squeeze in a UK tour in between lockdowns. She stops by to chat about all of this, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and the uncertain future.

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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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