消息
1. Three men die from COVID
昨天该省报告说，周末有三名男子死于库维德。虽然遗传测序尚未完成，但在Omicron爆发期间，这三个（他的60多岁，一个70多岁，一个在80年代）中都染上了这种疾病。
他们的死亡提醒您，尽管在大多数情况下，Omicron比以前的病毒变体相对较温和，因为它是如此感染力，它可能导致许多住院和死亡。
我们无法做出确切的预测，但是在病例数达到峰值之后，住院和死亡人数似乎分别达到了大约两周和三个星期。上周，新斯科舍省的案例数量很高，因此本月的其余时间确实可能是严峻的。
昨天，由于库维德（Covid），有59人在医院里，其中55人在Omicron爆发期间感染了这种疾病。（住院人数不包括出于其他原因被送往医院的人，但在入院筛查期间对Covid呈阳性，也不包括在医院暴发中签约Covid的人。
除了患有COVID的患者外，许多医院员工要么亲自感染病毒，要么是测试阳性的人的密切接触；在这两种情况下，他们都不工作和自我隔离，这会造成人员短缺。
1月10日，星期一，伊丽莎白二世二世卫生科学中心外面排队16架救护车。照片：Tim Bousquet
Those impacts are evident in the long lineup of ambulances outside I saw at the hospitals yesterday — 16 outside the QEII and another five outside Dartmouth General. I’m told that another four were inside bays at each facility, and that there have in past days been even more ambulances waiting for available hospital staff to unload patients.
While the ambulance situation is heightened by Omicron, this is by no means a new phenomenon.早在2018年，在大流行之前，Yvette D’Entremont采访了护理人员Scott Sturgeon：
Sturgeon表示，在与患者一起在医院的走廊上等待并不是什么新鲜事，但医护人员在急诊室的花费的时间大大增加。
Sturgeon亲自与一名患者或多名患者一起在走廊上花费了9到10个小时的时间。他说，同事经常在急诊部门的走廊上度过了整个12小时的工作日。
他回忆说：“当我刚开始时，卸载时间可能是15分钟。”“你几乎从未等待。而现在，即使所有ERS都在扩展，等待时间呈指数增长。”
医护人员挤进走廊,barred from leaving until they’ve handed patients over to the hospital’s care, are not able to respond to emergency calls, something Sturgeon confirmed happens “far more than most people know.”
Jennifer Henderson, too, has been covering the ambulance situation.In September, when Nova Scotia’s low COVID case numbers were the envy of the nation, she reported:
Last month nine out of 10 patients ambulanced to the QEII Health Sciences Centre Emergency Department waited more than six hours to be admitted. Six hours and 42 minutes, in fact.
That disturbing information is contained in the Ambulance Offload Times report for last month prepared for Nova Scotia Health (NSH) and submitted to the Health minister. It confirms what many already knew: the situation on the front lines is getting worse.
前卫生部长扎克丘吉尔成为报警ed last April when it was clear overcrowded emergency departments were creating a bottleneck. More and more ambulances were unable to respond to new calls because they were tied up outside the emergency department waiting to discharge patients. The grieving families of凯利·麦克菲（Kelly MacPhee）and乔治四月公开发表了关于他们的挫败感，看着亲人死亡，等待救护车出现。
The target or benchmark set by the province is 30 minutes to off load 90% of patients arriving at emergency departments. After 30 minutes, the paramedic/ambulance driver is supposed to be free to respond to another call.
这个目标越来越像一个残酷的幻想。
Covid显然是医疗保健系统的压力，但我们不要假装这是没有人可以预料的黑天鹅事件。毫无疑问，这一危机时刻有许多贡献因素，但是医疗保健系统的资源不足和资金不足已有很多年了。如果不是共同使我们到达这一点，那将是其他的。
我们无法运行医院，就好像它们是“及时”制造工厂一样，拥有足够的资源来通过当天的预计需求来实现这一目标，并希望他们能够对危机做出良好的反应。医生，护士和其他医院工作人员是敬业和关怀的员工，但他们已延伸到断点。
2.入狱
The North Unit day room at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility. Photo: Halifax Examiner
El Jones spoke with prisoners at the Burnside jail about the current outbreak of COVID at the facility:
Prisoners describe a facility unequipped to deal with the current rapid rate of infection, and say that they have been told the jail simply does not have the structural ability to deal with so many cases.
那些测试阳性的人尚未从较大的人群中删除。取而代之的是，工作人员只是创建了一个“旋转”系统，在该系统中，与未感染的人相比，在与未感染的人不同的时间中，共同阳性的人会被释放出来。
但是，囚犯说，这些轮换之间还没有进行充分的清洁，直到最近，还没有提供任何个人清洁产品来消毒公共区域。他们特别指出，共享电话没有在轮换之间清洁，而囚犯则使用袜子在接收器上试图保护自己免受传播。
一些人说，他们没有被告知他们已经测试了阳性，而只是发现自己转移到了共同方案并锁定在其细胞中。这会导致蔓延和接触的压力加剧，因为囚犯说他们没有足够的信息来保护自己。
Those inside also point to the lack of air circulation. One prisoner in a cell with COVID-positive people on either side of him told me that the air vent system is under the beds, leading him to attempt to stop up the vents to try to prevent infection.
Due to the lack of staff, many of the men say that they have not been able to get clean laundry, and that while the facility eventually issued new bedding, they are unable to clean their clothes. They also say that while they have been issued masks, they are not able to get fresh masks quickly.
随着资源的扩展，囚犯对医疗保健不足感到关注。
一个人叙述了检查一个朋友，发现他倒在呕吐物中的牢房里。卫生保健人员花了两个多小时的回应。
3.布莱恩·约翰斯顿
布莱恩·约翰斯顿（Brian Johnston）在1980年担任达特茅斯警察的新兵。—照片：哈利法克斯档案馆
“Though Brian Johnston had planned to officiate a church service this past Sunday at Zion Baptist Church, the Black church in Truro, those plans did not go forward,” reports Matthew Byard:
非洲联合浸信会协会（AUBA）和加拿大加拿大加拿大加拿大浸信会（CBAC）的谢丽尔·安·比尔斯（Cheryl Ann Beals）牧师主持了电信服务局。
据说，尽管仍被正式雇用为锡安浸信会的部长，但约翰斯顿在对哈利法克斯市提起诉讼后，除了牵连的哈利法克斯之外，还没有担任部长职责。
审查员上周首次报告了有关诉讼的信息。原告仅被确定为X.Y.，指责约翰斯顿（Johnston）是达特茅斯市的前市政府警察和哈利法克斯地区市政当局，在1992年13岁的时候在值班时对她进行性侵犯。她声称约翰斯顿后来在2006年生下了孩子，而他本来是哈利法克斯地区警察的侦探，也是锡安浸信会的牧师。
单击此处阅读“除教堂职责外，被指控犯有性侵犯步骤的传教士。”
4. Don’t mention the former cop accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl
消息outlets compete against each other, of course. Usually that’s healthy: we each strive to find stories others haven’t found yet, and that leads to a better-informed public.
Then, after a big story breaks, other outlets jump on it. At its best, the re-reporting builds on the initial story, and as more reporters work on it, more information comes out, and the story grows, and the public is even more informed. Scandal is unveiled, corruption rooted out, and maybe the world gets a little better.
我承认，当一个竞争新闻媒体重新报告哈利法克斯审查员破裂而没有归功于我们的故事时，我会很生气。当我们重新报告他们破产的故事时，我们会试图赞扬其他媒体（和特定的记者），尽管我确定有时候我们没有这样做 - 但我们仍然不会忽略他们，啊。但是这样。
But you know what’s worse than not crediting the Examiner for a story we broke? Ignoring it completely.
当然，并非所有故事都值得重新报告。而且我们所有人都很瘦弱，没有足够的员工追逐太多的故事。我们就涵盖什么和传递的内容做出艰难的决定。
但是，布莱恩·约翰斯顿（Brian Johnston）的故事应该登上故事清单。考虑：
•约翰斯顿被指控性侵犯一个13岁的女孩，后者当时是该省的病房，后来又育有孩子；
• at the time of the alleged sexual assaults, Johnston was a Halifax cop;
•原告说，她将自己的帐户带到了哈利法克斯警察局，没有开始调查。
•约翰斯顿（Johnston）以前在新斯科舍省的家中为有色儿童工作，当时人们承认工作人员正在虐待孩子。
• Johnston went on to become the preacher at Zion Baptist Church in Truro, and as a result of the accusation from X.Y., was not permitted to preach Sunday.
当然，对我来说听起来像是一个重要的故事，这就是为什么我指示审查员记者深入挖掘并继续前进的原因。
但是其余的当地新闻媒体？板球。CBC？纳达。盐丝？不是一个字。电视新闻？太忙于重写警察发行。
我无法解释这个故事的媒体沉默。这让我想知道他们忽略了其他什么故事。但这是读者，这就是为什么您应该支持Halifax审查员等杂乱的独立新闻媒体with your subscription。
5. Race and grief
马修·拜德（Matthew Byard）的副教授巴布·汉密尔顿·辛奇（Barb Hamilton-Hinch）博士说：“绅士化和对白人社会的同化的结合继续对该省的黑人社区产生恶化的影响。
Hamilton-Hinch, who’s done research on racism and diversity, shared those thoughts and others in anew web seriescalled Our Stories Our Experiences with Rajean Willis. The four-part web series was recently released on YouTube by the Halifax Public Libraries as part of a collaboration with TD Bank for African Heritage Month.
汉密尔顿·欣奇（Hamilton-Hinch）出现在标题为““探索悲伤和损失的复杂性。”She’s done work in the Black community hosting groups to help people process grief and loss following a number of gun murders in Halifax in recent years. She said grief and loss aren’t always limited to just the loss of life, and that grief in the Black community often goes unrecognized.
“We don’t think about loss with land, we don’t think about loss with education and culture, we don’t think about the impact of … post- traumatic slave syndrome, and how we’ve been impacted by that,” she said.
单击此处阅读“ Dr.Barb Hamilton-Hinch探索了黑人社区中的损失和悲伤的故事。”
汉密尔顿·欣奇（Hamilton-Hinch）正在回应由宝琳老板，他重新审视了伊丽莎白·库伯勒·罗斯（ElisabethKübler-Ross）的线性“悲伤五个阶段”模型：
也许这就是为什么老板的工作在过去两年中引起了研究人员和记者的兴趣，在the pandemic,乔治·弗洛伊德的谋杀案and1月6日对美国国会大厦的袭击。In a time when the global community is grappling with questions of atmospheric grief, she has broadened her attention beyond the family, looking — along with her acolytes — out to questions of societal bereavement.
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在某种程度上，“封闭式神话”在某种程度上启发了人们对种族动荡和大流行的详尽看待，同时驳斥了悲伤有规定的终点的想法。在某些方面，这本书证明了这些研究人员将她的思想推向新的方向，尤其是在种族上的方式。她写道：“现在，自从乔治·弗洛伊德（George Floyd）被杀害的那一天之后，在我的家乡明尼阿波利斯（Minneapolis）杀害了这一点，再加上我来自世界各地的问题，我扩大了我对模棱两可的损失的想法。”“这可能发生在一个人，一个家庭，一个当地社区或全球社区。”
6.欺诈
“An Uber driver from Brampton, Ont., has been convicted of fraud for trying to bilk the Town of Bridgewater, N.S., of nearly half a million dollars,”报告CBC的Blair Rhodes:
Ayoola Ajibade被指控在新斯科舍省大型公司Dexter Construction担任高管，他说服该镇直接向布兰普顿的Scotiabank分支机构直接支付490,930.43美元。
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Bridgewater was able to recover the money it had mistakenly transferred to Ajibade’s bank account.
《纽约时报》周日有一个关于罗恩·佩雷尔曼（Ron Perelman）的故事，也许是数十亿位女星“债务王。” It’s a long profile which is worth reading in full, but this part reminds me of the Bridgewater saga:
2016年，露华浓（Revlon）聘请花旗集团（Citigroup）以18亿美元的价格汇总了一套贷款，然后从一群投资公司中积累了一套贷款，其几乎所有持股都作为抵押品。它在很大程度上限制了露华龙获得进一步的贷款。或应该。
When things went even further south, Revlon, in 2019 and 2020, worked out deals with a subset of those lenders to obtain $1 billion more, this time serving up the company’s intellectual property as collateral. Which is the corporate equivalent of getting a mortgage on your house and then, when you cannot make the payments, going back and getting a mortgage for the land underneath.
A number of the lenders who did not provide additional capital revolted. They对露华浓和花旗集团提起欺诈运输诉讼, accusing them of “theft.”
佩雷尔曼先生说，该诉讼没有任何优势，作为证据，指出了诉讼已被驳回。这是 - 尽管不是出于与其中央指控有关的原因。
In August 2020, administrators for Citigroup意外有线Revlon creditors the entire remaining balance on the 2016 loan. The wrong box got checked and out went $893 million. When Citigroup’s efforts to retrieve the money failed, no need existed for the lenders to continue their own lawsuit against Citigroup and Revlon. “The lawsuit was withdrawn solely because Citibank paid off the loans and not because the allegations were anything other than meritorious,” said Benjamin Finestone, a lawyer for the plaintiffs.
鉴于两个组织的相对规模，我认为在布里奇沃特（Bridgewater）接线的一些文员或管理员向错误的帐户进行了一百万美元的汇合，这可能比花旗银行意外地向债权人发送了8.93亿美元的花旗银行更大。然而，最大的区别在于，布里奇沃特能够拿回钱。
我在很多地方工作过，任何超过少量钱的支出（低至100美元的地方）必须得到两位不同的经理的批准，但要避免这种搞砸。
我很高兴布里奇沃特能够拿回钱，但是首先，这么多钱被错误地转移到了镇上有问题的财务控制。
7. Ebroborg
Ebroborg。照片：Wiki Commons
昨晚，这艘船Ebroborg到达Sheet Harbor。Ebroborg由荷兰公司Royal Wagonborg经营，该公司says它的船只每年进行800艘航行，每年载有250万吨森林产品。
毫无疑问，这艘船是在Sheet Harbor中捡起一堆木屑的船，这很可能是在可疑的观念中出口到欧洲的，即木芯片和其他生物燃料是“绿色能源”的燃料。无论如何，这些芯片将取代将燃烧起来的化石燃料，从而减少欧洲国家的温室气体排放量。
但是作为琳达·潘诺佐（Linda Pannozzo）已经指出了，生物燃料是温室气体会计骗局；作为环境纸网解释:
当前的碳会计规则通过将生物量燃烧视为零排放技术，激励森林生物能源，以零排放技术为零排放。假设是，在登录生物质时，应考虑所有排放量，将负担放在森林生产商而不是生物质消费者身上。然而，对土地部门森林的排放核算是致命的缺陷，并且通常低估了排放。生物质燃烧的真正碳成本很少出现在任何国家的资产负债表上。
Nova Scotia is a relatively bit player in the biofuel scam — given its climate, the US south is dominating the trade — but this province seems determined to log as much standing forest as possible before the market and/or better environmental regulations put an end to it.
政府
城市
哈利法克斯Regional Council（星期二，下午1点） -在YouTube上
省
健康（星期二，下午1点） -视频会议：长期护理中人员短缺的影响，老年人和长期护理部，新斯科舍省护士联盟和CUPE Nova Scotia的代表
在校园
没有事件
In the harbour
哈利法克斯
03:00：Crimson Queen，Bulker，从锚地航行到直布罗陀
03:30：MSC Donata，集装箱船，从42码头航行到西班牙巴塞罗那
08:00：地平线, oil tanker, oil tanker, arrives at Imperial Oil from New York
10:30:Siem孔子，汽车承运人，从德国埃姆登到达自动驾驶
18:30：CMA CGM Thalassa，集装箱船，从41号码头航行到纽约
22:00:Augusta Unity，货船，从码头31航行到海
Cape Breton
15:30：NS Consul, oil tanker, sails from Point Tupper for sea
16:30:Viktor Bakaev，油轮，到达纽约的角球
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