Follow The Halifax Examiner, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/halifaxexaminer Wed, 26 Jan 2022 17:22:41 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAaVZv6XI1BPnSejEQ2Mq9rY News 1. Woodford Report: confining construction to property lines and more from Halifax regional council OK, let’s start the day with Zane Woodford’s roundup of regional council news in Halifax. Keep construction off the streets At a virtual council meeting Tuesday, Coun. Kathryn Morse brought forward a motion seeking a staff report outlining “options for […]]]> Wed, 26 Jan 2022 17:04:31 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAaVZv6XI1BPnSejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAa0NRKRS7ydf6CY3L745TL_ A Halifax councillor wants developers to stay in their lane. Some of her colleagues aren’t sure that’s possible. Coun. Kathryn Morse brought a motion to council’s virtual meeting on Tuesday seeking a staff report outlining “options for requiring large construction projects to be contained on private property rather than being permitted to close sections of […]]]> Wed, 26 Jan 2022 13:32:41 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAa0NRKRS7ydf6CY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAaAtViJSf2vWJs0ohxaO6Yr Jump to sections in this article: Overview Vaccination Testing For the second day in a row, Nova Scotia is reporting that five people have died from COVID-19. The deceased are: • a woman in her 70s in Central Zone • a man in his 80s in Central Zone • a man in his 80s in […]]]> Tue, 25 Jan 2022 22:57:51 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAaAtViJSf2vWJs0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAaoAceCyknZPZVjH6qdYdAk It took close to two years, and a change of government, but the province has now approved protection of the French River watershed, which provides Tatamagouche with its water. According to the press release today from Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change: Environment and Climate Change Minister Tim Halman designated the French River watershed as […]]]> Tue, 25 Jan 2022 19:43:20 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAaoAceCyknZPZVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAa35jT2FooqQiejEQ2Mq9rY News 1. Five more Nova Scotians have died of COVID-19; mostly meaningless new case numbers released The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. The province reported five more deaths from COVID-19 yesterday, Tim Bousquet writes in his daily pandemic roundup: The deceased are: • a […]]]> Tue, 25 Jan 2022 16:09:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAa35jT2FooqQiejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAa_AY4Y6N1zXaCY3L745TL_ A 40-year-old man recently went on a hunger strike recently at a Dartmouth halfway house, just days before he tested positive for COVID-19. Cecil Boutilier, who is on parole at Jamieson Centre on Morris Drive, said he went on the hunger strike to draw attention to COVID restrictions at the centre. “COVID is being passed […]]]> Tue, 25 Jan 2022 15:03:45 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAa_AY4Y6N1zXaCY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAbw5HkLN14xnezdsCmHakzH The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. Concerns about the slow uptake of COVID-19 vaccine in the 5 to 11 age group is top of mind for a panel of Canadian experts hosting a live virtual town hall event later this week. According to […]]]> Mon, 24 Jan 2022 23:22:53 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAbw5HkLN14xnezdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAZ0Q1l7juS9mqCY3L745TL_ Jump to sections in this article: Overview Vaccination Testing Five more people have died from COVID-19 in Nova Scotia. The deceased are: • a woman in her 60s in the Central Zone • a man in his 70s in the Central Zone • a man in his 70s in the Western Zone • a man […]]]> Mon, 24 Jan 2022 22:59:20 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAZ0Q1l7juS9mqCY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAZDXtrpQD-wwylmFkX7M1Jw Halifax councillors want more accountability from the city’s managers on what they’re doing to implement their climate change action plan. During a virtual committee of the whole meeting on Friday, councillors heard a presentation on the city’s progress in implementing HalifACT 2050, the ambitious action plan approved in 2020. As the Halifax Examiner reported in […]]]> Mon, 24 Jan 2022 20:04:06 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAZDXtrpQD-wwylmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAanmoyqrYGdC-T5HJgy6HUf News 1. COVID whiplash Nova Scotians are anxious about Omicron, and more so than people elsewhere. For good reason. Based on the entirely anecdotal and unscientific observations of my American and Nova Scotian friends, there are two distinct sets of reactions to the latest wave. Oh, people everywhere are exhausted and afraid, but Americans have […]]]> Mon, 24 Jan 2022 15:36:14 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAanmoyqrYGdC-T5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAb6LT_DxFOOVClmFkX7M1Jw Jump to sections in this article: Overview Vaccination Testing There are now now 85 people in hospital who were admitted because of COVID symptoms, 11 of whom are in ICU. Those 85 range in age from 23 to 100 years old, and the average age is 67. Additionally, there are: • 83 people admitted to […]]]> Mon, 24 Jan 2022 00:40:46 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAb6LT_DxFOOVClmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAblkLx-gg7RYHn9ye8UNv30 “Where did that money go?” Andrew Chang, the CBC’s National News anchor, was polite. But he was persistent. “You thought at the time that this was just the way a legitimate business operated?” he queried his subject with eye-raise-of-doubt insistence in a feature interview last week. Then, circling back, obviously unsatisfied. “But did it, though […]]]> Sun, 23 Jan 2022 17:40:35 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAblkLx-gg7RYHn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAZZNYixyG-jYHn9ye8UNv30 Jump to sections in this article: Overview Vaccination Testing There are now now 82 people in hospital who were admitted because of COVID symptoms, 13 of whom are in ICU. Those 82 range in age from 23 to 100 years old, and the average age is 67. Additionally, there are: • 84 people admitted to […]]]> Sat, 22 Jan 2022 19:26:17 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAZZNYixyG-jYHn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAbd5nAoKnBr3CejEQ2Mq9rY   Welcome to Weekend File, where you’ll find links to all the articles you might have missed last week. Jump to sections in this article: Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday   Saturday, January 15 1. “Best gift ever!”: Dartmouth’s Lindell Wigginton makes his NBA debut on his mother’s birthday Matthew Byard interviewed Nicole […]]]> Sat, 22 Jan 2022 14:32:39 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAbd5nAoKnBr3CejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAb4EuAD2KvcZJs0ohxaO6Yr Millbrook First Nation Chief Bob Gloade knows that his band has no veto power over a new open pit gold mine planned for Beaver Dam, just a stone’s throw from a Millbrook satellite community in Halifax Regional Municipality, but he is hoping the project can be stopped through consultation. That way, he says, there will […]]]> Sat, 22 Jan 2022 01:05:34 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAb4EuAD2KvcZJs0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAbT7fGsnU095cb1naedg1wr Jump to sections in this article: Overview Vaccination Testing There are now now 94 people in hospital who were admitted because of COVID symptoms, 13 of whom are in ICU. Those 57 range in age from 0 to 100 years old, and the average age is 68. Additionally, there are: • 73 people admitted to […]]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2022 23:42:29 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAbT7fGsnU095cb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAa3ci8N4t3DSMb1naedg1wr Brain fog (difficulty thinking or concentrating) and memory issues are just a few of the neurological symptoms that can linger for COVID-19 long-haulers. Although research shows many COVID-19 survivors suffer cognitive impairments after being infected, there are currently no clinical guidelines that consider the neurological impacts of the virus. Dalhousie University professor Carlos Hernandez-Castillo hopes […]]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2022 23:22:02 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAa3ci8N4t3DSMb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAYdtwUZWz22HF1cWWor9YPv The Nova Scotia Nature Trust is adding another green, mossy piece of the puzzle to Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes. Keith and Anne Fraser donated a property in Timberlea, bordered on two sides by the Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness Area, to the Nature Trust to protect the area from development. Here’s the location of the […]]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2022 23:02:42 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAYdtwUZWz22HF1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAazAdq2wyg7bsb1naedg1wr Active COVID-19 cases at the provincial jail in Burnside are down to 11. The Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility has had an outbreak since late-December, and Justice Department spokesperson Heather Fairbairn told the Halifax Examiner there have now been a total of 140 cases at the jail. “As of Jan. 21, there are 11 active […]]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2022 22:17:43 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAazAdq2wyg7bsb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAZoWlHWqjv2H5VjH6qdYdAk A recovery support centre for people struggling with substance use and gambling addictions is opening in Dartmouth on Tuesday. In a media release issued Friday, the province described the new service as “the first local hub for adults requiring less intensive withdrawal management support.” The services offered at the centre, located at 45 Alderney Dr., […]]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2022 17:47:23 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAZoWlHWqjv2H5VjH6qdYdAk