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 Sun, 19 Sep 2021 23:04:03 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAaRwzsD2uLJvilmFkX7M1Jw A Black mother is accusing Halifax Regional Police of racial bias in the mishandling of a case involving her 12-year-old daughter Taizanah’zian, who was bitten by a neighbour’s dog. Last Saturday, September 11, Francisca Fletcher said she heard a commotion outside her house in the Greystone area of Spryfield, then heard someone yell her name. […]]]> Sat, 18 Sep 2021 20:14:29 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAaRwzsD2uLJvilmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAaRwzsD2uLJvuT5HJgy6HUf Worried you might have missed some articles this week? Jump to the day to check: Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday And a reminder: we’re always looking to hear your stories and ideas for our investigative series, PRICED OUT: Addressing the Housing Crisis. You can call or text our message line at 1-819-803-6215 or email […]]]> Sat, 18 Sep 2021 13:00:03 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAaRwzsD2uLJvuT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAYoXcw3_y3ntSlmFkX7M1Jw News 1. Evicted “Following an abrupt end to hotel stays for unhoused residents, the group of volunteers supporting people living in a municipal park is calling on the municipality to publicly declare a moratorium on tent and shelter evictions from municipal parks,” reports Zane Woodford: A month ago this weekend, Halifax Regional Police and city […]]]> Fri, 17 Sep 2021 15:07:19 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAYoXcw3_y3ntSlmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAahiYAlcBr0ouzdsCmHakzH Cyclesmith, a bicycle sales and repair shop on Agricola Street in Halifax, announced on Thursday afternoon it now has a living wage policy for its staff. Owner Andrew Feenstra spoke with the Halifax Examiner on Thursday evening, a few hours after Cyclesmith announced the policy via its Twitter account. Staff learned about the new policy […]]]> Fri, 17 Sep 2021 14:10:36 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAahiYAlcBr0ouzdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAahiYAlcBr0osb1naedg1wr Media outlets throughout the nation have now reported on Premier Tim Houston’s stupefying appointment of a septuagenarian white male as Minister of African Nova Scotian Affairs and overseer of the province’s Diversity and Anti-Racism Initiatives. Given the Tim-foolery coming out of Province House, let’s revisit the movie Apollo 13: “Houston, we have a problem.” In […]]]> Fri, 17 Sep 2021 12:37:02 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAahiYAlcBr0osb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAahiYAlcBr0oiejEQ2Mq9rY Following an abrupt end to hotel stays for unhoused residents, the group of volunteers supporting people living in a municipal park is calling on the municipality to publicly declare a moratorium on tent and shelter evictions from municipal parks. A month ago this weekend, Halifax Regional Police and city staff evicted people living in tents […]]]> Fri, 17 Sep 2021 12:26:47 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAahiYAlcBr0oiejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAaSJPBxMqa2sps0ohxaO6Yr Jump to sections in this article: Overview Vaccination Demographics Testing Potential exposure advisories Nova Scotia announced 34 new cases of COVID-19 today, Thursday, September 16. Of the new cases: • 27 are in Nova Scotia Health’s Northern Zone — all are close contacts of previously reported cases; • 7 are in the Central Zone — […]]]> Thu, 16 Sep 2021 23:09:21 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAaSJPBxMqa2sps0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAaSJPBxMqa2ssb1naedg1wr The convention centre’s COVID-19 deficit is getting deeper. In year-end financial statements released on Thursday, Events East, the Crown corporation that runs the Halifax Convention Centre, reported that it lost $11,295,905 in fiscal 2020-2021. That’s about $200,000 more than forecast in Events East’s 2020-2021 budget, released months late in November 2020. The convention centre was […]]]> Thu, 16 Sep 2021 18:36:42 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAaSJPBxMqa2ssb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAZwNhBDfnIHXMb1naedg1wr News 1. Surgeries postponed; health care crisis deepens Jennifer Henderson reports on the depressing state of health care in the province as elective or non-urgent surgeries are postponed at hospitals in the Halifax area and across northern Nova Scotia from Cumberland to Antigonish counties. The postponements were announced in a news release from Nova Scotia […]]]> Thu, 16 Sep 2021 15:12:10 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAZwNhBDfnIHXMb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAZwNhBDfnIHXKCY3L745TL_ Last month, Nova Scotia Legal Aid lawyer Brandon Rolle spoke at a news conference about his role in a landmark decision by Nova Scotia’s highest court when it comes to sentencing Black people in the province. Rolle had argued on behalf of the African Nova Scotia Decade for People of African Descent Coalition (ANSDPADC) against […]]]> Thu, 16 Sep 2021 13:23:48 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAZwNhBDfnIHXKCY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAZwNhBDfnIHXOT5HJgy6HUf Elective or non-urgent surgeries are being postponed at hospitals in the Halifax area (Central Zone) and across northern Nova Scotia from Cumberland to Antigonish counties (Northern Zone).  “Cancer and other time-sensitive surgeries that cannot be delayed will continue but many elective and same-day procedures will be put on hold through at least the end of […]]]> Thu, 16 Sep 2021 13:12:42 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAZwNhBDfnIHXOT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAbd51OexBhKBV1cWWor9YPv Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency’s inspection program doesn’t hold up to scrutiny, and according to the city’s auditor general, the fire department has no documented plan to fix it. Auditor general Evangeline Colman-Sadd and audit lead Ashley Maxwell presented their Management of Fire Inspection Program Audit to a virtual meeting of regional council’s Audit and […]]]> Wed, 15 Sep 2021 21:34:32 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAbd51OexBhKBV1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAbd51OexBhKBXn9ye8UNv30 Jump to sections in this article: Overview Vaccination Demographics Testing Potential exposure advisories Nova Scotia announced just six new cases of COVID-19 today, Wednesday, September 15 — a dramatic turnaround from the high case counts of recent days, signalling that perhaps the outbreak in the Northern Zone has been contained and most of the community […]]]> Wed, 15 Sep 2021 20:16:48 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAbd51OexBhKBXn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAbd51OexBhKBSlmFkX7M1Jw News 1. Phase 5 delayed The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. Keep your shirt mask on, Nova Scotia. At the last minute, the province has pushed back the final phase of its reopening plan, which was originally slated to start today and would have […]]]> Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:43:23 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAbd51OexBhKBSlmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAZDNFNi49ck9Mb1naedg1wr The Cogswell interchange’s days are numbered after a regional council vote on Tuesday. The process to tear down the aging series of overpasses is tentatively scheduled to start in January, with Dexter Construction getting the $95.7-million contract to bring out the wrecking ball and then realign the street grid. As the Halifax Examiner reported last […]]]> Wed, 15 Sep 2021 12:45:16 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAZDNFNi49ck9Mb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAbZVfcp6V8SUeT5HJgy6HUf Agreeing they were better than the status quo, Halifax regional councillors voted in favour of a set of new road design guidelines despite some concerns about the specifics. Municipal staff presented long-awaited revisions to the Municipal Design Guidelines, generally referred to as the Red Book, to council’s committee of the whole on Tuesday. The guidelines […]]]> Wed, 15 Sep 2021 02:54:55 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAbZVfcp6V8SUeT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAbavKL9vppdOpVjH6qdYdAk The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. Jump to sections in this article: Overview Vaccine don’t-call-it-a-passport Vaccination Demographics Testing Potential exposure advisories Nova Scotia is delaying the start of Phase 5 of the reopening. Phase 5 — the removal of nearly all COVID restrictions […]]]> Tue, 14 Sep 2021 22:34:58 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAbavKL9vppdOpVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAZ-tvEI6j-UlClmFkX7M1Jw 1. 73 Yesterday, Nova Scotia announced 73 new cases of COVID-19 over three days (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday). The Department of Health explained that: There is a large cluster of linked cases in a defined group in Northern Zone. Most of the group is unvaccinated, so more cases are expected. … There are signs of […]]]> Tue, 14 Sep 2021 15:37:34 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAZ-tvEI6j-UlClmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAZD2XJWVkHk-Mb1naedg1wr The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. Jump to sections in this article: Overview Vaccination Demographics Testing Potential exposure advisories Nova Scotia has announced 73 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, September 13 Of the new cases: • 36 are in Nova Scotia Health’s […]]]> Mon, 13 Sep 2021 22:11:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAZD2XJWVkHk-Mb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAZD2XJWVkHk-JVjH6qdYdAk 1. Music Nova Scotia announces 2021 award nominees Music Nova Scotia announced the nominees for its 2021 award categories this past week and North Preston’s Keonté Beals leads the way as this year’s top-nominated artist with a total of eight nominations: • African Nova Scotian Artist of the Year • Inspirational Recording of the Year […]]]> Mon, 13 Sep 2021 20:33:57 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/wgVY4YXGVAZD2XJWVkHk-JVjH6qdYdAk