The Coast is collecting and sharing dispatches from around the world about what life in the time of COVID-19 looks like, smells like and feels like. Some people are beyond the worst of it, some don’t know the worst yet. Most are just trying to keep afloat. Share your own story here. Who are you? […]
Caora McKenna
Caora was City Editor at The Coast, where she wrote about everything from city hall to police and housing issues. She started with The Coast in 2017, when she was the publication’s Copy Editor.
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HRM’s tax deadline pushed to June 1
Halifax Regional Council voted to postpone the due date for tax bills from April 30 to June 1 as step one of its financial response to the unfolding Coronavirus crisis. The municipality’s Chief Financial Officer Jane Fraser fielded questions from councillors about how they can best help their voters with a calm assurance that was […]
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Halifax Regional Council approves pedway over Summer Street for QEII redevelopment project
Halifax Regional Council met today for its second virtual meeting since COVID-19, and if this story was being written in the “before times,” it’d be dabbled with budget deliberation, likely someone’s meandering thoughts on the morality of supporting developers over renters and certainly, someone standing to say “I don’t have a question, but I […]
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An updated guide on how to assess yourself for COVID-19
Now that Nova Scotia has confirmed cases of community spread, (and has worked its ass off to increase its testing capacity) in order to keep ahead of coronavirus’s wrath, health officials are asking you to phone 811 if you’re experiencing two or more of these symptoms: 1. A fever of more than 38 C or […]
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Tuesday update: Your party could kill and other stern reminders from McNeil and Strang
Everybody loves a good chart in the time of coronavirus, and while this chart sucks because it now has a green line that’s counting deaths in the province, it’s possibly a welcome sign that the red line—which shows how many new cases of COVID-19 are diagnosed in the province each day—is sort of, kind of […]
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Nova Scotia reports first official COVID-19 death
A press release from the Nova Scotia department of health and wellness says a woman in her 70s died yesterday due to the novel coronavirus, the first in our province—but the 324th nationwide. The release says the woman died in hospital in the Eastern Zone (Guysborough, Sherbrooke, Antigonish and Cape Breton area.) “This virus is […]
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Monday update: Thirty one new cases of COVID-19 in Nova Scotia
After the highest one-day jump in cases since this whole “unprecedented time” began, Nova Scotia now has 293 confirmed cases of COVID-19. There is now enough community spread (meaning cases can’t be tracked down to a single source) in Nova Scotia that travel or a connection to travel has been removed from the requirements for […]
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“Always tell people you love them as much as you can.”
The Coast is collecting and sharing dispatches from around the world about what life in the time of COVID-19 looks like, smells like and feels like. Some people are beyond the worst of it, some don’t know the worst yet. Most are just trying to keep afloat. Share your own story here. The construction worker […]
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Starting today you can apply for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit
The CERB (Canada Emergency Response Benefit) combines two previously announced streams—the emergency care benefit, and the emergency support benefit. The CERB has two main objectives: Catch Canadians who don’t qualify for regular EI and relieve some of the burden on regular EI by funnelling some of those who do qualify into this quicker-to-release relief program. […]
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Parks, beaches and trails are still definitely closed
T he province closed all parks and beaches to slow the spread of COVID-19 by taking away opportunities for people to get dangerously close to one another. This means that all parks and beaches and most trails are closed. You need to stay fit, but in the oft-repeated words of Nova Scotia’s straight-talking chief medical […]
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Forty percent of Halifax households are supposed to pay rent tomorrow
Tomorrow, thousands of people in Halifax who rent the space they live in will have to pay their rent. But many who have lost income or job prospects because of COVID-19 are right stressed about how they’re going to pay—especially those waiting for the $2,000 Canada Emergency Response Benefit to come online and start flowing […]
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