1 Sober centres City council will work on options for developing a sobering centre in Halifax as an alternative to using holding cells for intoxicated people. The motion came from councillor Lindell Smith, who requested a staff report in February on the feasibility of a sobering centre that considers services needed to support unhoused people […]
Lyndsay Armstrong
Lyndsay was a city reporter covering all things Halifax, health and COVID-19. She is a data journalist who has covered provincial politics for allNovaScotia.com and represented Nova Scotia in a national investigation into lead in drinking water with the Toronto Star and Global.
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From the bigot blockade to new rules for NB, a timeline
Here’s what happened between Friday, June 18—when Nova Scotia premier Iain Rankin first expressed concerns about New Brunswick’s Canada-wide opening plans—and today, June 24, when a Progressive Conservative MLA was tossed from the party for joining the highway blockade between the NB and NS border. Friday afternoon, June 18 At one of their standard COVID-19 […]
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Second doses of vaccine coming quickly says Strang
Nova Scotians can get their second dose of COVID-19 vaccine much sooner than planned, with extended clinic hours and an unexpected shipment of Moderna vaccines due to arrive from the federal government before the end of June. Chief medical officer of health Robert Strang said second doses will be hitting arms four to six weeks […]
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New Brunswick is officially out of the Atlantic bubble
Premier Iain Rankin says he decided today to add quarantine requirements for New Brunswickers, just hours before the scheduled start of the Atlantic bubble. Tuesday afternoon at a regular COVID briefing, he announced the new plan for travellers going from New Brunswick to Nova Scotia. Rankin did not tell his colleague, NB premier Blaine Higgs, […]