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? […]
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“The weather has been very nice these past few days (a big deal over here)”
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? […]
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“You worry when you hear that an elderly life is worth less than a 50-year-old’s”
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? […]
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The Halifax Common: the grass is lava
The park closure saga is becoming Halifax’s smoking ban 2.0. For the most part, Nova Scotians have embraced the provincial orders that shut down parks and trails in an effort to limit the spread of COVID-19 via public interaction. “Stay the blazes home,” we scream with delight into the ether. But HRM and the province’s […]
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For those incarcerated with their babies, COVID-19 puts two generations in peril
Yesterday, we heard two prisoners at the Nova Institution federal prison for women in Truro were awaiting results on COVID-19 tests. Fortunately, by early afternoon, it appeared both were negative— spared for now from being added to a list that’s being compiled by Justin Piche at University of Ottawa. Piche is tracking positive coronavirus cases in […]
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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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“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 […]