The Pfizer vaccine arrived in Nova Scotia on December 15, one day after it arrived in Canada from its production facility in Michigan, and the day before the first vaccine is set to be given in the province. Gary O’Toole, senior director of population and public health with the NSHA told reporters that there’s already […]
COVID-19
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The 50-person breakthrough
UPDATE June 22: In this section about the number of new COVID-19 cases in Atlantic Canada compared with the rest of Canada, we double-checked the math and discovered an error. To summarize, we said the east coast had 13 cases while the other six provinces had 3,100 cases over the same stretch of time, but […]
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David Suzuki: Many crises expose systemic failings
The coronavirus spreading COVID-19 around the globe isn’t the first disease microbe suspected to have jumped from other animals to humans, nor will it be the last. That we know to a large extent why so many diseases are making that leap should help us resolve the problem. Dealing with a swiftly spreading illness with many […]
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Bring Halifax culture home with our arts streaming guide, April 27-May 3
Monday, April 27 Trivia for Shut-ins Halifax trivia hosts-about-town Jason Dorey and Andrew Evans have shifted their popular triv game from pubs like Durty Nelly’s, the Lion’s Head and The Fickle Frog, to a Facebook livestream. Three 20-question rounds will challenge, amuse and delight, and with no prizes on the line, you won’t even mind […]
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Voice of The City: Abuse and violence thrive in isolation and silence
The first person to die from a COVID-19-related death in Nova Scotia was not someone who contracted the virus. It was a woman murdered by her abusive male partner, whom she was forced into isolation with due to social distancing measures. In early April, Stephen Beckett was arrested at his home in Hammonds Plains and […]
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How to do karaoke at home with your friends like you’re at the Lion’s Head with Laurie The Guy
Step 1 Download Zoom. Step 2 Get someone to make a Zoom meeting. Share the link with your friends. Step 3 Go to watch2gether.com and make a room. Step 4 Invite your friends to the room. Step 5 Once you’re on a Zoom call and in the room with your friends search in the bar at […]
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Because we still need art to live, the Sobey Art Award’s long list just dropped
While every April the Sobey Art Award (the biggest prize in Canadian art) crowns new royalty with the release of its long list, 2020 feels a little different: This year, the jury behind the prize is forgoing its usual five-artist shortlist and corresponding exhibition. Instead, for the first time ever, everyone on the jury-selected long […]
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I miss all my people. I miss the people who aren’t my people.
Editor’s note: When lauded Halifax poet Sue Goyette—the Masterworks Award-winning author of seven books—offered to share what she, in an email, called “a strange diary I’ve been keeping,” we knew it’d be full of the sort of beauty and strangeness and jumping-off-the-screen aliveness needed in this time of stale air and cramped quarters. These days […]
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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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Beauts and the beats
“There’s something fleeting about the idea of a dalliance,” says Beauts lyricist Jeff Lawton. Lawton and bandmate Darryl Smith cradle pints at a dimly-lit table at The Local. It is late February, when COVID-19 was but a murmur in the news cycle, and the Halifax indie band’s debut LP was about to drop. “I looked […]
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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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There are still lots of ways to support small business in Halifax right now
In such a close-knit community like Halifax, where cafes, restaurants, local shops, and evenings at local watering holes fill our downtime, it’s tough to imagine a vision of the neighbourhood where we’re all confined to our homes. What are we without casual banter, brunch lineups and the ability to pet dogs in the Common? […]
