Today, Halifax restaurants didn’t set any tables lunch. They aren’t open for after-work drinks on Friday, and they won’t be taking reservations for weekend brunch either. That’s right, for the third time since the pandemic began 13 months ago, Halifax-area restaurants are closed to dine-in service. “After talking with my team about the cases they […]
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Don’t refund your local event ticket
We’re about to do this whole thing again: Another lockdown, aiming to curb a spike in cases in a province that, so far, has been a leading example of how to do this whole COVID thing right. It’s been a combination of personal vigilance, pre-existing factors and, often, individual privilege (like the ability for office […]
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Where to get a COVID test this weekend
Note: This article is old. For more current info, read our latest ‘Where to Get Tested’ article. With 150 active COVID-19 cases today in Nova Scotia, the third wave of the pandemic is officially here. Halifax’s lockdown started this morning, in an effort to curb community transmission. But Haligonians are also asked to help root […]
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Halifax goes back into lockdown to fight community spread
“T here’s community spread in Halifax Regional Municipality,” premier Iain Rankin said at a COVID-19 briefing Thursday afternoon with chief medical officer of health Robert Strang. Confirming that the recent surge of infections means COVID’s third wave has hit Nova Scotia, Strankin announced a “circuit breaker” lockdown for HRM and surrounding areas that comes into […]
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Strankin ends 1-month Halifax lockdown after a week
It was just last Tuesday, February 23, that Iain Rankin was sworn in as premier, and he gave his debut public COVID-19 briefing the next day, taking former premier Stephen McNeil’s place beside chief medical officer of health Robert Strang. Nova Scotia’s new pandemic power duo didn’t announce any major changes at that first briefing, […]
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UPDATED: Why the Halifax lockdown got lifted early
Update March 4: Today the province did indeed lift the lockdown, a full three weeks early, making the following article more pertinent even as it becomes out of date. Get the deets on what happened in our story about the restrictions ending. Update March 8: The original headline on this story was “Why the Halifax […]
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New premier, new cases, new restrictions for Halifax
After two days of higher-than-usual COVID-19 case numbers in the province–eight yesterday and 10 today, with 89 percent of the cases occurring in the HRM-including Central health zone–Halifax is getting some new restrictions. The announcement came this afternoon at the regular C19 briefing from Nova Scotia top doc Robert Strang and new premier Iain Rankin. […]
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How to bring the party home
“My wife and I really looked forward to the living room dance parties with the kids,” one reader tells us in our Best Of survey. Yep, when joy felt like a match too wet to spark, getting through lockdown was about the little things—like online parties that helped us follow the prophetic words of Lady […]
