Daily briefing Premier Stephen McNeil has extended Nova Scotia’s State of Emergency for another two weeks, it is now scheduled to end on May 31 unless further extended. Dr. Robert Strang announced four additional deaths at the Northwood long-term-care facility (LTCF), bringing deaths at the Halifax facility to 49 andRead More

Daily briefing Dr. Robert Strang announced three additional COVID-19-related deaths at the Northwood long-term-care facility in Halifax, bringing total deaths at the facility to 45 and total deaths province-wide to 51. Nova Scotia announced four new cases, all associated with Northwood — two staff and two residents. In response toRead More

The Spectator has got it hands on a message sent in early April by CBRM Mayor Cecil Clarke to councilors and select CBRM staffers: Dear colleagues: I received a call from Albert Barbusci this morning with a heads-up to confirm that Novaporte has signed an agreement with a global financeRead...

The cruise industry has been hard hit by COVID-19, which is bad news for any port that has put all its eggs in that particular basket, like the Port of Sydney which counts on the industry for up to 85% of its revenues and has funneled $20 million in publicRead More

While much has been written about the many ways in which COVID-19 has changed our lives over the past few months, little has been said about how those who are regular church-goers have been affected as a result of being deprived of the spiritual support of weekly attendance at Mass.Read More

Daily briefing Premier Stephen McNeil and Dr. Robert Strang began by offering their condolences to the families of the Northwood resident who died on Saturday. Strang announced one new case of COVID-19 today which, added to the seven new cases announced Sunday and three announced Saturday brings total cases inRead More

Daily Briefing Dr. Robert Strang today announced two more deaths at the Northwood long-term-care facility (LCTF) in Halifax, bringing total deaths at the facility to 40 and total deaths across the province to 46. Strang also announced one new case of COVID-19. Doing the math, it seems there are onlyRead More

Briefing There was no press conference today, but the Nova Scotia government announced three more COVID-19-related deaths at the Northwood long-term-care facility (LTCF) in Halifax, bringing total deaths at the facility to 38 and total deaths across the province to 44. The province also announced nine new cases of COVID-19,Read More

Daily briefing Premier Stephen McNeil opened today’s briefing with a shout out to Richard Martell and Debbie Johnson Powell, the sign-language interpreters who translate the COVID-19 updates. McNeil noted that today is National Interpreter Day as he thanked them for their work. Dr. Robert Strang then announced no new COVID-19-relatedRead More

The CBRM will borrow from the province to fund a property-tax deferral program to assist residents and businesses “significantly impacted” by the COVID-19 pandemic. The first thing you must understand about this program — and you know this is vital because it appeared on the very first slide presented toRead More