Daily brief Dr. Robert Strang announced four additional COVID-19-related deaths on Thursday, three at the Northwood long-term-care facility (LTCF) in Halifax and one at the Harbourstone Enhanced Care Facility in Sydney. This brings total COVID-19-related deaths in the province to 16. Shannex reported the death on its website today: ItRead More

Daily brief Dr. Robert Strang announced two additional COVID-19-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing total deaths in the province to 12. Both occurred at the Northwood long-term-care facility in Halifax, the site of the province’s worst COVID-19 outbreak. That brings total deaths at the facility to eight. Strang said the majorityRead More

“We need firstly some very basic things happening. We need access to portable toilets in our communities, so people can at least go to the bathroom, with wash stations so they can sanitize.” — Janet Bickerton, Ally Centre of Cape Breton, 30 March 2020, CBC interview   As noted above,Read More

I had started to write this column before I’d heard news of the horrendous shooting incident in our province. Nothing I could write would have any effect on those whose lives have been lost, those who were injured or those who are left to mourn. Least of all, would anyRead More

I am writing this column on Sunday, April 19, which, coincidentally, is also Easter Sunday for Orthodox Christians. Last week, another Easter Sunday, did not feel festive, and nor does this one. My street, as I look out my window, is completely deserted. There are cars in the driveways, butRead More

Daily brief Dr. Robert Strang on Tuesday announced Nova Scotia’s 10th COVID-19-related death — which was also the sixth at the Northwood long-term-care facility (LTCF) in Halifax, site of the province’s worst COVID-19 outbreak. He also announced 16 new cases (one of these from Northwood), a low number likely dueRead More

Daily brief Dr. Robert Strang announced 46 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday bringing Nova Scotia’s total cases to date to 721. He also noted that 48 people have recovered from COVID-19 and there have been no additional deaths, which brings active cases in the province to 464. The majorityRead More

Daily briefing Today’s briefing began with both Premier Stephen McNeil and Dr. Robert Strang sending condolences to the those affected by today’s live-shooter incident in Portapique, NS, and I can’t believe I just had to write that sentence, but here we are. Dr. Strang then announced five deaths related toRead More

Daily briefing Nova Scotia reported a fourth COVID-19-related death — and a third for Cape Breton — on Friday, a woman in her ’80s who died as a result of “complications related to COVID-19.” The province has identified 27 new cases, 13 of which are in long-term-care facilities (LTCF), bringingRead More

Daily briefing Dr. Robert Strang announced 30 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, bringing Nova Scotia’s total to 579. Long-term care facilities were the subject of much discussion again today. As of April 15, there were seven licensed long-term care homes in Nova Scotia with cases of COVID-19, involving 42Read More