Daily briefing Dr. Robert Strang announced 32 new cases of COVID-19, bringing Nova Scotia’s total to 549. Nine patients are in hospital, four of whom are in ICU. Strang was asked if he was encouraged by the low hospitalization numbers and he said he was and that the “many” ofRead More

Being a pathological optimist, it didn’t occur to me to wonder, when Nova Scotia Education Minister Zach Churchill canceled international school trips on March 4, if there would be any disruptions to my own classroom. Nor did I think we wouldn’t be back after March Break. Or that we wouldn’tRead More

  “Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the ‘greatest good for the greatest number’ can excuse indifference to individual suffering.” — Aneurin Bevan, In Place of Fear   “Poor naked wretches, wheresoe’er, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides…defend youRead More

I had a strange nightmare last night. It began in a perfectly ordinary way, with me pushing a shopping cart down the aisles of a grocery store and loading my cart with the kinds of items I usually buy: some cheese, some cherry tomatoes, some fish and so on. ThisRead More

Daily briefing Dr. Robert Strang announced 43 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday bringing the total number of cases in Nova Scotia to 517. He noted that the province was “well aware” of the recently approved Spartan Bioscience COVID-19 test kit, but said the test has “yet to be validatedRead More

Daily briefing Dr. Robert Strang announced a third death and 29 new cases of COVID-19 in Nova Scotia for a total of 474. The third COVID-19 victim was a man in his ’80s in Halifax Regional Municipality, no further details were offered on privacy grounds. (I would like to seeRead More

Daily briefing Dr. Robert Strang announced a second COVID-19-related death in Nova Scotia, that of a woman in her ’90s with underlying medical conditions at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital. In response to a reporter’s question, Strang said there was no known connection between this death and an earlier COVID-19Read More

In brief Dr. Robert Strang announced 32 new cases of COVID-19 today, bringing the Nova Scotian total to 342. The province has expanded the list of symptoms it is now screening to include: fever new or worsening cough sore throat runny nose headache If you experience any of these youRead More

I tried to cover yesterday’s CBRM virtual council meeting but the technical difficulties were such that it proved impossible — and even had the sound been crystal clear, it ran into the 3:00 p.m. COVID-19 update with the premier and Dr. Robert Strang, which I also wanted to cover. TheRead More

The key word heard most since the COVID-19 virus took over our lives is “together” and, in the final analysis, if we don’t overcome this “together” by strictly following all the rules that have been set out for us by competent people who struggle to make us aware of justRead More