As predicted, the Nova Scotia Department of Education and Early Childhood Development’s long-awaited plan for getting students back to school in September has been met with push-back and “yeah-buts” from both opposition parties, the NSTU and CUPE Nova Scotia, who feel it is short on details about how, exactly, it’sRead More

Nova Scotia announced 29 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday and 26 on Sunday for a total of 55 new cases and 262 cases overall.  Nova Scotia says that six people are now in hospital and 53 have recovered from COVID-19. (Remember, this is a look backward, we’re seeing peopleRead More

There’s a passage in Emily St. John Mandel’s wonderful (and surprisingly not too depressing) book, Station Eleven, about the world before, during, and after a pandemic which I want to quote at length because it captures better than anything else I know how I am feeling right now. It goesRead More