COVID-19 measures have forced the workplace to look drastically different from how it was before, and some sectors have had more success than others making the adjustments. Canada released a government study that highlights the jobs that were affected by the pandemic in Nova Scotia. Many ...
Port Williams, N.S. – Some businesses in Nova Scotia are choosing to keep some pandemic-related restrictions in place and are getting creative with how
NOVA ScotiaHOMELESSNESSCOVID-19 pandemicDOMESTIC violenceHOUSINGPEOPLE with mental illnessHOMELESS personsMENTAL health servicesThe article focuses on a project called "JEC" that was established by three community non-profit organizations in Nova Scotia to respond to the urgent needs of incarcer...
The past few years have been weird ones, for all of us really. Covid changed things for me (even though I managed to avoid it until just last autumn!). I went through a dry spell of sorts, what I was calling a bad case of Creative Ennui. You’d think that being forced to curtai...
In that time, “89 complaints [were] connected to Nova Scotia farms”, including being forced to work without pay (Grant 2019). The COVID-19 pandemic brought some of the plight induced by this structured precarity to national attention. There were many news media stories on the program and...
Whether you’re planning a trip to Nova Scotia, have family coming into town, or just want to be a tourist in your own province, we have you covered. Choose to stay on the mainland, or head to the mountains of Cape Breton; either way, you’ll encounter friendly folks, reasonably price...
COVID-19 pandemicEDUCATION policyINCLUSIVE educationThough school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic affected all students globally, the effect was significantly more for students from marginalized and vulnerable communities. In Nova Scotia, Canada, the concern was th...
Cardiovascular Outcomes in Nova Scotia during the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemicdoi:10.1016/j.cjco.2021.12.008Alison GreeneJohn L SappGreg HirschRatika ParkashCJC Open
The global emergency caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID) pandemic has impacted access to goods and services such as health care and social supports, but the impact on infant feeding remains unclear. Thus, the objective of this study was to explore how caregivers of infants under 6 months ...
Aims To meet the need for public health-mandated COVID-19 vaccine education for patients living with IBD in Nova Scotia a novel, evidence-based, virtual COVID-19 vaccine educational intervention was developed, implemented, and evaluated. Methods An observational, cross sectional, implementation-...