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Halifax, NS, Canada

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PAUL SCHNEIDEREIT: Welcome to Nova Scotia! Sorry, we’re out of family doctors

The headline exaggerates, of course. Our government, like the previous one, is pushing immigration hard. We need to attract younger folks to one of ... → Read More

PAUL SCHNEIDEREIT: Is B.C.’s family doctor cure bad news for Nova Scotia?

B.C. dropped a shocker on Monday — $100,000-plus raises for family doctors and a fundamental shift in how they are paid. A million British Columbians don’t ... → Read More

PAUL SCHNEIDEREIT: How Houston government threw gas on Halifax doctor shortage fire

The family physician shortage is bad everywhere in Nova Scotia. But it’s getting worse, faster in metro Halifax. In the last two years, the number of ... → Read More

PAUL SCHNEIDEREIT: Lots of reasons why med students don’t want to be family doctors

When most medical students don’t want to be family doctors, that’s a problem. And when, even among those who do choose family medicine for a residency, ... → Read More

PAUL SCHNEIDEREIT: When N.S. Pharmacare gets in the way of getting your meds

Ask a Nova Scotia family doctor to name their biggest waste of time and odds are they’ll say Pharmacare, the province’s public drug insurance plan. I mean ... → Read More

PAUL SCHNEIDEREIT: Data key to rooting out systemic racism in police

Police pulling someone over for “Driving while Black” has no place in a civilized society. That’s a given. Same with stopping pedestrians based on ... → Read More

PAUL SCHNEIDEREIT: Preying on the vulnerable: The hidden scourge of human trafficking

Human trafficking is one of the most lucrative criminal pursuits in the country. All you need for the job is a lack of conscience, a knack for exploiting ... → Read More

PAUL SCHNEIDEREIT: RCMP needs real reform

Why should you trust the RCMP? A lot of people are wondering, but women have even more cause to ask. Like the military, the Mounties have for decades ... → Read More

PAUL SCHNEIDEREIT: We could use those exiled Nova Scotia health-care workers about now

The date, Feb. 1, 1957. The place, Rikers Island, N.Y., home to one of America’s most notorious prisons. On that cold, snowy night, Northeast Airlines ... → Read More

PAUL SCHNEIDEREIT: Can’t blame Nova Scotia’s nursing home support workers for feeling undervalued

Double the cleaning. Double the sanitizing. Double the laundry. Kayla Legge’s workday as a support worker at Harbour View Haven, the long-term care ... → Read More

PAUL SCHNEIDEREIT: Education key to fixing Nova Scotia family doctor shortage

To fix the family doctor shortage in Nova Scotia, it’s often suggested, maybe Dalhousie Medical School should just train more family physicians. If only it ... → Read More

PAUL SCHNEIDEREIT: Did Canada’s top cop play politics with our worst mass killing?

Did the federal minister in charge of public safety and head of the RCMP put politics over people in the wake of Canada’s worst mass shooting? On the face ... → Read More

PAUL SCHNEIDEREIT: Vaccines make sense, banishing unvaccinated Nova Scotia health workers doesn’t

It’s time for Nova Scotia — desperately short of doctors, nurses and other medical professionals — to drop its mandatory vaccination policy for health-care ... → Read More

Mass Casualty Commission releases videos of shooting of mass killer

Five security camera videos showing RCMP officers shooting and killing Gabriel Wortman at the Enfield Big Stop on the morning of April 19, 2020 have been ... → Read More

PAUL SCHNEIDEREIT: Even 'official' poverty out of reach in Nova Scotia

Serious question. Think about it. Could you survive on $380 a month? Nova Scotia’s Department of Community Services apparently thinks so. That’s how much — ... → Read More

PAUL SCHNEIDEREIT: VLTs: Houston, you have a problem

Hey, it’s not about the money. No, siree, when it comes to VLTs, money is secondary to the Nova Scotia government. So says Bob MacKinnon, president of the ... → Read More

PAUL SCHNEIDEREIT: Hospital wait change for Nova Scotia paramedics makes sense but more help needed

Would you waste time watering plants in one room while a fire was raging in another? Of course not. This shouldn’t be necessary but let’s explain why ... → Read More

PAUL SCHNEIDEREIT: Women with disabilities at much greater risk of becoming victims of violence

All she wanted was a romantic encounter. By the end of the night, she’d been sexually assaulted. We’re not naming the woman, let’s call her Jane, as her ... → Read More

A ‘great injustice’ (pt 6): Military needs to apologize, learn from Dunne case, legal expert says

A promising military career poisoned by lies, incompetence and baseless suspicions he was the dupe of a Russian spy. Tim Dunne's story is a tale ... → Read More

A ‘great injustice’ (pt 5): Damning secret memo tainted exemplary military career

A promising military career poisoned by lies, incompetence and baseless suspicions he was the dupe of a Russian spy. Tim Dunne's story is a tale ... → Read More