By Richard Bell
The weather’s getting warm enough to start worrying about one of the downsides of the great outdoors, Lyme disease, from the bite of a blacklegged tick infected with the Borrelia burgdorferi bacterium that causes the disease.
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By Richard Bell
The Cooperator’s investigation of the injustice of HRM’s rural residents being denied access to a federal loan forgiveness program for family doctors and nurses has resulted in a major step towards righting this injustice. If all goes well, HRM’s three rural hospitals will be getting a powerful new tool for recruiting more doctors and nurses to end their frequent emergency room closures for lack of staff.
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By Richard Bell
MLA John Lohr’s question last Thursday in the House of Assembly (about ending the injustice preventing HRM’s three rural hospitals from participating in the federal Student Loan Forgiveness Program for Family Doctors and Nurses) has stirred up interest across the political spectrum.
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By Richard Bell
The fight to end the injustice of HRM’s rural residents being denied access to a federal loan forgiveness program for family doctors and nurses popped up on the floor of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly on Thursday afternoon.
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By Richard Bell
An investigation by the Cooperator has uncovered a route for making it easier for the three rural hospitals within the boundaries of HRM to recruit doctors and nurses.
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By Laurie Cook
[Note: Laurie Cook wrote the following open letter after learning of the tragic story of 20-year-old Anthony Nauss’s suicide. Last November, Nauss had gone to the emergency room at the Halifax infirmary because he was feeling suicidal, with a history of previous suicide attempts. He was told to go home and make an appointment with the provincial health services. There were no appointments available until January, and a week later, Nauss killed himself.]
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By Mary Elizabeth O’Toole
The movement towards sustainable living and renewable energy is encouraging people to rethink the way they build and live.
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By Richard Bell
Four days after the March 20thfull moon, a combination of high waves hitting at high tide has opened a new breach in the berm in Lower East Chezzetcook, allowing the fresh water Meisner’s Lake to once again drain out into the ocean, leaving nothing but gasping fish and wide sand-and-mud flats at low tide.
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By Allan Banks
We are very pleased and honoured to announce that the award winning Canadian website International Daylily Garden of the Week featured our gardens starting Saturday, March 2nd. Every year daylily gardens from around the world are featured on this website weekly from December to March (although the posting is up all year).
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