Health and Wellness

Emergency service workers in Halifax Regional Municipality have continued to answer the call to help save more lives as part of this year’s annual Sirens for Life blood drive campaign. The friendly challenge between Halifax Regional Fire & Emergency, Halifax Regional Police, RCMP, and EHS ran for a set period of time and the life-savers...

**** HRFE Release  Halifax Regional Fire & Emergency continues to provide bottled water to residents in the Shubenacadie Grand Lake area ​ Monday, June 14 (Halifax, NS) – Halifax Regional Fire & Emergency will provide bottled water to residents who draw water from the Shubenacadie Grand Lake area and are impacted by the Do Not Consume...

**** NSHA Media Release Nova Scotia Health resuming services temporarily reduced during third wave With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations declining, and many redeployed health care providers able to return to their usual roles, Nova Scotia Health is resuming services that were temporarily reduced to support the COVID-19 response. ​ In late April, with COVID-19 cases...

**** ENVIRONMENT Media Release Water Advisory Continues for Shubenacadie Grand Lake The provincial Department of Environment and Climate Change is advising people in the Shubenacadie Grand Lake area to avoid using lake water over the weekend. The department is investigating water quality after a complaint earlier this week about two dogs dying after being in...

**** HRFE Media Release Halifax Regional Fire & Emergency providing bottled water to residents in the Grand Lake area CLARIFICATION: Residents will be provided with two litres of water per person per day, in addition to one litre per day for pets. Residents may collect up to two days’ worth of water at a time.  ...

**** NSHA Media Release #DrugAlert Public Health received a report from Halifax Regional Police and RCMP that a grey rock-like substance that may appear like MDMA was seized in March and tested positive for cocaine, fentanyl and a fentanyl analogue, etizolam (a benzodiazepine), and an amphetamine analogue in the Halifax Regional Municipality area. With the...

**** ENVIRONMENT/CLIMATE Release Shubenacadie Grand Lake Water Investigation Continues The Department of Environment and Climate Change is testing water samples taken from Grand Lake and Fish Lake, near the Wellington and Enfield areas, for two types of toxins produced by blue-green algae. Assisted by Halifax Regional Fire & Emergency, staff did rapid tests on the...

**** East Hants Release The Municipality of East Hants will be providing drinking water this evening (June 10, 2021) for residents who cannot use their water due to the ongoing advisory for Grand Lake. Grand Lake Water Alert June 10, 2021 @ 4:10 pm The Municipality of East Hants will be providing drinking water this...

**** HRM Media Release HRM has issued a water alert for the Grand Lake area.  Halifax Regional Municipality is issuing a drinking water alert for Grand Lake, Halifax, Nova Scotia. There is an unknown issue with the water in Grand Lake that has caused animals to die and has sent one citizen to hospital. All...

**** HRM Media Release Halifax Regional Municipality is issuing a drinking water alert for Grand Lake, Halifax, Nova Scotia. There is an unknown issue with the water in Grand Lake that has caused animals to die and has sent one citizen to hospital. All residents who have water feeds from Grand Lake are to cease...