Category: Halifax

An elderly man died at a nursing home in Beaverbank in October…and RCMP are now investigating.

CBC reports the wife of 79 year old Gordon Birchell complained her husband was pushed by another resident with severe dementia. Birchell was taken to the Cobequid Medical Centre for treatment and then was sent back to the Ivy Meadows home where he died.

The wife says Birchell was repeatedly pushed by this resident, including once when she was present.

The Community Services Department will be hiring an Arabic-speaking case worker to help with an expected influx of Syrian Refugees when their federal funding expires in the New Year.

The minister Joanne Bernard says her department wants to be ready when Ottawa’s financial support ends 12 months after each family arrives. There are about 1,300 Syrian refugees who have come to Nova Scotia since last December.