{"id":7704,"date":"2024-12-19T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7704"},"modified":"2024-12-19T19:58:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T00:58:51","slug":"judge-certifies-nova-scotia-covid-19-lawsuit-as-a-class-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/judge-certifies-nova-scotia-covid-19-lawsuit-as-a-class-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge certifies Nova Scotia COVID-19 lawsuit as a class action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u26a0\ufe0f <b>Content warning: mention of deaths.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A Nova Scotia judge has certified a class action lawsuit against Northwood, a company that was described as at the epicentre of COVID-19 deaths in the province at the height of the pandemic in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Some 53 people died in the Northwood complex in north-end Halifax.<\/p>\n<p>A lawsuit was launched shortly after the deaths. On Thursday, Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Scott Norton certified it as a class action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u26a0\ufe0f <b>Content warning: mention of deaths.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A Nova Scotia judge has certified a class action lawsuit against Northwood, a company that was described as at the epicentre of COVID-19 deaths in the province at the height of the pandemic in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Some 53 people died in the Northwood complex in north-end Halifax.<\/p>\n<p>A lawsuit was launched shortly after the deaths. On Thursday, Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Scott Norton certified it as a class action.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/judge-certifies-nova-scotia-covid-19-lawsuit-as-a-class-action\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Judge certifies Nova Scotia COVID-19 lawsuit as a class action<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,370,82,18,217,290,1272,218,14],"class_list":["post-7704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-class-action-lawsuit","tag-court-case","tag-covid-19","tag-halifax","tag-long-term-care-homes","tag-northwood","tag-nova-scotia","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7706,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704\/revisions\/7706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}