May 4, 2020 Halifax Examiner article, "Don't wait til you're on a ventilator, making wills and directives", by Philip Moscovitch
April 16, 2020 CBC News article, "Halifax parents rethink end-of-life decisions because of COVID-19", by Elizabeth Chiu
April 5, 2020 Nova Scotia's Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Robert Strang, talks about the importance of doing a personal directive [at about 18:13] to help families and health care workers make difficult decisions if a patient is critically ill and cannot make their own health and personal care decisions.
April 2, 2020 Dal News article: "New Online app helps Nova Scotians write personal directives", by Stephanie Hurley
March 28, 2020 CBC News article about the Personal Directives app, by Cassidy Chisholm
March 27, 2020 CBC Information Morning:
Listen to Professor Jocelyn Downie from Dalhousie's Schulich School of Law talk about the importance of making a personal directive, and how to use the Legal Information Society of Nova Scotia's personal directives app, developed by Professor Downie and Victoria Apold, with plain language editing by Nicole Watkins Campbell, design work by Dean McNeill, and IT work by Jesse Williams. Here is the Personal Directive app.