Organizer of Sobeys protest: It’s not skin-deep, it’s a bone-deep issue
An interview with Rev. Lennett Anderson, organizer of the Sobeys anti-racism rally in Tantallon: “Race is not a card I play, it’s the life I live.”
Month: April 2016
Weekend Video: the North End Community Health Centre
The North End Community Health Centre does terrific work, as do all its sister clinics in rural and urban Nova Scotia. Their approach is truly unique, their struggle for provincial funding is an embarrassment.
Community Services Standing Committee to Department: “Reinstate funding to Community Living group”
MLAs of all parties formally ask Community Services to reinstate funding for the NS Association for Community Living.
Metro Housing Authority to public housing tenants: “we will try to do better”
You’re right, we’re doing a pretty lousy job taking care of public housing tenants, the general manager of the Metropolitan Regional Housing Authority told a group of unhappy Spryfield residents. A follow-up on our last story.
Mice everywhere. Spryfield public housing tenants fight government inaction
A terrible mice infestation turned tenants’ lives into a nightmare. The landlord, the Metropolitan Regional Housing Authority, isn’t really dealing with the problem.
Weekend Video: The Little Black Schoolhouse (trailer)
This week’s weekend video: A trailer and a link to a full documentary by African Nova Scotian filmmaker and poet Sylvia Hamilton.