Weekend video. Four feet up
Watch this wonderful documentary by Nova Scotia’s Nance Ackerman, about the exceptional eight-year old Isaiah and his equally remarkable family as they live in poverty in the Annapolis Valley.
Month: September 2016
Guest op-ed: The power of a single word
The N-word is NOT JUST ANOTHER WORD. It is our history of segregation and slavery embodied. It is my grandmother not being able to eat at the table with everyone else, it’s the family friend being stopped by the police four times as he was walking home. An Amherst resident on the George Baker saga and what it tells us about racism in Nova Scotia.
Commissionaires latest victims of Stanfield International Airport cost saving ways
Commissionaires at the Stanfield International Airport lost their jobs after G4S Canada won the airport’s new security contract. It is widely expected that G4S will pay its staff less than its predecessor. Maybe the Airport Authority should recognize that there is more to running an airport than the bottom line, some suggest. We also take a closer look at G4S.
Lives on welfare. From social assistance recipient to social worker
The story of Suzanne (not her real name), a university student who needed help after she got pregnant, and a caseworker who went out of his way to stop her from getting what she was entitled to.
Halifax outside workers rally at City Hall in defense of their pensions
Halifax City outside workers, members of CUPE Local 108, rallied in front of City Hall to tell the city to get back to the bargaining table, revoke a lock-out notice, and stop chipping away at their pensions. Current city proposals dealing with workers’ pensions are simply unacceptable, the union says.
Op-ed: Glyphosate spraying not worth the risks
Glyphosate spraying in the face of widespread concerns among rural residents just so that forestry companies can make a bit more money seems pretty outrageous. Yet that’s what’s happening.
Photo view: Halifax Labour Day 2016
Just a very quick photo view of the Halifax Labour Day parade. Credit to Simon de Vet.
Op-ed: This Labour Day, who do we compare ourselves to?
Judy Haiven on austerity in Nova Scotia and why we should take look at workers’ conditions in Western Europe, rather than always look southward.
Labour Day weekend video: Standin’ the gaff
This Labour Day weekend video features singer/songwriter Ernest Laidlaw performing his original tune “Standin’ the Gaff”, about the bloody miners’ strike in 1925 Cape Breton. It’s really good.
This is our warning. Mi’kmaw opponents of Alton Gas appeal to federal Fisheries minister
A delegation of the Sipeknekatik Band traveled to New Brunswick to demand that Dominic Leblanc, the federal minister of Fisheries and Oceans, use his power to halt the Alton Gas project. The group asserted their treaty rights and warned that the river will be defended, whatever that may take.