Press release: Rent Control Now rally set for this Saturday
Press release: ACORN is holding a rally on Saturday, November 7th at 2pm on the Grand Parade outside of City Hall to demand the Province enact Rent Control.
Month: November 2020
Press release from Extinction Rebellion Nova Scotia’s moose country blockade
News release: We are in complete agreement with the demand now being put forward by groups across the province for a moratorium on all even-aged harvests on crown and other public land.
Our specific demand is for an immediate moratorium on all proposed and current logging on Crown lands from Fourth Lake south to the Napier River in Digby County.
Clearcutting must stop –Healthy Forest Coalition alarmed by ‘cutting frenzy’
Medi release: Convinced that the government has abandoned its commitment to implement the recommendations of the Independent Review of Forest Practices, the Healthy Forest Coalition is calling for ‘a moratorium on all even-aged harvests’ on public lands.
Letter: The clock is ticking – Lands and Forestry must address its “chronic and systemic failure” to protect mainland moose
Lindsay Lee: Citizens should not have to sue their government or occupy clear-cutting sites. But Nova Scotians will continue to fight for what is right for our environment and our province.
Kendall Worth: With a little help from my friends
“The question is: What is a welfare recipient whose only social contacts are people they know from soup kitchens and food banks supposed to do when at very short notice they need someone to come with them to the emergency room?” Kendall Worth to the rescue!
“We’re in a serious crisis” – NDP MLA Susan Leblanc on rising rents, renovictions and the shortage of affordable housing
Landlords raising rents, renovictions, homelessness and the underlying acute shortage of affordable housing in Halifax and elsewhere in the province have been getting a lot of attention. I spoke with NDP MLA Susan Leblanc about what residents of Dartmouth North are telling her, and how rent control is urgently needed.
“All of that rich, beautiful land, this is what they did with it” – Africville survivors unhappy that city continues to resist reparations
After the Africville rally I had a longer conversation with Denise Allen, one of the organizers and an Africville survivor herself. “I don’t know who our political representatives represent when they fight against justice for Africville. They’re certainly not representing their constituents. What they’re looking out for is the bottom line, they just don’t want to pay.”
Danny Cavanagh: How to learn from the pandemic and build a better future
Danny Cavanagh: “In Canada, we have weathered the pandemic by sticking together and supporting each other. Economic recovery cannot mean listening to the same old voices that led us to an economy with a widening income and gender gap, heightening rates of poverty and homelessness, increasing violence and inequality, and poorly underfunded and inadequate public and community services. We need investments in new ways of doing things.”
Barrett the Privateer: Pillaging the spoils of Nova Scotia’s rent crisis
Judy Haiven looks at rising rents, renovictions and the shameless landlords who take advantage of a rental crisis.
Migrant workers’ rights still on backburner in Nova Scotia
Shavan is a father of three from Jamaica who’s been coming to Nova Scotia as a migrant farm worker for eight years. This past year, his bunkhouse was overrun with large rats. He says, “I know that’s not part of Canada’s standards.” Even during the heatwave over the summer, Shavan and other migrant workers were working 10-hour days in the blistering sun for minimum wage.
As we brace for the second wave of COVID-19, Stacey Gomez, Asaf Rashid, Jessica Tellez and Wanda Thomas call for uregnt action to end systemic racism faced by migrant workers.