Press release: ACORN holding art build to demand government stop COVID-19 evictions
Press release: Low- and moderate-income tenants are fighting back against the recent wave of eviction notices by demanding the Province step in.
Month: May 2021
Open letter: Changes to Atlantic Gold’s Touquoy mine project should trigger a federal environmental assessment
Open letter from Scott Beaver of the St. Mary’s River Association, to local MP Sean Fraser, requesting that the feds conduct an environmental assessment of Atlantic Gold’s modified Touquoy mine project.
Victoria Day not a paid holiday in Nova Scotia
The good news is that the the Victoria Day weekend, is coming up. The bad news is, unless you are covered by a collective agreement at your workplace, you will not get the Monday off with pay. More bad news — if you do work that day, you earn only straight time: there is no holiday pay. Judy Haiven explains.
Breaking the code of silence: Domestic violence and African-Nova Scotian communities
In addition to living under pandemic restrictions, women of African descent have experienced anti-Black racism and gender-based violence for too long. In an ongoing series Creating Communities of Care profiles the work of the Nova Scotia Association of Black Social Workers.
Media release: Independent Jewish Voices and Canadians, Arabs and Jews for a Just Peace condemn police disruption of May 15 pro-Palestine car rally
Press release: Halifax Police chief Dan Kinsella owes an apology to the pro-Palestine drivers and their passengers at the Free Palestine COVID Safe Car Rally
Media advisory: Halifax Board of Police Commissioners Committee to Define Defunding the Police circulates public engagement questionnaire and details for community consultations
Details about an online questionnaire and online community consultation on the prospect of defunding the police.
United Nations Road Safety Week: My plea for urgent action
Cities that prioritize the movement of people over cars truly benefit in all respects. This year’s theme for the United Nations Road Safety Week is 30 km/h speed limits by design and law on all roads where traffic and people mix.
Judy Haiven: Halifax police not letting a good injunction go to waste
Halifax Police chief Dan Kinsella owes an apology to the pro-Palestine drivers and their passengers at the Free Palestine COVID Safe Car Rally which gathered at the Saint Mary’s University parking lots on Saturday. The thousands of dollars of tickets (fines of up to $2,000 per person) that police issued must be shredded. And the one man (at least) who was handcuffed and arrested has suffered humiliation, injury to his self-worth, and a profound violation to his personal freedom. He deserves much more than a “sorry”.
Injunction against protests too broad and sweeping
Stephen Wentzell on the injunction banning protests during the current lockdown: “This is a slippery slope that we as Nova Scotians should pause and reflect on. And as we have seen before, when given the powers police will disproportionately focus on poor and/or racialized people.”
Nova Scotia doesn’t need small modular nuclear reactors
Gail Wylie: Its a perennial puzzle for the Canadian public- the blithely repeated but already refuted nuclear industry claims for ‘small modular reactors.’ The catchy industry words and phrases remain unaltered and misleading. And that’s the case with the Chronicle Herald’s May 3rd article lamenting the exclusion of nuclear power in Nova Scotia.