July 2021 - Page 4 of 6 - Nova Scotia Advocate

Rare sighting of endangered leatherback sea turtle bolsters case for Owls Head protection

July 17, 2021 1 Comment

Journalist Brooklyn Connolly speaks with Chris Miller and others about the significance of the sighting of the rare leatherback sea turtle feeding in the waters off Owls Head Provincial Park. “When you’re working so hard to try and do something like protect Owls Head, just a moment for nature to look back at you and say ‘yeah’ – I think that’s really important,” says Katherine Martin of the Canadian Sea Turtle Network.

Media release: Immediate action needed to fix staffing shortages in emergency department

July 16, 2021

Media release: The head of Nova Scotia’s largest health care union is calling on the Rankin government to take immediate action to address a dire staffing shortage affecting the Emergency Department (ED) at the Halifax Infirmary.

PSA: Climate grief research

July 16, 2021

PSA: Lilly Barraclough: I am recruiting youth research participants in Mi’kma’ki for my thesis on examining how politically active youth experience climate grief.

News brief: New collective agreement will allow health care workers to keep up with inflation, more or less

July 15, 2021

News brief: Nova Scotia’s health care workers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a new collective agreement that includes annual wage increases into 2023 and contract language improvements. When the Statistics Canada estimated inflation rates over the period are taken into account most workers will be marginally less well off at the end of the contract.

News brief: Province continues to ignore AG recommendations on endangered species

July 14, 2021

Reporter Brooklyn Connolly takes a closer look at the attorney general’s finding that after four years the province still has not acted on several recommendations to strengthen the protection of endangered species.

Media release: Health care workers accept tentative agreement

July 14, 2021

Media release: Nova Scotia’s health care workers have voted to ratify a new collective agreement. Eighty-two (82) per cent of the members who voted cast their ballot to accept the agreement, which provides for reasonable wage increases in each of the three years it spans, as well as significant language improvements.

Press Release: Child Care Now NS reacts to bilateral announcement

July 14, 2021

Child Care Now Nova Scotia recognizes that the funding agreement between the federal government and Nova Scotia government is monumentally significant. Child Care Now Nova Scotia’s thoughts can be summed up as: “They heard us! Now let’s build that universal child care system together.”

Media release: Labour Federation says Tory “Better Paycheck Guarantee” not the solution for Nova Scotia economy

July 14, 2021

The NS Federation of Labour on PC leader Tim Houston’s ‘Better Paycheck Guarantee’: This plan is all about tax breaks and no mention of how to make up lost revenue and that its also an admission that higher paycheques bring on more spending but is silent on a higher minimum wage.

Raymond Sheppard: Is yesterday’s funding announcement for African Nova Scotian Justice Institute merely an election ploy?

July 13, 2021

Raymond Sheppard: White politicians vying for political office will do the bare minimum to secure African people’s votes, and after an election they hardly ever keep their word on anything.

Dangerous sidewalk closure on Young Street: Halifax hostility to sidewalk users must end

July 13, 2021

A sidewalk closure on Young Street requires pedestrians, wheelchair and mobility scooter users to take a detour of more than 500 metres to access essential services.Staff and leadership must dig deeper and look further to ensure their policies and approach to access and infrastructure includes everyone and prioritizes the least able in much more than words and aspirations.