Peaceful protest at Burnside jail: Conditions must change!
Prisoners in the U.S. have called a strike from August 21st-September 9th. The prisoners from Burnside have joined the protest. Here is their statement.
Lawson Roy’s Pinion on Syn-thetic Polymers, a poem by Cory Lavender
Lawson Roy’s Pinion on Syn-thetic Polymers, a poem by Nova Scotia poet Cory Lavender, is the third of eight poems we will publish during the remainder of the year, selected as a result of the call for poems we issued in May. It is one of nine poems in his recent chapbook Lawson Roy’s Revelation, published by Gasperau Press. The poems are in the voice of Lawson Roy, his lobster-fishing grandfather from Port Mouton.
Open letter: 200 researchers call on Justin Trudeau to halt the Muskrat Falls project
In an open letter, released this Wednesday, 200 academic researchers are asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the government of Newfoundland and Labrador, and Nalcor, to immediately stop work on the Muskrat Falls project in Labrador. The letter cites a lack of Indigenous consent, concerns about safety, and the risk of mercury poisoning as reasons for the demand. Nova Scotians have their own textbook-colonial relationship with the project, as the province stands to benefit through the Maritime Link, yet remains blind to its complicity in the cultural genocide and the destruction of traditional lands and food sources.
PSA: YWCA Halifax position on proposed Halifax smoking by-law
The YWCA Halifax has issued a statement about the Halifax smoking ban, an they don’t mince words. “The proposed smoking by-law will disproportionately affect Halifax’s Black, Indigenous, homeless, and poor citizens. It is, in effect, a social policy whose outcome is to criminalize the poor and increase scrutiny and risk into their lives.”
Media Advisory: Rally to protest underfunding of restorative justice program July 30 in Halifax
Please join us on Monday, July 30, as restorative justice caseworkers, members of CUPE 4764, are joined by friends and allies to protest chronic underfunding of the community restorative justice program by the provincial government.
Open letter to Nova Scotians re East Coast Credit Union
“The fact is this is not about risk, it is about ideology. The credit union has chosen to jump on the dump-DB-pension-plan bandwagon. The action by the employer completely fails to recognize the years and years that employees either took concessions or accepted less in order to maintain a decent pension plan and each time they showed their ability to work with the employer.”
News release: BP green light another reckless step in the wrong direction
Giving BP, one of the world’s worst polluters, the go-ahead to resume drilling for oil along the Scotian Shelf, after it spilled 136,000 litres of synthetic drilling fluid, is the wrong decision. It ignores the event’s real lesson and takes us down the same reckless path.
News release: Equity Watch marches in Halifax Pride Parade
News release: For the first time, Equity Watch participated in Saturday’s Pride Parade. Equity Watch Nova Scotia is a nonprofit organization representing hundreds of people who want to end bullying, harassment and discrimination in the workplace.
PSA: Mayworks Halifax call for submissions for its tenth anniversary Mayworks festival, 2019
PSA: Be a Part of the 2019 Festival. Help us Celebrate our 10th anniversary! Mayworks Halifax seeks proposals that will speak of the working class experience. This can be extremely varied and can be contemporary or historical. Both amateur and professional performers may apply.
News release: P3 highways greater cost to public, says CUPE
he union representing highway workers in Nova Scotia has questions about the long-term cost of a new P3 highway, especially if maintenance and snow removal are contracted out to private operators.