A four-day Mi’kma’ki Water Symposium offers a unique opportunity to explore the many issues that are impacting our Mother Earth and water and the protectors of the water, here in Mi’kmaki. We talked to Dorene Bernard, one of the organizers.
As if we didn’t learn anything from the depletion of the cod stocks, an auditor general report has found that DFO is not adequately managing and monitoring fish stocks. That’s a serious problem, and Nova Scotians should demand action, says the Ecology Action Centre.
The Books Beyond Bars collective has been supporting women in the Burnside Correctional Facility since 2005. They try hard to find any book that people express an interest in, and also offer a read-aloud program for moms and grandmothers. Now they need a little bit of help.
Today Amherst councillor George Baker received a 90-day suspension for uttering the infamous racist slur. Some people in the Black community had hoped for a lot more, and now they feel dejected and alone.
Mainline Needle Exchange, an organization that helps people who live with drug addictions in mainland Nova Scotia, can’t keep up with the demand, something the provincial government is trying hard to ignore. Lives are at stake. The Nova Scotia Advocate went to Mainline’s open house to find out more.
Timothy Gillespie, a journalist who covers the goings on in the Town of Shelburne is facing a Facebook death threat because of a story he wrote. The moderator, a Baptist minister, refused to take the post down. The police say they can’t do anything about it. Sure, small town politics gets heated, but this is ridiculous.
The Muskrat Falls power generating project is destroying the way of life of Innu and Inuit, and they’re fighting back. Very few reporters tell their story. One of those few is Justin Brake of the Independent. He needs our support.
Sometimes no news is good news, but that is not the case with the Town of Amherst’s inability to call a meeting to deal with councillor and mayoral hopeful George Baker’s racist slur.
This week’s featured video is Cottonland, a 2006 documentary about recovering addict Eddie Buchanan and the damage the prescription painkiller oxycontin is doing to his friends and neighbors in Glace Bay, Cape Breton. It’s also about the shutting down of the coal mines. And it’s about a bunch of exceptional people, loving parents, funny, with big hearts. They’re also thieves who do or did terrible things.
Some excellent points were made at a well-attended press conference organized by low income people in the North End on the topic of poverty and the municipal election. It fell a bit on deaf ears, though, as just one reporter and one municipal candidate made an appearance.