Weekend video: Winter eeling
This weekend we present a short video on traditional Mi’kmaq eel fisheries in winter. Check it out, it’s a good one!
More demands that police street checks be stopped immediately
As police street checks continue unabated in Halifax and all of Nova Scotia, members of the African Nova Scotian communities and their allies are collecting signatures for a petition asking that the racist practice be banned province-wide.
Teachers confront Paul Bennett, AIMS, on business agenda for education
I attended a talk by education pundit Paul Bennett, sponsored by AIMS, to better understand what the one percent are up to when it comes to education. I wasn’t alone, a bunch of teachers were there as well, and the Q and A was a bit tense.
News brief: Prosecution of journalist Justin Brake continues
The latest on the prosecution of journalist Justin Brake, and how you can help. Muskrat Falls may help our province meet its green energy targets, but at what cost? Brake’s reporting raised that uncomfortable question, and for doing so he deserves our support.
Did flawed drug tests lead to family breakups? Parents have a right to know
Unreliable drug and alcohol testing performed by an Ontario lab has caused the unwarranted break up of families, not only in Ontario, but very possibly in Nova Scotia as well. Community Services used the Motherisk lab for a hair strand test that has now been discredited in hundreds of cases. After a review, Ontario revisited every case where Motherisk evidence was used. Not here in Nova Scotia, though.
Labour in Nova Scotia has its work cut out
Rightly or wrongly, the NSTU blinked. But they were on their own, and that’s not how solidarity is supposed to work.
Three anti–clearcut billboards in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Three new billboards in Halifax remind tens of thousands commuters each day that all is not well with Nova Scotia’s forests. “80,000 birds nests destroyed last year; Stop clearcutting; Tell Premier McNeil,” the billboards state.
Halifax press conference pressures Province, Feds to allow Abdoul Abdi to stay in Canada
A press conference at Province House in downtown Halifax served as a reminder that the clock is ticking for Abdoul Abdi. Abdi is a Somali refugee who came to Nova Scotia when only six years old. As a teenager he got involved in crime, and as a consequence of these youthful mistakes he is now facing deportation. Nova Scotia shares much of the blame, a closer look reveals.
Op-ed: Glaze Report – Hoping for civil disobedience and solidarity
If and when the teachers go on strike I hope other unions will do more than talk about solidarity and hold a couple of rallies,
News release: Nova Scotia at risk of a Deepwater Horizon Disaster?
Media advisory: With oil and gas exploration approved off the coast of Nova Scotia for this spring, the Council of Canadians is organizing a hard-hitting coastal speaking tour providing evidence of the serious risks offshore drilling presents to sustainable fisheries, tourism, clean water and our climate.