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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.

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.

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.

Kendall Worth: Community Services transformation is getting back up

July 12, 2021 2 Comments

Kendall Worth hears that the welfare transformation project at Community Services is starting up again, and people in his community have lots of questions.

Michael William McDonald: Sipekn’ Pipnaqn, traditional Mi’kmaq bread

July 11, 2021 1 Comment

Michael William McDonald looks into the domesticated use of the groundnut (Sipekne’) by Mi’kmaq people. “Elders in Sipekne’katik were still making bread using grounded Sipekne’ roots right up till the 1980’s. In 1984 Rebecca “Noel” Pictou stated that her Grandmother would save the largest rhizome bulbs she found and then replant them closer to their dwellings along the Shubenacadie River where they would allow them to grow and flower.”

Judy Haiven: Pre-election goodies

July 10, 2021

Judie Haiven looks at two pre-election goodies coming our way compliments of the provincial government, money for long term care and affordable housing.

Michael William McDonald: Clans of Sipekne’katik

July 9, 2021

Michael William McDonald’s extensive research into the Clans in the District of Sipekne’katik in the early 1700’s reveals the deep connection between the Mi’kmaq people and the landscape of Mi’kma’ki, the place the Mi’kmaq never ceded and have called home since time began.

Environmental racism: New study investigates whether Nova Scotia dump boosted cancer rates in nearby Black community

July 8, 2021

Dr. Ingrid Waldron and Dr. Juliet Daniel on a new research project to determine whether there is a link between relatively high rates of cancer among members of Shelburne’s Black community and the nearby dump, and how it will pave the way for further studies on the relationship between environmental racism and chronic diseases.