What’s up with the Canadian Navy and the right wing fringe?
The Canadian Navy in Halifax is a little too comfortable a place for racists, Islamophobes and xenophobes. First the Proud Boys, now that tattoo guy. You have to wonder what’s going on.
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Kendall Worth: Community Services special diet nonsense is here to stay
Kendall Worth on yet another case where a caseworker doesn’t believe a doctor’s diagnosis and special diet recommendation. Keep in mind that these doctors who write the special notes have gone to school seven or more years of their lives to study to become doctors! Why do we have a system where this needs to happen?
Halifax Navy sailor with Islamophobic tattoo told to clean up his arm
That Navy guy with an Islamophobic tattoo must remove it, but he will not receive any punishment because he had no ill-intent, a Canadian Armed Forces spokesperson tells us. That no co-workers or superiors ever formally questioned a tattoo that Muslim colleagues and others would consider hurtful is concerning.
Radical Imagination series back at the Halifax Central Library where it belongs
A bit of good news to end the week. The Radical Imagination speaker and film series is back on in the Halifax Central Library, where it belongs.
Raymond Sheppard: Each one teach one and each one reach one – A call to action
A powerful and empowering call to action by anti-racism activist Raymond Sheppard, directed especially at young African Nova Scotians.
Judy Haiven: The NDP should allow Rana Zaman to run
Judy Haiven on the federal NDP decision that Rana Zaman can no longer run for the party in Dartmouth. “Israel’s actual slaughter and wounding of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza are considered less blameworthy than the words of those, like Zaman, who condemn it.”
Kendall Worth: Rent increase pushes single mom out of the neighborhood
A singe mom on income assistance faces a huge rent increase and may have to leave the neighborhood she likes and the city where she has a support system. A common story! Kendall Worth reports.
News brief: How a tiny increase in income assistance may cost people money
Community Services giveth and Community Services taketh away. The tiny increases people on income assistance will get next year may push them over the Poverty Reduction Credit threshold. The department says it doesn’t yet know what to do about it, or how many people will be affected.
Larry Haiven: A modest proposal for a new Halifax Libraries lending policy
Larry Haiven: I have a modest proposal, which I think is almost directly analogous to the decision of Halifax Regional Libraries to deny a free venue to the Radical Imagination Project to show films critical of the police without ‘the other side.’
Kendall Worth: Canada Day and how to deal with uncomfortable encounters with well off people
Canada Day causes Kendall to think about the stigma of poverty and how to handle unwelcome encounters with overly curious acquaintances.