The rape of our lands
Dr. Elisabeth Kosters on the sale of Owls Head, and more. “Private profit never serves the public interest. All this is rape. Our lands are raped, our future sold. There will be devastatingly Silent Springs across our lands.”
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Kendall Worth: Community Services policies stop people from building supportive relationships
People on income assistance feel that if they had been in a relationship of some sort during the pandemic it would have made a world of difference in their lives. One obstacle is right in the Community Services policy manual, writes Kendall Worth.
Raymond Sheppard: The system failed Gyasi Symonds just as it failed all African Nova Scotians
Raymond Sheppard comments on the Gyasi Symonds human rights tribunal: “let’s not throw our hands up in celebration based on this one decision by the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission.”
Danny Cavanagh: The fight for 10 permanent paid sick days continues
Danny Cavanagh: The Nova Scotia Government’s announcement of four days of paid sick leave is a great win for all of us who have been advocating for it. But we know that four days is not enough, and we know that employers should be paying for it, not the taxpayers and above all, it must be permanent, not temporary.
Judy Haiven: Crossing Gottingen Street while Black
Judy Haiven takes a close look at the human rights tribunal that found Halifax police discriminated against a Black man who was ticketed for jaywalking on Gottingen Street. “We cannot treat the police force in Halifax as though it has a few bad apples. We cannot assume that racism within the police — or any institution — is the exception,” she writes.
Letter: Observations from ‘away’
Letter: We sincerely hope that Nova Scotia politicians re-think the Owls Head Provincial Park decision and do the right thing for our times and the planet. I often wonder why politicians can never admit to making a mistake. The sale of Owls Head Provincial Park is a mistake for our times and the future, but it is not too late to correct it.
We’re still paying the price for privatizing Nova Scotia Power
Mallory Smith looks at the privatization of NS Power in 1992, a pretty sweet deal for shareholders drawing dividends from a company that has a monopoly over electrical supply in the province.
Kendall Worth: No hard census deadline for locked down Nova Scotians who can’t afford Internet
Filling out your census form if you can’t afford Internet and with the libraries closed is very difficult. Journalist Kendall Worth did some great advocating and has some good news.
Len Paris: Open letter on Anti-Black racism in Nova Scotia and the sentence of Shawn Wade Hynes
Len Paris, author of Growing up Black in New Glasgow, weighs in on the sentencing of Shawn Wade Hynes, the man who severely injured young Nhlanhla Dlamini with a a high velocity nail gun.
Open letter: Migrants with precarious legal status and individuals without MSI coverage continue to face barriers to vaccination in Nova Scotia
Providing access for migrant workers, refugee claimants, and international students within their first year of study, as well as those whose status may have lapsed, is key to ensuring an authentically universal and encompassing vaccine rollout and therefore, to safeguarding the public from extended and future Coronavirus outbreaks. And yet, there remain a number of significant barriers to meaningful universal access.