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Kendall Worth on Community Services: Hey Ho, Minister Joanne Bernard has got to go!
It appears frequent contributor and poverty activist Kendall Worth is not a fan of Minister Joanne Bernard.
Liette Doucet: Pre-election spending spree frustrating for teachers and students
Liette Doucet, president of the NSTU, on the current pre-election spending spree by premier McNeil: “After years of watching our schools deteriorate in the name of fiscal restraint, this new found spending largesse is another betrayal of trust. To teachers it also appears as though the government is funding its pre-election campaign at their expense–and their students’ expense.”
Glyphosate spraying and wild foods: a letter to Minister Mark Furey
Craig Hubley about the lack of information on glyphosate buildup in wild foraged foods in a letter to Mark Furey, MLA for Lunenburg West and the Minister of Business and Service Nova Scotia
What will happen when we die? Promises to persons with developmental disabilities broken, says group
Persons living with developmental disabilities and their advocates feel seriously betrayed by the wishy-washy commitment of Community Services to the execution of the so-called disabilities roadmap.
45 years of activist history in eighteen boxes: the Lynn Jones African-Canadian & Diaspora Heritage Collection
I had a great time at SMU last week, digging through box after box of newspaper clippings, minutes posters, and brochures related to well over forty years of civil rights, labour and social justice struggles here in Nova Scotia and beyond. Lynn Jones has scissors, and she isn’t afraid to use them. Eighteen boxes of documentation have found a home at the St Mary’s archives.
How not to report: Chronicle Herald erases prisoners from story on prison conditions
An anonymous Chronicle Herald reporter does a story on prison conditions and high long distance charges prisoners face without talking to anybody except the Department of Justice spokesperson.
Nova Scotia MLAs challenged to try living on a welfare budget
The politicians who make decisions about people on social assistance should try living on a social assistance budget just for a week, says actress and documentary maker Jackie Torrens. It would make them better politicians. “I don’t extend the challenge in an aggressive way, or an angry way. I sincerely want our MLAs to have a tiny glimpse of what people on social assistance in this province are dealing with on a daily basis,” says Torrens.
News brief: Heating bill relief for low-income renters
Hopefully some news you can use if you are low income, renting and pay high heating bills.
Food banks: We cannot feed our way out of this crisis, but maybe couponing will help.
MLAs have lots of helpful suggestions for Feed Nova Scotia. “Let me tell you, couponing gets you a lot of stuff for very little money,” Liberal MLA Joyce Treen told Feed Nova Scotia’s executive director. Meanwhile, government is giving the organization that distributes 7,000 kilograms of food all cross Nova Scotia daily all of $12,000.