Judy Haiven: Has Nova Scotia joined the club of right-wing, tin-pot premiers?
Judy Haiven: With Tim Houston winning the provincial election, every province but one now stands to the right of the federal Liberals.
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Brenda Thompson: Something smells here – Fighting poor people in a poor people’s graveyard
Brenda Thompson on the city’s long history of pushing poor people out of sight on the very site of this week’s violent evictions. “The crappy treatment of poor people on this piece of land is historic.”
Brooklyn Connolly: You can’t hide homelessness
There’s lots wrong with Wednesday’s efforts by the city to push the unhoused out of sight, but there is hope in the way its citizens’ responded, writes Brooklyn Connolly.
Kendall Worth: My take on yesterday’s evictions by the police
Kendall Worth on yesterday’s police evictions: Many of the people who got evicted have nowhere to go. Here in Halifax and in other parts of Nova Scotia housing is not affordable. Sources tell me that even the prices of rooms in rooming houses are going up.
Three somewhat remarkable images from today’s protest
Three pictures of Halifax police officers taken during this afternoon’s reprehensible removal of a crisis shed at the old Halifax library. They’re nothing special, but perhaps they raise some questions.
Time once again to support the Mi’kmaw fishers
Much like last year, Mi’kmaw fishers exercising their treaty rights are once again the victims of vigilante acts by white settlers and harassment by RCMP and DFO officers.
Pam Baker: The Owls Head promised jobs are nothing but a smokescreen
Pam Baker, who lives 10 minutes up the road from Owls Head, spoke at the large Owls Head rally earlier this month. “I firmly believe that the golf course and the promise of jobs is a smokescreen that covers up the land grab of one wealthy foreigner who has waged a campaign of buying up properties to create an oceanfront playground for himself and his family. And this present government engineered it, tried to hide it and used the people of the Eastern Shore in an old-fashioned game of bait and switch.”
School is only three weeks away. Why hasn’t Nova Scotia announced a pandemic plan?
As anxious parents wait and children question if schools are safe to return to, classes are set to begin just three weeks away. Stephen Wentzell reports.
Kevin Payne: On climate change Nova Scotia is all talk and little action
Kevin Payne takes a closer look at the province’s recent public consultations on it climate change plan and finds that there’s lots the government doesn’t want to hear about.