PSA: Anti-poverty protest at Liberal party fundraiser
It is unacceptable that Nova Scotia has one of the lowest minimum wages in the country, and that Nova Scotia is the only province where child poverty rates are rising.
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Toni MacAfee: As the planet heats up, Canada Post is asleep at the wheel
With the largest retail network in the country and the second-largest public fleet of vehicles Canada Post is ideally positioned to drive the transition to a green economy. The possibilities are endless, writes Toni MacAfee.
The workers’ revolt in Amherst
Historian Nolan Reily chronicles how one hundred years ago workers in Amherst, Nova Scotia, —women and men, union and non-union—shutdown the town’s industries. Even the mechanics in the local garage went on strike. It was a community strike, just like the one that had started four days earlier in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Danny Cavanagh: Pushing back against corporate greed and spineless politicians for 100 years and counting
NS Federation of Labour president Danny Cavanagh reflects on 100 years of Nova Scotia history. From the day William Davis was shot to today’s injured miners looking for respect and dignity, not much has changed.
Daniel Samson: The presbyterian communist – J.B. McLachlan’s library
Historian Daniel Joseph Samson recently spent a day going through the private library of the early-20th-century Cape Breton labour leader J. B. McLachlan at the Beaton Institute. Turns out McLachlan didn’t just read Lenin and Engels, Samson encountered some books he didn’t expect to see there.
Kendra Coombes: They stood the gaff – In defense of the Glace Bay miners who turned their backs on a Liberal MLA
“The miners, the spouses and community members who turned their backs on a Liberal MLA were only following in the footsteps of the miners and their families of 1925.,” writes Kendra Coombes.
Newsbrief: P3 highways cost more and reduce accountability, report suggests
A new CCPA report shows that, based on the Cobequid Pass experience, P3 highways cost more and reduce accountability when you compare it to the traditional way of highway construction and maintenance,
Media release: Public Town Halls June 4-5 in Antigonish and New Glasgow to discuss the twinning of Highway 104
Halifax – Please join us for a town hall about the proposed Pictou-Antigonish stretch of Highway 104. The two events take place in Antigonish on June 4 and in New Glasgow on June 5.
Human rights vs. the City’s Human Resources department—will Newspeak win in the Kathy Symington tribunal?
Judy Haiven attends the human rights tribunal for former firefighter Kathy Symington, and hears more corporate HR jargon in a couple of days than during her entire career teaching HR at St. Mary’s.
PSA: 20/20/20 Cogswell
Public meeting on Monday May 27 to ensure African Nova Scotian inclusion in the Cogswell redevelopment project.