PSA: Save the Bus Stop Theater, the final push
PSA: We are now VERY CLOSE to our goal in saving the Bus Stop Theatre! We’ve raised $1,101,000 out of our $1,210,000 goal and we now need one final push to get us to the finish line.
Media release
PSA: #JusticeForRegis, Saturday May 30, Halifax
Regis Korchinsky-Paquet, a 29 year old Afro-Indigenous woman, died May 27th after Toronto police were called to her apartment. We join solidarity actions across the country demanding #JusticeForRegis
Press release: Women’s Wellness Within demands #JusticeForRegis
Women’s Wellness Within demands #JusticeForRegis, a 29 year old Afro-Indigenous woman who was killed after Toronto Police came to her home last night.
Press release: Healthy Bays Network forms to fight open-net finfish farms
Media release; Groups province wide opposed to open net pens have now joined forces. They have formed the Healthy Bays Network (HBN). Committed to a healthy environment, empowered communities, local employment and well-paying jobs with a future, Nova Scotians will hear lots more from the Healthy Bays Network in the weeks and months ahead.
Media release: Non-profits call on provincial government to fund counselling for victims of gender-based violence, including sexualized violence
Media release: In the past few years, the public mental health system has stopped offering counselling to people who have survived sexual violence unless they meet specific criteria for Mental Health and Addictions. In return, the public system often refers victims to non-profit services—which are now overworked and unable to meet the increased demand because there has not been a meaningful increase in funds to provide these services.
PSA: An open letter to Nova Scotia premier Stephen McNeil on the Cooke Aquaculture lease renewal for Liverpool Bay
Open letter; While our province is in the depths of a deadly pandemic with orders to “Stay the BLAZES home”, our Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Hon. Keith Colwell’s department deems it business as usual for this company and grants them this unprecedented 20-year lease renewal.
Press release from NSFL President Danny Cavanagh re: CERB vs Tax breaks for corporations
Press release: Some part-time workers who were laid off from their jobs are seeing a bigger paycheque than before the COVID-19 Pandemic. If you are an employer who had casual part-time workers, you need to ask yourself why your employees would rather be on CERB? Then ask yourself, as a small business owner, why should the big corporation be allowed to get tax dollars when many of them pay fewer taxes in Canada then you do? The system must change and workers deserve higher wages and full-time work with benefits.
Press release: Over 200 organizations across Canada call for #HealthCare4All
Press release: At a moment of public health crisis in Canada due to COVID-19, the Healthcare for All National Coalition is calling on the federal government to work closely with provincial and territorial governments to ensure access to healthcare for all people living in Canada.
PSA: Petition for a feminist-based public inquiry into the Nova Scotia massacre
Petition: “I respectfully demand a full, public inquiry into the Nova Scotia shootings; an inquiry centered around a feminist analysis. We will never put an end to something we refuse to see.”
PSA: Mark your calendars: Webinar “How Do We Protect Precarious Workers?” May 25, 4 pm Atlantic
Free webinar”: How do we protect precarious workers. Presenter Darius Mirshahi.