Welfare in Canada: Nova Scotia sucks big time
Each year Maytree releases a Welfare in Canada report, showing total incomes of people on welfare across Canada, including tax credits and other benefits. Guess how Nova Scotia measures up.
Poverty
Kendall Worth: The high cost of over the counter medications
In a follow up on his last story, about hospital visits, Kendall Worth tackles the high cost of some over the counter medications, causing all kinds of problems for people on income assistance.
The face of poverty: Skipping food and going without oil to save every penny for his children
“How many more children are going to be left behind before we will make it our collective priority to end child poverty,” JoAnna LaTulippe-Rochon asks in a presentation on child poverty in Cape Breton. She speaks of parents living in rat-infested homes, skipping meals in order to feed their children.
Large rally in Halifax demands rent control now
Easily 400 people gathered at the Grand Parade in downtown Halifax to listen to speeches and march on Province House, demanding that the Liberal government enact rent control. That so many people took time out from an exceptionally warm and sunny Saturday to show their support for rent control suggests how urgent the situation has become.
PSA: Rent Control Now rally set for tomorrow
PSA: ACORN is holding a rally tomorrow (SaturdaY) at 2pm on the Grand Parade outside of City Hall to demand the Province enact Rent Control.
Whatever we do with $8.7 million federal money for affordable housing, don’t give it to the developers
Judy Haiven looks at ways the city could spend the money coming from the feds to provide affordable housing. Which one do you think HRM will go for?
News brief: We need rent control and landlord licensing everywhere in Nova Scotia
“This lady was given a $600 a month increase to her rent. Now I don’t know all the details, but I imagine she’s another renoviction victim. She’s also a single mother.” A shortage of good quality affordable housing has been an urgent problem in towns like Antigonish long before it reached its current peak here in the city of Halifax.
News brief: Nova Scotia Advocate journalist continues to make waves
A short documentary released earlier this week by Accessible Media Inc. features poverty activist and award-winning Nova Scotia Advocate journalist Kendall Worth.
Press release: Rent Control Now rally set for this Saturday
Press release: ACORN is holding a rally on Saturday, November 7th at 2pm on the Grand Parade outside of City Hall to demand the Province enact Rent Control.
Kendall Worth: With a little help from my friends
“The question is: What is a welfare recipient whose only social contacts are people they know from soup kitchens and food banks supposed to do when at very short notice they need someone to come with them to the emergency room?” Kendall Worth to the rescue!