Kendall Worth: Losing hope
Kendall reports on meeting Lori and Dave (not their real names), a couple struggling to get by on income assistance and faced with isolation.
Poverty
Brandon Doucet: It’s time for free dental care for all Nova Scotians
Free dental care for all makes an awful lot of sense, writes Brandon Doucet, a fourth-year dentistry student at Dalhousie.
News release: Spryfield tenants plan protest to fight Metcap’s slum conditions
News release: ACORN Nova Scotia continues an ongoing campaign to get landlords to provide healthy and suitable living for low income Nova Scotians. Metcap Living has become notorious for low-quality housing and poor management. Many buildings are infested with bedbugs and in dire need of repairs.
Kendall Worth: Many people tell me about cuts to their income assistance lately
Kendall Worth raises the alarm about an unusually high number of income assistance clients who have seen their shelter allowances cut.
PSA: My Week on Welfare comes to Clayton Park
PSA: Join us for a screening of the documentary My Week on Welfare, as well as a panel discussion featuring individuals with lived experiences of being on welfare and individuals working within the system.
Media release: Women’s Wellness Within second anniversary
News release: The excellent Women’s Wellness Within celebrates its 2nd anniversary as a registered non-profit organization with Top Ten Lists and Immediate Actions.
Kendall Worth: Consider bringing an advocate to your annual review
Kendall Worth on annual reviews, the stress, the humiliation, and the importance of staying calm, cool and collected. Bring a friend or an advocate, he says.
Beyond the school: a parent reflects on the struggles of children with disabilities
“If we care for our children and friends who live with disabilities, we need to broaden our horizons beyond the school. We need to come to terms with the fact that families with members with disabilities are trapped in an ableist society, one which is also deeply heterosexist, racist and classed,” writes Nancy Spina..
Community Services continues to punish innocent family members despite Nova Scotia Court of Appeal ruling
The Department of Community Services continues to penalize family members, including children, for actions that are entirely out of their control. And it does so despite a Nova Scotia Court of Appeal ruling that called the practice unfair.
The only segregated poor house in Nova Scotia
Brenda Thompson, author of Poor houses of Nova Scotia, on the only poor house in the province that segregated its residents based on the colour of their skins. Other poor houses did not allow the sexes to mix but allowed African-Nova Scotians and Mi’kmaq to live under one roof with white people. Not in Bridgetown though.