Kendall Worth: Pretending New Year’s Eve isn’t even happening
Reporter and First Voice poverty activist Kendall Worth on the many barriers that stop poor people from celebrating New Year’s Eve the way middle and upper class people do.
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Kendall Worth: Online dating, poverty, and that special someone
Poverty advocate Kendall Worth relates the happy story of how one one woman escaped social isolation through online dating. However, “online dating is not always safe. It’s not something I would personally want to pursue,” he writes.
Census 2016: African Nova Scotian poverty rates through the roof, unemployment numbers terrible
The headline says it all. Another 2016 census story, this time about unemployment and poverty among African Nova Scotians. The numbers are bad, much worse in fact than almost anywhere else in Canada.
Op-ed: Child poverty is felt in our province and it’s time for change
Recent changes to the Child and Family Service Act have made the fight against child poverty even more difficult, writes Alec Stratford, executive director of the NS College of Social Workers. Shortened judicial timelines, the expansion of the definition of neglect and the overall lack of resources have amounted to greater penalization of families struggling to afford the cost of housing, food, childcare, clothing and transportation.
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Kendall Worth: We really need a 24/7 drop in centre to tackle problems of social isolation
Social isolation leads people living in poverty to go to the QEII Emergency Department just to experience a bit of human warmth. Kendall Worth investigates.
Op-ed: Social assistance can be fixed
Lately several people have told me that welfare in Nova Scotia is beyond repair. Here I want to challenge that notion, because it is both nonsense and a bit dangerous.
Unfinished business: the role of colonialism and racism in Nova Scotia’s fishing tensions
New contributor Lori Oliver, who grew up in the Digby area, takes a look at the tensions between white and Mi’kmaq lobster fishers in South West Nova Scotia. The issues go deeper than most newspaper reports suggests, she writes, poverty, racism and colonialism are at the root of the current problems.
Danny Cavanagh: Why the secrecy about Nova Scotia’s health care deal?
Danny Cavanagh on the health care deal struck between Nova Scotia and the feds.
Open letter to Minister Furey: Bill 16 takes away our right to make our own decisions
Dave Kent, president of People First Nova Scotia and Korey Earle, president of the national People First, feel devastated that the issues they raised around the Adult Capacity and Decision-making Act (Bill 16) at Law Amendments were not taken seriously at all. “The presentations ended at 10:30 am. By 12:20 pm, the first article about it was written and online stating that the Bill had passed second reading as is.”
Like screaming and not hearing an echo — International day for the eradication of poverty in Halifax
On the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty Halifax first voice activists and their allies called for all levels of government to stop their empty tinkering and finally start addressing poverty in a meaningful way. Start by listening carefully to people with a lived experience of poverty, was the message, and put your money where your mouth is.