I can’t believe how much you’ve grown: The Nova Scotia Advocate turns three
he Nova Scotia Advocate turns three today. Being two was fun.
Media
Weekend video: Another Objective IPP school-to-prison pipeline trailer
Another great trailer from the Objective News Agency’s documentary in the making on the school to prison pipeline. This one is about bad teachers.
Weekend video: The Objective IPP school-to-prison pipeline trailer
Recent King’s journalism graduates Tundé Balogun and Sandra Hannebohm want to cover news that traditional media in Nova Scotia overlook. To do so, they have founded the Objective, an independent news agency that will cover Black news in Nova Scotia and beyond. Check out the trailer for their first project, a work in progress about the school-to-prison pipeline for Black kids here in Nova Scotia. Please support Tundé and Sandra and help them finish the documentary. It’s important.
Announcing the Nova Scotia College of Social Workers Poverty Pitch
This is big! Together with the Nova Scotia College of Social Workers we are commissioning one in-depth story on a poverty-related topic. We want to hear from both professional writers and from people who write from lived experience. Thanks to the generous support of the NSCSW we are able to pay between $500 and $750, depending on the complexity of the topic and how experienced a writer you are. Send us your pitch!
Who’s in charge? How autistic activists are excluded from policy making in Nova Scotia and Canada
Any public policy discussion regarding autism is dominated by non-autistic people, be they parents or major autism organizations such as Autism Nova Scotia. This is very much by design, and further reinforced by media coverage, writes Alex Kronstein.
The Nova Scotia Advocate needs a bit of help
Yes, it’s that time of the year. We’re doing so well, yet with your help we could do so much better.
Protesters pepper sprayed, one arrested, during peaceful Burnside jail protest (updated)
Protesters who rallied at the Burnside Jail last night in support of demands issued by protesting prisoners were pepper sprayed and violently thrown down by officers of the Halifax Regional Police (HRP). One protester was arrested and will face charges. Updated.
Bad reporting: Criminalizing clients may well endanger Cape Breton sex workers
Cape Breton Regional Police (CBRP) have charged eighteen men with communicating for the purpose of obtaining sexual services in Sydney, Cape Breton, the Chronicle Herald and the Cape Breton Post report. As usual, police is quoted extensively, and sex workers are never asked how they feel about it.
More lousy reporting on poverty, this time in the Chronicle Herald
The notion that as a reporter you should talk to all parties affected by a story is often held up as what distinguishes real journalists from bloggers and spreaders of fake news. Except, apparently, when the story is about social assistance.
Announced poverty reduction tax credit increase for income assistance recipients mostly bullshit
Community Services deputy minister Lynn Hartwell announced a couple of changes for income assistance recipients. None of these changes are as problem-free as the CBC story suggests. Over the next week or so the NS Advocate will look at all the announcements. Today we take a closer look at the supposed raise in the poverty reduction tax credit. In reality it’s not reducing a whole lot of poverty at all.