Kendall Worth: Facebook must do better!
Kendall Worth has been harassed online in the past, and he has had other issues as well. He finds Facebook falling short when it comes to shielding and supporting its users.
Mental Health stigma
Kendall Worth: No remedy for poor people against harassment by police and mall security
Making involuntary movements, fidgeting, and talking to yourself are the kinds of things that draw the public’s attention, and next thing you know there’s police or security asking you to leave, writes Kendall Worth. That’s not fair.
Raymond Sheppard: Mental health in the African Nova Scotian community
Raymond Sheppard: “Based on prolonged exposure to the effects of racism, intergenerational racism and poverty, I believe most African Canadians suffer from symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. This is part and parcel of the experiences of most in the African Canadian community.”
Kendall Worth: Poor-bashers should educate themselves on income assistance
For those of you who believe in telling welfare recipients right to their faces to get a job, you are doing nothing to help them. All you are doing is raising their anxiety and the mental health issues they already have, writes Kendall Worth.
“They don’t feel valued as humans” – Covid, mental health and the very poor in Nova Scotia
COVID-19 has hit the very poor in Nova Scotia hard and left many of those living with mental health issues in a very precarious place. That was the urgent message delivered by staff members of the Nova Scotia division of the Canadian Mental Health Association to the Community Services Standing Committee.
Kendall Worth: More on security guards and police harassing poor people with mental health issues
““We need to advise you that the people who complained are not feeling comfortable with your behaviour.” Another story by Kendall Worth on the uncalled for harassment by security guards and police of people with mental health issues.
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.
Kendall Worth: Applying for a zillion jobs
Kendall Worth: Meet Jennifer, Donna, Tafiba, and Michelle , who have two things in common. They are interested in wanting to get back into the workforce and they have applied for a zillion jobs over these past couple of years and it seems that no one will hire them.
Kendall Worth: My interview with PC MLA Steve Craig about mental health and poverty
Kendall visits Progressive Conservative Party MLA Steve Craig in Lower Sackville, to find out about poverty in that area and discuss mental health issues that affect people on income assistance.
Kendall Worth: Struggling through the lockdown
Kendall Worth checks up with William, a man who lives with bipolar disorder, and is relieved to find out that he made it safely through the lock down.