Kendall Worth: No one to share taco shells with, a Christmas story
Bit of a sad story as Kendall meets a young woman who, as so many people on income assistance, lives in social isolation.
Mental Health stigma
Kendall Worth: Lives on welfare and the loved ones
Kendall meets up with a sister of a person who is on social assistance and lives with mental health issues. She worries about her brother and wants to better understand the welfare system.
Kendall Worth: When family is nothing but bad news
Kendall Worth on the awfulness of being on welfare and dealing with close family members who attack you for it.
Kendall Worth: You’re just lazy! Income assistance, stigma and home care support after surgery
Kendall Worth on the bad experiences of some people on income assistance who received home care while recovering from surgery.
Laura Fisher: Are poor moms and babies welcome in Nova Scotia?
Many Nova Scotians pride themselves on the friendliness and welcoming attitude of our province. This pride is not always warranted, particularly as it affects low-income mothers and babies, and especially so in rural Nova Scotia, writes Laura Fisher.
Kendall Worth: Another story of harassment of poor people with mental health issues by police and security guards in Halifax
Kendall Worth with more on the ongoing harassment of poor people and people with disabilities by police ans security guards.
Raymond Sheppard: Listen to the people living with mental health issues
“Speaking as a mental health and addictions counsellor and an individual who has anxiety, I strongly believe reforms to this broken mental health system are seriously past due,” writes Raymond Sheppard.
Kendall Worth: Why many income assistance recipients in Halifax want to forget their rural past
Kendall Worth on why for many people in income assistance an invite to a school reunion is not a joyful thing. Especially if they used to live in rural Nova Scotia, where issues of mental health and invisible disabilities are not always understood.
Thandiwe McCarthy: The darkest lesson – my education history
Thandiwe McCarthy on going to school while Black in New Brunswick. “No one ever explained anything to me, I was always ordered. I never got the chance to be a student because all the teachers viewed me as a threat.”
Kendall Worth: In Halifax police and security guards are harassing poor people with mental health issues
Kendall Worth reports how at times people on Income Assistance who have involuntary body behaviours like fidgeting or talking to themselves but are just minding their own business are being bothered by police or private security guards.”I recently learned of three people who had this happen to them in Halifax. As you will see, one of those three incidents ended up badly,” he writes.