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Lenora Steele: On $5-million and the commodification of healing
Lenora Steele: “Listening dumbfounded to him allocate, from the public purse, $5-million in women’s venture capital I was staggered at the heartlessness, at the cheek, while just over here, yes, here, right here in front of us a woman sits on the side of her bed, a hospital phone in her hand calling a taxi to take her to a low-budget motel for the night. Her breast removed yesterday, she has no way home and must spend the night alone in Truro.”
Wayne Desmond: Whose shoulders I stand on – New Glasgow’s rich Black heritage
Wayne Desmond reflects on the long history of Black excellence in his hometown of New Glasgow. “So, when I think about African Heritage month, I don’t just think about the famous Black icons that are celebrated. I think about the trailblazers of my hometown, whose shoulders I stand on.”
Racism on the Lunenburg waterfront
The gentleman then asked her, “From Halifax, hey?” She didn’t answer this all too familiar question. After a pause, he said as clear as day, “So, the father must be a darkie, hey?”
Teachers of all kinds are the pandemic’s unsung heroes
Lily Barraclough: During the pandemic stories depicting frontline workers as heroes have been numerous, but educators of all kinds and including homeschooling parents, have been somewhat forgotten.
Saint Mary’s lockdown rules unfairly target international students
Wayne Desmond reflects on harsh and expensive lockdown rules for foreign students entering Nova Scotia. “It becomes apparent that universities have a lot more work to do engaging with their international students and understanding their needs, vulnerabilities and desire to be treated with the same consideration, respect and dignity as Canadian students,” he writes.
Kate MacDonald: 2020 was a wild year. Now what?
Kate MacDonald: The dream is one day to not have to take the streets for injustice and state sanctioned murder. It’s a dream. Truly. A place we must believe in so deeply that we feel it in our every fibre.
Stop the scapegoating! Young people are doing their share in the fight against COVID
Since the pandemic began, there have been numerous news headlines and social media posts disparaging youth as reckless and irresponsible about COVID-19. While this may be true for some, it is not the case for the majority of youth, writes Sabrina Guzman Skotnitsky.
Spring Tide Farm’s Jessie and Rebecca MacInnis – “Indigenous solidarity is part of the business we want to grow”
“I still have relationship building and learning to do around how to be a better ally, but being open to discomfort is a good start. As long as I’m living and growing on stolen land, I need to be actively working to address that fact.”
Reporter Paul Wartman speaks with Jessie and Rebecca MacInnis of the Spring Tide Farm about the complex connections between settler farmers, land, and Indigenous sovereignty.
Missing the bus: Halifax Transit sticks with diesel while PEI buys all-electric school buses
After declaring a climate emergency Halifax committed to buy upwards of 150 diesel buses from then until 2023. Meanwhile, PEI announced that their entire fleet of 220 school buses would be electrified by 2040 or sooner, and that, without preamble, they’d gone ahead and purchased their first twelve all-electrics. Zack Metcalfe investigates.