When Bunmi Adedeji learned about the new policy for international students to apply for permanent residency in Canada, she was excited. Now the Dalhousie University graduate didn’t need to wait to work for a year before applying to be a permanent resident. On April 14, the federal government announced a plan to speed up the […]
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After public pressure, Nova Scotia to start collecting race-based healthcare data
The Nova Scotia government has started a community-based working group to begin collecting race-based data in the province’s healthcare system. This comes after researchers and members of the public applied pressure on the government to start collecting health data by race. “We know that race is one of the factors that affects people’s access to […]
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6 things in the federal budget you should know about if you live in Halifax
The 2021 federal budget was announced last week. Oh, you were too busy getting COVID-19 tests and prepping for the local lockdown to care? That’s understandable. But now that you’ve had a few days to settle into the slowdown, you might like some good news from Ottawa to take your mind off our outbreak. In […]
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Nova Scotia’s Affordable Housing Commission is hosting online workshop to talk about the housing crisis
How hard is it to find an affordable place to live in Nova Scotia? Hard enough that the government formed a commission, and that commission can state its mission pretty clearly: “We know that we must do more to increase the supply of new affordable housing, protect existing housing, and ensure that every Nova Scotian […]
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There’s no health data available by race, ethnicity or language in the health system in Nova Scotia
Sharon Davis-Murdoch, co-president and founding member of the Health Association of African Canadians, says health data is not available by race, ethnicity or language in Canada’s health system. “There is research, but that is different from data,” says Davis-Murdoch. She and HAAC have long been advocating for the need for race-based health data in Nova […]
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How to file your first post-Covid taxes
It’s tax season, and things have changed because of COVID-19 shaking the world for most of the 2020 fiscal year. With the federal government providing many Canadians with financial assistance during the pandemic, filing taxes this year is a bit different. Stephanie Folahan, president of Premier Accounting and Tax in Halifax, says tax refunds may […]
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5 sure things for International Women’s Day
On this International Women’s Day, Monday, March 8, let’s take a beat to remember that women earn less money per hour for the same work as men, and women of colour earn even less than white women. Call it the wage gap, call it the power gap, it’s real and it’s the reason if you […]
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Buy Black Birchtown wants to create retreat centre for BIPOC folks
“Why are all retreat spaces owned by rich white folks?” and “Why can’t we own our own spaces?” were the questions Lauryn Guest and Jessika Hepburn asked themselves that led to the initiative Buy Black Birchtown. When Guest was a child, she didn’t always feel she was prioritized in the camps she attended. “Camps should […]
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Halifax’s indoor skatepark movement snags meeting with mayor
It’s been two months since Tayvon Clarke decided to get the wheel for an indoor skatepark in Halifax rolling. His petition now has 5,500 signatures, but Clarke and other advocates are pushing for more. In January, Clarke and four other members of the Halifax Skaters Association met with mayor Mike Savage via Zoom, and overall […]
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The year the music lived
We need music. There’s no other way to explain why it’s been with us for almost as long as fire has been. It tells stories and shares feelings—reminding us that there’s at least one other person out there, behind a guitar, who feels like we do. In a year where the feeling has just been […]
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Halifax sees increase in homelessness, renting is still getting harder
Mount Saint Vincent University student Mila McKay has been in and out of homelessness since they moved to Halifax in 2015 because of the high rent prices in Halifax. The only time they’re not homeless is when school is in session and they can live in residence. During the summer and Christmas breaks, they slept […]
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Fisherman’s Cove keeps its huts open for the holidays
This year, Fisherman’s Cove is doing something it has never done before—staying open after summer ends. The collection of local shops in Eastern Passage usually runs from May to October but because of COVID-19, business owners lost the first two months of their season. To make up for it, businesses are staying open for the […]