In good news, Atlanta's Journal-Constitution likes our Black Cultural Centre. The bad news includes rotten toothpaste and bad labour practises. Full links apres jump.
TOURING THE FUTURE
from Atlanta
Using the internet as a time machine, the Journal-Constitution daily paper has an article on its site today that claims to be published on Sunday, June 24. That weirdness aside, the article is a straightforward travel piece that encourages Atlantans to visit the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia.
"There is a link between the United States and Canada," said Roger Wade Jackson, a center volunteer speaking to cruise visitors from the United States last August. "Blacks were treated the same in the United States and Canada. But in Canada, slavery didn't work because of the climate."And today, of course, Nova Scotia is a fully integrated, colourblind society teeming with people of all races. Just don't ask why there aren't any black people on Spring Garden Road.The center also focuses on the Underground Railroad connection in the years approaching the Civil War. In the early years of the railroad, slaves who made their way north to New York often stowed away on ships to Halifax. Black migration to Nova Scotia diminished considerably, Bishop said, when bounty hunters and slave catchers began to haunt the docks in Halifax, seeking blacks who had survived the harrowing trip across the sea from the United States. The emphasis then shifted to land routes into Canada.
A century later, segregation still prevailed. An exhibit illustrates an incident in August 1946, in which Viola Desmond, a beautician, refused to sit on the second floor of the segregated Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow and was arrested. Jackson pointed out that the incident took place before American civil rights heroine Rosa Parks, in 1955, refused to give her bus seat to a white man, starting a bus boycott in Montgomery. Yet, in Canada, the civil rights movement was a mild storm compared to the United States' hurricane, Bishop said. (story here)
GO TO HEALTH
from cyberspace
A semi-literate blog called Health Insurance just noticed RodMac's mutterings about banning hospital workers from striking:
Take a look at this nS premier wants to ban health strikes - Canadian HR Reporter Following a one-day walkout at Halifax's IWK Health Centre last month, Nova Scotia Premier Rodney MacDonald is promising to prevent health-care workers from …Cavanagh to Tories: ‘there is no strike problem to fix’.Did you know that Health means a condition of optimal well-being: concerned about the ecological health of the area. This is also worth to check out (story here)It's telling when even semi-literate bloggers can see something's WrongMac.
GETTING WHAT YOU PAY FOR
from Ontario
The news site eCanadaNow has a story about the recent tainted toothpaste scandal, which saw antifreeze-laced "Colgate" sold in Metro.
There are believed to be more than 5,000 tubes of counterfeit toothpaste in discount stores across Canada at the moment and the fear is that they will not be noticed and used as regular toothpaste, causing illness.You mean sometimes the "bargains" in dollar stores are too good to be true?100 milli-liter toothpaste tubes with the Colgate brand and made in South Africa were sold in dollar stores last week in Halifax and Guelph, Ontario. These are counterfeit toothpaste and can be noticed thanks to spelling errors as well as the ade in South Africa tag. (story here)
Halifax mentions online are never too good to be true. Please send links here.
