After weeks without comment, Nova Scotia’s justice minister has issued a response to the ongoing prisoner protest at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility. In an op-ed sent out Thursday afternoon, Mark Furey says that correctional facilities “can be challenging places to live and work,” but that the province is respecting and protecting the rights […]
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As prisoners protest, is the province listening?
On August 21, the prisoners at the Central Nova provincial jail in Burnside launched a peaceful protest, in solidarity with a nationwide prisoner strike in the United States, to call for basic improvements in health care, rehabilitation, exercise, visits, clothing, food, air quality and library access. The protest is ongoing. East Coast Prison Justice Society […]
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Stockpot Cafe simmers in Burnside
“Basically we’re just three foodies that love to travel and eat and try different food, in the past five years we’ve been across the world,” says Hadi Hafez who opens Stockpot Cafe today in the former location of Burnside lunch favourite, Starfresh Diner (20 Wright Avenue). “We’re Haligonians at heart, we’ve been here 20 or […]
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A Star is born
Ugh, Burnside. If Dartmouth’s industrial park were to have a slogan, it could easily be something along the lines of “Want to feel like a rat in a maze? Come to Burnside!” A labyrinth of streets walled with a series of squat warehouses and industrial-commercial buildings that have all the charm of a knocked-over stack […]
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Where there’s a Goodwill, there’s a way
Just in time for its 80th anniversary of life changing social enterprise work, Goodwill is coming to town. Opening in a 17,000 square foot space in Burnside (202 Brownlow Avenue, Unit 8), Dartmouth’s Goodwill location—the first in this region—will be home to a non-profit Goodies Thrift Store, full of gently used clothing and accessories, an […]