Gayle Collicutt was 17 when she saw her first women’s shelter. “My mother was an alcoholic and I was out of control,” she says, so eventually she was dropped off at Adsum House for Women and Children. The dramatic change in surroundings “was very eye-opening. “I got stolen from a lot,” she says. “I even […]
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Audit needed at community services
The department of community services has failed children in its custody and children of parents reliant on its programs. Something needs to be done. Abdoul Abdi, along with his sister and aunts, should have been welcomed by Nova Scotia with open arms. Instead, shortly after they arrived, Abdi and his sister were placed into the […]
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Rent control idea frozen out, along with Nova Scotian tenants
Rent control could be a step in the right direction for Nova Scotia but some think it won’t be enough to address poverty and housing affordability. The NDP proposed new rent control legislation last month that would see rent increases capped at 0.8 percent for the first year, and become negotiable after that. During Jagmeet […]
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Parker Street Food & Furniture Bank desperately needs school supplies
[Image-1] Feed Nova Scotia isn’t the only charitable organization in dire of donations this summer. A “dramatic increase” in low-income families has the Parker Street Food & Furniture Bank asking HRM businesses and residents for help meeting the demand for school supplies come September. “We’ve seen a dramatic increase in the number of people coming […]
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Low-income bus passes arriving in HRM by September
[Image-1] A new low-income bus pass program could be ready by September, as regional council gives first reading to a new bylaw that also offers free Halifax Transit service to refugees. Council originally asked for a low-income transit pass program in 2014, but it was delayed for over two years due to some bylaw red […]
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Halifax’s other health care infrastructure crisis
[Image-1] Rod Wilson calls the building “our Sea King.” The executive director of the North End Community Health Centre says the centre’s home on Gottingen Street is still flying—like the malfunctioning Canadian helicopters—but at the end of its days. It’s only a matter of time before there’s a crash. Two years ago a major roof […]
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Low-income bus passes long overdue
[Image-1] Terry Wilson relies completely on Halifax Transit to leave his Albro Lake Road home. The 62-year-old walks with a cane due to arthritis and two deteriorating discs in his back. The Department of Community Services used to give him a monthly pass, but he was one of many cut from the program in headline-making […]