Women are marching again. It’s been a year since people gathered in Washington and cities around the world to advocate for issues such as women’s rights, racial equality, LGTBQ+ rights and reproductive justice. The rally was catalyzed by the election of the Trump administration and the hateful rhetoric being spread by many of its supporters. […]
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Upcoming rally will tackle key issues faced by women in Nova Scotia
“We’re not going anywhere,” says Jackie Barkhouse. In January of this year, the Women’s March on Washington garnered support around the world—including a sister protest in Halifax. Barkhouse was one of the organizers and, since then, she’s helped continue the movement. The local protest was followed up in May by Nova Scotia Women Vote, an […]
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The time is now for a guaranteed annual income
No one is happy with the current set of supports available to people living in poverty. We tend to blame people for their problems, despite the growing consensus that health is a combination of things—including income—that are largely outside the person. We need to acknowledge that it is a community responsibility to guarantee each person […]
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No sugar-coating NS election results
In the aftermath of the May 30 election, Nova Scotia NDP leader Gary Burrill claimed that the NDP’s “trajectory of difficulty has been reversed,” the glass is “way more full than empty” and “we have won, because only the NDP has opened up a door to hope.” Yet the NDP received its fewest votes since […]
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After a day of confusion, students are going back to school
After a Monday away from the classroom, Nova Scotian students are allowed to go back to school starting Tuesday. The decision was announced by Education minister Karen Casey on Monday afternoon during the second legislative meeting of the day. Premier Stephen McNeil had called for an emergency legislative assembly on Monday morning to quickly pass […]
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Accessibility Act amended following criticism
The province is amending its Accessibility Act after receiving criticism from advocates and Nova Scotians with disabilities. The legislation is supposed to fulfill a promise made by the Liberal government “ensuring that all Nova Scotians have the ability to participate fully in their communities.” But when the act was brought forward, some people in the […]
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Friday’s 6 things you need to know
1 This afternoon, former residents of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children and premier Stephen McNeil will be releasing the terms for the restorative inquiry looking into 70 years of horrific psychological, physical and sexual abuse at the publicly-funded Dartmouth orphanage. The inquiry is part of the $34 million settlement for over 300 former […]
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Rodney MacDonald’s scrummy politics
Scrums—those huddles of microphone-thrusting reporters that you see on the news every night knotted like a rat-king around politicians or other high-profile news-makers—are all about control. When Rodney MacDonald’s gang of election-prepping Tories decided January 29 to shift weekly cabinet scrums from a hallway into the legislature’s shiny new media room—where they stuck the premier […]