Workers at Halifax Public Libraries (HPL) have been on strike since August 26. Librarians, library technicians/assistants, and administrative, technical and maintenance staff at HPL, represented…
After a months-long fight with their employer, workers at Java Blend announced last month that they have been successful in their bid to form a…
August 18, 2021, has become synonymous with the willingness and ability of the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) to mobilize large-scale, violent evictions of houseless encampments….
Pete’s workers show us the power we have as workers to take on the boss and win.
Wildfires are burning in several areas of Nova Scotia. A fire near the Halifax-area suburbs of Tantallon, Hammonds Plains, and the historic African Nova Scotian…
The politics of housing is a struggle between the rich and the rest of us
The housing crisis in the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) has gotten significantly worse throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the latest Rental Market Report from…
Two years into the pandemic – with all the risks of unsafe work conditions, lost pay, and job precarity continuing to fall disproportionately on low-income…
The Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre (MNFC) homeless shelter in Halifax will be closing its doors at the end of December according to Pam Glode Desrochers,…
Yesterday in the Nova Scotia legislature the newly-elected Progressive Conservative Premier Tim Houston stated that he will not raise the minimum wage to $15 an…
The Halifax Regional Police’s violent eviction of encampments takes place amidst a housing crisis. The newly elected premier is pro-landlord and pro-developer. The actions of the HRM and the HRP on Wednesday offer a glimpse of what many more people could face.
Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin, a now independent MLA, has become the voice of the reactionary right in Nova Scotia and she is using this platform to whip…
