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…
On April 18, 2020 when Nova Scotians were already reeling with COVID-19 lockdown measures they were hit again with something even deadlier: the worst mass…
On February 23, 2021, workers at Bryony House were in a legal position to take strike action. There were two outstanding issues at the bargaining…
Today, April 1, the Nova Scotia Government raised the minimum wage by 40 cents to $12.95 per hour. Although this is one of the largest…
About 200 people gathered at the Peace & Friendship Park in Kjipuktuk/Halifax on Sunday afternoon for the first annual Kjipuktuk March for Missing and Murdered…
Nina Newington lives on a small farm in Nova Scotia. She is a writer, a carpenter, and designs gardens. She hails from England, but has…
Content Warning: Racism, Racist Remarks, Colonial Violence I want to start off by saying that I myself am a white settler. I have had the…
