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"Reduced to a pile of ashes" 15 May 2013 | 02:18 am
Yesterday Rene Ross, executive director of Stepping Stone, a non-profit organization that supports sex-trade workers in Halifax, announced she was leaving the organization due to funding shortages...
Business journalists go on the attack; demonize Atlantic seasonal workers 14 May 2013 | 09:34 pm
By Nick Fillmore National business journalists and columnists have bought into Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s demeaning view that folks in the Atlantic region are backward and have a defeatist atti...
Ross steps back from Stepping Stone 14 May 2013 | 05:56 am
Lack of funding leads to loss of executive director Stepping Stone has lost its rock. Yesterday afternoon, Rene Ross announced she was no longer working as executiv...
Nova Scotia Union Fights Water Privatization In Colombia 13 May 2013 | 01:00 am
CUPE Nova Scotia supports local union to keep water a public good Margarita Lopez, a union leader who is fighting ongoing efforts to privatize the public water system in Colombia...
Book Review: America's Deadliest Export - Democracy 12 May 2013 | 10:54 pm
America's Deadliest Export - Democracy By William Blum 270 pages Alright, let's get this straight. William Blum is one bad-assed, living, breathing, encyclopedia of US military and clandestine i...
Recently dismissed baristas receive $11,000 at NSGEU biennial convention 10 May 2013 | 10:38 pm
Inter-union and inter-worker support resounds across Nova Scotia in Just Us! union drive K'jipuktuk (Halifax) – Workers and locals at the Nova Scotia General Employees Union's (NSGEU...
Just Us! baristas file complaint alleging lack of breaks 10 May 2013 | 04:37 pm
Management says complaint is union pressure tactic Three baristas at Just Us! Spring Garden Road are alleging the coffee co-op failed to give them breaks. “It has, since the beginn...
Halifax fasts for Gitmo detainees 8 May 2013 | 04:24 pm
Members of Halifax Peace Coalition fasts in solidarity with indefinite detainees. K'jipuktuk (Halifax) - As the vast majority of prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay are curren...
Activists Express Doubts on Affordable Housing Strategy 8 May 2013 | 02:54 pm
On Monday May 6th Denise Peterson-Rafuse, minister of Community Services, together with Premier Darrell Dexter and with six local MLA's also in attendance, released the Nova Scotia housing strategy at...
Ninth Annual Fetish Ball aims to please - Raises funds for The Ark youth drop-in centre 6 May 2013 | 07:13 pm
By Jen Stotland Spring was in the air, and the warmer temperatures lent themselves to a fantastical array of corsets, steampunk glory and skimpy leather things. The ninth annual Halifax Fetish Ball ...
