Remain Calm and Keep Eating
Cooke Aquaculture gets provincial millions in expansion money. But do you want what they're selling? K'jipuktuk (Halifax) - On June 21st, the provincial government of Nova Scotia announced that Cooke...
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As provincial government hands out millions to bottom-fouling industry, feds gut Fisheries Act. K'jipuktuk (Halifax) – On June 21st, in response to the announcement that the province of Nova Scotia...
View ArticleWhat's In a Drum?
Not just a beat, but the heartbeat of Mother Earth. K'jipuktuk (Halifax) - I had the good fortune of meeting Al Carter, drum maker, at "Experience Native Culture and Traditions" ceremonies at Victoria...
View ArticleRally to Save Kitpu - July 12, 2012
K'jipuktuk (Halifax) - About 150 people gathered on the evening of July 12 to protest against the federal government's decision to freeze funding to the Cultural Connections for Aboriginal Youth...
View ArticleFish Tales
Aquaculture Association of Nova Scotia can explain away all your farmed salmon concerns K'jipuktuk (Halifax) - The Aquaculture Association of Nova Scotia (AANS) represents a mixed bag of smaller-time...
View ArticleEmera Busted in the Bahamas
Audit suggests endemic mismanagement at all levels of Grand Bahama Power Company A damning July 9 audit report prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Bahamas, on behalf of the Grand Bahamas Port...
View ArticleThe Ground Beneath Our Feet
Despite lack of grave markers, complete map, St. Paul's cemetery in Dartmouth is not for the dogs DARTMOUTH, NS - A small party stands gathered at the northwest corner of St. Paul's cemetery, staring...
View Article"You Don't Treat People Like Animals, Especially When You Come Into a Foreign...
CEWU president fears that Emera will kill the union in Grand Bahama by November 2012 FREEPORT, GRAND BAHAMA – The Commonwealth Electrical Workers Union (CEWU), representing an ever-dwindling...
View ArticleHurricane Emera
Industrial exodus, hotels half full, Grand Bahamians with power bills the size of mortgages. Something's wrong here Freeport, Grand Bahama - Walking the streets of Grand Bahama, and especially after...
View ArticleLights Out
Businesspeople left feeling powerless in Grand Bahama Freeport, Grand Bahama – Over-reliance on the tourist trade, and the fickleness in tastes that that entails, is not necessarily the recipe for a...
View ArticleCan't We Grow Hemp Instead?
Port Hawkesbury's ghost town status gets another extension, Pacific West makes off with the public coffers, and things aren't really clear cut (K'jipuktuk) Halifax – Single-resource towns, such as...
View ArticleTreasure Island
Like the pirates and rum runners of old, Emera may be using the island of Grand Bahama as a staging ground for larger raids FREEPORT (GRAND BAHAMA)—Just as Nova Scotians are now bearing witness to the...
View ArticleRebuilding the Wabanaki Confederacy
Non-Indigenous participate in Confederacy Gathering for first time in centuries. St. Mary's First Nation, Unceded Wabanaki Territory (New Brunswick) – On Sept. 1 and 2, for the first time in several...
View ArticleLabour Day Photo Spread
K'jipuktuk (Halifax) - Buoyed on by temperatures fitting an endless weekend, encouraged by the smell of b-b-q and tantalized by the sounds of Joe Murphy and the Water Street Blues Band, Haligonians...
View Article119 Days and Counting
John Mason, Jennifer Watts and John Thibeau speak on HRM council and NSUPE Local 22's strike K'jipuktuk (Halifax) - Consider the situation of the members of the Nova Scotia Union of Public and Private...
View ArticleHalifax Contingent Heads to Unama'ki to Join Anti-Drilling Partial Blockade
Fear of fracking spurs on growing movement to protect Lake Ainslie K'JIPUKTUK (Halifax) - A small but musical group headed out of Halifax this afternoon to join the ongoing partial blockade of the...
View ArticleJesus Christ, Activist
Linda Scherzinger on United Church's decision to boycott Israeli settlement goods, and what JC would do. K'jipuktuk (Halifax) — It has been a generation since the United Church has come out...
View ArticleHalifax Stands with Kim Rivera
Petition demands that war resister, mother of four, be allowed to stay K'jipuktuk (Halifax) – On the eve of Kimberly Rivera's deportation to the United States, 10 members of the Halifax Peace...
View ArticleAnti-Fracking Protest in Nova Scotia Draws Hundreds, Shuts Down Highway
Auld's Cove, Nova Scotia – Upwards of 200 people, coming from all corners of Nova Scotia, responded to the imminent threat of exploratory oil and gas drilling on the shores of Lake Ainslie, and on...
View ArticleHalifax-Dartmouth District Labour Council Endorsement for Municipal Election...
Plan for fair wages, how to address sexism and racism, among HDDLC survey questions posed to candidates K'jipuktuk (Halifax) - The Halifax-Dartmouth & District Labour Council (HDDLC) today...
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