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Nova Scotia
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Dalhousie Fracking Research Deal: Deal or No Deal?
On paper, the agreement sounds like a serious research project. The province says it wants evidence, public engagement, and sound science. But when you read the contract itself, a different picture appears. This is…
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They Carried Long-Term Care Through the Pandemic. Now They’re Forced to Strike.
There is something deeply wrong in Nova Scotia when some 3,000 long-term care workers have to walk a picket line to warn that the sector is in trouble and has been for a long…
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The Real Tribute Is Fewer Deaths, Fewer Injuries
Well, here we are, it’s April 28, the National Day of Mourning. It is a day to remember workers who were killed, injured, or made sick because of their work. But it should also…
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Remembering the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh.
Beyond the Label: Sweatshops, Corporate Lies, and the Real Cost of Cheap Clothes That cheap shirt in the store is not cheap because of magic. It is cheap because someone, somewhere, paid the real…
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Tim Houston Says Safety Comes First. His Long Hours at the Legislature Say Otherwise.
Tim Houston says Nova Scotia will only allow resource extraction if it is safe. That would be easier to believe if he understood that exhaustion is a safety issue. For weeks now, except during…
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Nova Scotians pay twice at the pump. Both levels of government must act now.
Gas prices are up. Diesel is up. Heating oil is up. And workers are the ones paying for it. There is no shortage of oil in Canada. There has been no big jump in…