Solidarity Halifax member Phil Homburg wrote this piece last year for the UK based Novara Wire. It serves as a good introduction to the topic of missing and murdered Indigenous women. Over the past few months Canada’s Conservative government has been resisting pressure to call an inquiry into reports of more than 1000 unresolved cases […Read more]
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By Ben Sichel. Originally published at no need to raise your hand Ben is a teacher in Dartmouth and author of the P-12 education section for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Alternative Provincial Budget. A few weeks ago, Halifax journalist Tim Bousquet wrote a brief piece about the history of slavery in Nova Scotia. Bousquet […Read more]
By Ben Sichel. Ben is a teacher in Dartmouth and author of the P-12 education section for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Alternative Provincial Budget. Originally published at no need to raise your hand. It’s Treaty Day in Nova Scotia, a day marking the Peace and Friendship treaties signed in the 1700’s between the […Read more]
By Ben Sichel. Ben is a teacher in Dartmouth and author of the P-12 education section for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Alternative Provincial Budget. Originally published at no need to raise your hand. Many years ago, many people had no qualms about calling themselves “white.” Today, more people seem to be squeamish […Read more]