There are more people in Halifax without housing than ever before, and the municipality would need thousands of new apartments to fix the problem. A new point-in-time count, conducted by the Navigator Street Outreach Program, found that on April 7, there were 586 people in the municipality without a safe, permanent home. “There’s so many […]
Report: living wage in Halifax now $22.05/hour
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Nova Scotia office says the most expensive items in each region are shelter, food, and child care.
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternative released its latest report on living wages in Nova Scotia this morning. This year, CCPA-NS includes new living wage calculations for five economic regions: Annapolis valley (Annapolis, Kings, and Hants counties); Cape Breton (Cape Breton, Inverness, Richmond and Victoria counties); Halifax (Halifax County); Northern (Antigonish, Colchester, Cumberland, Guysborough, and […]
Bridging the digital divide: “I know more than 100 people who don’t have a phone”
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Even at the best of times, Canada’s so-called ‘digital divide’ prevents millions of people from easily accessing the information they seek. But amid the situation created by COVID-19, advocates and service providers in Halifax say those without access to internet and phone services have lost […]
Just when we need local reporting the most, local media outlets are scaling down operations
Morning File, Wednesday, March 25, 2020
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. News 1. Draconian cuts at SaltWire This item is written by Tim Bousquet. Yesterday, Mark Lever, president of SaltWire, announced that in response to the economic fallout from COVID-19, the company is making huge, draconian cuts: Please know these decisions deeply impact our SaltWire family. This is not […]
It’s Living Wage Week!
Morning File, Wednesday, November 6, 2019
November subscription drive Phil Moscovitch and I worked on some of the same publications for years. We only met in person earlier this year, around the time I started regularly contributing to Morning File. Moscovitch is a full-time freelancer and he’s often traveling, meeting and learning about people and telling us all about them. I […]