News 1. Mi’kmaq seat “A Nova Scotia senator says the time may be right to re-examine the establishment of a Mi’kmaq seat in the provincial legislature — and the premier says his government is open to it too,” reports Keith Doucette for the Canadian Press: Dan Christmas, a Mi’kmaq who was appointed to Ottawa’s upper chamber as […]
Language training abruptly dropped by school board picked up by ISANS
Last month, the Halifax Regional School Board sent layoff notices to instructors of 200 adult immigrant and refugee students studying English as an Additional Language at the Forsyth Centre in Dartmouth. Those students will be picked up by the Immigrant Settlement Association of Nova Scotia, but ISANS is scrambling to find space for them. Meanwhile, no one is sure who will provide language training for 180 other immigrant and refugee students in rural Nova Scotia.
“We are not happy that our school is closing March 31. We don’t want that to happen. We want our school to stay open. Our school is like a family to us. Please change your decision.” That petition was signed and delivered to federal and provincial politicians last month by 200 adult immigrant and refugee...
School board to close Dartmouth and Bedford classrooms for refugees and immigrants learning English
Nearly 200 adult immigrant students are taking a democratic action that many people born in this country never have. They’ve have signed petitions addressed to local Liberal Members of Parliament, Nova Scotia Immigration Minister Lena Diab, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau begging for their help in keeping an English language program going in its present...