“#StraightWhitePride Wins Again” The short version of what happened at the Halifax Pride Society’s AGM is that cisgendered straight people organized to vote down motions by LGBTQ+ people, leading to the walkout of most of the BIPOC (Black/Indigenous/People of Colour) community and many members of the Queer and Trans community. Because Pride bylaws allow anybody […]
SWATting on steroids: Morning File, Thursday, September 22, 2016
News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. SWATting Yesterday at about 8am, police responded to a bomb threat made via a fax to Nova Scotia Community College’s north end Halifax campus, and the school was soon evacuated. At roughly the same time, fax-sent threats were made to NSCC’s Sydney and Annapolis Valley campuses, […]