Wood Street Secure Care rejects appeal saying placements aren’t given enough cultural consideration
Concerns that an Indigenous youth wouldn't have culturally appropriate support defeated.
By Moira Donovan
Tags: City, Wood Street
Develop Nova Scotia's inaccessible information
The former Waterfront Development Corporation requires a FOIPOP for innocuous set of public meeting minutes.
Tags: City, FOIPOP, Freedom of Information, Develop NS
City hall loosens requirements for criminal record checks
Halifax makes changes to workforce regulations as use of the discriminatory practice continues to increase in the private sector.
Tags: City, Justice, Criminal Record Checks
Record of employment
Criminal record checks are an increasingly common part of job hunting, but for former inmates looking to reenter society, they're also a discriminatory barrier to finding employment.
Tags: City, Prison, Justice, Employment, Labour
Refugee mental health care adds insult to injury
Lack of funding and a Kafkaesque bureaucracy makes Canada's refugee counselling painfully inadequate.
Tags: City, Mental Health, Refugees, Syria
Dungeons & Dragons class at MSVU this winter, nearly full already
By Lauren Phillips, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
King's president says funds invested in weapons manufacturers reduced to zero
Alan Syliboy massive retrospective at Dal Art Gallery hosts artist talk next Saturday
Two weeks after being attacked on Argyle Street, this couple is still waiting for answers from the police
By Julie Lawrence