Hillary Lindsay

The Hoax Hook

Hillary — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:01:42 +0000

Tricking the corporate media into covering the real news

"You can tell the truth all you want, you can have lots of facts, and the media will still ignore you," says Andy Bichlbaum.

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Mental Health, Worker Health, Community Health

Miles Howe — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 01:33:28 +0000

An interview with Kelly Murphy on recent cuts at the IWK

Halifax - "It's moving backwards," says Kelly Murphy of the recent decision to cut 22 of 83 youth care workers from the IWK Health Centre’s mental health and addictions programs. "We need to increase funding and support.

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Nova Scotia in Review: January

bsichel — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:03:32 +0000

The Halifax Media Co-op's Review of underreported news from December

HRM city council was hit with a $21-million bill - $11-million over budget – for construction of an overpass linking Bayers Lake’s Big Box stores to Clayton Park.

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Shaming the Flame in Halifax

Editor — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:11:57 +0000

Torch relay not welcomed by protesters

The Olympic torch arrived in Halifax today and at least some of the city's residents did not give it a warm welcome.

As the flame passed the corner of Agricola and North St, protesters held a banner expressing solidarity with opposition to the Olympics in British Colombia.

"Politicans appeal to our love of sport to promote the Olympics," says Laura Merdsoy, one of the protesters. "But the Olympics are really about profit-making for corporate sponsors and big business."

The Games are costing billions of dollars, points out protester Jane Kirby, "That money should be spent on housing, for example." Instead, says Kirby, "People living in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside are losing their homes due to gentrification related to the Olympics."

The group handed out flyers that explained their opposition to the Games: "Corporate sponsors who finance the Olympic spectable profit at the expense of working people, Native communities, and the poor and homeless of the lower-mainland of British Colombia (Coast Salish Territory)." The flyer points out that most of BC remains un-ceded and non-surrendered Native territory.

"Protesters chanted, "Homes Not Games" and "No Olympics on Stolen Native Land" as the torch went by.