Tag Archives: Nova Scotia

Radio: A grassroots re-imagining of gender-affirming care

Posted on June 21, 2022 by Scott

Riley Nileson-Baker and Felix Vandergrift are part of Gender Affirming Care Nova Scotia, a grassroots, community-based policy process to address issues of gender-affirming care and access to health care for trans, intersex, and gender-diverse people in Nova Scotia. Scott Neigh … Continue reading →

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Radio: Defending the forest in southwest Nova Scotia

Posted on May 3, 2022 by Scott

Nina Newington is a long-time activist and an organizer of the Last Hope Camp, whose participants have been living in tents on the land since December to block the logging of an ecologically important forest in southwest Nova Scotia. Scott … Continue reading →

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Radio — REBROADCAST: Fighting environmental racism in small-town Nova Scotia

Posted on December 28, 2021 by Scott

This is a rebroadcast of an episode of Talking Radical Radio originally broadcast in July 2021. Vanessa Hartley is 21 years old and an eighth generation Black Loyalist descendent. She is the chair of the South End Environmental Injustice Society … Continue reading →

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Radio — Defending a threatened coastal ecosystem

Posted on September 21, 2021 by Scott

Christopher Trider is a landscape architect in Nova Scotia and a former provincial civil servant with experiencing in planning provincial parks. He is also a member of a grassroots group called Save Owls Head Provincial Park, which is doing its … Continue reading →

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Radio — Fighting environmental racism in small-town Nova Scotia

Posted on July 13, 2021 by Scott

Vanessa Hartley is 21 years old and an eighth generation Black Loyalist descendent. She is the chair of the South End Environmental Injustice Society (SEED). And she is a resident of Shelburne, a town of about 1200 people on the … Continue reading →

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Radio — Fighting a proposed gold mine in Nova Scotia

Posted on January 28, 2020 by Scott

Scott Beaver is the president of the St. Mary’s River Association. Chris Hunter is a past president of that organization and he is currently the program director for Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island with the Atlantic Salmon Federation. Scott … Continue reading →

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Radio — Fighting the institutionalization of disabled Nova Scotians

Posted on July 16, 2019 by Scott

Marty Wexler is a social worker and one of the founding members of the Disability Rights Coalition of Nova Scotia, a cross-disability coalition of individuals and organizations. Claire McNeil is a lawyer. She has been involved in a number of … Continue reading →

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