Rana Encol

Jim Maloney: “I was the product of environmental racism”

Rana Encol — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 02:52:42 +0000

Panel examines neglect of Aboriginal, African Nova Scotian and poor white communities

Jim Maloney is the District War Chief for the Shubenacadie District and a leader of the Sipekne’katik First Nation-led movement in opposition to the Alton Gas caverns project. Traditionally, Mi'kmaq territory was and is split into districts which run as far west as the Gaspé peninsula and south into Maine.

Lindell Smith campaign launch a success

Rana Encol — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 23:19:35 +0000

The Mi’kmaq honour song filled the air as people from all walks of life – and all corners of Halifax – convened at the Halifax North Memorial Public library to help Lindell Smith launch his campaign for City Councilor last Thursday.

Smith, 26, is running for Halifax District 8 in the upcoming October election.

District 8 is where the party is at!

Girls, Girls, Girls!

Robert DeVet — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 20:42:22 +0000

Not your garden variety revenge play

KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) -- This week, Halifax has the opportunity to see a very special play staged in a green lot behind the Bus Stop Theatre.

No special diet for Income Assistance recipient

Robert DeVet — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 14:52:52 +0000

HMC contributor Kendall Worth fights decision all the way to the Nova Scotia Supreme Court

Shining Lights Choir and friends go fishing

Rana Encol — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 18:21:13 +0000

Metro Non-Profit Housing support centre takes a day trip to the lake

Sometimes you just need to get out of town.

Restorative justice and forgiveness

Rana Encol — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:24:21 +0000

New Zealand expert shares stories at public lecture

“To err is human, to forgive divine”

– Alexander Pope

Homes for people with intellectual disabilities: Barbie's story

Rana Encol — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 20:07:48 +0000

Parents of 30-year-old say she was neglected in a Cape Breton home

Life’s been tough for Barbara “Barbie” Louise since she was evicted from the Chemoi Group Home in Cheticamp, Cape Breton, in 2010. Now living at home, a caregiver visits her three times a week, totalling 10 hours for the week.

Full buck moon in Elsipogtog

Rana Encol — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 20:59:49 +0000

Looking back on the civil unrest that affected a reserve, one year later

It was a July evening in Elsipogtog, and while our fearless reporter

For 16-year-old BenG, the sky is the limit

Rana Encol — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 20:15:50 +0000

New hip-hop from Halifax

A year and a half ago, a friend introduced then 15-year-old Ben Castrilli, aka BenG, to Centreline Studio on Gottingen Street, where he wrote his first rap song for fun.

R.A.W. Cypher brings freestyle parties to North End Halifax

Rana Encol — Sun, 11 May 2014 21:01:20 +0000

Local hip hop talent gathers on Gottingen Street

Martez Wiggins, a.k.a. Woozy Blanks, is setting up his second cypher night when hot pink lights flood the Alteregos cafe on Gottingen Street. DJ Hot Cue is behind a laptop and mixer where guests usually check in to the adjacent hostel.

Aboriginal children in foster care

Rana Encol — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 18:12:36 +0000

"The ongoing legacy of residential schools"

Roslyn Chambers was a mature student taking an intensive class on residential school survivors when she met students who had never heard about this dark legacy of colonial Canadian history.

Black inmates' needs not being met in prisons

Rana Encol — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 15:28:43 +0000

Incarceration rates of black Canadians are increasing; appropriate services are not

“[Correctional officers] ... look right through me and say nothing. They just look right through me like I am not standing right in front of them.”

Just Us! Coffeehouse baristas ratify first collective agreement

Robert DeVet — Sat, 21 Dec 2013 00:17:56 +0000

Union calls it a victory for everyone in the service industry

Just Us! Coffeehouse baristas at the Spring Garden Road location ratified their first collective agreement last night, according to Sebastien Labelle, SEIU Local 2 representative.

Bridging the digital divide

Rana Encol — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 23:26:11 +0000

National campaign asks for cheaper high-speed internet and subsidized computers for low and moderate-income households

Cindy Gering has lived without a computer for three months.

Tenants' rights group calls for rent control

Rana Encol — Sat, 28 Sep 2013 16:36:34 +0000

The Nova Scotia chapter of ACORN, a national organization of low and moderate-income families, is asking for the reinstatement of rent control in Nova Scotia.

At a town hall held at the Halifax North Memorial Public Library on Thursday, organizers asked tenants to make it an election issue.