![]() However, we do wish him good luck in the election. As such, our withdrawal is not an endorsement of Lindell Smith’s candidacy. ![]() That’s all good, but the statement continues:Īs part of our political process in preparing for municipal intervention, we made a decision not to endorse any candidates not running for Solidarity Halifax. However, we could not reconcile our campaign’s continuation with our anti-racist organizing principles. We are proud of the program we developed and are grateful to have recruited an excellent candidate in Evan Coole. Ultimately, Solidarity Halifax made the decision to withdraw our candidate from District 8. We had many conversations on the issue, both internally and with our allies in the African Nova Scotian community. We carefully deliberated whether to continue our candidacy. Solidarity Halifax recognized the historic significance of Lindell Smith’s candidacy, and the potential for his campaign to highlight issues important to African Nova Scotians in the North End. Ongoing racism and unofficial segregation manifests itself in many ways, including an absence of any representation on Halifax city council. Nova Scotia is often called the “Mississippi of the North.” African Nova Scotian history is replete with both brutal oppression and brilliant resistance. Smith is a progressive emerging leader in the African Nova Scotian community. Solidarity Halifax then learned of Lindell Smith’s candidacy for District 8 just before our campaign launch in early December. After nominating Coole, the statement explains: Solidarity Halifax, “a membership-based, pluralist, non-sectarian, democratic, anti-capitalist organization in Halifax,” has issued a statement saying Evan Coole, its announced candidate in the upcoming city election for District 8 (Halifax Peninsula North), is withdrawing from the race. The amended or new legislation will be “more nuanced, more special to individual cases,” Whalen promised. Longtime critics of the Incompetent Persons Act, under which people deemed incompetent can end up bereft of any decision-making powers over their own lives, lined up behind Webb, calling for a complete repeal or revision of the act.įaced with mounting calls for changes, Whalen announced she would conduct the review with the aim of either completely repealing or extensively amending the act. Perhaps most importantly, many legal scholars were already on his side. “We’re letting the public know today that we don’t intend to oppose this and that we are going to make amendments that, again, respect the rights of people with intellectual disability and that modernize and reflect society’s changing values and understanding,” provincial Justice Minister Diana Whalen told a news conference on Tuesday. “The province will not stand in the way of Landon Webb’s court challenge to guardianship under the much-criticized Incompetent Persons Act, and a new or amended act will be in place by spring 2017,” reports Mary Ellen MacIntyre in Local Xpress: ![]() In a related article, “ People are living too long in nursing homes,” Henderson analyzes the province’s move to reduce nursing home costs by bulking up the Home Care system.īoth articles are behind the Examiner’s paywall and so available only to paid subscribers. In fact, Nova Scotia has failed to meet its own standards since at least 2007, when the auditor general called attention to the matter.Ĭlick here to read “Nova Scotia still failing to meet nursing home standards.” Nova Scotia health officials promise they’re not following New Brunswick’s lead, but as Henderson reports, neither are they living up to existing provincial staffing requirements. “The decision set off alarm bells for nursing home operators in New Brunswick and has the nurses’ union in Nova Scotia concerned similar cuts might happen here.” “Earlier this month, immediately following its budget, the New Brunswick government notified nursing homes that financial pressures dictate they must reduce the number of licensed nurses on staff,” reports former CBC reporter Jennifer Henderson, who is now freelancing with the Halifax Examiner.
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