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VOTE FOR 2017'S SCUMBAG OF THE YEAR
The nominations are in, our readers have looked high and low (mostly very low) to find the most worthy candidates for our Scumbag of the Year award. We have narrowed the field of choices to the 11 scummiest of scumbags picked by our readers. Make sure to vote for your candidate below and share with your family and friends. Voting closes December 30. Happy holidays! Read more!
BOOK REVIEW: POLICING BLACK LIVES
By Daniel Tseghay
Released in September by Fernwood Publishing, Robyn Maynard’s Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present clearly details a long and, arguably, actively forgotten, history. It’s a history of the repression and exploitation of black people in this country – a country whose identity is largely formed by being less racist than that of the United States of America. Read more!
CHURCHILL, MANITOBA'S PRIVATIZATION NIGHTMARE
By James Wilt
It’s a tale of corporate extortion and government negligence that has become all too familiar.
For the past six months, OmniTRAX — one of the largest private rail companies in North America — has been holding the tiny northern Manitoba town of Churchill hostage after unprecedented flooding damaged much of the company’s Hudson Bay Railway. Read more!
#METOO HALIFAX FIREFIGHTER VINDICATED
By Robert Devet
It’s been a long and difficult battle for justice for former HRM firefighter Liane Tessier, but this coming Monday the City of Halifax and Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency will finally issue an apology. As well, Tessier will receive a settlement of an undisclosed amount. Tessier was an ambitious volunteer firefighter who met nothing but pushback and retaliation from the station chief Read more!
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