“The federal New Democrats want a price cap on grocery store staples if the Liberal government can't convince grocers to bring down the prices themselves.”
Yes! But more of it in other areas, and don’t wait for the Liberal plan to fail first. Also, break-up food monopolies.
#cdnpoli #foodprices #foodsecurity #loblaws #sobeys
https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/bread-milk-apples-federal-ndp-wants-price-cap-for-grocery-store-staples/article_f0cc9e41-ed52-51c7-9e4a-c8f402cdb798.html

"I do think that there is a risk that this type of alternative financing model is speeding up some of the consolidation that we see in agriculture and, as those farms get bigger and fewer, that emptying out of the countryside that has been a longstanding trend will continue."
#cdnpoli #cdnag #farmland #investment #foodsecurity #foodsovereignty #landgrabs
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/ontario-farmland-real-estate-investment-1.7218435

About 60 people attended the South Shore Ceasefire rally today in Sin So'sepe'katik-Bridgewater, Mi’kma’ki-Nova Scotia. Demonstrators marched up and down King Street and stopped at MP Rick Perkins’ office to call on the Government of Canada demand a complete ceasefire and liberation of Palestine. The rally was inturrupted by a conspiracy theorist shouting and shoving people. Protestors remained peaceful and steadfast. #cdnpoli #nspoli #southshore #bridgewater #lunenburg #ceasefirenow #gaza

“The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans is investigating after lobster traps belonging to an Eskasoni fisherman appeared to be deliberately damaged last week near Louisbourg, N.S.”
#mikmaki #nspoli #novascotia #lobster #fisheries
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/mi-kmaw-traps-cut-in-moderate-livelihood-fishery-1.7221333

“Indigenous fishers taking part in officially sanctioned moderate livelihood fisheries have reported tampering in two fishing areas, as have non-Indigenous commercial fishers.”
#nspoli #mikmaki #lobster #treatyrights
https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/fisheries-department-issues-warnings-about-lobster-trap-tampering-in-nova-scotia/article_0f954ca6-475d-56e8-a093-459a484ea54d.html

A new chapter in the ecological destruction of the South Shore begins.
“Paper Excellence officials will begin a feasibility study, which could take up to nine months, examining whether it is financially viable to build a new bleach kraft pulp mill in the Liverpool area.”
#nspoli #southshore #northernpulp
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/northern-pulp-paper-excellence-mill-tim-houston-liverpool-1.7220719

“Three interconnected lakes behind the town of Bridgewater, N.S., are the only place on earth where this ancient relative of Atlantic salmon still survives in the wild.”
#nspoli #fisheries #atlanticwhitefish #southshore #lunenburg #novascotia
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/captive-breeding-program-for-atlantic-whitefish-1.7218388

My Ph.D thesis is now public!

The Long Grab: Dispossession in Southeastern Kitchi Sipi Valley, from Colonization to Financialization
#cdnpoli #landgrab #farmland #settlercolonialism #financialization
https://ruor.uottawa.ca/items/96699d9f-c27f-4b74-9b1b-7238bcbe55f1

“student reporters Lois Corbett and Naa Dei Nikoi wrote that Dal has become “the second university in Canada to commit to completely divest its holdings in corporations that have economic interests in [apartheid] South Africa.”
#cdnpoli #nspoli #novascotia #divest #gazagenocide #campusprotests
https://www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion/dalhousie-has-divested-before-nearly-40-years-ago-32941192

“Nearly two-thirds of the explanations for price changes given are not backed by evidence. Arguments about the causes of food inflation are frequently incomplete, neglecting to connect the dots between cause and effect.”
#cdnpoli #nspoli #foodsecurity #foodprices #loblawsboycott #sobeys #metro
https://theconversation.com/why-are-grocery-bills-so-high-a-new-study-looks-at-the-science-behind-food-price-reporting-230086

“The Maritime provinces earned poor grades for 2023: an F for Nova Scotia, a D- in New Brunswick and a D+ for Prince Edward Island.”
#nspoli #novascotia #newbrunswick #pei #maritimes #foodsecurity
https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/more/maritime-provinces-get-low-grades-on-food-banks-canada-s-poverty-report-cards-1.6896691

Canada, in March, passed a motion in parliament making tepid and uncertain commitment to recognize a Palestinian state. Now is the time for Canada to make good on that intention and follow the example of Norway, Ireland, and Spain by formally recognizing a Palestinian state.
#cdnpoli #canada #gazageocide #freepalestine
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/palestinian-state-ireland-norway-spain-1.7210856

“On May 13, 2024, one of Canada's industrial and financial elite, Arthur 'Art' Irving, passed away. Mainstream media was flooded with obituaries, but none dared paint him as he truly was;​​​​​​​ the feudal lord of the Maritime provinces.”
#cdnpoli #nspoli #novascotia #newbrunswick #maritimes #irving #oligarchs
https://thenorthstar.media/arthur-irvings-death-reminds-us-of-his-legacy-of-exploitation-and-deceit/

“cooperatives can and should complement the Left’s other strategic efforts, as the Second International recognized long ago.”
#cdnpoli #socialism #cooperatives
https://jacobin.com/2024/05/cooperatives-dsa-left-strategy-solidarity

“A coalition of Canadian advocacy groups and labour unions has launched a new campaign renewing demands for a “full, immediate arms embargo on Israel,” including on Canadian military goods and technology that are shipped to Israel via the United States.”
#cdnpoli #canlab #armsembargo #israel #gaza #genocide
https://www.readthemaple.com/coalition-renews-calls-for-full-israel-arms-embargo/

“university's lawyers argued that the encampment was unsafe, posing a risk of escalating tensions on campus and preventing McGill from holding its convocation ceremonies at its usual outdoor location. But St-Pierre dismissed those arguments. He said no serious or violent incident had occurred at the encampment since it was established on April 27, and even a confrontation with counter-protesters was peaceful.”
#cdnpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mcgill-injunction-request-1.7203666

“As title holders to the land, the Kanien’kehá:ka peoples must constantly remind entities like McGill University, that they have built their institutions upon our unceded homelands and that as rights holders, we have the authority over our lands.”
#cdnpoli #qcpoli #kanienkehaka #mcgill #studentprotest #gaza #genocide
https://ricochet.media/indigenous/student-encampments-for-gaza-are-welcome-on-indigenous-land/

“A group of Nova Scotia Jewish professors, part of the Jewish Faculty Network, say they support the encampment and oppose any potential police intervention to remove it. The group said in a Sunday evening press release they also urge Halifax universities to treat the encampment as an educational event.”
#cdnpoli #nspoli #campusprotests #DalhousieU #gaza #genocide
https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/pro-palestinian-encampment-set-up-at-halifax-s-dalhousie-university-1.6884558

“Students unite in shared call for liberation of Palestine”
#cdnpoli #nspoli #campusintifada #halifax #gaza #genocide #palestine
https://www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion/breaking-four-universities-in-halifax-release-call-to-school-administrators-divest-and-disclose-funding-ties-to-israel-32840749

“The families and CEOs behind Canada’s largest grocery retailers have donated more than $150,000 to the Liberal and Conservative Party over the last two decades, data from Elections Canada shows.”
#cdnpoli #nspoli #foodsecurity #greedflation #elxn45 #oligarchs #monopolies #loblaws #sobeys
https://breachmedia.ca/grocery-giants-paid-for-friendly-liberal-tory-policy-with-decades-of-donations/