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Twyla Nichols in the kitchen at the Spryfield YWCA

Halifax Heroes: A food security champion in Spryfield

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Family poverty rates higher in Indigenous, African-Nova Scotian communities

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Fiona Traynor of Dalhousie Legal Aid Service

'People are suffering': Anti-poverty groups want Community Services overhaul

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The national housing strategy must focus on the homeless

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Dartmouth North Community Food Centre gets a $20,000 grant

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Antoinette Perry delivering PEI's throne speech

Housing, carbon emmissions, poverty targeted in PEI throne speech

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Business Found Forgotten Food puts waste to good use

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What should a national housing strategy include?

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Vincent Calderhead, social justice litigator

Nova Scotia launches welfare review after court ruling

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Daphne Bramham: The welfare challenge isn't the price of food, it's housing

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