At a holiday party Wednesday in Halifax for Liberal MLAs, staff and supporters, Nova Scotia Liberal Party Leader Iain Rankin kicked off what amounted to a campaign to keep his job.
NDP Leader Gary Burrill once again highlighted the plight of someone whose rent is set to skyrocket, while Tory Leader Tim Houston and Liberal Leader Iain Rankin were talking health care.
My world has been largely absent from this election. There are few, if any candidates, with visible disabilities and few promises around improving accessibility and community housing for Nova Scotians with disabilities, Jen Powley writes.
While candidates and parties are busy asking for votes during this summer’s campaign, many Nova Scotians are asking, in return, for solutions to the waning affordability of housing. The issue takes up some space in every major party platform, but the ideas vary as much as the colour of houses in Nova Scotia.