{"id":61587,"date":"2026-01-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=61587"},"modified":"2026-01-11T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T13:00:00","slug":"n-s-ndp-houston-must-take-action-to-address-environmental-racism-in-nova-scotia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=61587","title":{"rendered":"N.S. NDP: Houston must take action to address environmental racism in Nova Scotia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56509&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HALIFAX<\/strong>: Suzy Hansen, Official Opposition Critic for African Nova Scotian Affairs, made the following statement Jan. 7 in response to recent media reports about Amnesty International joining calls for action on environmental racism in Nova Scotia:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBlack Nova Scotian communities have been raising the alarm about environmental racism for decades, and they shouldn\u2019t have to rely on international organizations to be heard by the Houston government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of doing the right thing to help those harmed by decades of inaction, this government sat on the environmental racism report until it was leaked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56376&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Now, they won\u2019t commit to a single recommendation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This isn\u2019t leadership \u2013 it\u2019s passing the buck.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Every Nova Scotian deserves access to clean drinking water and safe land, yet the Houston government is leaving Black and Indigenous communities to shoulder this burden on their own. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s time for this government to stop delaying and act now to ensure every Nova Scotian can live safely in their own communities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56501&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALIFAX: Suzy Hansen, Official Opposition Critic for African Nova Scotian Affairs, made the following statement Jan. 7 in response to recent media reports about Amnesty International joining calls for action on environmental racism in Nova Scotia: \u201cBlack Nova Scotian communities have been raising the alarm about environmental racism for decades, and they shouldn\u2019t have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[10070,1378,2517,7322],"class_list":["post-61587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-environmental-racism","tag-n-s-ndp","tag-premier-tim-houston","tag-suzy-hansen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}