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Out in the Cold, Part 4: Union busting
Final part of a twelve-month investigation: records reveal additional organizations party to the takeover of Out of the Cold shelters as the Nova Scotia government played favourites with service providers. Meanwhile, worker paranoia about surveillance by security guards proves true.
Out in the Cold, Part 3: Atlantic Community Shelters Society handed $12.9 million by Province in its first year
Upon taking control of the former Out of the Cold shelters, Atlantic Community Shelters Society got a 72% bump in provincial funding to the facilities. The agency had so much surplus cash in its first year, it transferred more than $1 million to its sister agency, Quest Society.
Out in the Cold, Part 2: Shelter staff "treated like criminals" by politically motivated police
Out of the Cold staff were criminalized while running low-barrier shelters in Halifax, until they were terminated. This hit a crescendo as Halifax police were 'alerted' to union organizing – by the agency getting their contracts. Why and how did police help dismantle Out of the Cold?
Out in the Cold, Part 1: Surveillance, smearing and shutdown of a harm-reduction shelter
Part 1 of an 11-month investigation: The dismantling of Halifax-based Out of the Cold Community Association followed the Nova Scotia government's coordinated criminalization of the organization and its staff – including the country's earliest documented use of the SCAN Act to surveil a nonprofit.