Road to Inclusion 2023 on Twitter
Twitter Hashtags:
Main campaign hashtag
#RoadToInclusion2023
Additional hashtags
#DisabilityRights
#HomesNotWarehouses
#NoMoreWaitlists
Twitter Tags:
These tags will direct your tweets to the leaders of the Nova Scotia political parties in the 2021 provincial election. Search online for your local candidates with a search engine phrase similar to “John Doe on twitter”. Double check the results to ensure you have the right person and not just a similar name by logging in to Twitter and checking the user profile you found, “@JohnDoe” for example.
Party Leaders
NS Conservative Party Leader Tim Houston:
@TimHoustonNS
NS Green Party Leader Jessica Alexander:
@jalexanderns
NS Liberal Party Leader Iain Rankin:
@IainTRankin
NS NDP Party Leader Gary Burrill:
@GaryBurrill
Media Stories for your Twitter & Facebook Posts
As well as sharing the Road to Inclusion report and the Send a Letter campaign page, you can share links to the following media stories with your Twitter and Facebook friends & followers. If you are following any of the NS election parties and candidates you can also share these stories, and your own views, in the Comments area below party and candidate posts. Take part in the conversation on social media!
Here are those links for your ‘copy & paste’ convenience:
Road to Inclusion report: https://www.disabilityrightscoalitionns.ca/road-to-inclusion-by-2023-come-with-us/
Send a Letter campaign: https://www.disabilityrightscoalitionns.ca/send-a-letter-to-the-premier/
Road to Inclusion 2023 Campaign (July-August 2021)
- Chronicle Herald (Andrew Rankin): Disability rights advocate Vicky Levack wins battle for home in the community (August 30, 2021)
- CBC Mainstreet NS: New project shines light on institutionalization of Nova Scotians with intellectual disabilities (August 24, 2021)
- Global News: Rally accuses Nova Scotia of failing to provide community-based living for disabled people (August 13, 2021)
- Chronicle Herald: Disability rights advocates stage rally, remind Nova Scotia of promises (August 13, 2012)
- CBC Information Morning NS: Halifax disability advocate frustrated by how her protest was portrayed by party campaign (August 10, 2021)
- Chronicle Herald (My Home My Rights): Speaking up for disability justice in N.S. (August 10, 2021)
- CBC: Disability rights advocates crash Rankin campaign event (August 9, 2021)
- Blog of Judy Haiven: On the hustings: Rankin does his best to ignore demands of physically disabled in NS (August 9, 2021)
- Halifax Today (CP): N.S. election: parties won’t meet goals of 10-year plan for people with disabilities (August 6, 2021)
- Global News: Disability Rights Coalition wants to see Nova Scotia be more inclusive (July 24, 2021)
- Chronicle Herald (Sheila Wildeman & Kim Pate): Lack of community supports trap disabled in poverty, institutions (July 22, 2021)
- Nova Scotia Advocate (Robert Devet): Government abandoned earlier commitments to community living supports, new report charges (July 20, 2021)
- Halifax Examiner (Jennifer Henderson): Report: Nova Scotia failing to meet its commitment to de-institutionalize people with disabilities (July 20, 2021)
- CBC: Disability rights group bemoans ‘glacial’ progress on community-based care (July 19, 2021)
- CBC Radio (Mainstreet NS with Jeff Douglas): Disability rights group says plan to improve community-based care in N.S. has stalled (July 19, 2021)
