In a province with a relatively low crime rate (outside of the violence when the bars close in Halifax) what else could the $165,000 they will spend on drones be used for?
Here's my list, I hope you will add to it in the comments!
- One time funding to allow E-Fry to hire an ED, or fundraiser, so that they can keep providing services to very vulnerable, marginalized women;
- Fund the start up of a worker's action centre; especially to assist temporary foreign workers and those without unions.
- Increase daycare subsidy for a couple of public/non-profit daycares;
- Send some unemployed/precarious workers to school/training;
- Pay for an office and phone for a year and two people to be a commission into the home for coloured children;
- Fund a bunch of community festivals or fund their ability to do some advertising to get more people to drop some bucks in small towns all over NS;
- Provide recreation facilities (sports or music) or expertise for some area in rural NS;
- Fund over 600 kids to be able to attend sports, go swimming, or buy equipment;
- Go ahead and buy the drones but give them to four volunteer search and rescue groups -- having that single piece of technology might help them find someone lost in the woods. With four you can put one in each part of the province, and train an operator.
- Fund a social enterprise start up for a charity that is struggling or wants to expand --
- Provide free university tuition for over 20 students from the poorest families.
- Fund the Atlantic Powershift 2014!
- Fund some "people's press - like the Media Co-op!
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