Deafness Advocacy Association Nova Scotia and Linda Quigley

Linda Quigley: Linda Quigley, executive director of Deafness Advocacy Association Nova Scotia, says her organization will cease to exist within a year because the province eliminated the group $34,200 annual grant, according to Metro News. Quigley had to close her office and lay off a full-time co-ordinator two years ago when the United Way cut their funding by $43,000. Today, the organization is just Quigley working part-time out of her home and In the three months since the Nova Scotia government tabled a budget that will be remembered mainly for cutbacks to the film industry, non-profit groups have started speaking out about lesser-known cuts they say are hurting the province most vulnerable people. The services that they cut are pretty essential to the province and they did it without really understanding the impact, says Quigley, whose organization has been around for 42 years. We re done if we can t find funding in the next little while. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.