The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Organizers of an open letter from the Black community to Premier McNeil and Chief Medical Officer Robert Strang say that the letter has been vandalized with racist comments. The letter, which collected over 250 signatures in two days, calls for an apology for the […]
Daily COVID-19 update: Stephen McNeil doubles down on the construction loophole, and additionally says now is not the time to reflect on health care workers’ concerns
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Tim Bousquet writes: One more person has died in Nova Scotia from COVID-19, bringing total deaths to three. The latest person to die was a man in his 80s, in the HRM. Twenty-nine more people have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total to 474. […]
Easter in the pandemic
Live-streaming the church service, I'm reminded that all our mothers, back and back, have always been about resurrection, about holding on, about coming back.
Queen Elizabeth has nothing on my Grandmother. Grandmummy loved hats, and Easter is the time that Black church ladies show out. Easter service, new hat. Plus white dresses for the girls, conjured out of God knows what money. Growing up in poverty, in a colonized country, like all the women of her age she sewed, […]
Daily COVID-19 update: coronavirus hits the Black community, with a predictable racist response
When we are being profiled and victimized by the police, Stephen McNeil tells us he doesn't see race. But when we are struggling with infection, all of a sudden Blackness is explicitly singled out.
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Nova Scotia has had its first death from COVID-19, a woman in her 70s who is described as having underlying medical conditions. She died in hospital in the Nova Scotia Health Authority’s Eastern Zone. The Examiner has graphed the spread of the disease in Nova […]
Black people already struggle to breathe in Canada. Ignoring us during this COVID-19 crisis will only make it worse.
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Black women are concentrated in frontline health care work. The agricultural industry employs large numbers of Black migrant workers who are affected by border closures. New State of Emergency declarations raise concerns about the intensification of racial profiling directed at Black communities. Black people make […]
Hateful slurs disrupt online gatherings
As racialized and marginalized communities move online in response to COVID-19, they are increasingly the targets of organized racist and sexist attacks.
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The social isolation measures around COVID-19 have caused communities to adapt quickly to new forms of interacting. As in-person gatherings have shut down, online platforms have become popular places not only for business meetings and university lectures, but also for music performances, information forums, protests, […]
A man in mental distress died after police used a taser on him
The police are not trained mental health workers. They are not doctors, nurses, social workers, paramedics, or any other kind of medical expert. They are not trained in public health. Over and over again, when they have been called by families to help people in crisis, they have responded by harming and even killing the people they are supposed to be helping. And now, at the very same time as the death of a man who was allegedly self-harming is being investigated, we are supposed to trust that the police are an appropriate response to the public health crisis of COVID-19.
SIRT is investigating after police say they responded to a report that a man was harming himself. The police used a stun gun on him, and the man died in hospital. According to a SIRT release: The province’s independent Serious Incident Response Team is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 28-year-old man in […]
Nova Scotia’s Director of Correctional Services suggests that being in jail is safer than being in the broader community. That’s just false
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. In a letter submitted to the courts, John Scoville, the Director of Correctional Services, outlines protective measures taken to avoid a outbreak of COVID-19, and then ends with the suggestion that being in jail is safer than being in the broader community during the pandemic: […]
El Jones interviews a prisoner at Burnside about what it’s like to be in jail during a pandemic
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The prisoner El Jones spoke with last week provides an update on the situation at the Burnside jail. What’s happening in Burnside right now? Things are starting to deteriorate in here. Programs, resources, everything’s basically becoming non-existent. Have any health officials been in to talk […]
Clearing out the jails
In an extraordinary effort to avoid a COVID-19 outbreak, many prisoners were released this weekend.
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. This weekend, something extraordinary happened in a Dartmouth provincial courtroom. Since the onset of the COVID-19 epidemic, advocates have publicly called for the province to address the danger of the virus spreading in provincial jails. Over the weekend, Chief Judge Pamela Williams met that call, […]
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