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We Will Win

A week of collective activism for Abdoul Abdi shows how the community is brought together through struggle, joy, and love.

January 13, 2018 By El Jones 10 Comments

Prologue: December 4 & 5 Desmond Cole says to me, “these people underestimate us.” We are organizing to help Abdoul Abdi, who was brought to Canada from Somalia as a young boy, was taken into the care of the province and bounced between 31 different home placements, including three years of abuse. Through it all, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Abdoul Abdi, Ahmed Hussein, Benjamin Perryman, Coralee Smith, Debra Spencer, Desmond Cole, Emma Halpern, Fatuma Alyaan, iZrEAL, Jordan Ward, Julie Chamagne, Justin Trudeau, Premier Stephen McNeil, racist comments on Black Twitter, Rinaldo Walcott, Sandy Hudson, Sheldon MacLeod, Vicky Mochama

Examineradio, episode #142: The Auditor General

January 12, 2018 By Terra Tailleur 1 Comment

In November, Auditor General Michael Pickup was accused of overstepping his authority.  His report chastised the province for doing a “poor” job of communicating its strategies on doctor recruitment and primary health care. In turn, the premier chastised  the auditor general, saying Pickup should run for elected office if he wanted to criticize policy matters. It […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Abdoul Abdi, Auditor General Michael Pickup, Examineradio 142, Paradise Papers, podcast, Terra Tailleur

How Canada has failed Abdoul Abdi and other child immigrants: Morning File, Tuesday, January 9, 2018

January 9, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. Abdoul Abdi Halifax Examiner contributor El Jones has long raised the issue of people brought to Canada as children who then become wards of the state. Bounced between foster homes and group homes, they are not raised in a stable, supportive environment, and so some become involved in the criminal justice system. Then they […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Abdoul Abdi, Angie Zinck, Benjamin Perryman, El Jones, Fatouma Alyaan, Film Tax Credit, Late Night with Dr. Paul, Loblaw bread price-fixing, Paul Edward Beasant charged, Zane Woodford

Home for Christmas

They were children raised in Canada, under care of the state. Now, as adults, they are being denied the most fundamental right: the right to rights. Deemed non-citizens, they are being torn from their families and communities, and deported to countries they don't remember or know.

December 23, 2017 By El Jones 2 Comments

On Wednesday, I went to Las Posadas, a Latin American celebration (traditionally over nine nights) that re-enacts the search for lodgings by Mary and Joseph. A procession goes from house to house, singing a traditional song asking for shelter. The family inside refuses, until finally they let everyone in. Visiting family for me means going to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Abdoul Abdi, Ahmed Hussen, Ali Reza Mohammed, Debra Spencer, deportation, El Jones, Fliss Cramman, foster care, Habtom’s experience with detention, Halifax Refugee Clinic, Julie Chamagne, refugees

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PRICED OUT

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents
PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

You can learn about the project, including how we’re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on the PRICED OUT homepage.

2020 mass murders

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.

Updated regularly.

Uncover: Dead Wrong

In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

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