News 1. Stacey Gomez On Monday, Stacey Gomez got the decision from Residential Tenancies that told her she could stay in her apartment. Zane Woodford was at the tenancy hearing last week where Gomez and her landlord, Marcus Ranjbar, were presenting their cases about his application to have Gomez renovicted from her apartment on Church […]
When wildlife and cars collide on our highways
Morning File, Thursday, June 16, 2022
News 1. Opposition: action on climate change is too slow “Opposition politicians held the Houston government’s feet to the fire on Wednesday during a meeting of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, which was following up on a 2017 auditor general’s report on managing climate change,” reports Jennifer Henderson. As Henderson writes, the Department of […]
Museum makes case to UN committee to designate Africville as an international site of historic memory
A scientific committee with the United Nations heard a presentation about why Africville should be designated as an UNESCO international site of historic memory. The committee with The Routes of Enslaved Peoples Project met in Halifax last weekend. As the Examiner reported last week, it was the first time the project, which was created by […]
UN international scientific committee meeting in Halifax to discuss African slave trade
An international scientific committee from the United Nations will meet in Halifax this week to discuss the world’s largest forced migration in history: the African slave trade. The Routes of Enslaved Peoples Project, formerly known as The Slave Route Project, was founded in 1994 as an initiative by UNESCO. The project is made up of […]
Black News File
Stories from the Black community in the Maritimes from November 4 to November 8.
1. Black Yarmouth high school principal retires after 42 years Last week, Don Berry, who was the principal at Yarmouth Consolidated Memorial High School, retired after 42 years as an educator. CBC and Saltwire Media both reported on his retirement, his kindness, and creative ways of inspiring students, as well as the weeklong series […]
On the set as filming of documentary Black Ice begins in Nova Scotia
Director Hubert Davis interviewing descendants of players from the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes so the stories "don’t kind of get lost from generation to generation.”
Last week, Oscar-nominated director Hubert Davis and a film crew from Toronto flew to Nova Scotia to interview descendants and family of the former all-Black hockey league. The filming is for a new documentary based on the book Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925, which written by […]
As an entrepreneur and hip-hop artist, Tremayne “Trobiz” Howe doesn’t miss a beat
The son of jazz musicians Muzz Marshall and Coleman Howe talks about his latest albums and balancing his music and barbershop in Fairview.
Tremayne “Trobiz” Howe is a self-described jack of all trades. Nowadays, many recognize him from his Fairview barbershop, Fademasters, which he owns and operates. While working as an entrepreneur for over two decades, the former Dalhousie University men’s basketball star was also making a name on the Canadian hip-hop music scene. His latest music project […]
Kaleb Simmonds and Andru Winter are making more than music
Nova Scotia R&B duo talk health scares, new singles, and racial politics of the industry.
On Sept. 1., Black Nova Scotian R&B star Kaleb Simmonds celebrated the release of his and comrade Andru Winter’s new single No Control. Simmonds streamed the new track on his TV and streaming video of himself while interacting with his Instagram followers in the comments. Days later, Winter shared a photo on social media that […]
Steal Away Home: Eddie Carvery’s protest and the value of Black life
This Saturday, I took a guest speaker to Africville. Black people across the world have heard of the destruction of the community, and they always want to make a pilgrimage to bear witness on the land. After visiting the sundial with the names of families who lived in Africville, we drove to the museum, where […]
Northern Pulp owes the province $85 million
Morning File, Monday, November 18, 2019
Philip Moscovitch told me yesterday that I buried the lede when I announced a couple of weeks ago that I’ve been hired by the CBC to write and host a podcast series about the wrongful conviction of Glen Assoun. So here it is right in the lead (let the lede v lead wars begin): I’ve […]