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Black News File

Stories from the Black community in the Maritimes from November 4 to November 8.

November 8, 2021 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured Tagged With: 2023 Universities Studying Slavery Conference, Adrian Morris, African Nova Scotia Affairs, Africville, all-party committee, Andrea Douglas, anti-Black racism, Aquakultur, Black News File, CBC, Cikiah Thomas, CKDU, Colleen Jones, Delvina Bernard, Department of Justice, DJ Uncle Fester, Don Berry, El Jones, Frank Kadillac, Globe and Mail, Isaac Saney, Keonté Beals, Matthew Byard, MLA Ali Duale, MLA Angela Simmonds, MLA Pat Dunn, MLA Suzy Hansen, MLA Tony Ince, Music Nova Scotia, Neon Dreams, Nova Scotia Music Week, Premier Tim Houston, reparations, Rocky Jones, slavery, Yarmouth, Yarmouth Consolidated Memorial High School

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.”

October 27, 2021 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured Tagged With: Africville, Africville Seasides, Art Dorrington, Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, Chook Maxwell, Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, Drake, Eddie Clyke, Huber Davis, Hubert Davis, Irvine Carvery, Joe Paris, LeBron James, Lynn Jones, Paul Byard, Percy Paris, St. Clair Byard, Stanley Carvery, Truro Victorias, Uninterrupted Canada, Wayne Adams

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.

October 22, 2021 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured Tagged With: Africville, boom bap, Canadian hip=hop, Coleman Howe, Fademasters, Fairview, Halifax, hip-hop, Little Burgundy, Muzz Marshall, Nova Scotia, Square Town, Tremayne “Trobiz” Howe, Uniacke Square

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.

September 23, 2021 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured Tagged With: Africville, Andru Winter, entertainment, Kaleb Simmonds, music industry, Nova Scotia

Steal Away Home: Eddie Carvery’s protest and the value of Black life

November 20, 2019 By El Jones 5 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Africville, Africville Geneological Society, Auntie Marion, Auntie Shirley, Eddie Carvery, El's family in Trinidad, family pride, Irvine Carvery

Northern Pulp owes the province $85 million

Morning File, Monday, November 18, 2019

November 18, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Africville, Alakai, Bay Ferries, Becky Pritchard, Captain Skip Strong, Eddie Carvery, Elizabeth Chiu, Emma Smith, Glen Assoun podcast, North Atlantic landslides, Northern Pulp loans, Paul Merrill, Yarmouth ferry

Child care workers go round and round with bus complaints

Morning File, Friday, September 20, 2019

September 20, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 3 Comments

News 1. Blackface Writes El Jones: When the furor over Trudeau’s Blackface photos dies down, to be referred to as an “embarrassing incident” or “controversial,” Black people like Abdilahi Elmi will still be facing deportation. Muslim Canadians will still be on the no-fly list. White nationalist editorials will still be commissioned by major newspapers under […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: African Nova Scotians, Africville, anti-Black racism, Boat Harbour, bus drivers refusing service, Chad Lindsay, charity, charity and social media, Count Me In, Emma Davie, Erin DiCarlo, food banks, Francis Campbell, Halifax Transit, International Decade for People of African Descent, Joseph Farrow, Julianne Harnish, Kate Gilmore, Lisa Cameron, Minister Tony Ince, Northern Pulp environmental assessment, piano lessons, Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN), political speed dating, Premier Stephen McNeil, Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), sexual assault, The Nook

Board looks to expand police data collection to identify race-based patterns in all police stops

Morning File, Tuesday, September 17, 2019

September 17, 2019 By Erica Butler 2 Comments

News 1. Police data collection The police board has approved a motion to ask Halifax Regional Police for a plan to implement a Wortley report recommendation that would see racial data collected on all police stops, including traffic stops. Currently, that data is only collected for street checks, and shows that Black Haligonians are six […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Africville, Angela MacIvor, Anjuli Patil, Art of City Building, Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program, Blair Rhodes, botched police investigation, Bry’n Ross, Carrie Low, CFB Shearwater, crane incident, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Harold Dawson, immigration fraud, Jonathan Benoit Boudreau, kidnapping and rape, Maggie Rahr, Mi'kMaq Friendship Centre, Pamela Glode-Desrochers, racial bias, racial data, Rebecca Carole, sextortion, Shaina Luck, street checks, Tara Wickwire, traffic stops, W.M. Fares

Redesigning the Windsor Exchange: if we get it right, it could be great

June 25, 2019 By Erica Butler

Sometimes government makes an announcement, and even though you know it’s ages from reality, and will probably be announced and re-announced many times hence, you simply can’t help but get excited at the possibilities. Such is the case with the announcement by Transport Canada earlier this month that the federal department will help fund a...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: active transportation, Africville, Africville Park and National Historic Site, Bedford Highway Functional Plan, CAO Jacques Dubé, councillor Waye Mason, Eliza Jackson, Integrated Mobility Plan (IMP), Karen Oldfield, MP Andy Fillmore, Port of Halifax, Transport Canada, Windsor Street Exchange

Phillip’s story: “They told me it could be a lifelong job. And instead I got a lifelong addiction.”

October 27, 2018 By El Jones 2 Comments

Phillip Izzard has been trying to get someone to listen for 37 years. I interview Phillip in his home in Uniacke Square. The day I meet him, I have just come from an event at the Black Cultural Centre exploring the impact of the city’s apology for Africville. “Africville is still happening,” residents at the […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Africville, El Jones, methadone, opioid addiction, Phillip Izzard, racial bullying

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PRICED OUT

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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

Two young white women, one with dark hair and one blonde, smile at the camera on a sunny spring day.

Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

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