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Group wants heritage designation for house of Nova Scotia’s first Black doctor

June 28, 2022 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter 1 Comment

A local historian says the city should preserve a home where the province’s first Black physician, Dr. Clement Ligoure, operated a clinic and helped victims of the Halifax Explosion. Last Saturday, Development Options Halifax, a group that says it’s working to preserve the city’s historic, cultural and social identity, and design, hosted a tour through […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured Tagged With: African Nova Scotian, anti-Black racism, Atlantic Advocate, Dr. Clement Ligoure, Friends of the Halifax Common, Halifax Explosion, Halifax Regional Municipality, No. 2 Construction Battalion, Racism, William Breckenridge

Bernadette Hamilton-Reid talks advocacy, economics, and connectivity in the Black community

June 16, 2022 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter Leave a Comment

Bernadette Hamilton-Reid describes herself as a lifelong community advocate for issues in the African Nova Scotian community. She currently works as the administrative assistant for the African Nova Scotian Decade for People of African Descent Coalition — ANSDPAD or DPAD for short. On Monday, Hamilton-Reid was a guest on the Soundtrack to the Struggle (a […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured Tagged With: African Nova Scotian Decade for People of African Descent Coalition (ANSDPAD), anti-Black racism, Barb Hamilton-Hinch, Beechville, Bernadette Hamilton Reid, Black Cultural Centre, Black Nova Scotia, Black Nova Scotians, Cherry Brook, Dr. Barbara Hamilton-Hinch, Emancipation Day, Emerging Lens Festival, Halifax street checks, justice institute, Lake Loon, Matthew Byard, North Preston, Perline Oliver, Racism, Sankofa African Gifts, Shelley Fashan, Soundtrack to the Struggle, William P. Oliver

Museum makes case to UN committee to designate Africville as an international site of historic memory

June 14, 2022 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured Tagged With: Africa, African Diaspora, African Nova Scotian, Africville, Africville Geneological Society, Africville Heritage Trust, Africville Museum, Africville Park, Afua Cooper, anti-Black racism, Back Loyalists, Black Nova Scotia, Black Nova Scotians, Carm Robertson, Halifax, Juanita Peters, Myrian Cottias, Racism, reparations, Sierra Leone, UNESCO, United Nations

Lucasville group holding fundraising walk to lobby for safe greenway, public transit

June 9, 2022 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter 4 Comments

The Lucasville Greenway Society (LGS) is holding its second annual Walk & Fun Day this Saturday. The event’s goal is to gain support for the creation of a safe greenway that will connect the Black community of Lucasville to Lower Sackville. The community has never had sidewalks or public transportation. John Young, chair of the […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured Tagged With: African Nova Scotian, anti-Black racism, Black Nova Scotia, Cynthia Lucas, Deputy Mayor Pam Lovelace, Halifax Mayor Mike Savage, Halifax Regional Council, Halifax Transit, John Young, Lucasville, Walk and Fun Day

Plaintiff in class-action lawsuit against Canadian Armed Forces ‘extremely optimistic’ about outcome

June 1, 2022 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter 1 Comment

Rubin “Rocky” Coward is “extremely optimistic” about changes he feels are imminent within the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). Coward ⁠— along with JP Menard, Marc Frenette, and Wallace Fowler ⁠— are the four plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against the CAF, and are are suing for systemic racism and institutional discrimination they say they faced […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: African Nova Scotia, African Nova Scotian, Anita Anand, anti-Black racism, Black Nova Scotia, Black Nova Scotians, Canadian Armed Forces, Department of National Defence (DND), Douglas Ruck, Harjit Sajjan, JP Menard, Justin Trudeau, Justin Trudeau and anti-Black racism, Marc Frenette, Peter MacKay, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Racism, racists in Canadian Armed Forces, Rubin "Rocky" Coward, Stephen Harper, Wally Fowler

Retired Judge Corrine Sparks receives honorary degree from Mount Saint Vincent University

May 25, 2022 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter Leave a Comment

Last Thursday, retired Judge Corrine “Connie” Sparks was presented with an honorary degree from Mount Saint Vincent University (MSVU) during its Spring 2022 convocation. Sparks, who is from the Black community of Lake Loon/Cherry Brook, graduated from MSVU in 1974 with a bachelor of arts in economics. She was the only woman of African descent in […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured Tagged With: African Nova Scotia, African Nova Scotians, anti-Black racism, Black Nova Scotia, Black Nova Scotians, Corrine Sparks, justice, Matthew Byard, racial justice

Dartmouth man charged with wilful promotion of hatred

May 19, 2022 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter Leave a Comment

Mark Andrew Kozlowski of Dartmouth is facing criminal charges of wilful promotion of hatred. The charges stem from a complaint to Queens District RCMP in September 2020 about a sign outside of a cottage that read Redneck Hangout and had an image of a noose. On Labour Day weekend 2020, Angela Bowden, who is Black, […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured, News Tagged With: African Nova Scotia, African Nova Scotians, Angela Bowden, anti-Black racism, Black Nova Scotia, Black Nova Scotians, Mark Andrew Kozlowski, Matthew Byard, RCMP, Wilson's Equipment Ltd.

Black mother dissatisfied with school’s response to racist bullying of her children by white classmate

March 7, 2022 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter 1 Comment

A Black mother of students at Admiral Westphal Elementary in Dartmouth is raising concerns about the school’s handling of ongoing instances of racist bullying at the school that resulted in one of her children being called the N-word by a white classmate. She said she repeatedly tried to address the issue with the school. When […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Education, Featured Tagged With: Admiral Westphal Elementary, anti-Black racism, Becky Druhan, Dartmouth, Halifax Regional Centre for Education, Matthew Byard, Minister of Education, Nova Scotia, Racism

Discovering an exciting, strange city in an old part of town

Morning File, Wednesday, December 1, 2021

December 1, 2021 By Philip Moscovitch 3 Comments

News 1. Three years after the Lahey Report, nothing has changed In 2018, University of King’s College President Bill Lahey released a report commissioned by the provincial government, reviewing the province’s forestry practices and making recommendations for a sustainable future. Officially known as “Forest Practices Report for Nova Scotia (2018)” but called “The Lahey Report” […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: anti-Black racism, aquaculture, Bill Lahey, Boston Typewriter Orchestra, Brendan Emmett Quigley, clear-cutting, Cooke Aquaculture, COVID-19, CUPE, David Hendsbee, Derrik Albertelli, East Preston, Ethan Lycan-Lang, forestry, Halifax Transit, Jennifer Henderson, Kelly Cove Salmon (KCS), Lahey report, Lahey Report on Forestry, Leslie Amminson, Matthew Byard, Noticed in Nova Scotia, Philip Moscovitch, salmon, sea lice, Stephen Archibald, Swarm of Eyes, Tim Bousquet, typewriter, Typewriters

Councillor responds to claims that East Preston is underserved by transit system

November 30, 2021 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter Leave a Comment

District 2 councillor David Hendsbee says the Black community of East Preston once had weekend bus service. “There was weekend service in the past when the bus route was operated under the former ‘Halifax County Beaver Bank Transit Service’; a holdover service prior to HRM Amalgamation,” Hendsbee said in an e-mail. “The weekend service was […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured, Transportation Tagged With: anti-Black racism, Black communities, Coun. David Hendsbee, East Hants Rural High School, East Preston, employment, Global, Grand Desert, Halifax, Halifax County Beaver Bank Transit Service, Halifax Transit, Lake Echo, Lawrencetown, Lucasville, marginalization, Marshall Williams, Mineville, Musgo Rider, Musquodoboit Harbour, North Preston, Porters Lake, Route 401, rural transit, Rural Transit Strategy, Seaforth, Tracey Jones-Grant, West Chezzetcook, Westphal

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PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

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2020 mass murders

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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.

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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.

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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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