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Richard Preston: “The founder of the Black Nova Scotian community”

Preston, who started the African Chapel, the African United Baptist Association of Nova Scotia, and the African Abolition Society, is one of the public's suggestions for names to replace Cornwallis Street.

February 7, 2022 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter Leave a Comment

One name the public suggested for the renaming of Cornwallis Street in Halifax is Richard Preston, who was the founder and first reverend of the newly named New Horizons Baptist Church, located on Cornwallis Street. Originally called the African Chapel — and later the Cornwallis Street Baptist Church — the church was founded on April […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured, Profiles Tagged With: Abolition Act of 1833, African Abolition Society, African Chapel, African United Baptist Association, Black Cultural Centre, Black Cultural Centre of Nova Scotia, Black Loyalists, Black Refugees, CBC, Cornwallis Street Baptist Church, Edward Cornwallis, Frances Willick, Isaac Saney, John Burton, Mi'kmaq, New Horizons Baptist Church, Preston, Richard Preston, War of 1812

Shaping the rules around roadside memorials

Morning File, Thursday, January 23, 2020

January 23, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 4 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp issues layoff notices This morning’s press release from Northern Pulp: Jennifer Henderson will have more on this shortly. 2. Council’s budget committee opts in favour of menstrual products for municipal facilities Zane Woodford looks at councillor Lorelei Nicoll’s proposal to get menstrual products in municipal facilities. The proposal is closer to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Ali Hamidi, Aya Al-Hakim, Bill Lahey, Black Cultural Centre, Colored Hockey League, Coloured Hockey League, Cst. John MacLeod, Dr. Kirk Magee, drugged at The Dome, George E. Dickinson, Heath C. Hoffmann, Holly Everett, Jack Julian, Jim Hill, Josee Saulnier, Lahey Report on Forestry, Lands and Forestry Minister Iain Rankin, MADD, Masoumeh Ghavi, Miia Suokonautio, Northern Pulp layoffs, roadside memorial, Suzanne's Valentine Tree, women in the workforce

“This is North Preston”: a story that “needs to be heard”

"This is North Preston" is a film about the stereotype of North Preston that allows the young men who’ve been stereotyped for so long to speak for themselves.

May 12, 2019 By Stephen Kimber Leave a Comment

Jaren Hayman is from Toronto. He’s 32 years old, a white man. He began his professional career as a drummer, touring North America, but eventually morphed into a self-taught filmmaker. His first feature documentary, 2016’s Bodyguards: Secret Lives from the Watchtower, hit number one on the iTunes charts and earned a worldwide audience on Netflix. […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Black Cultural Centre, Craig Smith, Denise Allen, Garry James, Jaren Hayman, Justin Smith, Kirk Johnson, Little Nathan, Miranda Cain, North Preston, North Preston’s Finest, Racism, Rev. Darryl Gray

Canada’s prisons: despair, hopelessness, and institutional racism

May 5, 2018 By El Jones 3 Comments

On May 2, four members of the Senate Committee on Human Rights released a statement about the human rights of prisoners in the Atlantic region. The senators visited all the federal penitentiaries in the region. They also visited the East Coast Forensic Centre: Tona, a patient there, described the differences between her 10 years in […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: African Nova Scotian prisoners, Black Cultural Centre, Camille Strickland-Murphy, CORCAN jobs, East Coast Forensic Centre, El Jones, gang clothing in prison, healthcare access in prison, Matthew Hines, Nova Institution, prisoners in the Atlantic region, racist violence in prison, Senate Committee on Human Rights, Senator Kim Pate, Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard, Veronica Park, wave caps

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

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.

Listen to the episode here.

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