This week, Jody Wilson-Raybould’s testimony about SNC-Lavalin dominated Canadian politics. My timeline is filled with articles praising her integrity, her courage, her honesty. And yet, only weeks ago, these same newspapers ran articles quoting colleagues calling her “difficult,” “not a team player,” “hard to work with” — in short, a bitch. In her testimony, Wilson-Raybould […]
Arise Ye Nova Scotia Slaves: Morning File, Friday, February 10, 2017
News 1. Teachers reject contract The Nova Scotia Teachers Union sent out the following release last night: Teachers reject tentative agreement Nova Scotia’s 9,300 public school teachers have voted to reject a third tentative agreement reached between the Nova Scotia Teachers Union and the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development since the opening of […]
The Port of Sydney grift continues: Morning File, Tuesday, December 13, 2016
News 1. Prison violence Michael Tutton reports for the Canadian Press: It’s 26 seconds of brutality — and lays bare the emerging reality of a growing number of beatings in Canada’s jails. Inmate Dwayne Wright, watching television with his feet up, is suddenly sucker-punched from behind by another inmate. A video of the attack shows […]
Viola Desmond, Carrie Best, and serving face
A Black journalist and her newspaper championed Desmond's cause
Having abandoned my dream to become a prison warden, I came late to a journalism career. There was one other Black woman at the San Francisco Chronicle when I joined the staff, as a rookie reporter, in the mid-1980s. But having had a falling out with the powers-that-be over the paper’s lackluster coverage of the local Black […]