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The Kasian report cost $3.4 million — 78 per cent higher than budgeted

Morning File, Friday, October 19, 2018

October 19, 2018 By Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson 5 Comments

News 1. Kasian report This item is written by Jennifer Henderson. The bill from a consultant hired by the province to develop the master plan to replace the crumbling Victoria General Hospital has come in at $3.4 million — a whopping 78 per cent higher than budgeted. Toronto-based Kasian Architecture was awarded a $1.9 million […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Constance Backhouse, Equity Watch, halifax port operations overview, house cleaning Upper Tantallon, Jennifer Henderson, Kasian Architecture, Marla MacInnis, Mary Campbell, Nova Scotia ports, VG replacement report, Zane Woodford

The Rape of Recy Taylor

March 2, 2018 By Evelyn C. White Leave a Comment

In her book Carnal Crimes: Sexual Assault Law in Canada, 1900-1975, acclaimed University of Ottawa Law professor Constance Backhouse examines (among other topics) the life of Rose Marie Roper, an Indigenous woman from British Columbia. In April 1967, Roper’s nude and brutally beaten body was discovered “lying face down … near a garbage dump,” Backhouse […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Bassam Al-Rawi, Constance Backhouse, Crystal Feimster, Danielle L. McGuire, Dinah Washington, Evelyn White, Fabienne Colas, Judge Gregory Lenehan, Max Richter, Nancy Buirski, racist stereotypes, Recy Taylor, Rosa Parks, Rose Marie Roper

Dalhousie Senate in uproar over disciplinary action taken against student: Morning File, Tuesday, October 24, 2017

October 24, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Dalhousie Senate takes up Masuma Khan issue After news media reported that Dalhousie student Masuma Khan is facing disciplinary action, many members of the Dalhousie Senate demanded that the issue be discussed at yesterday’s meeting of the Senate. To back up, as explained by the Globe & Mail last Thursday: A student at Dalhousie University is […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrea Power, Anjuli Patil, Arig al Shaibah, Constance Backhouse, Dalhousie Senate, Desmond Cole, hypnotized chickens, Janice Graham, Laura Martin, Masuma Khan, methadone, Michael Smith, MLA Tim Houston, Pamela Cameron, right whale death Nashawena Island, Theresa Babb, tommy gun stolen

I Just Threw Up a Little In My Mouth: Morning File, Saturday, October 21, 2017

October 21, 2017 By El Jones 10 Comments

1. A note I threw up before I wrote this. It’s true I’ve had the flu for two weeks, I’ve been travelling, my body is run down. I’m sure that had something to do with it. But really, it was because I read through the comments on Tim’s article from yesterday. It’s not that they […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Constance Backhouse, Dal dentistry students, El Jones, Joe Feagin, Kati George-Jim, Kevin Hewitt, Lawrence Stordy, Masuma Khan, Ntombi Nkiwane, Racism, Robin DiAngelo, safe spaces, systemic racism at Dal, white fragility

Viola Desmond, Carrie Best, and serving face

A Black journalist and her newspaper championed Desmond's cause

December 9, 2016 By Evelyn C. White 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Journalism Tagged With: Carrie Best, Constance Backhouse, Erin Moore, Lucille Clifton, Mayann Francis, Pictou Advocate, The Clarion, Viola Desmond

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