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“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

Wade Smith’s unfinished legacy: “It’s up to us…”

“For me to sit here and tell you why we need [an Africentric school] is for you to explain to me why we don't need it... I don’t understand why I’d have to explain to you why the enhancement of culture in the educational setting would be good. It’s about improvement, growth, it’s about self-esteem, all the things I thought education was about, for me personally.”

June 12, 2017 By Stephen Kimber

“Maybe we need to look at an all-black school or other alternatives.” It was April 2006 and Wade Smith, then the vice principal of St. Patrick’s High School in Halifax, was musing to former-student-become-CBC-journalist Maggie Rahr about a recently released report on the province’s progress — or lack thereof — in implementing the recommendations of...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Education, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: African Nova Scotian Advisory Committee, African Nova Scotian education, Africentric school, Carsten Knox, Corey Wright, Craig Smith, Kyla Derry, Maggie Rahr, St. Patrick’s High School, Wade Smith

Richard Butts, Clayton Developments, and the Purcells Cove backlands: Morning File: Wednesday, August 17, 2016

August 17, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 15 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Richard Butts, Clayton Developments, and the Purcells Cove backlands Let’s have a quick refresher on the Purcells Cove backlands, which is that stretch of undeveloped land roughly between Spryfield and Purcells Cove. The backlands are the site of two large lakes — Colpitt and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Allan Shaw, Annapolis Group, Anton Selkowitz, Barry Dalrymple, Bob Bjerke, Clayton Developments, Craig Smith, Jodrey, John Risley, Linda Mosher, Morning File, Nature Conservancy of Canada, Purcells Cove backlands, Reg Rankin, Richard Butts, Stephen Adams, Stephen Kimber, Yarmouth ferry

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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