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Black News File

Stories from the Black community in the Maritimes from November 4 to November 8.

November 8, 2021 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter Leave a Comment

1. Black Yarmouth high school principal retires after 42 years   Last week, Don Berry, who was the principal at Yarmouth Consolidated Memorial High School, retired after 42 years as an educator. CBC and Saltwire Media both reported on his retirement, his kindness, and creative ways of inspiring students, as well as the weeklong series […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured Tagged With: 2023 Universities Studying Slavery Conference, Adrian Morris, African Nova Scotia Affairs, Africville, all-party committee, Andrea Douglas, anti-Black racism, Aquakultur, Black News File, CBC, Cikiah Thomas, CKDU, Colleen Jones, Delvina Bernard, Department of Justice, DJ Uncle Fester, Don Berry, El Jones, Frank Kadillac, Globe and Mail, Isaac Saney, Keonté Beals, Matthew Byard, MLA Ali Duale, MLA Angela Simmonds, MLA Pat Dunn, MLA Suzy Hansen, MLA Tony Ince, Music Nova Scotia, Neon Dreams, Nova Scotia Music Week, Premier Tim Houston, reparations, Rocky Jones, slavery, Yarmouth, Yarmouth Consolidated Memorial High School

Black News File

Stories from the Black community in the Maritimes from October 25 to November 3.

November 4, 2021 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter Leave a Comment

1. Premier Tim Houston fires staffer over racist comments Last week, Premier Tim Houston learned that a staffer in the Department of Justice made comments on the social media about Angela Simmonds, the Liberal MLA for Preston. The staffer, who had recently been in meetings with Simmonds in her role as justice critic, allegedly said […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured Tagged With: African Nova Scotia, Alphonsine Masika, Angela Simmonds, Black community, Calvin Ruck, Carolann Wright, Coun. Lindell Smith, COVID-19, Department of Justice, Douglas Ruck, Human Rights Commission, Jeremie Landry, MLA Angela Simmonds, New Brunswick, No. 2 Construction Battalion, Normand Hector, Nova Scotia legislature, Paul Baraka, Premier Tim Houston, Preston, Racism, Road to Economic Prosperity for African Nova Scotian Communitie, Rosella Fraser, Xerox

Vile video taken in Nova Scotia jail and posted to social media humiliates woman prisoner

April 2, 2021 By El Jones and Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

A vile video taken by a guard inside a Nova Scotia jail and that was shared on social media violates a female prisoner’s privacy and makes disparaging comments about her medical condition. The Halifax Examiner was provided the 20-second video clip by a person who captured it on the SnapChat app. The video was posted […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Bianca Mercer, Burnside jail, Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, Dawna Ward, Department of Justice, diabetic low, Nova Scotia, privacy, SnapChat, video, woman prisoner

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.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

Subscribe to the podcast to get episodes automatically downloaded to your device — there’s a great instructional article here. Email Suzanne for help.

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