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The Randy Riley trial: how news media are falling down on the job

Dropping coverage of a court trial mid-trial is a disservice both for readers and for justice.

April 9, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

Last Tuesday, there was dramatic moment in Supreme Court, worthy of its own Law & Order episode. In the course of its prosecution of Randy Riley for the 2010 murder of Chad Smith, the crown called its witness Nathan Johnson. Johnson took the stand and — bam! — said that he, and he alone, killed […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Journalism Tagged With: Aly Thomson, Blair Rhodes, court coverage is inadequate, El Jones, Jennifer Stairs, Justice Chipman, Natasha Pace, Nathan Johnson confesses, Nicholas Butcher trial, Paul Smith, Randy Riley trial, Steve Bruce, Zane Woodford

White-washing the Boer War

In 1901, Lord Alfred Milner was "lamenting" the "fact that the death rate among young children in the [Boer War concentration] camps was still not dropping. 'The theory that, all the weakly children being dead, the rate would fall off is not so far borne out by the facts,' Milner wrote. 'The strong ones must be dying now and they will all be dead by the spring of 1903.'" On October 14, 1901 the cornerstone for the Boer War monument was laid at Province House.

April 7, 2018 By El Jones 5 Comments

Yesterday, Tim wrote an item about the monument to the Boer War on the grounds of Province House: I don’t care about the parking one way or the other, but can we discuss that damn Boer War monument? [Jean] Laroche goes on to interview Joe Ballard, president of the Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia, who says […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Afua Hirsch, Apartheid, Black South Africans, Boer War monument, Carman Miller, El Jones, FW De Klerk, Lord Alfred Milner, Martin Plaut, Ntombifikile Nkiwane, Paul Harris, Robert Baden-Powell, Sherene Razack, Shree Paradkar, Tim Jaques, Winnie Mandela, Yves Engler

Reporting While White: When “objectivity” and “neutrality” are inherently biased perspectives

Reading the News While Black: Two recent news stories raise questions about Black representation in the media.

April 1, 2018 By El Jones 1 Comment

I have never claimed to write “objectively.” That doesn’t mean I write things I believe to be untrue or that are factually wrong, but I am always openly writing from the standpoint of a Black woman. White people, however, believe and are taught that their practices are in fact objective, and that they neutrally present […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Journalism Tagged With: Black people speaking about racism, Black representation in the media, Darius Mirshahi, Deep Down Cleaning, El Jones, Founders Square, Joel Plaskett, Lynn Jones, Racism, Randy Riley trial, Rich Abbass, The Black janitors' strike

Kiss Me, I’m Rioting

March 17, 2018 By El Jones 2 Comments

Yay, it’s Saint Patrick’s Day! Where we drink green beer, wear funny hats, and historically engage in nativist and white supremacist acts of terrorism against Catholics and Africans! Let’s march on the Black area of town right now and burn down businesses and homes in support of jobs for whites only! *Record Scratch.* Let us […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: American slavery, Daniel O'Connell, David Roediger, El Jones, Irish in America, Jessie Daniels, Noel Ignatiev, St. Patrick's Day

White Eye for the Black Guy

March 10, 2018 By El Jones 8 Comments

When the NFL penalizes players for “excessive” celebrating and dancing, my sister says they’re getting called for “too much Blackness on the field.” There’s that saying, “the Blacker the berry the sweeter the juice,” that comes with the caveat, “but if you get too Black, then it ain’t no use.” Managing how our Blackness is […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Abdoul Abdi's clothing, Anjuli Patil, Anthony Morgan, Black clothing, Blackness, Blackness on trial, El Jones, Ruba Ali Al-Hassani

The convention centre is costing us at least $294 million; what else could that have bought? Morning File, Wednesday, March 7, 2018

March 7, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 17 Comments

News 1. South Park Street bike lane “Halifax is going to build its longest protected bike lane sometime in the next year on South Park Street,” reports Erica Butler: The 1.2 kilometre lane will run from Sackville Street all the way to Inglis Street in the south end, near Saint Mary’s University. With council’s approval […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Abdoul Abdi, Argyle Developments, Breitbart, Convention Centre lease, Convention Centre monthly operating payments, El Jones, Events East, Joe Ramia, Nova Scotia Business Inc, Paul Palmeter, racist graffiti, South Park bike lane, Spring Garden Area Business Association's (SGABA), Spring Garden Road, Tom Ayers, tourism ads, Tourism Nova Scotia

Truth and Reconciliation: From South Africa to Halifax

El Jones interviews Ntombifikile Nkiwane.

March 5, 2018 By El Jones Leave a Comment

Ntombifikile Nkiwane graduated from Dalhousie University in 2017 with a degree in Business. In her first year at Dalhousie, Ntombi organized the “How Would You React” campaign addressing racism on campus. Ntombi was active in the social justice community, and organized the solidarity march for Ferguson in August, 2014. Ntombi was active in the “Rhodes […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: African National Congress (ANC), Apartheid, Cecil John Rhodes, El Jones, Julius Malema, land expropriation, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW), Ntombifikile Nkiwane, Prime Minister Diefenbaker, Rhodes Must Fall, South Africa, Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)

Cameron Diaz will have to wait until September to get legally stoned: Morning File, Friday, February 16, 2018

February 16, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

News 1. Abdoul Abdi hearing Yesterday, El Jones attended the emergency hearing held to determine whether the court should intervene and put a temporary stop to the government’s efforts to deport Abdoul Abdi. Jones gives an overview of the proceedings, and then notes: I was invited to go to the Black History Month celebration last […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Abdoul Abdi's hearing, Asa Kachan, Barbara Darby and racism, Business Minister Geoff MacLellan, Confidential Service for Victims of Abuse (CSVA), Dartmouth North Library, Delay in legal cannabis, DSME Trenton windtower plant, El Jones, Global News layoffs, Huffington Post, Justice Lawrence O'Neil, Keith Doucette, legacy media bailouts, Marina von Stackelberg, Zi-Ann Lum

“No Reason to Treat Us Like Garbage”: Life and Death in Canadian prisons

February 10, 2018 By El Jones 3 Comments

1. The Weekenders Recently, news stories circulated about incarcerated women in Arizona being denied access to menstrual products.  When we hear stories about prison conditions in the United States, people in Canada often believe that these injustices do not happen in our prisons and jails. This is a mistake. I have been hearing for a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, Charles Murray, death in custody, death of Matthew Hines, El Jones, internal investigation in prison, Justice Minister Denis Landry, Karissa Donkin, Rebecca Lau, Sherene Razack, Southeast Regional Correctional Centre, weekend incarceration, women in prison

The Cornwallis statue and our missing history museum: Morning File, Tuesday, January 30, 2018

January 30, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 12 Comments

News 1. Weather There’s weather today, with associated closures and delays. 2. The Cornwallis statue and our missing history museum “Halifax regional council will debate taking down the Cornwallis statue and putting it in storage after a last-minute addition to Tuesday’s agenda,” reports Zane Woodford for Metro: HRM staff is recommending the statue be taken […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bell's Let's Talk campaign, Cornwallis statue, El Jones, Elizabeth McMillan, Halifax Clusterfucks, Natasha Pyke, our missing history museum, Proud Boys and associated racists, Stupid sports teams names, Wray Hart, Zane Woodford

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DEAD WRONG

A botched police investigation and a probable wrongful conviction shed light on the murders of dozens of women in Nova Scotia.

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