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“You can build the world to come in the choices you make every day”

African Nova Scotian activist Lynn Jones speaks to 2021 graduating class at Mount Saint Vincent University.

November 15, 2021 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter Leave a Comment

“Who are you when the world is not looking at you? What do you fight for even if it seems nobody is paying attention?” These were questions posed by African Nova Scotian activist Lynn Jones to the graduating class of Mount Saint Vincent University at their convocation ceremony last week. Jones received an honourary doctorate […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured Tagged With: Africa Nova Scotia, anti-Black racism, education, El Jones, George Floyd, Lynn Jones, Mount Saint Vincent University, Queen's University, Racism, residential schools, slavery

Police brutality? Think globally, act locally

We're right to speak out about the murder of George Floyd and about the global pandemic of state violence against black people, but we — white people — also need to act locally. There's plenty for us to do right here in our own backyard.

June 7, 2020 By Stephen Kimber 4 Comments

Call it the dance of the dodge. • We need to wait, we need to respect the process, we need to make an informed decision based on the appropriate investigation…” — Halifax Police Chief Dan Kinsella, Jan. 20, 2020. • “After some initial investigation, it has been determined, based on medical records, the matter meets […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House Tagged With: anti-Black racism, Chief Dan Kinsella, George Floyd, police brutality, Santina Rao

One day in the streets doesn’t stop injustice, but it does show how Black lives matter

June 2, 2020 By El Jones 2 Comments

I’m standing in front of the Black Lives Matter banner at the protest for Regis on Saturday when my phone starts ringing insistently. It’s the jail. I walk away from the crowd and answer. A young Black man is calling from segregation at Burnside. Along with other prisoners, he filed a habeas application challenging their […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: anti-Black racism, anti-Black violence, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Blocko, Eishia Hudson, George Floyd, justice, Justice for Regis, Lynn Jones, OmiSoore Dryden, police violence, Regis Korchinski-Paquet, Renous, Santina Rao, Sharisha Benedict, Soleiman Faqiri, Take a Knee protest, Yusuf Faqiri

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.

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