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A coalition for Black voices in Nova Scotia

Since 2015, the African Nova Scotian Decade for People of African Descent Coalition has been working on issues in the Black community, including justice, health, education, employment, and social services.

November 17, 2021 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter Leave a Comment

Earlier this fall when Premier Tim Houston announced that Pat Dunn, a white man, would be the new Minister of African Nova Scotian Affairs, Vanessa Fells immediately started getting phone calls from media asking her for comment on Dunn’s appointment. “When things like that happen, our members only meet once a month,” Fells said. “So, […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured Tagged With: African Nova Scotia Affairs, African Nova Scotian Decade for People of African Descent Coalition (ANSDPAD), Black community, Black Cultural Centre of Nova Scotia, Brad Johns, Brandon Rolle, Canada, CBC, Culture and Heritage, Department of Communities, Dr. Késa Munroe-Anderson, Dr. OmiSoore Dryden, Emancipation Day, Human Rights Commission, International Decade for People of African Descent, Joan Jones, justice institute, Mark Furey, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Decade for People of African Descent Coalition (NSDPAD), Nova Scotia Legal Aid, Pat Dunn, Premier Tim Houston, RCMP, Rocky Jones, Scot Wortley, Stephen McNeil, street checks, the Wortley Report, Tony Ince, UN General Assembly, United Nations, Vanessa Fells

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

On Rana Zaman: Some somebodies have some explaining to do

Let's start with the provincial NDP and its leader, Gary Burrill. And move on to the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, and to the Atlantic Jewish Council.

December 28, 2019 By Stephen Kimber

For Rana Zaman, it had been another long and not untypical day of good-doing. But as she wrote proudly on her Facebook page on Dec. 20 at 4:12 pm: “I’m happy to say, turkey dinner with all the fixings was bought and dropped off for 7 families to enjoy. Still pending is delivery of toys...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Atlantic Jewish Council, Human Rights Commission, Rana Zaman

We the North: Black lives only matter when they are shooting a basketball

June 3, 2019 By El Jones 1 Comment

In Ottawa, one of the legal advocates for the Elizabeth Fry Society tells me that the Human Rights Commission refused to speak with Black gay women in prison. E. Fry filed a complaint that argues that Correctional Services of Canada (CSC) discriminates on the grounds of sex, race, ethnicity, and mental disability in its programming […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: anti-Black racism, Colin Kaepernick, Correctional Services of Canada (CSC), Drake, Elizabeth Fry Society, Human Rights Commission, Justice Tulloch, Kawhi Leonard, Marion Buller, National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, Pascal Siakam, profiting from Black bodies, racial profiling, Steve Kerr, Toronto Raptors

Three months after jail protest, conditions are “worse than ever,” say Burnside prisoners

"Nobody will help us...In some ways the silence is worse than the violence."

December 20, 2018 By El Jones Leave a Comment

Prisoners in the Burnside jail say that conditions are “worse than ever” since the peaceful protest that ended September 9. They are calling for independent oversight of the provincial prisons and an external review of conditions, legal aid funding for adequate representation for habeas applications, and intervention by the Human Rights Commission. They describe a […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Burnside jail, Burnside jail conditions, Burnside Jail lockdown, David Tanner, El Jones, Human Rights Commission

Corrections officials came to Province House for questioning; here’s how they answered

October 25, 2018 By El Jones 2 Comments

On Wednesday morning, I attended the Public Accounts committee meeting at Province House. Deputy Minister of Justice Karen Hudson, Chris Collett Executive Director of Correctional Services, and provincial Director of Correctional Services Sean Kelly were answering questions about the Auditor General report from May, 2018. Among other concerns, the report revealed jails were not following the rules […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Burnside jail, Burnside jail quick facts, Burnside jail strike, Chris Collett, Clayton Cromwell, Deputy Minister of Justice Karen Hudson, Director of Correctional Services Sean Kelly, Dr. Robert Strang, El Jones, FOIPOP, Human Rights Commission, NDP Justice Critic Claudia Chender, NSCC Limitless, PC MLA Barbara Adams, PC MLA Chris D'Entremont, Solitary confinement

Court Watch: the lies we tell ourselves

April 5, 2017 By Christina Macdonald

In Court Christopher Garnier appears for bail revocation hearing On Tuesday, Justice Peter Rosinski began a two-day bail revocation hearing for Christopher Calvin Garnier, 29. Garnier is charged with the second degree murder of Truro police officer Catherine Campbell and with interfering with her remains. In December he was granted bail, but he was taken...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: Angela MacIvor, Anjuli Patil, Ben Marson, Catherine Campbell, Catherine Cogswell, Child Abuse Registry, Christopher Garnier, domestic violence, Gerry Post, Human Rights Commission, human trafficking, Income Assistance Appeal Board, Jeremy MacDonald, Judge Gregory Lenehan, Judge Michael Sherar, Justice Ann Smith, Justice Beryl MacDonald, Justice Frank Edwards, Kelly McKenna, Kristin Johnston, Lena Diab, Luke Merrimen, Mark Crosby, Maroun Diab, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, Nicholas Butcher, Owen Ross Gibson-Skeir, patio accessibility complaint, Paul Vienneau, Roger Burrill, Saher Hamdan, sexual assaults by cab drivers, Seyed Mirsaeid-Ghazi, Vince Garnier, Warren Reed

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

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

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