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George Elliott Clarke, the murderer, and the murdered woman

At one level, “‘Truth and Reconciliation’ versus ‘the Murdered and Missing’" was intended to be a serious academic lecture by one of Canada's most esteemed poets and social justice truth speakers. Somehow it all went wrong.

January 12, 2020 By Stephen Kimber

I don’t know George Elliott Clarke well, but I have known him for a long time. Back in the mid-1980s, before he became what the Globe and Mail recently called “a celebrated Canadian poet,” he was a young wannabe writer earning his actual living as a field worker for the Black United Front, a black...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bonnie Allen, George Elliott Clarke, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW), Pamela George, Steve Kummerfield, Woodrow Lloyd Lecture

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)

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Mo Kenney. Photo: Matt Williams

Episode #18 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Mo Kenney’s new record Covers is a perfect winter companion — songs from across the rock spectrum that she’s pared down to piano or guitar and turned them into sad ballads. She joins Tara to talk about choosing and arranging them, and opens up for a frank discussion of the alcohol dependency it took a pandemic for her to confront. Plus: Movies are back (again).

This episode is available today only for premium subscribers; to become a premium subscriber, click here, and join the select group of arts and entertainment supporters for just $5/month. Everyone else will have to wait until tomorrow to listen to it.

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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.

About the Halifax Examiner

Examiner folk The Halifax Examiner was founded by investigative reporter Tim Bousquet, and now includes a growing collection of writers, contributors, and staff. Left to right: Joan Baxter, Stephen Kimber, Linda Pannozzo, Erica Butler, Jennifer Henderson, Iris the Amazing, Tim Bousquet, Evelyn C. White, El Jones, Philip Moscovitch More about the Examiner.

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