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North Preston residents raise concerns, want apology after emergency alert sends out “false information”

April 12, 2022 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter 2 Comments

Residents of North Preston are raising concerns over a province-wide emergency alert issued Friday night they say contained misinformation connecting North Preston to reports of gunshots. Archy Beals, the former PC MLA candidate for the area, said he and his wife were leaving the Black Cultural Centre Friday night when they saw two unmarked police […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured, News, Policing Tagged With: African Nova Scotia, Angela Simmonds, Archy Beals, Black Nova Scotians, Cherrybrook, crime, East Preston, guns, MLA Angela Simmonds, North Preston, Preston, RCMP Nova Scotia, Wayne Adams

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

Firing a staff member for racist comments is a start, but…

It's clear the Houston government has more work to do when it comes to confronting racism in this province and repairing its relations with the Black community.

October 31, 2021 By Stephen Kimber

The news late last week that a Tory staffer had been fired for making racist comments about Liberal MLA Angela Simmonds is interesting on a number of levels. First, of course, is that it happened at all. Not that the racist comments were made. But that they had consequences. Apparently, the unidentified staffer, who worked...

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Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Halifax street checks, MLA Angela Simmonds, Premier Tim Houston, Racism

Growing Spring Garden

Morning File, Wednesday, October 20, 2021

October 20, 2021 By Ethan Lycan-Lang 2 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp is demanding “more than $100 million” from the province Joan Baxter has the latest chapter in the Northern Pulp saga: “Northern Pulp — a Paper Excellence company that belongs ultimately to the billionaire corporate empire of the Widjaja family of Indonesia — is giving the Nova Scotia government two months notice […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: affordable housing, Affordable Housing Commission, Annapolis Valley, autumn, Barbara Adams, Brycon Construction Limited, Burnside, Cheryl Smith, Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Robert Strang, COVID-19, Effluent Treatment Facility, Ethan Lycan-Lang, fixed election dates, former Premier John Hamm, Halifax Infirmary, Halifax Regional Council, Joan Baxter, John Hamm, Justice Minister Brad Johns, Mayor Mike Savage, MLA Angela Simmonds, Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister John Lohr, Northern Pulp, Nova Scotia Health Authority's Western Zone, nurse practitioners, Paper Excellence, Premier Tim Houston, Randy Delorey, RCMP, Spring Garden Road, Valley Regional Hospital, Widjaja, Zane Woodford

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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