News 1. Stop the Cogswell misfire! Today, writes Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler: …city councillors will convene to decide on what will take the place of the Cogswell Interchange. They will have spent the weekend with a staff report featuring this drawing of a 60 per cent complete design of the new street network, including […]
How Randy Symonds experienced racism at Halifax Transit
Morning File, May 30, 2018
News 1. Randy Symonds The Human Rights Commission yesterday released a decision of its Board of Inquiry, which was looking at racism at the Halifax Transit garage in Burnside. The complainant is referred to as Y.Z., a white man who began working in the garage in 1979. In May of 1982, Y.Z. married a Black […]
Abdoul Abdi’s defenders are “piling on,” complain government lawyers who are trying to deport him
I went to court today because arguments were being made in the Abdoul Abdi case about whether the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and Justice for Children and Youth would be granted intervenor status. Earlier in the day, the city had apologized for allowing “racism to fester unchallenged at Halifax Transit.” Reading the report, my main […]