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The Bar Society’s governing council — ‘We’re supposed to be lawyers?’

Three-hour meetings have turned into seven-hour screaming matches with official agendas abandoned... Confidential deliberations have been leaked to the media before the minutes can be distributed... It's like high school but not nearly as much fun. Can even Doug Ruck save the provincial bar society from itself?

May 16, 2022 By Stephen Kimber

It only feels like I’ve been writing about the turmoil inside the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society for forever. For me, it began in 2016 with my fascination with what would become the society’s “longest, most expensive” — and still seemingly never-ended — professional misconduct case involving polarizing now-former lawyer Lyle Howe, an African Nova Scotian....

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Darrel Pink, Doug Ruck, Jacqueline Mullinger, Josie McKinney, lawyers, Lyle Howe, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Barristers' Society, Racism, Stephen Kimber, Tilly Pillay, Tuma Young

Waiting for answers as the Lionel Desmond inquiry wraps up

Can we ever really know why Lionel Desmond killed his wife, daughter, and mother, and then himself? Does that matter? Don't we know enough now about all that went wrong in the years and months leading up to the murder-suicide to begin demanding change on all fronts?

April 25, 2022 By Stephen Kimber Leave a Comment

Was Cpl. Lionel Desmond a victim of a foreign war, systemic racism and siloing of medical records, or was he a perpetrator of domestic violence who murdered the women closest to him? And how do we reconcile it if he was both? — Aaron Beswick Saltwire Network April 20, 2022 I don’t envy Warren Zimmer’s […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Commentary, Featured, Province House Tagged With: Adam Rogers, Afghanistan, Desmond Inquiry, Judge Warren Zimmer, Lionel Desmond, Lori Ward, Marie-Paule Doucette, mental illness, PTSD, Racism, Roderick Rogers, Stephen Kimber, Tara Miller, Thomas MacDonald, Upper Big Tracadie

Turmoil at the Nova Scotia Barristers Society, Take 32

The case of the "disappeared" governance review. And so it continues.

April 17, 2022 By Stephen Kimber

According to a new report on the inner workings of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society,“some council members are so concerned with being heard that they cannot listen… New members often feel dismissed and disrespected… Some members are focused on who speaks rather than what they have to say. In a system and implementation that is...

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Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: justice system, Lyle Howe, Nova Scotia Barristers' Society, Racism, Systemic discrimination

Black ice: Continuing the tradition of Black hockey in Nova Scotia and P.E.I.

April 6, 2022 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter Leave a Comment

Growing up as the only Black hockey player on Prince Edward Island, Ryan Maxwell said he knows what it’s like to stand out. Maxwell was five years old when he and his mother, Anne Maxwell, moved from Dartmouth, N.S., to Anne’s hometown of Charlottetown, P.E.I. With hockey roots on both sides of his family, Maxwell […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured, Journalism, News, Profiles Tagged With: African Nova Scotia history, African Nova Scotian, Black Ice, Black sports, Charlottetown, Matthew Byard, profiles, Racism, Ryan Maxwell, sports, Truro

Prosecutors appealing the sentence for man convicted in nail-gun shooting

March 24, 2022 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter Leave a Comment

An appeal hearing is scheduled for this morning where prosecutors will seek a harsher sentence for Shawn Wade Hynes, who was convicted of assault with a weapon and criminal negligence causing bodily harm. On September 19, 2018, Hynes, 43, shot 21-year-old Nhlanhla Dlamini with a nail gun and punctured his lung while they were working […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured Tagged With: Nhlanhla Dlamini, Nova Scotia, Racism, Shawn Wade Hynes

Black mother dissatisfied with school’s response to racist bullying of her children by white classmate

March 7, 2022 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter 1 Comment

A Black mother of students at Admiral Westphal Elementary in Dartmouth is raising concerns about the school’s handling of ongoing instances of racist bullying at the school that resulted in one of her children being called the N-word by a white classmate. She said she repeatedly tried to address the issue with the school. When […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Education, Featured Tagged With: Admiral Westphal Elementary, anti-Black racism, Becky Druhan, Dartmouth, Halifax Regional Centre for Education, Matthew Byard, Minister of Education, Nova Scotia, Racism

Cst. Andrew Joudrey testifies about his training in diversity, traffic stops at third day of Kayla Borden appeal hearing

December 15, 2021 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter 1 Comment

Cst. Andrew Joudrey testified on Day 3 of the appeal hearing into Kayla Borden’s complaints towards constables Scott Martin and Jason Meisner of the Halifax Regional Police. Joudrey was one of the officers on the scene July 28, 2020, the night Borden’s car was mistaken for a different coloured car driven by a white man. […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured, Policing Tagged With: Andrew Gough, Chief Dan Kinsella, Cst. Andrew Joudrey, Cst. Jason Meisner, Cst. Scott Martin, Devin Maxwell, Halifax Regional Police, Kayla Borden, Nasha Nijhawan, Nova Scotia Police Review Board, Racism

“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

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

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PRICED OUT

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PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

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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.

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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.

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.

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