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Black News File

Stories from the Black community in the Maritimes, October 14 to October 24.

October 25, 2021 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter 1 Comment

1. Laura Daye passes away Laura Daye, the widow of the late Delmore “Buddy” Daye, passed away last Monday in hospital at the age of 90. Daye was a teacher assistant in special education and resource for 27 years. She was the youngest of 17 children. Daye was just a toddler when her own mother […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured Tagged With: 2020 US presidential election, Black News File, Bruce Frisko, Canada Emergency Response Benefit, Chief Dan Kinsella, Delmore Buddy Daye, Desmond Inquiry, El Jones, Fademasters, Halifax Regional Police, hip-hop, income assistance, Insp. Derrick Boyd, jazz, Kayla Borden, Laura Daye, Leslie Daye, Lionel Desmond, Lynn Jones, Martin David, Matthew Byard, Raymond Sheppard, Richard Walkinshaw, Robert Devet, The Brick, Tremayne “Trobiz” Howe

Weekend File

The articles we published from October 16 to 22, 2021.

October 23, 2021 By Suzanne Rent Leave a Comment

Welcome to Weekend File. Here are links to all the articles you might have missed last week. Jump to sections in this article: Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday     Sunday, October 17 1. White lawyer Nash Brogan and Black lawyer Lyle Howe are each charged with professional misconduct, but the Barristers Society is […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Albert Marshall, Allana Loh, Alton Gas, anti-vaxxer, Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness Area, Bunside, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS-NS), CBRM, COVID-19, CPAWS, Devin Maxwell, Disability, Disability Atlantic Arts Symposium, Eastern Front Theatre, Fademasters, fat bikes, Fat Juliet, Halifax, Halifax Board of Police Commissioners, Halifax Regional Council, Halifax Transit, Halifax’s License Appeal Committee, Harry Critchley, homelessness, housing crisis, Kayla Borden, Law Amendments Committee, Lionel Desmond, Lyle Howe, Mary Campbell, Nash Brogan, nicole gnazdowsky, Northern Pulp, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Barristers' Society, Nova Scotia Police Review Board, Peggy's Cove, Port Wallace, Raymond Sheppard, Shubenacadie River, Spring Garden Road, Stephen Kimber, Tremanye "Trobiz" Howe, urban legend, Valley Regional Hospital, Weekend File Oct 23 2021, Zane Woodford

Lionel Desmond was a victim of racism, cousin testifies at inquiry

Raymond Sheppard says racism within the Canadian Armed Forces contributed to Desmond's PTSD.

October 20, 2021 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter 1 Comment

It was two years ago this month that Raymond Sheppard first wrote in the former Nova Scotia Advocate about the role racism played in the case of his younger cousin, Lionel Desmond, who, in 2017, killed his wife, Shanna, mother, Brenda, and 10-year-old daughter, Aaliyah, before killing himself. Desmond who served in the Canadian Armed […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured, News Tagged With: anti-Black racism, Canadian Forces, Desmond Inquiry, Lionel Desmond, Nova Scotia, Racism, Raymond Sheppard

“We lost one of the good guys:” Robert Devet’s impact on African Nova Scotian stories

Activists said Devet was "one of the truest allies" and gave voice to the voiceless in the Black community.

October 15, 2021 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter 4 Comments

Poet and author Angela Bowden said before she ever met Robert Devet or knew his name she saw him at various social justice events in Halifax. “[He had] a tape recorder in one hand, notepad in the other, ready to create space, and provide a platform for every vulnerable and marginalized person, community, or circumstance,” […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: African Nova Scotia, Angela Bowden, anti-Black racism, anti-racism, Black Nova Scotians, El Jones, Lionel Desmond, Lynn Jones, Nova Scotia Advocate, poverty, Raymond Sheppard, Robert Devet, Unspoken Truth

Three years on a rusty ship

Morning File, Tuesday, December 31, 2019

December 31, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 12 Comments

Happy New Year’s Eve! We were going to have a quiet get-together with friends, but because the roads sound like they will be terrible, we’re staying home instead and I’m cooking dinner out of the great new Korean cookbook I got for Christmas. I hadn’t even twigged that it’s the end of the decade until […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: American Sign Language, Andrew Lapham, Brett Bundale, Brian Hayes, Canadarm, CBC, Charles Pullam-Moore, city fathers, Councillor Lorelei Nicoll, D&D Maritime, Doug Poulton, Emily Todd VanDerWerff, Emma Davie, free transit, George Lucas, Isaac Olson, Jane Eyre, Jim Balsillie, Jim Rich, John Risley, Linda Campbell, MacDonald Dettweiler and Associates Ltd, MADD Halifax, Maritime Sign language, Maxar Technologies, Minister Steven Guilbeault, MV Ethan, Nicholas Christenfeld, Northern Private Capital, Nova Scotia Advocate, Rachel Emmanuel, Raymond Sheppard, Richard Thompson, spoiler culture, Star Wars, Vyacheslav Borshchevskij

Understand how Andy Fillmore derailed a plan to demolish the Cogswell Interchange and you’ll understand how we got the Nova Centre

Morning File, Wednesday, May 9, 2018

May 9, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

News 1. The Halifax Examiner and Cape Breton Spectator’s exposé on the security failure Yesterday, the Halifax Examiner and Cape Breton Spectator went to court to ask Justice Gregory Lenehan to unseal a search warrant Halifax police executed on the house of a 19-year-old Halifax man suspected of illegally downloading information from the FOIPOP website. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andy Fillmore, Andy Fillmore's secret council meeting, CAO Jacques Dubé, Cape Breton Spectator, Cogswell Interchange demolition, cop stabbed, Cst. Andrew Gordon, Employment Systems Review, Hardman Group, HRM By Design, Ian Fairclough, Inglis Street fire, Jennifer Keesmaat, Joe Ramia, Nova Centre, Racism at City Hall, Raymond Sheppard, search warrant exposé, Tim Krochak, Zane Woodford

Environmental Bill of Rights proposed for Nova Scotia

April 24, 2017 By Jennifer Henderson

Nova Scotia needs nothing short of an Environmental Bill of Rights if it wants to ensure its citizens can drink clean water, breathe clean air, and hold their governments accountable to make polluters pay. That’s the position of a coalition of Nova Scotia environmental groups which celebrated Earth Day by unveiling an Environmental Bill of...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Dorene Bernard, Environmental Bill of Rights, Environmental Racism, Jonathan Beadle, Lenore Zann, Lisa Mitchell, Louise Delisle, Marlene Brown, Raymond Sheppard

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.

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