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“We own beautiful.” The history of Black hair care in Nova Scotia

Morning File, Wednesday, February 12, 2020

February 12, 2020 By Suzanne Rent and Jennifer Henderson 6 Comments

News 1. Hospital parking garage Councillor Waye Mason says he’s “optimistic” that a “win-win” compromise over the parking garage for the new QEII hospital is possible after the city and province met on Friday afternoon. Yesterday, council voted to start the process of closing a part of the west side of Summer Street to co-locate […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: B.B.’s Hair Salon, Barbara Bowen, Beverley Mascoll, Black hair care, Carrie Parris Khan, Ceres terminal, Cosmetology Association of Nova Scotia, David Bailey, David Bentley, David Gough, Desmond School of Beauty Culture, Donalda MacIsaac, East Preston Church’s Empowerment Academy, Enid Parsons, freelance, Grafton Park, Hairdressing Association of Nova Scotia, Halifax Memorial Public Library, Halifax Military Heritage Preservation Society, heritage site, Jack Wongus, Jacques Dubé, Joan Beals, LaVernia Hill, Lillian Patterson, Mahogany's, mass graves, Natherine Willis, Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children, Philippe Aubert deGaspé, pre-primary, Rebecca Moore, Samantha Dixon Slawter, Soul Clippers, Styles by SD, The Black Beauty Culture Association, The Black Beauty Culture Hair Innovator, Toronto Mascoll Beauty Supply, Verna Colley, Verna Skinner, Viola Desmond, volunteering, Wanda Robson, Wet'suset'en protest

Cecil Clarke feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China: Morning File, Thursday, December 14, 2017

December 14, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

News 1. Of Citizens and Taxpayers “I can’t tell you how many times people have told me they dislike being addressed by governments as ‘taxpayers.’ They’re citizens,” writes Shirley Tillotson: But “citizen” in that sense — the broad thinker who sees taxes as the seed of all good things social — is a newish kind […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adom Patchett, Cape Breton Municipality, cat declawing ban, CBRM Mayor Cecil Clarke, CEDIF program failures, Community Economic Development Investment Fund (CEDIF), Delilah Saunders, doctor shortage, Doctors Nova Scotia, Don Mills, Fundy Tidal Inc. cease trade order, HRM free bus passes, Janet Knox, Marieke Walsh, Mary Campbell, Nancy MacCready-Williams, Nic Meloney, Patient's website criticizes East Coast Forensic Hospital, poll on political preferences in Nova Scotia, Rebecca Moore, respect, Richard Starr, secret trips to China, Trillium Gift of Life Network (TGLN)

Mayor Mike Savage to shill for Shaw Communications: Morning File, Tuesday, October 3, 2017

October 3, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 18 Comments

News 1. Cornwallis panelists to be discussed in secret Halifax council will today appoint the “special advisory committee” to determine what to do with the Cornwallis statue. The panel will comprise: • Co-chairs from indigenous and non-indigenous community with leadership and chairing experience • An even number of members with experience and expertise in the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Cornwallis statue advisory committee, council advisory committees, Courtney Jones, Evelyn White, Fireside, Glen Assoun, Gloria McCluskey, Good Robot Brewing Company, Johanna Galipeau, John Young, Kayla Hounsell, Kelly Costello, Lenore Zann, Linda Mosher, Rebecca Moore, Spring Garden Road ad, Spring Garden Road Business Association, Susan Leblanc, Sydney Waterfront redevelopment, Tom Wile, Tom's Little Havana, treaty rights and climate change, Wrongful Conviction Day

The Slippery Slope! Morning File, Saturday, August 19, 2017

August 19, 2017 By El Jones 12 Comments

1. Welcome to the Bond Building Some time last week, lawyers at the Legal Aid office on Spring Garden Road noticed that the signs in the building had been quietly changed. The building, which also houses the National Film Board and other businesses, was formerly named Cornwallis House. Now, the property has been renamed the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Black Anglicans, Chief Justice Sampson Salter Blowers, Codrington Plantation, Cornwallis House name change, Cynthia Jordan, Edward Cornwallis and slaves, El Jones, Frederick Cornwallis, Grace Skeir, King's College and the SPG, Malachy Salter, Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Centre, Nzingha Millar, Rebecca Moore, Remove Cornwallis event, Sherry Benteau, slave owning in Halifax, Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG), streets named for slave owners and colonizers

Wankers disrupt indigenous ceremony: Morning File, Tuesday, July 4, 2017

July 4, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 20 Comments

News 1. Wankers disrupt indigenous ceremony On Canada Day, some indigenous people and supporters held a ceremony at Cornwallis Park, where, as Adina Bresge reports for the Canadian Press: Organizer Rebecca Moore said dozens of people were gathered around the statue of Edward Cornwallis as British Columbia-native Chief Grizzly Mamma shaved her head in a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adina Bresge, Brett Bundale, Chief Grizzly Mamma, Halifax boomtown, Halifax Examiner Cape Breton Spectator collaboration, journalist subsidy, News Media Canada, Rebecca Moore, repeal Administrative Order #35, Steve Craig, wankers, Western Chauvinists

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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