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A coalition for Black voices in Nova Scotia

Since 2015, the African Nova Scotian Decade for People of African Descent Coalition has been working on issues in the Black community, including justice, health, education, employment, and social services.

November 17, 2021 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter Leave a Comment

Earlier this fall when Premier Tim Houston announced that Pat Dunn, a white man, would be the new Minister of African Nova Scotian Affairs, Vanessa Fells immediately started getting phone calls from media asking her for comment on Dunn’s appointment. “When things like that happen, our members only meet once a month,” Fells said. “So, […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured Tagged With: African Nova Scotia Affairs, African Nova Scotian Decade for People of African Descent Coalition (ANSDPAD), Black community, Black Cultural Centre of Nova Scotia, Brad Johns, Brandon Rolle, Canada, CBC, Culture and Heritage, Department of Communities, Dr. Késa Munroe-Anderson, Dr. OmiSoore Dryden, Emancipation Day, Human Rights Commission, International Decade for People of African Descent, Joan Jones, justice institute, Mark Furey, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Decade for People of African Descent Coalition (NSDPAD), Nova Scotia Legal Aid, Pat Dunn, Premier Tim Houston, RCMP, Rocky Jones, Scot Wortley, Stephen McNeil, street checks, the Wortley Report, Tony Ince, UN General Assembly, United Nations, Vanessa Fells

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, August 31 to September 6, 2021.

September 7, 2021 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter Leave a Comment

1. It’s all white, so it’s all right! (Part 1) The new provincial PC majority government was sworn in last Tuesday, including the new Minister of African Nova Scotian Affairs, the Office of Equity and Anti-Racism Initiatives, as well as Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage — Pat Dunn. Premier Tim Houston faced questions and criticism […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured Tagged With: African Nova Scotians, Black MLAs, Black News File, Black News File Sept 7 2021, Black Nova Scotians, Colter Simmonds, culture, Department of African Nova Scotian Affairs, Department ommunities, Diggstown, Dr. Késa Munroe-Anderson, Dr. OmiSoore Dryden, East Preston, Equity and Anti-Racism Initiatives, FIN Atlantic Film Festival, Floyd Kane, George Elliott Clarke, Joan Jones, Justin Huston, Pat Dunn, Percy Paris, Premier Tim Houston, Rocky and Joan, Rocky Jones, Saint Mary's University, Tourism and Heritage

Halifax cops and Black people: the Rodney Small case

Morning File, Thursday, June 4, 2020

June 4, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Police and Black people in Halifax The police murder of George Floyd is highlighting what Black people have known forever: there is too much policing. On Tuesday, Sarah Dobson drew our attention to the Halifax case of Rodney Small, then a 15-year-old living in Uniacke Square. An appellant court ruling explained the (alleged) […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alex Mason, anti-Black racism, anti-Black violence, Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), Constable Donald Stienburg, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dr. Robert Strang, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Heather Cameron, Judge Corinne Sparks, Justice Gerald B Freeman, Justice John Edward Flinn, Justice Ronald Newton Pugsley, living wage, minimum wage, pandemic, police violence, Premier Stephen McNeil, Robert Lutes, Rocky Jones, Rodney Small, Sarah Dobson, shit wages, street checks

Wilson-Raybould, Churchill? Evidence our legislative committee systems don’t work

The committees don't work, of course, because of the people in charge. But the system itself makes that failure possible, even inevitable.

April 7, 2019 By Stephen Kimber

Quick now, what does Judy Wilson-Raybould v Justin Trudeau, Gerald Butts, Michael Wernick et al have in common with Zach Churchill v Tim Houston, Ramona Jennex, Denise Peterson-Rafuse et al? Well yes, of course, both feature all-powerful political bosses — Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of SNC-Lavalin infame and Liberal Premier Stephen McNeil of the Yarmouth ferry...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: Joan Jones, Judy Wilson-Raybould, justice, Rocky Jones, Zach Churchill

How Vaportecture is used to obscure Canada Land’s untendered sale of land for a Shannon Park stadium

Morning File, Tuesday, April 2, 2019

April 2, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Joan Baxter and Jennifer Henderson on Northern Pulp This evening at 7pm, Joan Baxter will be interviewed by Jennifer Henderson on stage at the St. Margaret’s Centre in Tantallon. From the Facebook event page: Incisive, no nonsense, take no prisoners. Joan Baxter’s brilliant exposé “The Mill – Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest” […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anthony Leblanc, Bay Ferries, biomass, Canada Lands, Catherine Tully, FOIPOP request Yarmouth ferry, Jennifer Henderson, Joan Baxter, Joan Jones, Joanne Bernard, Justice Peter Rosinski, Kristen Hare, Lisa Manninger, Neil deMause, Nicole LaFosse Parker, PC lawsuit, percent, Rocky Jones, Schooners Sports and Entertainment (SSE), Scott Campbell, Shannon Park, Sport Nova Scotia, stadium, stadium rendering, Stephen Archibald and Encounter at Kwacha House, Tim Houston, Vaportecture, Wendie Poitras, Woman Hailing a Cab

Race in Nova Scotia: one small step forward, another giant leap into the past

Back in the fall of 1968, Stokely Carmichael’s mere presence scared the hell out of Halifax. Are there lessons for today?

December 2, 2018 By Stephen Kimber

Last month, the Bank of Canada released its new $10-banknote featuring an image of Viola Desmond, the iconic Canadian civil rights pioneer who refused to give up her seat in the whites-only section of the Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow in 1946, and touched off this country’s modern civil rights era nine years before Rosa...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: Black United Front, Isaac Saney, Racism, Rocky Jones, Viola Desmond $10 bill

Revolutionary – Burnley “Rocky” Jones: Examineradio, episode #82

October 7, 2016 By Russell Gragg 1 Comment

Halifax Examiner Saturday columnist El Jones speaks with Jim Walker, a noted History professor at the University of Waterloo and a member of the Order of Canada. Walker is the co-author of a recent (auto)biography of iconic black activist and lawyer Burnley “Rocky” Jones. Also, The Borg Ship has stalled out on Argyle Street, with an […]

Filed Under: Featured, Province House Tagged With: El Jones, Examineradio, Jim Walker, Joe Ramia, living wage, Nova Centre, podcast, Rocky Jones

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.

Subscribe to the podcast to get episodes automatically downloaded to your device — there’s a great instructional article here. Email Suzanne for help.

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