With hundreds of thousands of approved vaccines now jabbed into arms across the province, a COVID-19 vaccine trial being conducted in Halifax is struggling to find participants. The COVID-19 vaccine candidate by Alberta-based Entos Pharmaceuticals is currently undergoing the first phase of human clinical trials in Halifax at the Canadian Centre for Vaccinology. “The vaccine […]
John Risley’s South African adventure
How did a Nova Scotia billionaire end up as the cash and clout behind an international court battle claiming a South African government-owned arms company owes hundreds of millions of dollars to an international arms dealer who claims he lost money after Nelson Mandela’s new democratically elected government refused to honour the arms dealer’s deal with the apartheid regime? How indeed?
On December 26, Boxing Day, I received an email with the subject line “JOHN CARTER RISLEY given his outrageous behaviour and bringing others to book in a huge scandal.” I quickly scanned the text of the email, and saw that, like the subject line, it contained lots of all caps, run-on sentences, and nonlinear thoughts. […]
Truth and Reconciliation: From South Africa to Halifax
El Jones interviews Ntombifikile Nkiwane.
Ntombifikile Nkiwane graduated from Dalhousie University in 2017 with a degree in Business. In her first year at Dalhousie, Ntombi organized the “How Would You React” campaign addressing racism on campus. Ntombi was active in the social justice community, and organized the solidarity march for Ferguson in August, 2014. Ntombi was active in the “Rhodes […]