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Arise Ye Nova Scotia Slaves: Morning File, Friday, February 10, 2017

February 10, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

News 1. Teachers reject contract The Nova Scotia Teachers Union sent out the following release last night: Teachers reject tentative agreement Nova Scotia’s 9,300 public school teachers have voted to reject a third tentative agreement reached between the Nova Scotia Teachers Union and the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development since the opening of […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Carrie Best, Cassie Williams, Chronicle Herald talks break down, Evelyn White, Ingrid Bulmer, James Calbert Best, Karen Casey, Liette Doucet, Teachers reject contract, The Clarion, Viola Desmond

Viola Desmond, Carrie Best, and serving face

A Black journalist and her newspaper championed Desmond's cause

December 9, 2016 By Evelyn C. White 1 Comment

Having abandoned my dream to become a prison warden, I came late to a journalism career.  There was one other Black woman at the San Francisco Chronicle when I joined the staff, as a rookie reporter, in the mid-1980s. But having had a falling out with the powers-that-be over the paper’s lackluster coverage of the local Black […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Journalism Tagged With: Carrie Best, Constance Backhouse, Erin Moore, Lucille Clifton, Mayann Francis, Pictou Advocate, The Clarion, Viola Desmond

The Wrongful Conviction of Glen Assoun

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.

Click here to read the Halifax Examiner's extensive reporting on the case.

DEAD WRONG

A botched police investigation and a police coverup shed light on the murders of dozens of women in Nova Scotia.

Click here to go to the DEAD WRONG home page.

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