The now-available video of the bar society’s incoming president’s remarks to the annual general meeting puts a new — and more hopeful — spin on what she actually said than the one I suggested in last week’s column. In last week’s column about the annual meeting of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society — “NS Bar […]
Can we ever really know why Lionel Desmond killed his wife, daughter and mother, and then himself? Does that matter? Don’t we know enough now about all that went wrong in the years and months leading up to the murder-suicide to begin demanding change on all fronts? Judge Warren Zimmer (Twitter) Was Cpl. Lionel Desmond […]
It’s clear the Houston government has more work to do when it comes to confronting racism in this province and repairing its relations with the Black community. Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston fired an anonymous staffer in the Justice Department for social media comments about Angela Simmonds he says are racist. The news late last […]
What the Mounties are saying is simply this: Yes, street checks do disproportionately affect African Nova Scotians. But no, that’s not our fault. If you get street checked because you’re Black, well… that’s your problem. You’re Black. And so it goes. Photo: Halifax Examiner So, on the one hand, the RCMP “acknowledges the disproportionate harm […]
Houston began his week in office pressing (yet another) reset on our healthcare mess. He ended it needing to press reset on his relations with the province’s African Nova Scotian community. Premier Tim Houston, interim CEO Karen Oldfield and CEO of the Office of Health Care Professionals’ Recruitment Dr. Kevin Orrell. (Communications Nova Scotia) So, […]
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