Black Nova Scotian

• Premier reconsidering choice of non-Black deputy in African N.S. affairs office

  Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston says his government is re-examining its decision to appoint a deputy minister who is not Black to the Office of African Nova Scotian Affairs.

  Canada

  Oct 7, 2021
  
• Nova Scotian trailblazer Clotilda Yakimchuk remembered as a ‘super-nurse’

  Clotilda Yakimchuk, a retired nurse from Whitney Pier, passed away on Thursday with COVID-19.

  Canada

  Apr 16, 2021
  
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• A new poetry award named for Maxine Tynes and the significance it carries

  Maxine Tynes was a celebrated poet, teacher, and lifelong resident of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

  Features

  Feb 26, 2021
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• Man claims Yarmouth hotel wouldn’t rent to him because he’s from the area. He says it’s because he’s Black

  Wayne Stevens was told by the Best Western hotel in Yarmouth that he could not rent a room because he is from the area. Wayne Stevens thinks it is a policy used to discriminate.

  Features

  Jan 28, 2021
• ‘I won that fight,’ N.S. boxer Custio Clayton says after majority draw in championship title

  Nova Scotian Custio Clayton fought Kazakhstani boxer Sergey Lipinets in his U.S. debut on Saturday night.

  Canada

  Oct 25, 2020
• Halifax urged to address north end gentrification as municipal election nears

  'African Nova Scotian community members are being squeezed out of their homes and communities because of untenable increases in rent and housing prices.'

  Canada

  Oct 12, 2020
• Art depicting Viola Desmond displayed on building where she was arrested in 1946

  Desmond's story went largely untold for a half-century, but in recent years she has been featured on a stamp, and her name graces a Halifax harbour ferry.

  Canada

  Oct 3, 2020
• ‘Blindsided’: Black Nova Scotians say their community was left out of new restorative process

  'Whatever this process is, the design process, it really hasn’t been engaged with any kind of broad consultation with the African Nova Scotian community.'

  Politics

  Sep 30, 2020
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• Walk with Demario: Community unites for teen subjected to violent arrest in Bedford

  'It feels great to know the community's here to back me up, and we're standing for something, and that's always a great thing.'

  Canada

  Sep 8, 2020