Saturday, 2 May 2026

Racism

PSA: COVID-19 isn’t the only virus in our health-care system; confronting racism in health care

PSA: “Doctors Nova Scotia (DNS) stands in solidarity in the fight against anti-Black racism, violence and injustice toward people of African descent in the U.S. and across the world.” Includes links to stories about former Nova Scotia Lieutenant Governor Mayann Francis and Dr. Lynn Jones about their separate harrowing and humiliating experiences in Nova Scotia hospitals when they were ill and at their most vulnerable.

Racial profiling complaint before Nova Scotia Police Review Board may let officers off the hook because Halifax Regional Police missed legal deadline

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A complaint lodged by a Halifax couple who believe that they were racially profiled by Halifax Regional Police (HRP) hit a procedural hurdle at this morning’s Nova Scotia Police Review Board meeting. The issue had nothing to do with the complaints, and everything with HRP screwing up and not following due process. The disturbing part is that it may let the accused cops off the hook before the tribunal, scheduled to last two days, even gets started for real.

“There’s an awful lot of people out there that have been made aware of this in a way that they never have before” – On the staying power of the anti-policing protests

The current protests against police brutality and systemic racism are about more than individual misdeeds by racist cops. Calls for abolishing and defunding the police are entering the mainstream, indicating that people want the underlying systemic causes addressed. We talk with Errol Sharpe of Fernwood Publishing and Dr. Lynn Jones to understand what is new about the protests.

PSA: Statement on behalf of Clarissa Crawley

This statement is being made on behalf of Clarissa Crawley and is in response to the flurry of wrong information to the public, and damaging racially charged hate circulating on social media and elsewhere.

Pick up the phone, it’s your conscience ringing!

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“And somebody besides me must remember how their parents did not allow Black boys and Black girls into their homes, so we had to sneak in and sneak out of their homes and their parties.” Angela Bowden wonders when white people will finally come to acknowledge all the aggression and contempt heaped upon Black Nova Scotians at the most intimate levels.

Press release: Can NSCAD afford to lose president Mac Namara: Nova Scotia’s world class art university removes anti-racist president from duties

Press release issued by the NS Arts Educators Society: “The Board of Governors’ decision to remove President Aoiffe Mac Namara from her duties at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design appears to deny her efforts to lead the University through systemic anti-racism changes. We believe this jeopardizes the future of the University’s reputation as a world leader in fine arts education,”