After yesterday’s reflection on last year’s events affecting African Nova Scotians, here Raymond Sheppard turns his attention to the future and presents his wish list for 2020. It’s a good one!
Raymond Sheppard reflects on the year that was. Stay tuned for part 2, a wish list for 2020, tomorrow.
I went to the rally of Northern Pulp and forestry workers at Province House. It will be a sad day tomorrow no matter what McNeil decides.
Stand together for closure of Boat Harbour treatment facility on schedule. Thursday December 19, 11 AM, Pictou Landing First Nation. Bring cookies!
Judy Haiven takes a look Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board, and finds patronage and some godawful judges.
Raymond Sheppard reflects on what it means to be Black parents setting out to raise confident and happy kids.
Some 30 protesters rallied at the Gottingen Street police station this afternoon, demanding an end to police brutality and anti-Black racism. The immediate reason for the rally was the violent arrest and pepper spraying of a Black man on Quinpool Road by Halifax police.
New police powers allow for impaired driving tests without a valid reason to believe that drivers are actually impaired, and that spells trouble for Black Nova Scotians, a lawyer says.
“Like in law enforcement, criminal justice, housing, employment, education racism also plays a role in the healthcare system. How could it not be,” writes Raymond Sheppard. “To address disparities in healthcare, those involved in the delivery of healthcare must first acknowledge that discrimination and anti-Black racism in the system are real.”
Raymond Sheppard on a long wait with his sick grandson at the IWK ER. “I had concluded we were being overlooked and left at the back of the bus because of our ethnicity.”