The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Nova Scotia has had its first death from COVID-19, a woman in her 70s who is described as having underlying medical conditions. She died in hospital in the Nova Scotia Health Authority’s Eastern Zone. The Examiner has graphed the spread of the disease in Nova […]
Black people already struggle to breathe in Canada. Ignoring us during this COVID-19 crisis will only make it worse.
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Black women are concentrated in frontline health care work. The agricultural industry employs large numbers of Black migrant workers who are affected by border closures. New State of Emergency declarations raise concerns about the intensification of racial profiling directed at Black communities. Black people make […]
Hateful slurs disrupt online gatherings
随着种族化和边缘化社区的响应于19 Covid-19，他们越来越成为有组织的种族主义和性别歧视攻击的目标。
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The social isolation measures around COVID-19 have caused communities to adapt quickly to new forms of interacting. As in-person gatherings have shut down, online platforms have become popular places not only for business meetings and university lectures, but also for music performances, information forums, protests, […]
A man in mental distress died after police used a taser on him
The police are not trained mental health workers. They are not doctors, nurses, social workers, paramedics, or any other kind of medical expert. They are not trained in public health. Over and over again, when they have been called by families to help people in crisis, they have responded by harming and even killing the people they are supposed to be helping. And now, at the very same time as the death of a man who was allegedly self-harming is being investigated, we are supposed to trust that the police are an appropriate response to the public health crisis of COVID-19.
SIRT is investigating after police say they responded to a report that a man was harming himself. The police used a stun gun on him, and the man died in hospital. According to a SIRT release: The province’s independent Serious Incident Response Team is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 28-year-old man in […]
Nova Scotia’s Director of Correctional Services suggests that being in jail is safer than being in the broader community. That’s just false
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. In a letter submitted to the courts, John Scoville, the Director of Correctional Services, outlines protective measures taken to avoid a outbreak of COVID-19, and then ends with the suggestion that being in jail is safer than being in the broader community during the pandemic: […]
埃尔·琼斯（El Jones）在伯恩赛德（Burnside）采访了一名囚犯，以了解大流行期间入狱的感觉
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The prisoner El Jones spoke with last week provides an update on the situation at the Burnside jail. What’s happening in Burnside right now? Things are starting to deteriorate in here. Programs, resources, everything’s basically becoming non-existent. Have any health officials been in to talk […]
Clearing out the jails
In an extraordinary effort to avoid a COVID-19 outbreak, many prisoners were released this weekend.
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. This weekend, something extraordinary happened in a Dartmouth provincial courtroom. Since the onset of the COVID-19 epidemic, advocates have publicly called for the province to address the danger of the virus spreading in provincial jails. Over the weekend, Chief Judge Pamela Williams met that call, […]
We face a public health emergency, and criminalizing the marginalized can worsen the crisis
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Nova Scotia has just declared a State of Emergency. Measures taken include a ban on gatherings over five people, the ability of the police to fine individuals and businesses breaking social isolation, the ability of the police to enter property, and the seizure of vehicles […]
Racist tropes about COVID-19 echo the long history of anti-Asian stereotyping
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. For the past week, as criticism of Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis has intensified, Trump has deliberately emphasized calling the disease the “Chinese Virus.” Trump’s strategy deliberately racializes the disease, and singles out and scapegoats Chinese people. The tactic stokes fear and hatred […]
“People are freaking out”: prisoners fear COVID-19 outbreak in jail
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The following is a transcript of a phone interview I had today with a prisoner in the Burnside jail. On Monday, a coalition of advocacy groups sent a letter to Corrections calling for a number of actions to intervene before COVID-19 becomes a crisis in […]
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