Black News File

1. The Halifax Examiner visits Cherrybrook this Thursday

This Thursday from 6pm to 8pm the Halifax Examiner will be hostinga community session at the Black Cultural Centre in Cherrybrook.

哈利法克斯审查员正在研究有关新斯科舍省住房危机的报告系列，并正在访问社区，以聆听您希望我们涵盖的故事，想法，角度和问题。

Suzanne Rent will be hosting this Thursday’s session along with myself.

Guests must wear masks and seating will be spaced out for COVID-19 protocols.

There is limited seating for this meeting, so pleaseregister early at this link.

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2. Mutual Aid Park

Speaking of the housing crisis, last week the Examiner’sZane Woodford报道that:

“Aftermonthsofthreats, Halifax Regional Municipality moved in on homeless residents sleeping in parks on Wednesday, removing tents and Halifax Mutual Aid’s temporary shelters from Peace and Friendship Park, the Halifax Common, Horseshoe Island Park and the site of the former Halifax Memorial Library on Spring Garden Road.”

This took place the day after Tuesday’s election and culminated at the former Halifax Memorial Library site in a chaotic scene that lasted several hours and saw multiple people arrested. Multiple protestors and onlookers alike were pepper-sprayed by police, including a 10-year-old girl.

在第二天的新闻发布会上，哈利法克斯地区警察局长丹·金塞拉（Dan Kinsella）捍卫了部队的行动，称他们“做出了适当的回应”哈利法克斯审查员编辑蒂姆·布斯奎特（Tim Bousquet）将其描述为“燃气”的尝试。

At one housing encampment that remains in central Halifax, organizers have mobilized to help with things like keeping watch on the safety of those housed in the park, to work as liaisons to address noise complaints by the area’s residents, and to help clean up garbage in the neighbourhood as to not have any of it wrongly attributed to the encampment.

A series of community discussions and information sessions took place on Sunday at the encampment.

In between sessions, just before 4pm, it was announced to a round of applause that a donation of soup had been made for those living in the encampment, as well as the few dozen people on site attending the sessions and lending support.

Leah Buffett runs theMontessori House of Learning她教孩子生活技能，环境和社会正义问题（例如无家可归者）的重要性。她陪同他们的计划中的学生，包括两个孩子，因为他们是亲自提供帮助无家可归者的食物的人，她说这是她要让他们做的。

塔里·阿贾迪（Tari Ajadi）周日举办了其中一次会议。他最初来自尼日利亚，是英格兰的永久居民。他住在附近，他参加了周三在前图书馆的抗议。

Ajadi is a member of theNova Scotia Police and Policy Working Group.When speaking on the name where the encampment is located (Nick Meagher Community Park) he said there is a sad irony that ties in with Halifax’s dark history. Ajadi said:

“这个地方最初以Meagher的名字命名的那个人是Africville发生并批准的副市长。因此，换句话说……在某些方面，这个空间是这座城市种族主义遗产的一部分，就像旧的中央图书馆一样。So as a Black person, you know, I’m not African Nova Scotian, but I believe that it’s my role and duty as someone who’s coming here to try to help pick up in the lineage of organizing that’s existed here for hundreds of years.”

Ajadi is also on the board of theHealth Association of African Canadiansand is a part of非洲新斯科舍省十年为非洲血统联盟（DPAD）.

“I’m involved with everything but … I’m here because I saw what was happening and I think that when council evicts folks out of spaces, it’s a message as much as it is an explicit policy choice. It’s a message about who is and isn’t welcome, and we know what comes next with that.”

“The thing that comes next with that is that then they find the Black folks that are vulnerable.”

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3. Election Results: Houston, we have a dilemma

Nova Scotia’s 41^stelection on Tuesday, August 17 saw Tim Houston’s Progressive Conservatives win a majority government.

The election also saw a record total of four candidates of African descent elected to the legislature: two-time Liberal incumbent Tony Ince; Liberal newcomers Angela Simmonds and Ali Duale; and NDP newcomer Suzy Hansen.

Along with former MLAs Wayne Adams, Yvonne Atwell, Percy Paris, and Stephen Gough, there will now have been a total of eight Black MLAs to sit in the Nova Scotia legislature.

Political pundits and news outlets pondered what Tim Houston’s next steps will be with respect to his cabinet appointments. CTV pointed out that the cabinet would likely have to be “regionally balanced.” Political scientists predicted that there would likely have to be at least one cabinet minister who speaks French, one from Cape Breton, a significant amount of women, and many made predictions as to would or should be elected to the various cabinet positions.

然而，考官第一次强调蒂姆·休斯顿有没有黑色司法协助to choose from to appoint as minister of African Nova Scotian Affairs.

According to thelegislature’s website:

“Membership in the Executive Council is by appointment, and as such, a member does not necessarily have to be an elected Member of the House of Assembly.”

And so technically, Tim Houston could appoint one of the four Black MLAs from the other two parties, one of the three Black PC candidates from the recent election, or any number of talented Black Nova Scotians to the position.

Former Black PC candidate Irvine Carverypredicted Houston won’t go outside of his caucus for the appointment.

Angela Simmonds told the Examiner什么是considered “should have already been considered.”

As I wrote last week:

休斯顿肯定是他任命他选择的任何位置的人的权利。That said, it’s hard to fathom reasoning that would make sense in the minds of Black Nova Scotians as to why any number of talented and qualified Black Nova Scotians, including the four Black MLAs, would be passed over for a white person to oversee affairs pertaining to African Nova Scotians.

The new government will officially sworn in on August 31.

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4.非洲联合浸信会协会

Notwithstanding the BlackApex Golf Tournamentin Truro and the formerEmancipation Day在安大略省温莎（Windsor）的庆祝活动，直到1960年代，在过去的周末举行了加拿大整个黑人的年度最长的年度聚会。

The African United Baptist Association of Nova Scotia (AUBA) was founded in 1854. This past Saturday and Sunday the AUBA held its annual sessions and church service.

Hosted by Saint Thomas Baptist Church in North Preston, this year marked the second year in a row that the gathering was held virtually due to COVID-19.

鼓励人们在过去的星期日登录虚拟教堂服务。Truro的锡安浸信会教堂邀请其成员亲自聚集在教堂里，一起在投影仪屏幕上一起观看服务。

This year, the outgoing moderator of the AUBA, Reverend Rhonda Britton, welcomed the incoming moderator, Deacon David Provo.

在其网站的历史部分中，AUBA被描述为“远不止一个宗教组织 - 它是教育机会的中心，是社会变革的开拓者，并且对整个新斯科舍省的数百个黑人家庭仍然有很强的声音。透明

您可以在今年的虚拟服务Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia YouTube page.

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5. Afrocentric Learning Institute

TheAfrocentric Learning Institute (ALI)held a virtual panel discussion this past Thursday to discuss Defining Reparations in a Canadian Context.

阿里联合主席Harvey Millarwas the moderator. His guests were,Delvina Bernard,Dr. Isaac Saney, and西基亚·托马斯（Cikiah Thomas）。

In his opening remarks, Cikiah Thomas read how the UN’sCourt of International Justice, in fact, defines reparations:

非法行为的实际概念中包含的基本原则……必须尽可能地消除非法行为的所有后果，并重新建立这种情况，如果该法案没有，则可能存在的情况可能存在被犯下。

德尔维纳·伯纳德（Delvina Bernard）从非洲新斯科舍省的角度谈论了赔偿。

In his opening remarks, Dr. Isaac Saney said:

人们经常简单地将赔偿简单地减少为某种货币安排的想法。

这是改变世界的伙伴关系。

Reparations itself, as Delvina pointed out, and Cikiah, the reason why reparations resounds so much with people of African descent is because of the current present conditions that people live in. I don’t specifically need to go through the litany of all the indicators that have demonstrated that when you look at housing, healthcare, income, and so forth — people of African descent are often at the bottom of that ladder.

在开幕词之后，小组继续进行了公开讨论，并提出了虚拟观众的问题。

The full video of the virtual panel discussion can be viewed on the ‘Africentric Television Network’ Facebook page, or the Youtube channel ‘AfricentricTV’。

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