[Image-1] The recent spate of north-end homicides last month evokes reflections on the haunting Leonard Cohen tune “There For You.” “Death is old, but it’s always new,” the late musician sang. “…And I was there for you.” Along with the mayhem at the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children, the jailing of Viola Desmond, […]
Evelyn White
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Halifax and Gaetan Dugas
[Image-1] “More than one comma.” Delivered with an impish grin, that’s the reply I received from author Randy Shilts when I asked, over a bowl of chowder, if he’d scored a decent advance for his new book project. It was 1991 and we were both in the Boston area, on leave from our jobs as […]
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Naiomi Metallic is the future that Canada’s legal system needs
[Image-1] On her path to a prestigious clerkship with the Supreme Court of Canada, Naiomi Metallic overcame many obstacles, including two fussy babies. Born near the Listuguj, Quebec reserve to a French-Canadian mother and a Mi’kmaq father, Metallic boarded a red-eye flight from Halifax to Ottawa for an early morning round of clerkship interviews in […]