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Nova Scotia

Historic Black community seeks to expand boundaries to better reflect original size

Residents of a historic Black community in the Halifax area have been working to have its boundaries expanded in an…

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Nova Scotia

Halifax gymnast Ellie Black wins Olympic sportsmanship award

Halifax gymnast Ellie Black says she feels honoured after winning an Olympic award that recognizes athletes who exemplify sportsmanship, the spirit of…

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Canada

New historical tour of The Bog helps gives Black newcomers to P.E.I. ‘a sense of welcome’

Tayo Agibaibi, a university student from Nigeria, says she felt “very new” when she came to Prince Edward Island two…

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Canada

The Cogswell Interchange is gone. What now for the Black families it uprooted?

Manny Grosse, 73, has lived his whole life in Halifax, most of it in public housing.  So have eight of…

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Nova Scotia

Have we seen the last of Ellie Black in Olympic competition? Maybe not

After competing in her fourth Olympics, Nova Scotian gymnast Ellie Black says she hasn’t determined if a fifth Olympics is in…

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Nova Scotia

Amherst unveils new monument honouring historic Black battalion that served in WW I

A new monument unveiled on Saturday in Amherst, N.S., honours the men who formed Canada’s only all-Black battalion in the…

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Nova Scotia

N.S. Black community prays for wounded, including 17-year-old girl, shot at reunion

A week after shots were fired during a reunion of former residents of a historic Black community in Halifax, a…

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Sports

Olympics: Canadian gymnast Ellie Black pushes the envelope in fourth Games

Ellie Black was once a non-factor on the uneven bars. She now has a skill named after her. The 28-year-old…

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Nova Scotia

Canadian gymnast Ellie Black pushes envelope in her 4th Olympic Games

Ellie Black was once a non-factor on the uneven bars. She now has a skill named after her. The 28-year-old…

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Canada

Calls for change as record 76 black bears killed in one B.C. city

Newly-released data shows a record 76 black bears were killed in Prince George in 2023, more than doubling previous years, as…

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