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  • [ March 11, 2023 ] Indigenous play part of Neptune Theatre’s upcoming season News
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March 28, 2023

Articles by Samantha Calio

About Samantha Calio
Samantha Calio is a graduate of the four-year journalism programme at the University of King's College in Halifax, N.S. She was an intern with Kukukwes.com for the month of April 2017.
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University prof studying rate of malocclusions among Mi’kmaq

May 3, 2017 Samantha Calio
An anthropologist at Saint Mary’s University is conducting research on the rate and severity of dental malocclusions among Mi’kmaw people in Atlantic Canada. Tanya Peckmann, a professor in the Anthropology Department at SMU in Halifax, […]
Maritimes

Two journalists weigh in on TRC Call-to-Action No. 86

April 28, 2017 Samantha Calio
Oscar Baker said he received no Indigenous education while he studied journalism at St. Thomas University in Fredericton. Baker, a Mi’kmaw with the Elsipogtog First Nation in New Brunswick, said Indigenous issues barely came up […]
Maritimes

NS Senator says Maritime journalism schools passively implementing TRC call-to-action

April 27, 2017 Samantha Calio
A Nova Scotia senator and Mi’kmaw activist says post-secondary journalism schools in the Maritime provinces are taking a “passive approach” in implementing the Truth and Reconciliation’s Call-to-Action to teach Indigenous history and issues to students. […]
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Halifax council vote to examine Cornwallis commemoration on city properties

April 26, 2017 Samantha Calio
Halifax Regional Council voted Tuesday to create an expert panel to examine and make recommendations on the issue of commemorating Edward Cornwallis on municipal properties that bear his name. The motion, which was brought forward […]
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Live Blog: Halifax Regional Council discuss name “Cornwallis” on municipal assets

April 25, 2017 Samantha Calio
Halifax Regional Council is expected to discuss today a motion regarding the name, “Cornwallis,” on municipal assets like parks and streets. The motion was made by Councillor Shawn Cleary who represents District 9: Halifax West […]
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Henneberry to give final arguments to have murder conviction overturned

April 13, 2017 Samantha Calio
One of two people serving life sentences for killing an Inuk woman from Labrador over rent money in 2014 will present her final arguments to the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal in Halifax Thursday on […]
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Live Blog: Day 1 of Victoria Henneberry appeal hearing

April 12, 2017 Samantha Calio
One of two people convicted of killing Inuk woman Loretta Saunders in Feb. 2014 is appealing her second-degree murder conviction. In April 2015, Victoria Henneberry and her then boyfriend, Blake Leggette, pleaded guilty killing the […]
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Loretta Saunders’ sister upset with killer appealing conviction

April 11, 2017 Samantha Calio
The sister of slain Inuk woman Loretta Saunders is upset that one of the killers is going ahead with appealing her murder conviction. “It’s a slap in the face,” Delilah Saunders said in a phone interview about Victoria […]

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