Robert S. Wright, MSW, RSW

• 2016/10/18:  In this CBC article and audio we discuss diversity versus regionalism and how systemic racism has reached the highest levels of our Justice system:http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova- scotia/supreme-court-appointment-aboriginal-indigenous-african-canadian-diversity-1.3809776

• 2016/10/08:  This coast article includes some comments I made in an interview about systemic issues that contribute to violence in African Nova Scotian communities:  http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/before-the-murder-and-after-the-life-of-tyler-richards/Content?oid=5846049

• 2016/07/19:  In this article from The Daily Press, myself and colleagues discuss that increasing diversity within the Canadian judiciary is necessary for the system as a whole to heal:
  http://www.pressreader.com/canada/the-daily-press-timmins/20160719/281599534847566

• 2016/07/18:  Michael Tutton of the Globe and Mail outlines comments from myself and other professionals about the need for diversity on the bench:
  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/advocates-call-for-racial-diversity-as-figures-show-judiciary-of-whiteness/article30959027/

• 2016/05/26:  Moira Donovan of CBC outlines my thoughts on the reality that while cultural assessments are valuable to the justice system, systemic racism requires a much larger solution:
  http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/cultural-assessments-social-worker-1.3601904

• 2016/05/24:  Adina Bresge of the Canadian Press discusses the decision of a Nova Scotia Supreme Court Judge to postpone sentencing of an African Nova Scotian man convicted of murder pending completion of a cultural assessment:
  https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/05/24/judge-will-consider-murderers-cultural-assessment-in-sentencing.html

• 2016/05/24:  A Maclean's article in which the most recent court case involving a cultural assessment of an African Nova Scotian offender is discussed:  http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/report-to-assess-role-of-killers-cultural-background-in-halifax-shooting/

• 2016/05/13:  A CTV news story in which I discuss cultural assessments and their use in the criminal justice system after the courts allowed one to be included in the sentencing report of a high-profile murder case:http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/lawyers-order-cultural- assessment-in-high-profile-murder-case-1.2901762

• 2015/09/18:  This article by Michael Lightstone featured in the Chronicle Herald discussed a panel in which I addressed members of the Nova Scotia Branch of the Canadian Bar Association and the public.  The topic was increasing diversity among members of the judiciary in Canada:http://thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/1312066-increasing-diversity-among-canada%E2%80%99s-judiciary

• 2015/08/08: ​ An article by Mary Ellen MacIntyre in the Chronicle Herald outlined my impressions of proposed ammendments to the Children and Family Services Act: http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1304006-abused-neglected-nova-scotia-youth-in-late-teens-may-get-help

• 2015/08/06:  A media release issued by our colleagues at South House which articulates our concerns about the proposed ammendments to the Children and Family Services Act:http://southhousehalifax.ca/2015/08/service- providers-concerned-duty-to-report-changes-will-deter-youth-from-disclosing-sexual-assault/

• 2015/05/05:  A feature in the Cape Breton Post written by David Jala after I gave a lecture on male victims of sexual abuse organized by Every Woman's Centre: http://www.capebretonpost.com/living/2015/5/5/male-victims-of-sexual-abuse-encourgaed-4135848.html

• 2015/03/09:  This four part series found on CBC News highlights my involvement in completing the first impact of race and culture assessment on an African Nova Scotian youth convicted of attempted murder:  http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/colour-of-justice-part-3-the-defence-1.2986750

• 2014/11/10:  Here, Halifax Magazine featured the work of Ceasefire.  I currently support their work and was involved in their earlier planning:

      http://halifaxmag.com/cover/curing-the-violence/

• 2014/08/14:  I wrote this article published in The Coast.  I offer some perspective on ways the justice system has failed African Nova Scotians and a discussion of where the criminalization of black communities is rooted:  

  http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/voice-of-the-  

  city/Content?oid=4389699

• 2014/08/07:  Sherri Borden Colley of the Chronicle Herald discusses the Metro Care and Share Society project that Mel Boutilier, Dennis Graves, and myself reactivated after it closed some time ago:http://thechronicleherald.ca/metro/1227882-mel- boutilier-back-at-charity-work
• 2014/06/09:  This article by Sherri Borden-Colley featured the story of one of the men of ManTalk and reviewed the work that we are doing.  It made the first page of the Chronicle Herald:http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1213282-  mantalk-help-for-sexually-abused-men