Finalist for the 2011 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction On behalf of the Nova Scotia government, I sincerely apologize to Mrs. Viola Desmond's family and to all African Nova Scotians for the racial discrimination she was subjected to by the justice system ... We recognize today that the act for which Viola Desmond was arrested, was an act of courage, not an offence. -- Darrell Dexter, Premier of Nova...