News 1. "Conquered people" secrecy "The Nova Scotia government has won another temporary victory in its attempts to keep court documents sealed relating to a controversial brief that suggested the Mi'kmaq in Nova Scotia were a conquered people," reports Jean Laroche for the CBC: On Wednesday, Supreme Court of Canada Justice Russell Brown sided with the province and … [Read More...]
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The shameful and cowardly political non-response to the Assoun case
News 1. The shameful and cowardly political non-response to the Assoun case "No one in authority wants to talk about the wrongful murder conviction of Glen … [Read More...]
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Politicians are doubling down on the injustice done to Glen Assoun
News 1. Glen Assoun deserves immediate compensation From the court documents released Friday related to the Assoun case, I've come to understand three broad … [Read More...]
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Misconduct, prejudice, laments and lies
News 1. Halifax police, RCMP, and Crown misconduct Tim dives into the court documents released Friday regarding the Glen Assoun wrongful conviction and finds two sets of police misconduct. The first set of misconduct was when Halifax police … [Read More...]
The Assoun wrongful conviction: How Halifax police, RCMP, and prosecutorial misconduct sent an innocent man to prison and kept him there for nearly 17 years
For background on this story, see my 2016 series, "Dead Wrong." In the late 1990s, Halifax police were dealing with a disturbing number of unsolved murders, and in 1997, an RCMP–Halifax police task force, “Operation Full Course,” was established … [Read More...]
Who’s not telling the truth? Bay Ferries? The Nova Scotia government? US Border Services? All of the above?
No! Really? Couldn’t be. But there it was. In virtual black and white. “If Yarmouth ferry sailed even once this year, it would be productive: official,” read the headline over CBC reporter Jean Laroche’s piece last week about the latest twisty turn … [Read More...]
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The Assoun wrongful conviction: How Halifax police, RCMP, and prosecutorial misconduct sent an innocent man to prison and kept him there for nearly 17 years
For background on this story, see my 2016 series, "Dead Wrong." Court documents released on Friday reveal how Glen Assoun … [Read More...]
A victory for open courts: Justice James Chipman finds in favour of the media and unseals the Assoun file
Justice James Chipman today ruled for the Halifax Examiner, the CBC, and the Canadian Press in our application to unseal … [Read More...]
BREAKING: RCMP destroyed information that would have suggested serial killer Michael McGray murdered Brenda Way; that destroyed information likely would have cleared Glen Assoun in the murder
This is a breaking news story. More information will be published later today. Newly unsealed court documents in the Glen … [Read More...]
Changing the racist names of Nova Scotia’s geographic locations
News 1. Report in Assoun case to be released today Tim is over at the courthouse this morning where a report from the … [Read More...]
The Cabot Links airport uses a “social enterprise” designation created for farmers’ markets
News 1. Halifax Transit turns down electric buses "City staff are 'mothballing' an electric bus pilot project for which … [Read More...]
Janet Knox: helping people develop a healthy lifestyle would be a better investment of health care dollars
About 150 people turned up for the annual general meeting of the Nova Scotia Health Authority in Truro yesterday. The NSHA … [Read More...]
Who killed the electric bus? Halifax Transit turns down electric bus funding, opts to stick with diesel instead
City staff are “mothballing” an electric bus pilot project for which council had already approved $1 million in funding, in … [Read More...]
Was Trevor O’Neil’s death preventable?
The Herald’s shipping columnist Peter Ziobrowski writes movingly this morning of a workplace fatality at Irving Shipyard last … [Read More...]
New top cop Dan Kinsella: no racial profiling, just “some inequalities, some negative experiences”
News 1. New police chief won't say "racial bias" Dan Kinsella, the new Halifax police chief was a guest on CBC Radio's … [Read More...]
Is executive fraud behind the bankruptcy of VistaCare Communications?
News 1. Power rates "Nova Scotia Power has filed an application that would see power rates rise 1.5% a year for … [Read More...]
Nova Scotia Power seeks three annual rate increases of 1.5% for residential customers
Nova Scotia Power has filed an application that would see power rates rise 1.5% a year for residential customers in each of … [Read More...]
The Assoun wrongful conviction: the McNeil connection
News 1. Northern Pulp Mill's missing environmental data "If Premier Stephen McNeil is wavering on the Northern Pulp / … [Read More...]
Northern Pulp Mill’s missing environmental data
Cover photo courtesy Gerard James Halfyard. If Premier Stephen McNeil is wavering on the Northern Pulp / Paper Excellence … [Read More...]
Don’t worry. Be happy. That’s only your tax dollars you see sinking
So Lloyd “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” Hines has returned from his airplane flight-of-fancy to Washington — the ferry portion of … [Read More...]
Pandora’s Box
News 1. "Conquered people" files to be released The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal has ordered the provincial government … [Read More...]
Ignorance is bliss, and other news of the day
News 1. Ignorance is bliss: city councillors still not briefed on potential malfeasance by Halifax police "We’re … [Read More...]
An astonishing display of cowardice: city councillors are ignoring police misconduct in the Assoun case
As we are learning that the Halifax police willfully acted to keep an innocent man in prison, the politicians responsible for … [Read More...]
If a tree in the Public Gardens could talk, what would it say? Text it and find out
News 1. Media victory in Assoun case "Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice James Chipman has indicated that he will grant … [Read More...]
UPDATED: Supreme Court Justice James Chipman rules for media group in Assoun document case
Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice James Chipman has indicated that he will grant a media request to gain access to sealed … [Read More...]
Diminishing Dissent
Today's Morning File is by Philip Moscovitch, while Tim is in court for the Assoun hearing (see Item #2). News 1. Shelburne … [Read More...]