Michael Lightstone

Pearl Kelly’s battle against the NSLC enters its tenth year

Pearl Kelly filed her human rights complaint against the NSLC in 2009. An adjudicator ruled in her favour in 2015, finding Kelly had been discriminated against because of her gender. In 2016, Kelly agreed to a $550,000 settlement package. But now she says that's not enough.

January 8, 2018 By Michael Lightstone

For Pearl Kelly, the new year brings with it an old battle. The Pictou County woman’s fight, for what she considers a just resolution to her years-long human-rights case against the provincial crown corporation that employed her, is continuing in 2018 in Nova Scotia’s top court. A court document filed on her behalf in Halifax...

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Brian Borcherdt. Photo: Anna Edwards-Borcherdt

Brian Borcherdt came of age in Yarmouth in the 1990s. When he arrived in Halifax, the city’s famous music scene was already waning, and worse, the music he made was rejected by the cool kids anyway. After decades away from Nova Scotia, he and his young family have settled in the Annapolis Valley, where he’ll zoom in to chat with Tara about his band Holy Fuck’s endlessly delayed tour, creating the Dependent Music collective, and the freedom and excitement of the improvised music he’s making now. Plus: Bringing events back in 2021.

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In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

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