News 1. Boat Harbour clean-up “Fifty-two years of toxic sludge — enough to fill 400 Olympic-sized swimming pools to the brim. That’s the clean-up job now in the late planning stages for Boat Harbour,” reports Jennifer Henderson: Boat Harbour is an expanse of stanky brown holding ponds or “lagoons” at an effluent treatment facility located […]
“No one cares about Assoun, tsk, tsk, tsk”
Morning File, Thursday, August 1, 2019
News 1. “No one cares about Assoun, tsk, tsk, tsk” Dave Moore is the former RCMP officer who suspected that serial killer Michael McGray, and not Glen Assoun, murdered Brenda Way, even though Assoun was convicted of the murder in 1999. Moore repeatedly tried to get his colleagues interested in his investigation, but they were […]
“No one cares about Assoun, tsk, tsk, tsk”
Dave Moore is the former RCMP officer who suspected that serial killer Michael McGray, and not Glen Assoun, murdered Brenda Way, even though Assoun was convicted of the murder in 1999. Moore repeatedly tried to get his colleagues interested in his investigation, but they were not interested. In fact, without Moore’s consent, computer files he […]
Here’s how much we paid in legal fees to get court documents in Glen Assoun’s wrongful conviction case unsealed
Morning File, Wednesday, July 31, 2019
News 1. Chickens and other fowl “Hesitant to settle for chickens, Halifax councillors decided to include all egg-laying fowl in the rules on backyard birds in residential areas,” reports Zane Woodford for Star Halifax: Council voted on Tuesday to tell planning staff to start drafting bylaw amendments, with only Councillor Russell Walker voting no, citing […]
People are getting bent out of shape about $25 million being spent on bike projects over three years, but we’ve already spent more than that on road maintenance projects this year and no one batted an eye
Morning File, Tuesday, July 30, 2019
News 1. Bike money rolls in “On Monday morning federal, provincial, and municipal officials gathered to announce a combined $25 million in funding for Halifax’s all-ages and abilities (AAA) bike network,” reports Erica Butler: The proposed network is almost identical to the one approved in the Integrated Mobility Plan, with a few changes. On-street protected […]
“The only reason to go on living is so that I can kill”: A bone-chilling letter from a serial killer
"I committed many murders from 93 to 98," wrote Michael McGray to a prison psychiatrist. Brenda Way was murdered in 1995.
Among the court documents obtained by the Halifax Examiner in the Glen Assoun wrongful conviction case is a bone-chilling letter written by serial killer Michael McGray to a prison psychiatrist. The letter is dated May 13, 2003. McGray was then housed at the Atlantic Institute in Renous, New Brunswick. He was arrested in 1998 for […]
Halifax council has declared a climate emergency, so why is it preparing to increase transit fares?
Morning File, Wednesday, July 24, 2019
News 1. Mark Furey is free to speak, but won’t Conflict of Interest Commissioner Joe Kennedy has cleared Nova Scotia Justice Minister Mark Furey to speak to the Glen Assoun wrongful conviction. In a letter released yesterday, Kennedy reviewed the Assoun case, the RCMP’s involvement in the case, and Furey’s worry that he had a […]
The Glen Assoun Wrongful Conviction
Glen Assoun convicted of murder Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind an apartment building on Albro Lake Road in Dartmouth, NS on November 12, 1995. Glen Assoun was convicted of the second degree murder of Way in 1999, and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 18 and a half years. […]
In the past 16 months, there have been 5 fires in the South End within 100 metres of each other
Morning File, Tuesday, July 23, 2019
News 1. The Glen Assoun case: a primer I’ve been doing a lot of reporting on the wrongful conviction of Glen Assoun, and there’s more coming. So this is a good time to pause and provide an overview, a primer, if you will, so people not familiar with the case can get up to speed. Glen […]
People in space are looking at us
Morning File, Monday, July 22, 2019
News 1. The McNeil government and secrecy “Is Nova Scotia Canada’s most secretive jurisdiction? Or does it just act that way?” asks Stephen Kimber. “Consider a few especially egregious, not-at-all-transparent episodes from just the last week.” Click here to read “The McNeil government is going for the secrecy gold medal.” This article is for subscribers. Click […]
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