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Defund the Halifax police

With calls around the world to redirect police resources, Halifax city councillors are tripping over themselves to see who can be most "pro police"

June 6, 2020 By Harry Critchley 5 Comments

Since the widely publicized death of George Floyd at the hands of MPD officer Derek Chauvin (what some commentators have called a “televised lynching”), calls for police accountability and even abolition have been growing, with protestors taking to the street in cities across North America, including Halifax. These calls are beginning to be heard and […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: anti-Black violence, anti-Indigenous racism, budget committee, Caora McKenna, councillor Steve Adams, councillor Tony Mancini, defund police, El Jones, Halifax city operating budget 2020/21, Halifax Police budget, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Hyde Inquiry, Leah Genge, street checks, taser, Wortley report

Halifax cops and Black people: the Rodney Small case

Morning File, Thursday, June 4, 2020

June 4, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Police and Black people in Halifax The police murder of George Floyd is highlighting what Black people have known forever: there is too much policing. On Tuesday, Sarah Dobson drew our attention to the Halifax case of Rodney Small, then a 15-year-old living in Uniacke Square. An appellant court ruling explained the (alleged) […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alex Mason, anti-Black racism, anti-Black violence, Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), Constable Donald Stienburg, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dr. Robert Strang, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Heather Cameron, Judge Corinne Sparks, Justice Gerald B Freeman, Justice John Edward Flinn, Justice Ronald Newton Pugsley, living wage, minimum wage, pandemic, police violence, Premier Stephen McNeil, Robert Lutes, Rocky Jones, Rodney Small, Sarah Dobson, shit wages, street checks

One day in the streets doesn’t stop injustice, but it does show how Black lives matter

June 2, 2020 By El Jones 2 Comments

I’m standing in front of the Black Lives Matter banner at the protest for Regis on Saturday when my phone starts ringing insistently. It’s the jail. I walk away from the crowd and answer. A young Black man is calling from segregation at Burnside. Along with other prisoners, he filed a habeas application challenging their […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: anti-Black racism, anti-Black violence, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Blocko, Eishia Hudson, George Floyd, justice, Justice for Regis, Lynn Jones, OmiSoore Dryden, police violence, Regis Korchinski-Paquet, Renous, Santina Rao, Sharisha Benedict, Soleiman Faqiri, Take a Knee protest, Yusuf Faqiri

We face a public health emergency, and criminalizing the marginalized can worsen the crisis

March 22, 2020 By El Jones 2 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Nova Scotia has just declared a State of Emergency. Measures taken include a ban on gatherings over five people, the ability of the police to fine individuals and businesses breaking social isolation, the ability of the police to enter property, and the seizure of vehicles […]

Filed Under: Featured, Province House Tagged With: anti-Black violence, anti-Indigenous racism, Asaf Rashid, coronavirus, COVID-19, Harsha Walia, Kate MacDonald, OmiSoore Dryden, racist policing

Passing the Torch or Torching the Past?

February 4, 2017 By El Jones 3 Comments

On the eve of African Heritage Month, Alexandre Bissonnette shot six people in a mosque. Two of the victims were Black, from Guinea, and all the men originated from Africa. Yet in the public discourse around the shootings, Blackness and anti-Black histories in Quebec were erased from the narrative. Public vigils invoked rhetoric of a […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: African Liberation Month, Ajamu Nangwaya, anti-Black violence, confirmations of Canada's goodness, Delice Mugabo, Eric Williams, homegrown extremism, Islamaphobia, Quebec mosque shooting, Sherene Razack

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Mo Kenney. Photo: Matt Williams

Episode #18 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Mo Kenney’s new record Covers is a perfect winter companion — songs from across the rock spectrum that she’s pared down to piano or guitar and turned them into sad ballads. She joins Tara to talk about choosing and arranging them, and opens up for a frank discussion of the alcohol dependency it took a pandemic for her to confront. Plus: Movies are back (again).

This episode is available today only for premium subscribers; to become a premium subscriber, click here, and join the select group of arts and entertainment supporters for just $5/month. Everyone else will have to wait until tomorrow to listen to it.

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Uncover: Dead Wrong

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.

About the Halifax Examiner

Examiner folk The Halifax Examiner was founded by investigative reporter Tim Bousquet, and now includes a growing collection of writers, contributors, and staff. Left to right: Joan Baxter, Stephen Kimber, Linda Pannozzo, Erica Butler, Jennifer Henderson, Iris the Amazing, Tim Bousquet, Evelyn C. White, El Jones, Philip Moscovitch More about the Examiner.

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