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Cruise ships are returning, but do we want them back?

Morning File, Thursday, March 10, 2022

March 10, 2022 By Philip Moscovitch 2 Comments

News 1. Police board recommends 0.4% increase to HRP budget I did not think I would find myself laughing out loud at a story on the Board of Police Commissioners and the budget increase they proposed for the Halifax Regional Police. Of course, policing is not a laughing matter, and neither is the intractability of […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Aaron Patton, Adam Merchant, Anna Quon, Becky Kent, Board of Police Commissioners, BS, Cruise ships, Dr. Sanjana Sridharan, Friends of a New Northern Pulp, HRP Chief Dan Kinsella, Joan Baxter, Kate MacDonald, Lindell Smith, Lisa Banfield, living wage, Marty Ward, Mass Casualty Commission, mental health, Mike Lancaster, Northern Pulp, Noticed in Nova Scotia, Philip Moscovitch, Sensitivity readers, Shawn Cleary, Slovakia, Stephen Archibald, Stuart Beselt, Tara Thorne, The Tideline, Tim Bousquet, Trish Purdy, Vicki Colford, Yvette d'Entremont, Zane Woodford

Black News File

Stories from the Black community in the Maritimes, September 21 to 28, 2021.

September 29, 2021 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter 1 Comment

1. Angela Simmonds named deputy Speaker Liberal MLA Angela Simmonds and NDP MLA Lisa Lachance were both named as deputy Speakers in the Nova Scotia Legislature last week. Simmonds is the first person of African descent to hold the position. CBC reported that Simmonds and Lachance will split a salary top up of $24,523.25. Premier […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured Tagged With: Amber Fryday, Andru Winter, Angela Simmonds, Black News File, Board of Police Commissioners, Dean Simmonds, East Preston Empowerment Academy, Equity and Anti-Racism Initiatives, Halifax Bridge Commission, Ian Rankin, Kaleb Simmonds, Késa Munroe-Anderson, Lisa Lachance, OmiSoor Dryden., Pat Dunn, RCMP, Ross Gray, Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard, Tim Houston

How Halifax council can (and must) regulate police use of force

June 9, 2020 By Harry Critchley 4 Comments

As has already been reported, at today’s Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) Budget Committee meeting, every councillor with the exception of Steve Adams voted to approve an amendment to the budget that cancelled the purchase of an armoured vehicle for the Halifax Regional Police (HRP) and instead reallocate the funding. Specifically, after an hour in camera […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: anti-Black racism, Board of Police Commissioners, Corey Rogers, Councillor David Hendsbee, Councillor Lindell Smith, councillor Matt Whitman, councillor Steve Adams, councillor Tony Mancini, Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) Budget Committee, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), John Traves, Kirk Johnson, Lisa Blackburn, Martha Paynter, Police Act of Nova Scotia, police use of force, police violence, spit hood, tank armoured vehicle, taser

City councillors approve increased police budget despite ongoing racial profiling

February 6, 2020 By El Jones 3 Comments

You don’t have to be Negrodamus to have predicted that the Halifax City Council would approve the police budget increase of about a million dollars, but even for the cynical the budget committee meeting on Wednesday demonstrated some surprising depths of unaccountability. Calls to freeze the police budget in response to the Halifax Regional Police’s […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, News Tagged With: Board of Police Commissioners, Carole McDougall, Councillor Lindell Smith, Councillor Paul Russell, councillor Tony Mancini, councillor Waye Mason, crime rate, Extinction Rebellion, Halifax Police budget, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Mayor Mike Savage, Natalie Borden, Negrodamus, Police Chief Dan Kinsella, Police Foundation, racial profiling, Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT)

PRICED OUT

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents
PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

You can learn about the project, including how we’re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on the PRICED OUT homepage.

2020 mass murders

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.

Updated regularly.

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.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Two young white women, one with dark hair and one blonde, smile at the camera on a sunny spring day.

Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

Listen to the episode here.

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