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 […]
Black News File
Stories from the Black community in the Maritimes, September 21 to 28, 2021.
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 […]
How Halifax council can (and must) regulate police use of force
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 […]
City councillors approve increased police budget despite ongoing racial profiling
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 […]