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Active COVID-19 cases drop at Burnside jail

January 21, 2022 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

Active COVID-19 cases at the provincial jail in Burnside are down to 11. The Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility has had an outbreak since late-December, and Justice Department spokesperson Heather Fairbairn told the Halifax Examiner there have now been a total of 140 cases at the jail. “As of Jan. 21, there are 11 active […]

Filed Under: COVID, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Burnside jail, Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, COVID-19, COVID-19 in provincial jails

More than half of prisoners at Burnside jail have had COVID-19

January 14, 2022 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

More than half of the prisoners at the Burnside jail have had COVID-19, and the outbreak isn’t over. “As of Jan. 13, the cumulative case count involving persons in custody at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility is 128,” Justice Department spokesperson Heather Fairbairn told the Halifax Examiner in an email Thursday. The prison population […]

Filed Under: COVID, Featured, News Tagged With: Burnside jail, Burnside jail conditions, Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, COVID-19, COVID-19 in prison, COVID-19 in provincial jails, Heather Fairbairn

Here’s what COVID looks like in jail

January 11, 2022 By El Jones Leave a Comment

COVID-19 cases in the Burnside Jail (Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility) reached 82 on Friday, and I’m told there are now over 100 prisoners infected. Here’s how prisoners describe conditions in the jail. According to men incarcerated in the facility, sheriffs have replaced correctional officers as the jail struggles to meet the staffing complement. These […]

Filed Under: COVID, Featured, News Tagged With: Burnside jail

What is the pandemic doing to sports — and other — reporting?

Morning File, Monday, January 10, 2022

January 10, 2022 By Philip Moscovitch 3 Comments

News 1. Omicron is testing Nova Scotia’s hospitals Jennifer Henderson digs into the effects of the current COVID-19 wave on the province’s hospitals, looking not just at those hospitalized with COVID-19, but also larger effects on the system. Her lead gets right to the point: The latest wave of COVID is putting pressure on every […]

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82 prisoners at Burnside jail have COVID-19

January 7, 2022 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

There are now 82 cases of COVID-19 at the provincial jail in Burnside. Justice Department spokesperson Heather Fairbairn confirmed the new total at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in an email to the Halifax Examiner on Friday. “None are in hospital. There are no cases in the women’s unit. As we mentioned previously, several […]

Filed Under: COVID, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Burnside jail

Housing: party for a few, crisis for the rest

Morning File, Wednesday, January 5, 2022

January 5, 2022 By Philip Moscovitch 5 Comments

News 1. Woman claims in lawsuit she was repeatedly sexually abused by cops while in protection from sexual trafficking as a teen Zane Woodford reports on a lawsuit by a woman who claims she was sexually abused as a teen by officers from the Halifax police and the RCMP. The woman, identified only as “X.Y.,” […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File, PRICED OUT Tagged With: Alana Murphy, Atlantic Gold, Atlantic Mining Nova Scotia, Barbara Darby, Beaver Dam, Blue Christmas, Brian Johnston, Burnside jail, Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Robert Strang, Cochrane Hill, COVID-19, David Levin, East Coast Prison Justice Society, Graceland, Halifax Regional Police, Jennifer Henderson, lawsuit, Matt Wickham, Melaleuca, Michael Dull, Moose River, Nova Scotia Environment Act, Nova Scotia Salmon Association, Premier Tim Houston, RCMP, Reverend Bruce R.E. Sheasby, Reverend Elvis, Ryan White, sexual assault, St Barbara Ltd, Sullivan House, Tim Bousquet, Tim Halman, Touquoy, Wade Marriott, X.Y., Your Grace Land, Zane Woodford

“A crisis that hits any part of the world or segment of society also affects us”

Morning File, Tuesday, June 22, 2021

June 22, 2021 By Philip Moscovitch 2 Comments

News 1. At the time of Corey Rogers’ death, HRP had no policy on spit hoods, and officers had no training in using the hood place on him Zane Woodford reports on the first day of the Police Review Board hearing into the conduct of the three officers who arrested Corey Rogers in June 2016. […]

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Vile video taken in Nova Scotia jail and posted to social media humiliates woman prisoner

April 2, 2021 By El Jones and Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

A vile video taken by a guard inside a Nova Scotia jail and that was shared on social media violates a female prisoner’s privacy and makes disparaging comments about her medical condition. The Halifax Examiner was provided the 20-second video clip by a person who captured it on the SnapChat app. The video was posted […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Bianca Mercer, Burnside jail, Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, Dawna Ward, Department of Justice, diabetic low, Nova Scotia, privacy, SnapChat, video, woman prisoner

Prisoners, acting mostly on their own, are changing the legal landscape of Nova Scotia’s jails

August 7, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

Today, Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Kevin Coady published a decision, saying that the way two prisoners at the Burnside Jail are being held in solitary confinement is unfair, and he wants the jail administrators to address the situation, and if they don’t within 14 days, he wants to see the prisoners in court, potentially […]

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A case of gangrene raises health concerns at the East Coast Forensic Hospital

December 16, 2019 By El Jones 4 Comments

People in the mental health community who are close to family members of a 45-year-old man are speaking out after the man was admitted to hospital with gangrene in his stomach. The patient, who lives with schizophrenia, has been in and out of the East Coast Forensic Hospital for the past 20 years. Family members […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Burnside jail, East Coast Forensic Hospital (ECFH), East Coast Prison Justice Society, gangrene, Greg Hiles, Martha Paynter, Sheila Hiles, Women's Wellness Within

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PRICED OUT

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PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

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2020 mass murders

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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.

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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.

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

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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.

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