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Take this volunteer “job” and shove it

Morning File, Thursday, July 2, 2020

July 2, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 5 Comments

News 1. The casino crapshoot Rob Csernyik has an incredible investigative piece on the casinos in Nova Scotia and how locals, not high-rolling tourists, became the big spenders. Csernyik looks back before the first casino opened by ITT Sheraton in the summer of 1995. A poll from 1993 showed that 57.7 respondents were against the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adrienne Power, Black Lives Matter, buxom wenches, Casino, Centre Plan, Chantel Moore, Colchester Historeum, Cork Street, COVID-19, defund the police, Department of Health and Wellness, Don't work for free, Dr. Chris Lata, Ejaz Ahmed Choudry, Foundry Hil, Gary Burrill, Glen Assoun, Halifax Regional Police, ITT Sheraton, IWK, Jane Wright, Ku Klux Klan, LMNO Properties, Lynn Stevenson, Matt Smith, mental illness, mobile crisis unit, museums, Northwood, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), PC leader Tim Houston, People Against Casinos in Nova Scotia, pirates, Portland Street, Quality-improvement Information Protection Act, Randy Delorey, Regis Korchinski-Parquet, shooting, social work, STEM Montessori Academy of Canada, Sydney, T. Chandler Haliburton, T.A. Scott Architecture + Design Limited, Truro, Uncover, volunteering, wellness checks

Calling police when someone is suffering a mental health crisis can have horrific consequences; what is the alternative?

July 2, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 1 Comment

In February 2014, Mohammed Eshaq fell to his death from the 10th-floor balcony of his South End Halifax apartment. Eshaq lived with schizophrenia, and was an in-patient at the Nova Scotia Hospital’s Simpson Landing at the time. He left on a 15-minute pass and didn’t go back, instead taking transit to his parents’ place. They […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Adrienne Power, Andrew Childerhose, Brenda Lucki, Chantel Moore, Chief Dave MacNeil, D'Andre Campbell, defund the police, Ejaz Ahmed Choudry, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Jennifer Lavoie, Judy Haiven, Matt White, mental health, Mental Health Mobile Crisis, Mohammed Eshaq, Mona Wang, police shootings, RCMP, Regis Korchinski-Parquet, Rodney Levi, Schizophrenia Society of Nova Scotia, Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), Specialized Outreach Services (SOS), wellness checks

Developers proposing ‘Aboriginal’ art gallery in new Halifax hotel — but did they talk to any Indigenous people?

June 16, 2020 By Zane Woodford 7 Comments

A developer from Newfoundland wants to include an “Aboriginal” art gallery in its new downtown Halifax hotel as a public benefit in exchange for permission to construct a bigger building. But it’s unclear whether Steele Hotels even talked to any Indigenous people in Halifax about the plan — never mind the kind of broad and […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Aboriginal, Andrew Faulkner, Chantel Moore, Chelsea Vowel, councillor Matt Whitman, councillor Shawn Cleary, councillor Waye Mason, density bonusing, First nations, Indigenous, Indigenous art gallery, JAG-branded hotel, John Steele, Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Centre, Pam Glode-Desrochers, Rodney Levi, Steele Hotels, wije'winen

Enough with the cop-speak, and other policing stories

Morning File, Friday, June 5, 2020

June 5, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 3 Comments

News 1. Has the RCMP’s move away from community policing created an information gap? Colchester County councillor Mike Gregory used to be an RCMP officer, working out of the force’s now closed building on Main Street in Tatamagouche. He understands that policing has changed over the years, but he wonders if the force’s move away […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Chantel Moore, cop speak, Dayna Lee-Baggley, El Jones, Free Press, Judge Corinne Sparks, Julia-Simone Rutgers, Justice Minister Mark Furey, street checks apology, Washington Post, Wortley report, Yvonne Colbert

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

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