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Halifax continues to keep police services review secret

September 14, 2020 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

In response to a freedom of information request, Halifax is refusing to release a review of policing in the municipality tabled at regional council earlier this year. In January, council voted to accept some of the recommendations in a report by B.C. consulting firm perivale + taylor. Halifax paid nearly $200,000 for the review, designed […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Policing Tagged With: CAO Jacque Dubé, councillor Waye Mason, David Fraser, Freedom of Information request, Halifax police services review, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Nancy Dempsey, perivale + taylor, Police resource review

Portrait of slavery in Canada

Morning File, Thursday, June 11, 2020

June 11, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 6 Comments

News 1. McNutt pleads guilty to sexual assault offences This item is written by Tim Bousquet. Yesterday, Michael McNutt pleaded guilty to offences related to the sexual abuse (and one assault) of 34 boys over the course of 20 years. McNutt was facing 90 charges; the remainder of the charges will be dismissed at sentencing […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Annapolis Group, art history, Atlantic Canada, Barry Lord, Bedford, Birch Cove Lakes – Blue Mountain wilderness, Black history, Black History Month, bubble, Cait, Canadian history, Charmaine Nelson, Chinese, city park, councillor Richard Zurawski, COVID-19, cultural stigma, David Fraser, Dennis Reid, Dr. Robert Strang, François Malepart de Beaucourt, fugitive ads, Jacqueline Cho, Jamaica, Korean, Marie-Thérèse-Zémire, McGill University, Michael Patrick McNutt, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia Black history, Nova Scotia COVID-19 Health Research Coalition, P.E.I., Portrait of a Haitian Woman, Premier Denny King, Premier Stephen McNeil, privacy lawyer, Quebec, Richard Zurawski, Saint John, Saint John Police, sexual assault, ship merchants, Sir Robert Borden Junior High, slavery, Transatlantic Slavery Studies, Twitter sucks, West Indies

Calling connected devices “smart” is propaganda

Morning File, Tuesday, April 28, 2020

April 28, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 3 Comments

News 1. Daily COVID-19 update (sans briefing) There hasn’t been a provincial COVID-19 briefing since Friday, but the province has continued to release numbers daily. The Cape Breton Spectator’s Mary Campbell has generously given the Examiner permission to republish info from her daily COVID-19 update. Here are yesterday’s numbers, from Campbell: Numbers Total new cases: 27 […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alicia Draus, Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety, Cape Breton Spectator, coronavirus, Daily COVID-19 update, David Fraser, digital legacy, Dr. Monika Dutt, Dr. Robert Strang, Francis Campbell, Halifax Transit, Jennifer Watts, Mary Campbell, missing people, museums, Olivia Malley, pandemic, Petnet feeder, Portia Clark, school reopening, Shaina Luck, smart appliances, smarthome, social media, worker safety, workplace deaths

What to do if you think you’re being stopped by a fake cop

Morning File, Monday, April 27, 2020

April 27, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

News 1. Northwood “The COVID-19-related deaths of seven more residents of the Northwood nursing home were announced over the weekend, bringing the total number of deaths from the disease at the facility to 18,” I reported yesterday: That’s three-quarters of all 24 COVID-19-related deaths in Nova Scotia. The disease may take a few days to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Chris Halliday, coronavirus, COVID-19, Cst. Heidi Stephenson, David Fraser, Don Van Natta Jr, fake cop, fake RCMP car, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), impersonating cop, impersonating police officer, killing spree, Leo McKay, Mass murder, mass shooting, Northwood, pandemic, Public Inquiry, RCMP

The “Did you survive” post-earthquake edition

Morning File, Monday, March 2, 2020

March 2, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 8 Comments

News 1. Kimber: Hugh MacKay and our I-know-nothing, see-nothing, do-nothing premier Last week I wondered why Hugh MacKay, already convicted of drunk driving in 2019, was only now being charged for allegedly driving drunk back in 2018. All I can say about what we’ve learned since then is: holy shit. In his new column, Stephen […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alex Cameron’s defamation suit, Alexander Quon, Andrew Rankin, Clearview AI, crowdfunded journalism, David Forscey, David Fraser, earthquake, facial recognition technology, gold mining, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Jeremy Klaszus, Kashmir Hill, MLA Hugh MacKay, power outage, Premier Stephen McNeil, The Sprawl, Wayne MacKary

Halifax keeping $200,000 police services review secret, citing ‘sensitive information’

January 14, 2020 By Zane Woodford

Halifax is not publicly releasing a consultants’ report into police services in the municipality, citing “sensitive information” around the use of police resources, privacy, and security. Regional council voted in favour of a staff recommendation to accept the report and 26 of its 29 recommendations at its meeting on Tuesday. Most of the recommendations were...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: CAO Jacques Dubé, Councillor Lorelei Nicoll, councillor Waye Mason, David Fraser, Government secrecy, Halifax police services review, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Police Chief Dan Kinsella

New police chief Dan Kinsella holds a degree from WalMart U.

Morning File, Tuesday, May 14, 2019

May 14, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Ramadan in jail “Malik is calling from the jail asking for the numbers of any Muslims he can contact just to talk to, maybe hear some Quran from,” writes El Jones: The last time he prayed with community was during Ramadan last year, and since then, his requests for spiritual services have been […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 12 Wing Shearwater, Acting Halifax Regional Police Chief Robin McNeil, American Military University (AMU), American Public University (APU), American Public University System (APUS), armoured vehicle, Attorney General Maura Healey, AuraData, Blair Rhodes, Brendan Elliott, Bry’n Ross, Chief Dan Kinsella, Cop Light Bling, David Fraser, DND, El Jones, Forest Confidential, Harold Dawson, Keith Doucette, Linda Pannozzo, mary Ellen Doucet, Melanie Booth, mission creep, Paul Fain, RCMP Insp. Robert Doyle, street checks, tendering fraud, WalMart U, Zane Woodford

We spent millions of dollars on the Argyle Street reconstruction project and forgot to put in washrooms and water fountains

Morning File, Friday, July 6, 2018

July 6, 2018 By Tim Bousquet and Joan Baxter 12 Comments

News 1. Cabinet shuffle This item is written by Joan Baxter. Nova Scotia’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is no more. Yesterday, Premier Stephen McNeil’s Liberal government renamed it the Department of Lands and Forestry (not, however, Lands and Forests, something lamented by the insightful Facebook page devoted to Nova Scotia’s “Woods and Water”). Timberlea-Prospect […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: accessible washrooms, aquaculture, Argyle Street patios, Cabinet shuffle, Carol McIsaac, David Fraser, Department of lands and Forestry, Department of Natural Resources renamed, Kevin Kindred, marine mammals, Mark Lever, Mining Association of Nova Scotia (MANS), MLA Derek Mombourquette, MLA Iain Rankin, MLA John Lohr, MLA Margaret Miller, Nova Scotia Health Protection Act, Premier Stephen McNeil, Ralph Surette, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, SaltWire, Sean Kirby, Taryn Grant, water fountains and washrooms, whales, William Lahey

I toured the Burnside jail, and then asked prisoners what they thought

May 20, 2018 By El Jones Leave a Comment

On Tuesday morning, I attended the media tour of Burnside jail with Tim. Tim summarized the tour this way: This was a PR exercise on the part of Corrections, and as such things go, was well-run. Corrections staff were informative and answered even the most pointed questions. Reporters did not, however, get the chance to […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Blair Rhodes, body cavity searches, body scanners in prisons, Burnside jail, Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, David Fraser, direct supervision in prison, Jim Hayman, Matthew Hines, Nova Scotia Department of Justice (NSDJ), PepperBall, prison overcrowding, Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA), Public Services Foundation of Canada, racialized surveillance, Sarah Gillis, Simone Browne, Tim Carroll, Timothy Nelson, Victoria Snelgrove

I’ve been breached!

Morning File, Friday, April 27, 2018

April 27, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

1. Privacy “breach” I got the letter. I hadn’t checked my PO box for a few days, but yesterday I finally got the registered letter telling me my personal information was “breached” via the province’s Freedom of Information webpage screw-up. It was pouring down rain, like cats and dogs and goats and other small animals, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrea Gunn, David Fraser, David Patriquin, East Coast Forensic Hospital, FOIPOP security failure, Freedom of Information webpage screw-up, Liv Colley, Maritime Beer Accord, Michael Tutton, Northern Pulp Mill's "sponsored content" in the Chronicle Herald, NSGEU president Jason MacLean, pregnant nurse attacked, privacy "breach", Stephen Archibald went to Washington

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