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The criminal destruction of evidence in the Assoun case by cops should scare the hell out of all of us

Morning File, Friday, September 18, 2020

September 18, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

News 1. Premier calls for criminal investigation of cops “Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil wants police acts in the Glen Assoun wrongful conviction case referred to the Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT) for a possible criminal investigation,” I reported yesterday: At a post-cabinet meeting scrum with reporters [Thursday], I had the following exchange with McNeil: […]

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Halifax refuses to reveal source of mysterious motion defining defunding police

September 17, 2020 By Zane Woodford 7 Comments

Halifax is refusing to reveal the source of a controversial motion around defunding the police that was added to a Board of Police Commissioners agenda at the 11th hour this summer. At the board’s July 9 meeting, municipal staff brought forward a motion aimed at defining the concept of defunding the police: That the Halifax […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Access and Privacy Office, Amy Siciliano, councillor Tony Mancini, defund the police, defunding police, DeRico Symonds, El Jones, Halifax Board of Police Commissioners, Harry Critchley, Marty Ward, Nancy Dempsey, Natalie Borden, Neera Ritcey, Nova Scotia Policing Policy Working Group, Police Chief Dan Kinsella

Black people die; corporations get rich

New policing technologies like body cameras don't help Black people; they're just another way to enrich corporations and police departments preying on Black people

August 5, 2020 By El Jones Leave a Comment

CBC reports that the Truro police have started wearing body cameras. Truro Police Chief Dave MacNeil suggests the cameras are “partially a response to the global Black Lives Matter protests and partially to take advantage of improving technology.” The Truro police have been supplied with WatchGuard cameras. WatchGuard is owned by Motorola Solutions. In 2019, […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, News Tagged With: ACLU, body cameras, Clearview AI, Deb Raji, defund the police, facial recognition technology, Gregory Q. Brown, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Jeff Bezos, Joy Buolamwini, license plate readers, Lynn Jones, Motorola Solutions, policing technology, racial profiling, ShotTracker, Stingray, street check data, Timnit Gebru, Truro police, Vigilant Solutions, WatchGuard

August 1 is Emancipation Day, but are Black people truly free?

July 31, 2020 By El Jones Leave a Comment

We are a collective of incarcerated Black people – political prisoners held hostage by the state – and our supporters on the outside who are making this statement on Emancipation Day. On August 1, African people across the globe celebrate Emancipation Day. This marks the day the Abolition of Slavery Act was passed freeing enslaved […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Black August, Black incarceration, Black Lives Matter (BLM), defund the police, Emancipation Day, freedom, Prisoner Justice Day, prisons

Not satire: Halifax police board to consider appointing committee to define defunding

July 9, 2020 By Zane Woodford 8 Comments

At a meeting where it was expected to debate defunding the police, Halifax’s police board voted to debate appointing a committee to define defunding the police — at its next meeting. The board of police commissioners had a lengthy agenda for its meeting on Thursday, but after starting more than half an hour later due […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Amy Siciliano, Carlos Beals, Carole McDougall, Ceasefire Halifax, Councillor Lindell Smith, councillor Tony Mancini, defund the police, DeRico Symonds, gun violence, Halifax Board of Police Commissioners, Marty Ward, Natalie Borden, Youth Advocate Program

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 […]

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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 […]

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Brian Borcherdt. Photo: Anna Edwards-Borcherdt

Brian Borcherdt came of age in Yarmouth in the 1990s. When he arrived in Halifax, the city’s famous music scene was already waning, and worse, the music he made was rejected by the cool kids anyway. After decades away from Nova Scotia, he and his young family have settled in the Annapolis Valley, where he’ll zoom in to chat with Tara about his band Holy Fuck’s endlessly delayed tour, creating the Dependent Music collective, and the freedom and excitement of the improvised music he’s making now. Plus: Bringing events back in 2021.

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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.

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