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Public Health uses a definition of “community spread” of COVID that confuses the public

Morning File, Monday, November 9, 2020

November 9, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

Stephen Kimber is just too kind to me; I’ve been blushing ever since I read this yesterday. Have a read, and please subscribe. News 1. COVID Nine new cases of COVID-19 have been announced in Nova Scotia since Friday — two on Friday, four Saturday, and three yesterday. All nine recent cases are in Nova […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: community spread, coronavirus, COVID-19, El Jones, exposure advisory, Mining Association of Nova Scotia (MANS), pandemic, Paul Smith, Public Health, Randy Riley, self-isolation, slavery

Police review board hearing adjourned again as Jeannette Rogers seeks legal representation

November 4, 2020 By Zane Woodford 3 Comments

A hearing of Nova Scotia’s police review board has been adjourned again, and potentially for much longer, to give Jeannette Rogers time to get a lawyer. “If the board wants to ensure this is a fair process, I need to be given them more time to find a lawyer to hear the case,” Rogers told […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Cheryl Gardner, Const. Donna Lee Paris, Const. Justin Murphy, Const. Ryan Morris, Corey Rogers, Dan Fraser, El Jones, Jeannette Rogers, Simon MacDonald

Halifax police board votes to appoint El Jones to develop committee defining defunding

September 21, 2020 By Zane Woodford 2 Comments

Halifax’s board of police commissioners voted Monday to appoint El Jones to propose a committee to define defunding the police, and Jones hopes to turn that into an opportunity for more public input at the board. It’s the culmination of months of debate at the board over how to approach the issue of defunding the […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: alternatives to policing, Councillor Lindell Smith, councillor Tony Mancini, defunding police, El Jones, Halifax Board of Police Commissioners, Marty Ward, Natalie Borden, Police Chief Dan Kinsella

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

Hardening the shoreline

Morning File, Thursday, September 10, 2020

September 10, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 7 Comments

News 1. Mark Furey’s potential conflict of interest in the mass murder inquiry Tim Bousquet reports on PC leader Tim Houston’s affidavit, filed with the Conflicts Commissioner of Nova Scotia, arguing that justice minister Mark Furey is in a conflict of interest over the public inquiry into the mass murders of April 18-19. The conflict […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: bread, Bread in the Bones, Charles Bukowski, COVID-19, CRA, cracked teeth, Darrell Varga, Dr. Anthea Butler, El Jones, Fiona Martin, Frost Fish Cove, Gerry Post, Glen Haven, Louise Penny, Lukas Pearse, Mary Mullen, Michael Orsini, Nebal Snan, Nova Scotia Strong, OmiSoore Dryden, Sappyfest, Scholars Strike Canada, sea level rise, Shirley Tillotson, shoreline erosion, shoreline hardening, taxes, Yvonne Colbert

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Andre Gray, Burnside jail, Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, Claire McNeil, Dylan Gogan, Dylan Roach, East Coast Prison Justice Society (ECPJS), El Jones, habeas corpus applications, Hanna Garson, Justice Elizabeth Van den Eynden, Justice Gerald Moir, Justice Kevin Coady, Justice Peter P. Rosinski, lockdown, Maurice Pratt, Rae’heem Downey, Richard Verge, segregation in prisons, Solitary confinement

Why people ignore warning signs

Morning File, Tuesday, July 28, 2020

July 28, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 6 Comments

News 1. Witness told police that mass murderer “builds fires and burns bodies, is a sexual predator, and supplies drugs in Portapique and Economy” Tim Bousquet is on vacation, but still reported on documents related to the RCMP’s investigation in the mass murders of April 18/19, which a Nova Scotia judge ordered redacted. And there’s […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: COVID-19, domestic violence, El Jones, feedback loops, gain-frame messages, Jon Ronson, Judy Haiven, loss-frame messages, Mass shooting review, Oxford blueberry, Oxley the blueberry, pandemic, Peggy's Cove, Public Inquiry, Rachel Jones, risk, Sheri Lecker, signage, speed limits, speed signs, Steven Smith, Thomas Goetz, warning signs

“Insufficient grounds”

Susie Butlin repeatedly pleaded with the RCMP to intervene to stop her neighbour Junior Duggan from harassing her. The police took no action. A friend says an RCMP officer told Butlin her allegations against Duggan made her, not him, a "menace to society." Three days later, Duggan killed Butlin.

June 18, 2020 By Joan Baxter 3 Comments

Since September 2017, when her best friend, 58-year-old Susan (Susie) Butlin, was shot and killed in her home at Bayhead, near Tatamagouche, Suzanne Davis has been in pain. Davis still thinks about her friend — whom she’d known since kindergarten — all the time. She says if they didn’t speak on the phone three times […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bible Hill, Councillor Mike Gregory, El Jones, Jeanne Sarson, Judge Al Bégin, Junior Duggan, Linda MacDonald, peace bond, Portapique, PTSD, RCMP, red flags, sexual assault, Susan Butlin, Suzanne Davis, Tatamagouche, violence against women

Who thinks Cornwallis would still be standing?

Morning File, Wednesday, June 10, 2020

June 10, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 4 Comments

News 1. When it comes to regulating police use of force, are council’s hands really tied? We’re leading this morning not with a straight news story, but an important commentary from Harry Critchley of the East Coast Prison Justice Society, and the Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia. Critchley recaps some key background on police […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: armoured vehicle, baseball, Baseball Nova Scotia, Bob Carter, Byron Boucher, Cornwallis statue, councillor Steve Streatch, COVID-19, David Pugliese, Edward Colston, El Jones, Elizabeth McMillan, FOIPOP, James Culic, Karissa Donkin, Mary Campbell, Matt Whitman bike lanes, Michael Kempa, Michael Spratt, Onslow Belmont Fire Brigade, Paul Palmeter, RCMP shooting Lower Onslow, tank

Tanks but no tanks: Halifax councillors vote to cancel armoured vehicle, reallocate funding

June 9, 2020 By Zane Woodford 3 Comments

Halifax regional councillors voted on Tuesday to cancel the purchase of an armoured vehicle for the city’s police and reallocate the funding to diversity and inclusion, public safety, and fighting anti-Black racism. Councillors voted to redirect $53,500 to city’s office of diversity and inclusion to make up for a planned cut this year; a total […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Coun. Shawn Cleary, Councillor Lindell Smith, councillor Shawn Cleary, councillor Steve Adams, defund police, Deputy Mayor Lisa Blackburn, El Jones, Halifax city operating budget 2020/21, Maggie-Jane Spray, Police Chief Dan Kinsella, Rebecca Thomas, Scot Wortley, tank armoured vehicle, Terradyne

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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.

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