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Pot protesters light up for access to legal weed

September 20, 2014 By Tim Bousquet

by Hilary Beaumont With a “justice 4 patients” sign hanging from his neck and his Jesus-like hair waving in the breeze, Chris Enns addressed police through a megaphone outside their Gottingen Street station: “You’re going into patients houses where they’re storing their medicine safely, away from children…and yet you come pounding through our front doors,...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Chris Enns, Farm Assists, Medical Marijuna, Ralph Carl Philips, Terry Cousineau

Exclusive: woman arrested in Farm Assists raid talks to the Examiner

September 8, 2014 By Tim Bousquet

“The police said that an undercover cop bought marijuana at Farm Assists several times—with and without a licence. We say, ‘bullshit.’” That’s Sherri Reeve, explaining that Friday’s bust of the Farm Assists shop on Gottingen Street, and of her home and grow-op in East Chezzetcook, were a miscarriage of justice. Reeve and her fiance, Chris Enns,...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Chris Enns, Farm Assists, Halifax Compassion Club, marijuana, Medical marijuana, Sherri Reeve

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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