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Halifax police want at least $40,000 to release five years of cells data through freedom of information

August 5, 2020 By Zane Woodford 1 Comment

Halifax Regional Police want at least $40,000 in fees in order to hand over five years worth of data on people placed in their cells. That’s part of the response to a request from the Halifax Examiner through the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOIPOP). There’s been heightened scrutiny of the cells […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: cells data, Cheryl Gardner, Chief Dan Kinsella, Const. Donna Lee Paris, Const. Dylan Jackman, Const. Justin Murphy, Const. Ryan Morris, Corey Rogers, Daniel Fraser, drunk tanks, East Coast Prison Justice Society, FOIPOP, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Harry Critchley, Insp. Greg Robertson, Jeannette Rogers, John Burke, Peter LaFitte, Prisoner Care Facility (PCF), Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), sobering centres, spit hood

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

The Halifax police department is going to great lengths to prevent you from knowing how Glen Assoun was wrongfully convicted

October 17, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

With very limited exceptions (national security, for instance), we do not have secret court evidence in Canada. We have the exact opposite: an Open Court Principle. I wrote about the Open Court Principle after the Halifax Examiner, the CBC, and the Canadian Press prevailed in our effort to get court documents unsealed in the Glen […]

Filed Under: Featured, Investigation, Journalism, News Tagged With: Deputy Chief Bill Moore, Duncan Read, FOIPOP, Glen Assoun evidence, Halifax Police, Jennifer Stairs, Justice James Chipman, Justice Minister David Lametti, Open Court Principle, Patty McKelvey, Superintendent Colleen M. Kelly

Northern Pulp’s environmental assessment “is simply not credible” says EAC

Morning File, Wednesday, March 13, 2019

March 13, 2019 By Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson 2 Comments

News 1. Pulp Culture   We’ve published Linda Pannozzo’s detailed review of how through the decades the province has oriented forest policies — and purposefully subverted science — to favour the pulp industry over the lumber industry. As a result, overcutting has resulted in smaller trees that provide less lumber, and now the sawmills are […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Macdonald, Andrew Scheer, Bay Ferries, Boeing 737 MAX 8, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS-NS), Chris Miller, Daphnee Azoulay, David Woodbury, Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal, Ecology Action Centre (EAC), Extinction Rebellion PEI, FOIPOP, Icarus Report March 13 2019, Justice Michael Wood, laura Meader, nail gun, Nancy Anningson, Nhlanhla Dlamini, Nicole LaFosse Parker, Northern Pulp environmental assessment, Peter Kelly, Progressive Conservative Caucus, Raymond Plourde, Rebecca Lau, Scott Campbell, Simon Ryder-Burbridge, Yarmouth ferry

Gnawing away at the vitals of this community, since 1970

Morning File, Friday, January 18, 2019

January 18, 2019 By Erica Butler 2 Comments

This is Erica Butler, filling in for Tim.  News 1.  Council defers capital budget approval As we know from last December when it first appeared on council’s agenda, Halifax’s proposed capital budget leaves A LOT out, especially just about anything to do with the city’s approved Integrated Mobility Plan (IMP), and the final years’ implementation […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bay Ferries, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society Nova Scotia, CAO Jacques Dubé, Catherine Tully, Chris Miller, Encounter on Urban Environment, FOIPOP, HRM Safe Streets for Everyone, Integrated Mobility Plan, Jean Laroche, Kyle Miller, Moira Donovan, Roll and Stroll for Safe Streets, scoreboard, Stephen Archibald and steep streets, vehicle-pedestrian collisions in Halifax, Zane Woodford

Oil spills, protected areas, and the future of the planet

Morning File, Monday, November 19, 2018

November 19, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

November subscription drive I’m really bad at self-promotion, so I’m going to let Trevor Parsons give today’s plug for the November subscription drive: This @HfxExaminer travel mug won't help you survive in #WildNovaScotia, but it will keep your coffee warm on the way to the trail head. More importantly, subscribing to the Examiner helps to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexander Quon, Atlantic Gold, bullying, Catherine Tully, climate change, Dufferin gold mine, Energy Minister Derek Mombourquette, FOIPOP, Frances Willick, Halifax International Security Forum, Holly Lake, Husky Energy, Joan Baxter, Malone Mullin, Michael Gorman, Moose River Consolidated Project, oil spill Newfoundland, Parker Donham, SeaRose FPSO, Steffan Watkins, Stubborn Goat, tracking Canadian military ships, transporting cyanide, waterfront beer garden

Halifax cop accused of using police database to investigate his girlfriend’s ex-husband

October 25, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

A Halifax police officer used a police computer database to improperly investigate his girlfriend’s ex-husband, alleges a lawsuit filed in Supreme Court Wednesday. Terry Atkinson tells the Examiner that he served in the armed forces for 25 years as a medic. As a result of that service, he suffers from PTSD. In his lawsuit, Atkinson […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: constable Philip MacDonald, Crystal Feltmate, Dianne Paquet, FOIPOP, Halifax Regional Police Database, Police Chief Jean-Michel Blais, Police Commissioner Judith McPhee, Terry Atkinson

Corrections officials came to Province House for questioning; here’s how they answered

October 25, 2018 By El Jones 2 Comments

On Wednesday morning, I attended the Public Accounts committee meeting at Province House. Deputy Minister of Justice Karen Hudson, Chris Collett Executive Director of Correctional Services, and provincial Director of Correctional Services Sean Kelly were answering questions about the Auditor General report from May, 2018. Among other concerns, the report revealed jails were not following the rules […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Burnside jail, Burnside jail quick facts, Burnside jail strike, Chris Collett, Clayton Cromwell, Deputy Minister of Justice Karen Hudson, Director of Correctional Services Sean Kelly, Dr. Robert Strang, El Jones, FOIPOP, Human Rights Commission, NDP Justice Critic Claudia Chender, NSCC Limitless, PC MLA Barbara Adams, PC MLA Chris D'Entremont, Solitary confinement

The “breach of privacy” arrest looks like an exercise in misdirection

Morning File, Thursday, April 12, 2018

April 12, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 15 Comments

News 1. “Breach of privacy” Yesterday, the province announced that the Freedom of Information site had been “breached”: Government is working with Halifax Regional Police to investigate a breach of information on the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIPOP) website. Of the documents that were inappropriately accessed, less than four per cent, about […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brett Bundale, Cogswell Interchange plan, FOIPOP, Fred Vallance-Jones, Freedom of Information website breach of privacy, Halifax's Chinese population, Jacob Boon, Lama El Azrak, Stephen Archibald and words

A very tenuous Halifax connection to the Trump-Russia scandal: Morning File, Thursday, March 16, 2017

March 16, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 14 Comments

News 1. Court Watch This week, Christina Macdonald looks at the Kobylanski trial, a Kentville meth lab, and how the Stewiacke election demonstrates why we shouldn’t trust electronic voting. Click here to read Court Watch. This article is behind the Examiner’s paywall and so is available only to paid subscribers. Click here to purchase a subscription. 2. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anjuli Patel, Cat hoarding, Dmitry Rybolovlev, Ekaterina Rybolovleva, FOIPOP, Geoff Budden, Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Justice George Murphy, Justin Brake, Keptin John Joe Sark, Muskrat Falls, Nalcor Energy, press freedom, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Robert Mercer, Sea Owl, Steve Bannon, Trump-Russia scandal

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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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