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Morning File, Thursday, October 17, 2019

October 17, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 7 Comments

News 1. You can have the right to strike; just don’t try to use it. Yesterday, the provincial government showed its continued labour relations finesse — this time in its negotiations with crown attorneys. The crowns want a 17% pay increase over four years. The province is offering 7%. Yesterday, while most of the prosecutors […]

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The cigarette butt recycling conspiracy to make us smoke more: Morning File, Wednesday, November 1, 2017

November 1, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 15 Comments

News 1. Frank Palermo Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler interviews Frank Palermo, a professor of planning, director of the Cities and Environment Unit at Dalhousie, and founding board member of the Planning and Design Centre (PDC), the originators of Switch: Open Street Sundays. Click here to read “Frank Palermo on ‘five years of doing an experiment’ […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charity is exploitation, Christine Bower, cigarette butt recycling, funding for WE Day, Lil MacPherson, Matt Whitman apology, Ray Wagner, road train grant request, TerraCycle, Wooden Monkey drops Nova Centre suit, Zane Woodford

The Wrongful Conviction of Glen Assoun

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.

Click here to read the Halifax Examiner's extensive reporting on the case.

DEAD WRONG

A botched police investigation and a police coverup shed light on the murders of dozens of women in Nova Scotia.

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