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Police review board hearing adjourned to give Corey Rogers’ mother time to speak to a lawyer

November 2, 2020 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

Nova Scotia’s police review board agreed to a two-day adjournment on Monday to give Corey Rogers’ mother time to speak to a lawyer. Rogers, 41, died in police custody in June 2016 after he was arrested outside the IWK for public intoxication. Police officers placed a spithood over Rogers’ head, and didn’t take it off […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Brian Bailey, Cheryl Gardner, Const. Donna Lee Paris, Const. Justin Murphy, Const. Ryan Morris, Corey Rogers, Dan Fraser, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), James Giacomantonio, Jeannette Rogers, John Withrow, Justice Simon MacDonald, Ron Pizzo, Stephanie Myles, Ted Murphy

The truth about what police value

The Halifax police department's victim services budget and lie detector budget were about the same; faced with a requirement to cut costs, the department slashed the victim services budget but not the lie detector budget.

September 27, 2020 By El Jones 2 Comments

El Jones is a member of the Nova Scotia Police Policy Working Group discussed in this article. She has also been appointed to help create a committee to work with the Halifax Board of Police Commissioners to define “defunding” of police. Among their concerns arising from a review of the Halifax Regional Police budget, the […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, News, Policing Tagged With: defunding police, East Coast Prison Justice Society, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Harry Critchley, lie detector, Mary Campbell, Nova Scotia Police Policy Working Group, Nova Scotia RCMP Truth Verification Section (TVS), Peter Kelly, polygraph tests, RCMP, victim services

Nova Scotia premier asks for criminal investigation of police in wrongful conviction case

September 17, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

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. SIRT is the province’s independent police oversight body; its mandate is “to investigate all matters that involve death, serious injury, sexual assault and domestic violence or other […]

Filed Under: Featured, Investigation, News, Policing, Province House Tagged With: Felix Cacchione, Glen Assoun wrongful conviction, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Innocence Canada, Jerome Kennedy, Justice James Chipman, Justice Minister David Lametti, Premier Stephen McNeil, RCMP, Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System (ViCLAS)

Halifax continues to keep police services review secret

September 14, 2020 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

In response to a freedom of information request, Halifax is refusing to release a review of policing in the municipality tabled at regional council earlier this year. In January, council voted to accept some of the recommendations in a report by B.C. consulting firm perivale + taylor. Halifax paid nearly $200,000 for the review, designed […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Policing Tagged With: CAO Jacque Dubé, councillor Waye Mason, David Fraser, Freedom of Information request, Halifax police services review, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Nancy Dempsey, perivale + taylor, Police resource review

February 12 was a strange day for the man who two months later would murder 22 people

That snowy Wednesday morning, he had a bizarre run-in with Halifax police — one he gleefully bragged to Frank Magazine about. That evening, he was ticketed by an RCMP cop for driving 1-15 kph over the speed limit on a rural gravel road in Portapique — but the cop won't talk about it.

August 10, 2020 By Paul Palango 40 Comments

Last February 12 began as a poor-weather day in Nova Scotia. The province was pretty well shut down because of an overnight snowstorm. Schools and public buildings were closed in Halifax and Truro. The temperature was hovering around the freezing mark. More snow was forecast. It was not the kind of day to be wandering […]

Filed Under: Featured, Investigation, News Tagged With: Andrew Douglas, Bible Hill, bikers, Brink's, Catharine Mansley, Chief Dan Kinsella, CIBC Intria, Cliff Boutilier, confidential informants, Const. Duane Stanley, Const. Tracy Longpre, Ed Powers, fake RCMP car, Frank Magazine, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Hell's Angels, LIDAR, Natasha Pace, Nicholas Andrew Dorrington, Portapique Beach Road, Portapique mass shooting murder spree, RCMP, RCMP Assistant Commissioner Larry Tremblay, RCMP Cpl. Jennifer Clarke, Red Devils, Sgt. Michael Sims, Staff-Sgt Tanya Chambers-Spriggs, Stephen Maher

There’s been an increase in gun violence, but the incidents don’t appear to be related

August 6, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 2 Comments

Saturday night was the kind of a perfect summer evening you might have dreamed about for months. Finally, warm enough after five to still wear shorts and a cotton top or T-shirt comfortably. Clear skies stretching the hours of daylight into a glorious sunset for the finale.  Friends had invited us to join them for […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: armed robbery, assault with a weapon, Const. John MacLeod, gun violence, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Richard George Willis, shooting, stabbing, weapon related violence

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

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

Halifax woman racially profiled and arrested after Halifax Regional Police say they were chasing a “white man in a Toyota”

July 28, 2020 By El Jones 8 Comments

Local musician, music promoter, and community advocate Kayla Borden is traumatized and shaken after she was pulled over and handcuffed by police last night in what she calls yet another incident of racial profiling by the Halifax Regional Police. Borden says she was driving home at around 12:50am from her cousin’s place by Charles P. […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: anti-Black racism, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Kayla Borden, racial profiling, traffic stop

Santina Rao: The charges against me have been dropped, but the battle continues

July 6, 2020 By Santina Rao 4 Comments

Today is going to be a day I remember for the rest of my life. On July 6, 2020 the charges against me were dropped by the Crown Attorney. I no longer have to live another day being scared of what my future will look like, or worried if I’ll be able to spend precious time […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Halifax Regional Police (HRP), racial profiling, Santina Rao, Walmart

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PRICED OUT

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PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

You can learn about the project, including how we’re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on the PRICED OUT homepage.

2020 mass murders

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.

Updated regularly.

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.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

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