News 1. Child sex abuse Three men allege that they were sexually abused as teenagers when they were housed at the Nova Scotia Youth Training Centre in Bible Hill. The Nova Scotia Youth Training Centre was an institution for young people with mental disabilities. I’m withholding the men’s full names until and unless they want to be […]
Harvard Street residents go to court over bikeway plan
Morning File, Friday, August 10, 2018
News 1. Class action lawsuit filed against Archdiocese Last week, Halifax lawyer John McKiggan and the Toronto law firm of Koskie Minsky announced they were filing a class action lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax–Yarmouth on behalf of children they allege were sexually abused by priests from 1960 to the present. After the lawyers issued […]
What we know about the security failure
Morning File, Friday, May 11, 2018
I’m a panelist at the Media and the Law Conference this morning, and as usual I’m having to spend the last hours before the conference to prep. So this is a short Morning File. News 1. We’ve published the search warrant documents On Tuesday, the Halifax Examiner and Cape Breton Spectator obtained court documents related to […]
The politics of resentment at Province House
Morning File, Thursday, April 19, 2018
News 1. Audits “The municipality has failed to completely implement more than half of the recommendations made by its auditor general between 2014 and 2016, and it’s unclear what percentage of the recommendations made before that were implemented,” reports Zane Woodford for StarMetro Halifax: Auditor general Evangeline Colman-Sadd presented a report to regional council’s Audit […]
Fifteen cops showed up to arrest a teenager for using the internet
Morning File, Tuesday, April 17, 2018
1. Fifteen cops showed up to arrest a teenager for using the internet CBC reporter Jack Julian interviewed the 19 year old who was arrested in the mischaracterized “data breach” of the province’s Freedom of Information website. Julian’s article is a great piece of reporting; it is well-written, sensitive, informative, and enraging. If police statements about […]
Bureaucratic oversight and other misdemeanours
Morning File, Tuesday, April 10, 2018
I’m Erica Butler, your Examiner transportation columnist, sitting in on Morning File today. News 1. Randy Riley case “Last Tuesday, there was dramatic moment in Supreme Court, worthy of its own Law & Order episode,” reported Tim yesterday: In the course of its prosecution of Randy Riley for the 2010 murder of Chad Smith, the […]
Don’t say that again: Morning File, Thursday, March 8, 2018
Hi folks. Erica Butler here again, filling in for Tim while he’s off preparing the next edition of Examineradio. News 1. Abdi deportation proceeding paused until March 21 Abdoul Abdi is one step closer to having a Federal Court consider his future instead of the Immigration and Refugee Review Board (IRB), reports the CBC’s Anjuli Patil. […]
One Great City! Morning File, Monday, January 22, 2018
1. Willow Tree “Can we trust the Armoyans to act in the public interest?” asks Stephen Kimber: No. That’s not their job. But it is councillors’ job. Their eagerness last week to say yes to the Armoyan scheme to trade approval of a 25-storey tower for a few affordable housing baubles tells you more than […]
Love this town: Morning File, Monday, November 6, 2017
News 1. Custody A former Legal Aid worker, Lawrence O’Neil was the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament representing Cape Breton Highlands – Canso from 1984 to 1988. He used that position to rail against women’s right to abortion. “In 1985,” reported the Canadian Press, “O’Neil moved to introduce a bill to amend the Criminal Code […]
Get over that “secret tunnel” delusion: Morning File, Thursday, June 15, 2017
News 1. NSBI There are two CBC stories from yesterday involving Nova Scotia Business Inc. The first is from Paul Withers: The Nova Scotia Crown corporation responsible for economic development in the province says it needs to be more ‘inclusive’ when it refers potential clients to commercial real-estate brokers. Nova Scotia Business Inc. called in […]