• Black Nova Scotia
  • Economy
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Health
    • COVID
  • Investigation
  • Journalism
  • Labour
  • Policing
  • Politics
    • City Hall
    • Elections
    • Province House
  • Profiles
  • Transit
  • Women
  • Morning File
  • Commentary
  • PRICED OUT
  • @Tim_Bousquet
  • Log In

Halifax Examiner

An independent, adversarial news site in Halifax, NS

  • Home
  • About
    • Terms and Conditions
    • Commenting policy
  • Archives
  • Contact us
  • Subscribe
    • Gift Subscriptions
  • Donate
  • Swag
  • Receipts
  • Manage your account: update card / change level / cancel

Corey Rogers’ mother disappointed with Nova Scotia Police Review Board decision

"That kind of upset me," Rogers says about board clearing constable Ryan Morris of all wrongdoing.

December 14, 2021 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

The mother of a man who died in police custody feels the officer who arrested her son got off too easy in a recent decision. Corey Rogers, 41, choked to death after vomiting into a spit hood in cells at Halifax Regional Police headquarters in June 2016. He was arrested for public intoxication outside a […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Policing Tagged With: Corey Rogers, Halifax Police, Halifax Regional Police, Jeannette Rogers, Nova Scotia Police Review Board

How not to handle homelessness

Morning File, Wednesday, June 23, 2021

June 23, 2021 By Ethan Lycan-Lang 3 Comments

News 1. Halifax police officer testifies he didn’t think Corey Rogers needed medical assistance “One of the officers who arrested Corey Rogers the night he died testified Tuesday that although Rogers was intoxicated and needed to be dragged into his cell, he didn’t think the 41-year-old needed medical attention,” writes Zane Woodford in his continuing […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Goodsell, Bitchute, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), Christ Stoodley, Corey Rogers, COVID protocols, COVID-19, Cst Ryan Morris, Cst. Donna Lee Paris, Dr. Robert Strang, drunk tank, Halifax Mutual Aid, Halifax Regional Police, homeless, homelessness, IWK, Jeannette Rogers, Joan Baxter, Justin Murphy, logging, Lord Nelson, mining, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Affordable Housing Commission, Nova Scotia Police Review Board, Nova Scotia-New Brunswick border, police, Police Act Regulations, Premier Blaine Higgs, Premier Iain Rankin, spit hood, Stephen Kimber, temporary shelters, the Coast, Tim Bousquet, Toronto, travel restrictions, Trinity Bellwoods, Tyler Ledden, vaccinations, vaccines, Zane Woodford

Invest in Killam to offset your rent increase

Morning File, Thursday, November 5, 2020

November 5, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 9 Comments

November marks the Halifax Examiner’s annual subscription drive — the time of year when we give you a behind-the-scenes look at the Examiner, point out some of the great things about this publication (sometimes people call it a newspaper, which I kind of like), and urge you to please subscribe so we can keep doing […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: affordable housing, American election, anti-Black racism, Bayers Lake Community Outpatient Centre, Black Nova Scotians, diesel buses, Ecology Action Centre (EAC), Electoral College, Jeannette Rogers, Jen Powley, Jesse Wegman, Jim Vibert, Killam Apartment REIT, military, Paul Palmeter, Truro

Police review board hearing adjourned again as Jeannette Rogers seeks legal representation

November 4, 2020 By Zane Woodford 3 Comments

A hearing of Nova Scotia’s police review board has been adjourned again, and potentially for much longer, to give Jeannette Rogers time to get a lawyer. “If the board wants to ensure this is a fair process, I need to be given them more time to find a lawyer to hear the case,” Rogers told […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Cheryl Gardner, Const. Donna Lee Paris, Const. Justin Murphy, Const. Ryan Morris, Corey Rogers, Dan Fraser, El Jones, Jeannette Rogers, Simon MacDonald

Selling your credibility is a bad idea

Morning File, Tuesday, November 3, 2020

November 3, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 11 Comments

Every November, the Halifax Examiner holds its annual subscription drive. Your subscriptions are what keep this enterprise going. The breaking stories, the opinion pieces, the first-person essays, the sharp commentary, the Morning Files — none of this would happen without your subscriptions. There are no ads, there is no branded content, there are no grants. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: affordable housing, Angela Rasmussen, Atlantic Tennis Centre, Bob Murphy, branded content, Bridgewater, Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), Chad Roy, Corey Rogers, coronavirus, COVID-19, David Pugliese, Elizabeth McSheffrey, Jeannette Rogers, Kelly Crowe, Linden MacIntyre, Lisa Brosseau, Marina Oleinikova, masks, Michael Gorman, military propaganda, Minister Suzanne Lohnes-Croft, Misha Lanin, Owls Head, painted airbrushed cars Russia, Patty Cuttell, rural housing, Simon Houpt, sponsored content, Tandem, Taryn Grant, Theresa Blackburn, Tony burman, Yulia Shehirina

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

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

The “wave your hand” bus exit doors are horrible and someone should be fired for them: Morning File, Friday, July 7, 2017

July 7, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 12 Comments

News 1. Bus doors   Last year, 99% Invisible and Vox got together to produce a short podcast on “Norman doors,” seen above. A Norman door is named after Don Norman, who in 1988 wrote a book, The Design of Everyday Things, which among many other things, pointed out a consistent problem with doors: many of them are counterintuitive. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Ayahuasca, burning tires, bus doors, Chris Lambie, Corey Rogers, death in police custody, Jeannette Rogers, Kim Davies, LaFarge Canada, Michael Tutton, Mike Chassie, Norman doors, Ricky Goodall, The Icarus Report July 7 2017, Tonya Wimmer, whale carcass off Magdalen Islands, Zane Woodford

PRICED OUT

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents
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

Two young white women, one with dark hair and one blonde, smile at the camera on a sunny spring day.

Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

Subscribe to the podcast to get episodes automatically downloaded to your device — there’s a great instructional article here. Email Suzanne for help.

You can reach Tara here.

Sign up for email notification

Sign up to receive email notification when we publish new Morning Files and Weekend Files. Note: signing up for this email is NOT the same as subscribing to the Halifax Examiner. To subscribe, click here.

Recent posts

  • National study to assess pandemic’s health impacts, potential long-term effects of COVID-19 May 19, 2022
  • NSTU president concerned about conflict as province announces end to mask mandate in schools May 19, 2022
  • Royal flush: the monarchy’s role in reconciliation and Canada today May 19, 2022
  • Dartmouth man charged with wilful promotion of hatred May 19, 2022
  • “Representation matters”: Vince Williams talks about the inaugural CFL Officiating Academy training camp May 18, 2022

Commenting policy

All comments on the Halifax Examiner are subject to our commenting policy. You can view our commenting policy here.

Copyright © 2022