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Man Up: Men must speak out against sexual assault

March 7, 2017 By Evelyn C. White 5 Comments

The young man who, in 2011, reputedly gave a thumbs up sign while sodomizing an inebriated Rehteah Parsons has gone on with his life. Ditto the fellow who took a photo of the assault that was then circulated online and unleashed a barrage of “slut-shaming” attacks against the once cheery Dartmouth teenager. No longer able […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Bassam Al-Rawi, Bill Cosby, Carl Douglas Snelgrove, Dal Gentlemen’s Club, Gregory Lenehan, Jian Ghomeshi, Lyle Howe, Robin Camp, sexual assault, William B. Horkins

The Ghomeshi verdict isn’t Marie Henein’s fault

The danger in having conversations about sexual assault and how it should be dealt with in the criminal justice system without someone like Henein involved is that such a discussion becomes insular and circular, and gets us nowhere.

November 28, 2016 By Stephen Kimber

Get it out of the way first. I do believe those women who came forward to accuse former CBC host Jian Ghomeshi of sexually assaulting them. And I salute their courage in doing so. That said, I don’t agree with those who want to silence Ghomeshi’s lawyer, Marie Henein, for the crime of having done...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: Jian Ghomeshi, Marie Henein, Rape culture, sexual assault

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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