• City Hall
  • Province House
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Investigation
  • Journalism
  • Commentary
  • @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
  • Donate
  • Manage your account
  • Swag

How Halifax council can (and must) regulate police use of force

June 9, 2020 By Harry Critchley 4 Comments

As has already been reported, at today’s Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) Budget Committee meeting, every councillor with the exception of Steve Adams voted to approve an amendment to the budget that cancelled the purchase of an armoured vehicle for the Halifax Regional Police (HRP) and instead reallocate the funding. Specifically, after an hour in camera […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: anti-Black racism, Board of Police Commissioners, Corey Rogers, Councillor David Hendsbee, Councillor Lindell Smith, councillor Matt Whitman, councillor Steve Adams, councillor Tony Mancini, Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) Budget Committee, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), John Traves, Kirk Johnson, Lisa Blackburn, Martha Paynter, Police Act of Nova Scotia, police use of force, police violence, spit hood, tank armoured vehicle, taser

Street check apology misses the point: Black people continue to be profiled and surveilled

Before and after Friday, the community and media will be caught up in the wording of the apology, whether we are happy with the apology, and whether we accept the apology or not. All of this is happening on the terms of the police. Let us not forget that they refused to apologize, then changed their minds, and yet we are expected to show up when they finally feel like it.

November 28, 2019 By El Jones 3 Comments

On Friday, November 29, Halifax Police Chief Dan Kinsella will apologize to the African Nova Scotian community for street checks. The apology comes after the police initially rejected calls to apologize. The Halifax Board of Police Commissioners prepared a statement at their April 15th meeting asking both the RCMP and the Halifax Regional Police to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill Blair, Halifax Board of Police Commissioners, Kirk Johnson, Manisha Krishnan, Police Chief Dan Kinsella, racial profiling, street checks apology, Toronto Police Chief Julian Fantino, traffic stops

“This is North Preston”: a story that “needs to be heard”

"This is North Preston" is a film about the stereotype of North Preston that allows the young men who’ve been stereotyped for so long to speak for themselves.

May 12, 2019 By Stephen Kimber Leave a Comment

Jaren Hayman is from Toronto. He’s 32 years old, a white man. He began his professional career as a drummer, touring North America, but eventually morphed into a self-taught filmmaker. His first feature documentary, 2016’s Bodyguards: Secret Lives from the Watchtower, hit number one on the iTunes charts and earned a worldwide audience on Netflix. […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Black Cultural Centre, Craig Smith, Denise Allen, Garry James, Jaren Hayman, Justin Smith, Kirk Johnson, Little Nathan, Miranda Cain, North Preston, North Preston’s Finest, Racism, Rev. Darryl Gray

Street checks are racist and dumb; they should be outlawed

Morning File, Thursday, March 28, 2019

March 28, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News 1. Street checks I’ve asked El Jones to write an article about Scot Wortley’s street checks report that was released by the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission yesterday. Jones has been quite busy and hasn’t been able to sit down and write; she tells me she’ll write an article this afternoon; in the meanwhile, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: El Jones, Halifax Regional Police Service (HRP), HMCS Toronto, Jody Wilson-Raybold’s delay on Glen Assoun file, Keith Doucette, Kirk Johnson, Larry Harrison, Michael Gorman, MLA Allan MacMaster, MLA Keith Colwell, MLA Percy Paris, Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, Scot Wortley, street checks, Tim Houston, Tony Ince, traffic stop study, Zach Churchill

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Brian Borcherdt. Photo: Anna Edwards-Borcherdt

Brian Borcherdt came of age in Yarmouth in the 1990s. When he arrived in Halifax, the city’s famous music scene was already waning, and worse, the music he made was rejected by the cool kids anyway. After decades away from Nova Scotia, he and his young family have settled in the Annapolis Valley, where he’ll zoom in to chat with Tara about his band Holy Fuck’s endlessly delayed tour, creating the Dependent Music collective, and the freedom and excitement of the improvised music he’s making now. Plus: Bringing events back in 2021.

The Tideline is advertising-free and subscriber-supported. It’s also a very good deal at just $5 a month. Click here to support The Tideline.

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.

About the Halifax Examiner

Examiner folk The Halifax Examiner was founded by investigative reporter Tim Bousquet, and now includes a growing collection of writers, contributors, and staff. Left to right: Joan Baxter, Stephen Kimber, Linda Pannozzo, Erica Butler, Jennifer Henderson, Iris the Amazing, Tim Bousquet, Evelyn C. White, El Jones, Philip Moscovitch More about the Examiner.

Sign up for email notification

Sign up to receive email notification of new posts on the Halifax Examiner. Note: signing up for email notification of new posts is NOT subscribing to the Halifax Examiner. To subscribe, click here.

Recent posts

  • Halifax council awards $75.9 million in waste collection contracts with no living wage requirements January 27, 2021
  • Atlantic Gold paid $0 in taxes in 2019 January 27, 2021
  • Halifax Convention Centre won’t be used as homeless shelter, says top city staffer January 26, 2021
  • 1 new case of COVID-19 announced in Nova Scotia on Tuesday, Jan. 26 January 26, 2021
  • Looking for Eliza in Nova Scotia’s poor house cemeteries January 26, 2021

Commenting policy

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

Copyright © 2021