The Calgary charity which is taking the lead in supporting Lorne Grabher, a Dartmouth retiree fighting for his right to a licence plate with his name on it, hasn’t been on the legal scene for long. But it is becoming an increasingly recognized name as it intervenes on a number of high-profile Canadian cases. The...
Revenge porn, Grabher, and whales: Morning File, Thursday, September 7, 2017
I’m Katie. I’m a freelance journalist who likes toast. I sometimes work with cub reporters at King’s and I am filling in for Tim today. News 1. Teens get conditional discharges in revenge porn case (Unwanted sharing of sexual images, often consensually given to the distributor under false pretenses, is colloquially known as “revenge porn,” […]
Burn, Baby, Burn: Morning File, Saturday, March 25, 2017
News 1. Winning Ah, Mount Allison University. Perhaps you can take a class in the new Purdy Crawford Centre for the Arts, opened in 2014 and funded entirely by private donors, such as Power Corporation of Canada, whose investments include Total S.A., one of the “seven supermajor oil companies in the world” (last seen paying fines […]
Christ, what an asshole! Morning File, Friday, March 24, 2017
News 1. Naomi Kidston Yesterday, Halifax police issued a release saying they had laid charges in the 2005 homicide of Naomi Kidston: On June 7, 2005 at 1:30 p.m., police responded to an address on River Road in Halifax. Upon arrival, officers located 26-year-old Naomi Kidston deceased inside an apartment. Her death was ruled a homicide. Through […]