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The RCMP’s statement about the mass murder investigation is an exercise in obfuscation

August 4, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is one of eight media organizations that has been petitioning the court to unseal documents related to the RCMP’s investigation of the April 18/19 mass murders. The documents in question are the “Information to Obtain”s (ITOs) a search warrant, which the RCMP submitted to a court in order to get various search […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Investigation, News Tagged With: Dave Moore, Glen Assoun documents, Information to Obtain (ITO), Mark Green, mass killing spree Nova Scotia, murder spree Portapique, RCMP destruction of evidence, RCMP investigation

Dave Moore’s work could have cleared Glen Assoun of murder; here’s how and why the RCMP destroyed it

July 21, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

The RCMP’s spin on the Glen Assoun wrongful conviction makes no sense. That is the view of two former RCMP officers who are familiar with the case. It is now established that in 2004, the RCMP deleted information on a computer database that would have made the case that serial killer Michael McGray — not […]

Filed Under: Featured, Investigation, News Tagged With: Cpl. Desrosiers, Cpl. Tom Aucoin, Cst. Debbie Burstall, Cst. Mike Waghorn, Dave Moore, Gilles Blinn, Glen Assoun, Glen Assoun documents, Justice James Chipman, Karen Broydell, Mark Green, Michael McGray, RCMP Inspector Larry Wilson, Sgt. Dick Hutchings, Sgt. Ken Bradley, Sgt. Kevin Tellenback, Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System (ViCLAS)

The Assoun wrongful conviction: How Halifax police, RCMP, and prosecutorial misconduct sent an innocent man to prison and kept him there for nearly 17 years

Part 2: a botched Halifax police investigation, and then an RCMP coverup.

July 14, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

For background on this story, see my 2016 series, “Dead Wrong.” In the late 1990s, Halifax police were dealing with a disturbing number of unsolved murders, and in 1997, an RCMP–Halifax police task force, “Operation Full Course,” was established to look at cold cases. Operation Full Course was primarily focused on Andrew Johnson, a man picked […]

Filed Under: Featured, Investigation, News Tagged With: Andrea King, Andrew Johnson, Andy Lathem, Associate Chief Justice O’Neil, Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted (AIDWYC), Brenda Way, Brent Snook, Cst Steve Maxwell, Cst. D.L. Southern, Dave Moore, Detective Wayne Hurst, Dick Hutchings, Fred Fitzsimmons, Glen Assoun, Halifax Integrated Major Crime Unit, Innocence Canada, Jerome Kennedy, Ken Bradley, Kimberly McAndrew, Kirk Luther, Mark Green, Michael McGray, Operation Full Course, Public Prosecution Service, RCMP Corporal Roger Robbins, Sgt Dave Worrell, Stinchcombe, Tammy McLean, Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System (ViCLAS)

The Assoun wrongful conviction: How Halifax police, RCMP, and prosecutorial misconduct sent an innocent man to prison and kept him there for nearly 17 years

July 13, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

For background on this story, see my 2016 series, “Dead Wrong.” Court documents released on Friday reveal how Glen Assoun was wrongfully convicted of the 1995 murder of his former girlfriend Brenda Way. The documents detail two sets of police misconduct. The first set of misconduct was when Halifax police working on the investigation into […]

Filed Under: Featured, Investigation, News Tagged With: Brenda Way, Carla Jenkinson, Corey Tuma, Cst. Paul Melon, Dan MacRury, David Carvery, Detective Wayne Hurst, Don Murray, Glen Assoun, Jane Downey, Karla Jinkerson, Mark Green, Michael McGray, police investigator David MacDonald, Ray Mitchell, RCMP Cpl. Dave Roper, Robin Hartrick, Wayne Wise

BREAKING: RCMP destroyed information that would have suggested serial killer Michael McGray murdered Brenda Way; that destroyed information likely would have cleared Glen Assoun in the murder

July 12, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

This is a breaking news story. More information will be published later today. Newly unsealed court documents in the Glen Assoun case reveal that: The actual killer • serial killer Michael McGray was the likely killer of Brenda Way. The RCMP deleted, destroyed, and lost information that linked McGray to the Way murder • RCMP […]

Filed Under: Featured, Investigation, News Tagged With: Andy Lathem, Brenda Way, Dick Hutchings, Glen Assoun, Ken Bradley, Mark Green, Michael McGray, RCMP Cst David Moore, RCMP Sergeant Dick Hutchings, Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System (ViCLAS)

UPDATED: Supreme Court Justice James Chipman rules for media group in Assoun document case

July 2, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice James Chipman has indicated that he will grant a media request to gain access to sealed court documents in the Glen Assoun case. Assoun is the man who was wrongly convicted for the 1995 murder of his former girlfriend Brenda Way. That murder and Assoun’s conviction were the subjects of […]

Filed Under: Featured, Investigation, News Tagged With: Criminal Conviction Review Group (CCRG), Crown Prosecutor Mark Scott, Glen Assoun documents, Innocence Canada, John C. House, Justice Frank Iacobucci, Justice James Chipman, Justice Minister David Lametti, Mark Green, Michael McGray, Open Court Principle, RCMP Corporal Roger Robbins, Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System (ViCLAS)

The justice system is destroying an innocent man

Morning File, Thursday, June 7, 2018

June 7, 2018 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

News 1. Injustice in Nova Scotia As I reported Tuesday, three Germans got drunk on a flight from Germany to Cuba and caused such a disruption that the flight had to be diverted to Halifax, where the three were arrested. Transport Canada hasn’t yet detailed what exactly happened on the plane, but here in Nova Scotia, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexander Quon, Denis Theman, drunk Germans on flight to Cuba, fire Pinecrest Video, fire Primrose Street, Glen Assoun, Judge Dan MacRury, Judge James Chipman, Marian Fortune-Stone, Mark Green, prisoners by ethnicity, Ron Fetterly, Steve Bruce, stolen police pickup truck

Glen Assoun is moving to Halifax

November 24, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

Glen Assoun is moving to Halifax. In 1999, Assoun was convicted of the 1996 murder of his former girlfriend, Brenda Way. Assoun always maintained his innocence, but spent 16 years in prison for the murder. Assoun is the subject of the first three parts of the Examiner’s Dead Wrong series. Although Assoun was not eligible […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Association in Defence of the Wrongfully Convicted, Criminal Conviction Review Group, Glen Assoun moving to Halifax, Innocence Canada, Justice Jamie Chipman, Mark Green, Shannon Huckle, Tanya Assoun

We continue to fail those who have been wrongfully convicted: Morning File, Tuesday, October 10, 2017

October 8, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

News 1. A failed convention centre “Ottawa’s convention centre won’t be able to make a $4-million payment on a loan it still owes for its construction, the centre’s bosses have told the provincial government,” reports David Reevely for the Ottawa Citizen: The payment is due next September, after a five-year break from payments on what started […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bridget Murphy, David Reevely, Glen Assoun, Halifax Convention Centre, Halifax Explosion, James Upham, Joe Ramia, Justice James Chipman, Mark Green, Moncton Christmas tree, Ottawa Convention centre, Sandy Roberton, Stephen Archibald North End Library, tiny home movement, Vanessa Blanch, Wrongful Conviction Day

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Phyllis Rising — Rebecca Falvey (left) and Meg Hubley. Photo submitted

Episode #19 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Meg Hubley and Rebecca Falvey met as theatre kids at Neptune and have been friends ever since. As Phyllis Rising — that’s right, Mary Tyler Moore hive — they’re making films, plays, and are in production on The Crevice, a three-part sitcom streaming live from the Bus Stop in March. They stop by to talk with Tara about its development, their shared love of classic SNL and 90s sitcoms, and the power of close friendship. Plus: A new song from a new band.

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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.

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