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The truth about what police value

The Halifax police department's victim services budget and lie detector budget were about the same; faced with a requirement to cut costs, the department slashed the victim services budget but not the lie detector budget.

September 27, 2020 By El Jones 2 Comments

El Jones is a member of the Nova Scotia Police Policy Working Group discussed in this article. She has also been appointed to help create a committee to work with the Halifax Board of Police Commissioners to define “defunding” of police. Among their concerns arising from a review of the Halifax Regional Police budget, the […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, News Tagged With: defunding police, East Coast Prison Justice Society, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Harry Critchley, lie detector, Mary Campbell, Nova Scotia Police Policy Working Group, Nova Scotia RCMP Truth Verification Section (TVS), Peter Kelly, polygraph tests, RCMP, victim services

The criminal destruction of evidence in the Assoun case by cops should scare the hell out of all of us

Morning File, Friday, September 18, 2020

September 18, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

News 1. Premier calls for criminal investigation of cops “Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil wants police acts in the Glen Assoun wrongful conviction case referred to the Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT) for a possible criminal investigation,” I reported yesterday: At a post-cabinet meeting scrum with reporters [Thursday], I had the following exchange with McNeil: […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Annapolis County Extinction Rebellion, Cheverie, clearcutting, Cliff Seruntine, COVID-19, David Patriquin, defund the police, Glen Assoun evidence, Halifax Board of Police Commissioners, herbicide spraying, Hurricane Teddy, Jonathan Erdman, Kejimkujik National Park (KNP), Lawrence Powell, London Ontario, Mary Campbell, Nina Newington, Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) Marconi Campus, Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), Stephen Archibald and camera obscura, Sydney, Timothy Habinski, Western University outbreak

Keep the travel restrictions

Morning File, Tuesday, September 15, 2020

September 15, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News 1. Forest health Linda Pannozzo writes: Instead of improving the state of the province’s forests, the Nova Scotia government conducts a survey about improving The State of the Forest reporting. The Halifax Examiner takes the survey. Pannozzo methodically walks us through why it’s wrong to repeatedly ask the public to take part in surveys […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Atlantic bubble, clearcutting, coronavirus, COVID-19, cruise ship industry, David Patriquin, Elvis Presley, Epic Stream TV, Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC), Forensic Accounting Management Group (FAMG), forestry, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), John Cunningham, Kayla Thomeh, Leland Anthony, Linda Pannozzo, Mary Campbell, Michael Gorman, Municipality of the District of Yarmouth, Operation Hotwire, pandemic, Premier Stephen McNeil, quarantine, RCMP Federal Serious and Organized Crime (FSOC), Riad Thomeh, self-isolation, Sydney, television program piracy, Tomás Pueyo, travel restrictions

There hasn’t yet been a COVID outbreak in Nova Scotia’s jails, but it could still happen

Morning File, Friday, September 11, 2020

September 11, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

News 1. COVID-19 and provincial jails Provincial jails have not seen a major breakout of COVID-19. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the jails have improperly infringed on prisoners’ rights, and the programs, policies, and supports that were implemented in order to prevent COVID infections in jails have been defunded; as a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 911 attacks, Amanda McDougall, Archie MacKinnon, Blindspot: The Road to 911, Cape Breton Autonomy Group, CBRM, Chris Abbass, COVID-19 in prison, COVID-19 in provincial jails, decarceration, Dr. Adelina Iftene, Dr. Lisa Barrett, Jim O'Grady, John Howard Society Nova Scotia (JHSNS), Kevin MacEachern, Mary Campbell, mayoral candidates, pandemic, racism Queens County

Who thinks Cornwallis would still be standing?

Morning File, Wednesday, June 10, 2020

June 10, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 4 Comments

News 1. When it comes to regulating police use of force, are council’s hands really tied? We’re leading this morning not with a straight news story, but an important commentary from Harry Critchley of the East Coast Prison Justice Society, and the Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia. Critchley recaps some key background on police […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: armoured vehicle, baseball, Baseball Nova Scotia, Bob Carter, Byron Boucher, Cornwallis statue, councillor Steve Streatch, COVID-19, David Pugliese, Edward Colston, El Jones, Elizabeth McMillan, FOIPOP, James Culic, Karissa Donkin, Mary Campbell, Matt Whitman bike lanes, Michael Kempa, Michael Spratt, Onslow Belmont Fire Brigade, Paul Palmeter, RCMP shooting Lower Onslow, tank

How to succeed in business by killing a bunch of people

Morning File, Tuesday, June 2, 2020

June 2, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Mass shooting “The class action lawsuit brought against the estate of the man who killed 22 people and injured seven others during a fiery rampage across northern Nova Scotia has been updated through an amended statement of claim,” reports Jennifer Henderson: The lawsuit includes three groups of plaintiffs: those whose loved ones were […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alastair Campbell, Cape Breton Spectator, Entrevestor, Innovacorp, Mary Campbell, Permjot Valia, Silver Donald Cameron, Story Arc Series, The Mysterious East

Economists totally did not expect the global pandemic

Morning File, Friday, May 29, 2020

May 29, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. RCMP and rural policing “The RCMP’s rural policing strategy has been for many years an ongoing disaster and a danger to the public in Colchester County, say two municipal councillors with law enforcement backgrounds,” reports Paul Palango: Most of the victims killed in the Nova Scotia massacre of April 18-19 lived in Colchester […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Business Minister Geoff MacLellan, Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway (CBNS), coronavirus, COVID-19, Keynesian policies, Mary Campbell, Nova Scotia economy, pandemic, provincial economic forecast, slow streets, Stephen Archibald and spring

Share, but don’t scare with, the COVID-19 information

Morning File, Wednesday, May 13, 2020

May 13, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 5 Comments

News The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. 1. COVID-19 update Mary Campbell at the Cape Breton Spectator gives us the daily update on COVID-19. Dr. Robert Strang announced just one new positive case of COVID-19, and fortunately no new deaths. Here are the numbers: Total new cases: 1 Total cases: 1,020 Total hospitalized: 9 […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: anti-Chinese racism, basic income, Brad Anguish, Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), Caremongering-HFX, Carly Robinson, coronavirus, Councillor Lindell Smith, COVID-19, COVID-19 fraud, Daily COVID-19 update, David Leonard, Dr. Robert Strang, Erin Bromage, Institute for Canadian Citizenship, Jamie Cooke, Jeff Thomson, Kathryn Hill, Kelly Denty, Laura Cattari, Mary Campbell, Mary Chisholm, masks, MediaSmarts, misinformation, Northwood, Nova Scotia Plant Fairies, Nova Scotia Wine Fairies, pandemic, Paul Davis, scams, Scott Santens, Senator Kim Pate, Social Policy Framework, Southern Ontario Basic Income Experience, Stacy Lee, Tamarack Institute, The Walrus Magazine, wine mommy

Calling connected devices “smart” is propaganda

Morning File, Tuesday, April 28, 2020

April 28, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 3 Comments

News 1. Daily COVID-19 update (sans briefing) There hasn’t been a provincial COVID-19 briefing since Friday, but the province has continued to release numbers daily. The Cape Breton Spectator’s Mary Campbell has generously given the Examiner permission to republish info from her daily COVID-19 update. Here are yesterday’s numbers, from Campbell: Numbers Total new cases: 27 […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alicia Draus, Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety, Cape Breton Spectator, coronavirus, Daily COVID-19 update, David Fraser, digital legacy, Dr. Monika Dutt, Dr. Robert Strang, Francis Campbell, Halifax Transit, Jennifer Watts, Mary Campbell, missing people, museums, Olivia Malley, pandemic, Petnet feeder, Portia Clark, school reopening, Shaina Luck, smart appliances, smarthome, social media, worker safety, workplace deaths

War is the wrong metaphor for the collective struggle against COVID-19

Morning File, Monday, April 6, 2020

April 6, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

News 1. War is the wrong metaphor Over the weekend, 55 new cases of COVID-19 were found in Nova Scotia, bringing the total caseload to 236. The Examiner tracks the spread of COVID-19 graphically daily, and reports on the daily briefings given by Premier Stephen McNeil and Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Robert Strang. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 while Black, cruise ship tourism, Dr. Robert Strang, Dr. Sundeep Chohan, Gus Reed, handwashing, Mary Brown's, Mary Campbell, masks, militarization of COVID-19, military analogy, OmiSoore Dryden, pandemic, physical distancing in prison, prisoners and coronavirus, racism and pandemics, social distancing, Stephen Archibald and spring, Stephen Beckett, war as metaphor, wheelchair users

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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.

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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.

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.

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