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Private member’s bill seeks to limit the use of non-disclosure agreements in cases of harassment, discrimination

April 8, 2022 By Jennifer Henderson Leave a Comment

Registered nurse and Ontario serial killer Elizabeth Wettlaufer had a non-disclosure agreement with her employer. Zelda Perkins had a 20-year non-disclosure agreement with Harvey Weinstein, a movie mogul and serial rapist, before Perkins broke her silence and exposed him. A private member’s bill introduced in the Nova Scotia Legislature on Thursday seeks to restrict the […]

Filed Under: Featured, Province House, Women Tagged With: #MeToo, Avalon Sexual Assault Centre, discrimination, Equity Watch, Kristina Fifield, MLA Claudia Chender, non-disclosure agreement, Sexual harassment, women, Zainab Almukhtar

Coming to terms with the complicated legacy of Gerald Regan

How do you reconcile the contradictory facts of our 19th premier's life? You probably can’t. No matter what you write, you’re either rinsing Regan’s black heart in the cleansing stream of his passing or dancing gleefully on his grave. Most news reports I saw got it about as right as those complicated realities — and our changing times — allowed. Premier Stephen McNeil didn't.

December 1, 2019 By Stephen Kimber 5 Comments

“I think you know every Canadian knows you’re guilty. And you can take that to your grave!” Court spectator Mark Iich Shouted at Gerald Regan following his acquittal December 1998 As the author of “that book about”… I spent much of last week being interviewed by journalists, all of whom — like me — were […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House Tagged With: #MeToo, Gerald Regan, sexual assault, Stephen McNeil

Shelburne School for Boys: Good intentions gone wrong? Or…?

Was the government's compensation program crafted out of a well-intentioned desire to allow victims to tell their story “without a public spectacle” that would re-victimize them? Or in a desperate attempt to keep the public from ever learning the real story behind the abuse of children in care?

July 1, 2019 By Stephen Kimber

  While pursuing something else entirely yesterday, I was reading through back copies of The 4th Estate, the lefty Halifax newspaper of the 1970s, and stumbled upon repeated references to the Shelburne School for Boys. —Tim Bousquet “Morning File” June 27, 2019 I was a reporter then. And there. But I’d forgotten — forgotten that...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: #MeToo, Nova Scotia School for Boys, Patronage, sexual abuse

Verdict without end

More than 20 years after former Nova Scotia premier Gerald Regan was acquitted of sexually assaulting multiple women, other women are still coming forward with still more stories of what he did to them, still needing finally "to be heard." Including "Catherine."

April 15, 2019 By Stephen Kimber

I shouldn’t be surprised. Not after Me-too. But I am. Still. It happens more often than you might suppose. I’ll be attending a public event, and someone will come up to me. “Aren’t you the guy who wrote that book, the one about…?” Yes, I am, but it was published 20 years ago. “My sister…...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: #MeToo, Gerald Regan, Me-Too, sexual assault

Gerald Regan and the legacy of our #MeToo moment

It isn't the jury's verdict from 1998 we should be remembering today, but the fact the RCMP and prosecutors finally chose to believe women over one of the country's most powerful political men. And, more important, that women — lots of them — stood up for other women, and said #MeToo.

December 17, 2018 By Stephen Kimber

“Members of the jury, have you agreed upon your verdicts?” The court clerk asked her rote question with a wavering, tell-me-don’t-tell-me tone that seemed to capture perfectly the nervous, nerve-wracked mood among the more than three dozen men and women sitting in the Halifax Law Court’s Courtroom 3-1 on the blustery afternoon of December 18,...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: #MeToo, Gerald Regan, justice, sexual assault

We’re pretty sure it will soon be legal to smoke dope with that murderous imperialist Boer War dude outside Province House

Morning File, Monday, October 1, 2018

October 1, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 20 Comments

News 1. The 1% “Did you know Canadian taxpayers earning more than $250,000 annually — them’s the “one per cent” to me and thee — paid $6.8-billion less in federal taxes in 2016 than they did in 2015?” asks Stephen Kimber: But… uh… wait a minute. Didn’t Canada’s shiny new Liberal government create a whole […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: #MeToo, Alanna Rizza, Andrew Preeper, Anna Duckworth, Audrey Champagne, Bruce MacKinnon, cannabis legalization, drinking and smoking in parks, earthquake, fatality Highway 102, Fenwick MacIntosh, Halifax council campaign finance rules, Heather Cabot, Kate Miller, Kavanaugh hearing, Lezlie Lowe, Miss Grass, naming policy, naming shit for people, Nicole Thompson, Smoking ban, Stephen Archibald and cheese

Peter Stoffer: former MP, former hugger, accused groper

We are at the very beginning of a seismic culture shift, and men like Peter Stoffer — who may have assumed they were playing by rules that now suddenly no longer apply — will inevitably pay a price while the ground shifts and the rules change. That is necessary, and not necessarily unfair.

February 11, 2018 By Stephen Kimber

There is much to ponder in the latest dispatch from the world of #metoo — if indeed what I think of as the latest in the cascade of distressingly similar stories of inappropriate conduct by men in positions of authority hasn’t already been superseded by even more recent, ever more egregious, latest revelations of same....

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: #MeToo, Peter Stoffer, Sexual harassment

How Many Times More Likely?

Me Too and Black Canadian Women

December 10, 2017 By El Jones 1 Comment

This week, Time Magazine chose the #MeToo movement as Person of the Year. But founder Tarana Burke was left off the cover. For years, Tarana was in the trenches working directly with young survivors of sexual harassment. She listened to the story of a young woman burdened with the memory of her assault and dedicated […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: #MeToo, Anthony Morgan, Black incarceration, Black women organizers, Combahee River Collective, Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall, gendered violence, Michaelle Jean Foundation, misogynoir, Moya Bailey, National Black Canadian Summit, Ottilia Chareka, Robyn Maynard, Sisters in Spirit, Tarana Burke, Time Magazine, violence against Black women

PRICED OUT

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents
PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

You can learn about the project, including how we’re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on the PRICED OUT homepage.

2020 mass murders

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.

Updated regularly.

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.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Two young white women, one with dark hair and one blonde, smile at the camera on a sunny spring day.

Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

Listen to the episode here.

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