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What is going on at the East Coast Forensic Hospital?

August 29, 2019 By El Jones 2 Comments

The death of Greg Hiles last week at the East Coast Forensic Hospital has led to calls for an inquiry and questions about the conditions at the facility. Serious problems have been consistently raised about the state of the province’s hospitals, nursing homes, and other treatment facilities. Disability rights advocates recently won a Nova Scotia Human […]

Filed Under: Featured, Investigation, News, Province House Tagged With: apple-ing while Black, Bob Murphy, Criminal Code Review Board (CCRB), Daniel Ryan, Dr. Aileen Brunet, East Coast Forensic Hospital (ECFH), Greg Hiles, Gregory Hiles, habeas corpus applications, Howard Hyde, Howard Sapers, Jeremy Williams, Judge Anne Derrick, Justice Ann Smith, Marcel Lawrence, Mentally Ill Offender Unit (MIOU), Mike Dull, NCR, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), Pat Atherton, Ralph Atkinson, segregation in prisons, Todd Henwood

Court Watch: mental illness and “not criminally responsible”

February 15, 2017 By Christina Macdonald

  Decisions Codey Hennigar sentencing decision reminiscent of other NCR verdicts You can read the decision in Codey Hennigar’s case online here.  Hennigar was found not criminally responsible due to mental disorder (“NCR-MD”) for the deaths of his mother and grandparents. Several outlets carried the story; here’s the CBC’s article.  This week also saw Vince Li...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: Ashley Kearse, Codey Hennigar, Court of Appeal, Jim Boyle, Justice Michael Wood, Lauren Soubolsky, Markel Jason Downey, mental illness, NCR, not criminally responsible, self-reps, Shannon Graham, student teachers, Universities injunction

Court Watch: Curtis Steele, Codey Hennigar, and George Hubley

February 1, 2017 By Christina Macdonald

In Court Charges Dropped against Curtis Steele On Monday afternoon, I stepped off the elevator in Halifax Supreme Court to see Mark Knox, QC heading into a courtroom. That’s a good sign that something interesting is about to happen, so I dove into the gallery. I was seated for about 0.63 seconds before the child...

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Filed Under: Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: Ann Ward, Bill, Blair Rhodes, Catherine “Catie” Miller, Curtis Steele, George Edward Hubley, Ida Ward, Kelly Amanda MacDonald, Malcolm Jeffcock, Mark Heerema, NCR, not criminally responsible, William Michael Sandeson

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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