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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

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.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

Subscribe to the podcast to get episodes automatically downloaded to your device — there’s a great instructional article here. Email Suzanne for help.

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