It was an innocuous event, as most book launches are, but the Royal Canadian Mounted Police didn’t think so, and two officers in plain clothes showed up at Hart Hall at Mount Allison University, apparently concerned by what they read in this Halifax Examiner story and in three Facebook posts advertising the launch. It’s a […]
Portrait of slavery in Canada
Morning File, Thursday, June 11, 2020
News 1. McNutt pleads guilty to sexual assault offences This item is written by Tim Bousquet. Yesterday, Michael McNutt pleaded guilty to offences related to the sexual abuse (and one assault) of 34 boys over the course of 20 years. McNutt was facing 90 charges; the remainder of the charges will be dismissed at sentencing […]
Strang: “We may well have had the peak”
Morning File, Wednesday, April 29, 2020
News 1. Murderer escaped Portapique within 10 minutes of police arriving Tim Bousquet provides an update on what we know about the mass murder which started in Portapique, Nova Scotia on April 18, based on new information released yesterday by RCMP Support Services Officer Darren Campbell. New information includes: • 435 witnesses have been identified, […]
New Brunswick eases restrictions on abortion, but there’s still a long way to go
by Karen Rawlines As of Jan. 1, 2015, abortion access in New Brunswick will change: Women will no longer need the approval of two physicians to get an abortion, and the procedure will no longer need to be performed by a specialist. Those changes are important improvements in a province that lost its sole abortion...