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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

The Wrongful Conviction of Glen Assoun

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.

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DEAD WRONG

A botched police investigation and a police coverup shed light on the murders of dozens of women in Nova Scotia.

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