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The Halifax police department has a crisis of legitimacy 

Morning File, Monday, June 17, 2019

June 17, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

News 1. The Halifax police department has a crisis of legitimacy Is there an unusually large number of Halifax cops who are crooks? I suspect there is an institutional culture that looks the other way and avoids confronting official misconduct, and that institutional culture therefore actually encourages even more misconduct. But of course it’s a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Chris Mosher, Constable Chris Friis, Criminal Conviction Review Group, Detective Constable Justin Sheppard, Fred Fitzsimmons, Gary Basso, George Farmer, Glen Assoun, Halifax Police, James Lockyer, Jane Downey, Jerome Kennedy, Justice James Chipman, Phillip Campbell, police malfeasance, Sean MacDonald, Stephen Angle, Sylvia Parris, Tina Cameron, trichomoniasis

Documenting police “malfeasance” in Glen Assoun’s wrongful conviction

Morning File, Tuesday, June 11, 2019

June 11, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

Yesterday, Glen Assoun’s lawyer Phil Campbell filed a brief with the Supreme Court in response to a media application to unseal court documents related to his wrongful conviction. The media coalition consists of the Halifax Examiner, the CBC, and the Canadian Press. Campbell’s brief wants a partial publication ban to be placed on three people […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Constable Chris Friis, Criminal Conviction Review Group, Detective Constable Justin Sheppard, Fred Fitzsimmons, Glen Assoun, Halifax Police, James Lockyer, Jane Downey, Jerome Kennedy, Justice James Chipman, Phillip Campbell, police investigator Dave MacDonald, police malfeasance, Sean MacDonald, Stephen Angle, Tina Cameron

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.

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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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