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Black people die; corporations get rich

New policing technologies like body cameras don't help Black people; they're just another way to enrich corporations and police departments preying on Black people

August 5, 2020 By El Jones Leave a Comment

CBC reports that the Truro police have started wearing body cameras. Truro Police Chief Dave MacNeil suggests the cameras are “partially a response to the global Black Lives Matter protests and partially to take advantage of improving technology.” The Truro police have been supplied with WatchGuard cameras. WatchGuard is owned by Motorola Solutions. In 2019, […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, News Tagged With: ACLU, body cameras, Clearview AI, Deb Raji, defund the police, facial recognition technology, Gregory Q. Brown, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Jeff Bezos, Joy Buolamwini, license plate readers, Lynn Jones, Motorola Solutions, policing technology, racial profiling, ShotTracker, Stingray, street check data, Timnit Gebru, Truro police, Vigilant Solutions, WatchGuard

Halifax woman racially profiled and arrested after Halifax Regional Police say they were chasing a “white man in a Toyota”

July 28, 2020 By El Jones 8 Comments

Local musician, music promoter, and community advocate Kayla Borden is traumatized and shaken after she was pulled over and handcuffed by police last night in what she calls yet another incident of racial profiling by the Halifax Regional Police. Borden says she was driving home at around 12:50am from her cousin’s place by Charles P. […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: anti-Black racism, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Kayla Borden, racial profiling, traffic stop

Senator calls for action from Halifax councillors with presentation on anti-Black racism

July 7, 2020 By Zane Woodford 2 Comments

Senator Dr. Wanda Thomas Bernard is calling on Halifax regional councillors to take action to combat anti-Black racism in the municipality. Bernard, an independent Canadian senator appointed in 2016, gave a roughly half-hour long presentation to council’s virtual meeting on Tuesday morning. The presentation, titled “Unpacking Anti‐Black Racism in the HRM: Creating Sustainable Change for […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: anti-Black racism, Arthur Maddox racist, CAO Jacques Dubé, East Preston, Halifax Transit, Mayor Mike Savage, racial profiling, Randy Symonds, Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard, systemic racism

Santina Rao: The charges against me have been dropped, but the battle continues

July 6, 2020 By Santina Rao 4 Comments

Today is going to be a day I remember for the rest of my life. On July 6, 2020 the charges against me were dropped by the Crown Attorney. I no longer have to live another day being scared of what my future will look like, or worried if I’ll be able to spend precious time […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Halifax Regional Police (HRP), racial profiling, Santina Rao, Walmart

City councillors approve increased police budget despite ongoing racial profiling

February 6, 2020 By El Jones 3 Comments

You don’t have to be Negrodamus to have predicted that the Halifax City Council would approve the police budget increase of about a million dollars, but even for the cynical the budget committee meeting on Wednesday demonstrated some surprising depths of unaccountability. Calls to freeze the police budget in response to the Halifax Regional Police’s […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, News Tagged With: Board of Police Commissioners, Carole McDougall, Councillor Lindell Smith, Councillor Paul Russell, councillor Tony Mancini, councillor Waye Mason, crime rate, Extinction Rebellion, Halifax Police budget, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Mayor Mike Savage, Natalie Borden, Negrodamus, Police Chief Dan Kinsella, Police Foundation, racial profiling, Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT)

New street checks almost the same as the old

The province banned street checks. The police chief apologized. But nothing's really changed. Earlier this month, former police officer Maurice Carvery says police turned his routine traffic stop into an example of racial profiling. “They haven’t stopped; they’ve only changed.”

January 26, 2020 By Stephen Kimber

Red lights flashing in your rearview; a high-pitched siren’s we-we-we-waaaahhh from somewhere behind your head, slowly penetrating your music-listening, daydreaming, distracted driving consciousness; the faint hope this siren does not scream for you; the eventual realization it’s you the officer wants to pull over; the long wait by the side of the road while traffic...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: Halifax street checks, Maurice Carvery, Police Chief Dan Kinsella, racial profiling

Cops, cabbies, and doctors abusing their power

Morning File, Friday, January 24, 2020

January 24, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 3 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp takes the province to court Jennifer Henderson and Joan Baxter report on the news that Northern Pulp is taking the province to court, and on the Pictou Landing First Nation’s reaction. Yesterday afternoon the company issued a news release stating it will ask the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia to undertake […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alicia Draus, Andrew MacLeod, carbon calculator app, Const. Jasmin Razic, Eastern Shore Forest Watch Association, Godfred Chongatera, Gregor Craigie, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), John McPhee, Judge Gregory Lenehan, Manivasan Moodley, Maurice Carvery, Nova Scotia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Owl's Head Provincial Park, Paul Godfrey, Pema Chödrön, Postmedia, Project Sunshine, racial profiling, Sakyong Mipham, Shambhala, Tampere, taxi driver sexual assault, Tesform Kidane Mengis, Wendy Martin

Halifax police officers in Santina Rao case still working, chief waiting for investigation

January 20, 2020 By Zane Woodford

The officers involved are still on the job and Halifax Regional Police Chief Dan Kinsella had little to say publicly on Monday about the violent arrest of a young Black mother at Walmart last week, citing an ongoing court case and a potential investigation. Kinsella addressed reporters after a meeting of the Halifax board of...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Corey Rogers, councillor Tony Mancini, Direction 180, East Coast Prison Justice Society, El Jones, Elizabeth Fry Society, Halifax Police budget, harm reduction programs, Harry Critchley, Leah Genge, managed alcohol programs, Mobile Outreach Street Health (MOSH), North End Community Health Centre, police brutality, Police Chief Dan Kinsella, racial profiling, Santina Rao, Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), shopping while Black, sobering centres, Spryfield Medical Centre, Walmart

Puzzling developments with Cape Breton’s non-existent container terminal

Morning File, Monday, January 20, 2020

January 20, 2020 By Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson 2 Comments

News 1. Walmart incident “When a young black woman accused the Halifax police of racially profiling and abusing her in connection with an alleged shoplifting incident at Walmart last week, officials did what officials do,” writes Stephen Kimber. “They obfuscated, they passed the buck, they pretended to take it seriously.” Click here to read “Can […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brookfield Asset Management, Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway (CBNS), Desmond Cole, Egyptian artifacts, Emma Davie, facebook, Frank McKenna, Genesee & Wyoming, Geoff MacLelllan, Jack Julian, Jim Pomeroy, King's Co-op Bookstore, Marla MacInnis, Mary Campbell, mummies, Museum of Natural History, new Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (AGNS) RFP, Nova Scotia Health Authority, Paul MacKay, Peter Bigelow, racial profiling, Russian Internet Research Agency, Santina Rao, Sydney container terminal, YMCA

Can we expect truth about the Walmart incident from police or the store? Nope

When a young black woman accused the Halifax police of racially profiling and abusing her in connection with an alleged shoplifting incident at Walmart last week, officials did what officials do. They obfuscated, they passed the buck, they pretended to take it seriously.

January 19, 2020 By Stephen Kimber 8 Comments

I still don’t know nearly enough about what actually happened inside the Mumford Road Walmart shortly after 3:30 pm last Wednesday afternoon, but I already know too much to have faith we will get full and complete answers from either a we-take-allegations-like-this-seriously Halifax Regional Police or a buck-passing Walmart. Let’s start with what we do […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Halifax Regional Police, racial profiling, Walmart

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Phyllis Rising — Rebecca Falvey (left) and Meg Hubley. Photo submitted

Episode #19 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Meg Hubley and Rebecca Falvey met as theatre kids at Neptune and have been friends ever since. As Phyllis Rising — that’s right, Mary Tyler Moore hive — they’re making films, plays, and are in production on The Crevice, a three-part sitcom streaming live from the Bus Stop in March. They stop by to talk with Tara about its development, their shared love of classic SNL and 90s sitcoms, and the power of close friendship. Plus: A new song from a new band.

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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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