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What did Halifax’s new police chief Dan Kinsella learn in Hamilton?

Hamilton is the hate crime capital of Canada, but instead of investigating the white supremacist and other right-wing terrorist groups targeting Black, Jewish, and the LGBTQ communities, Hamilton police trained its investigative unit on people of colour and anarchists. And, with Kinsella in an administrative position, the Hamilton police adopted new methods of surveillance of marginalized people, and bloated its budget with the purchase of militarized equipment.

September 23, 2019 By El Jones 5 Comments

Since his arrival in Halifax and swearing in this summer, Halifax police chief Dan Kinsella has been making the rounds, meeting with police and community members. As the legislature returns for the fall session, questions will resume about street checks, and how the government and police intend to address the issues raised by the Wortley […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Ameil Joseph, Caitlin Edwards, Cedar Hopperton, Chief Dan Kinsella, Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSE), Fred Eisenberger, Glenn De Caire, graffiti, Hamilton, Hamilton Police, Henri Berube, Heston Tobias, Lauri Sullivan, left wing protests, Marie Fitzpatrick, Matthew Green, police budget, police culture, predictive policing, racial profiling, street checks, systemic racism, traffic stops, white supremacy

Policing the Radical Imagination

July 1, 2019 By Alex Khasnabish 1 Comment

Since January 2015 I’ve had the great privilege of organizing the Radical Imagination Film and Discussion Series at the Central Branch Library in downtown Halifax. This series emerged out of the Radical Imagination Project, a social movement research project that began in 2010 with the goal of working with social movements to stimulate and circulate […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Alex Khasnabish, alternatives to policing, censorship, deplatforming, free speech issues, Halifax Library, Hilary Skov-Nielsen, racial profiling, Radical Imagination Film and Discussion Series, Trouble 18: ACAB

The problem with meritocracy: it destroys our humanity

Morning File, Wednesday, June 12, 2019

June 12, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Studenting While Black “On June 2, Black graduate student Shelby McPhee was accused by two white women of stealing a laptop while he was attending the Black Canadian Studies Association session at the 88th annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences held at the University of British Columbia,” writes El Jones: The white […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Atlantic Gold, college admissions scandal, Daniel Markovits, Develop Nova Scotia, Gangster Capitalism podcast, gold mining, Lesianu Hweld, MegumaGold, meritocracy, NDP climate plan, oil industry and ghg emissions, poverty, racial profiling, Regan Isenor, Richard Butts, Richard Starr, Shelby McPhee, Suzanne Rent, Zane Woodford

Studenting While Black: another example of calling the cops on Black people for simply existing

Despite the outsize media coverage devoted to the idea that universities are filled with Black and brown people oppressing the free speech of white men, in fact, universities remain overwhelmingly hostile to Black people.

June 11, 2019 By El Jones 4 Comments

On June 2, Black graduate student Shelby McPhee was accused by two white women of stealing a laptop while he was attending the Black Canadian Studies Association session at the 88th annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences held at the University of British Columbia. The white women, Congress attendees, asked to see proof that […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Education, Featured Tagged With: 88th annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Black Canadian Studies Association, racial profiling, Sarah Braasch, Shelby McPhee, Studenting while Black, white women and white supremacy

We the North: Black lives only matter when they are shooting a basketball

June 3, 2019 By El Jones 1 Comment

In Ottawa, one of the legal advocates for the Elizabeth Fry Society tells me that the Human Rights Commission refused to speak with Black gay women in prison. E. Fry filed a complaint that argues that Correctional Services of Canada (CSC) discriminates on the grounds of sex, race, ethnicity, and mental disability in its programming […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: anti-Black racism, Colin Kaepernick, Correctional Services of Canada (CSC), Drake, Elizabeth Fry Society, Human Rights Commission, Justice Tulloch, Kawhi Leonard, Marion Buller, National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, Pascal Siakam, profiting from Black bodies, racial profiling, Steve Kerr, Toronto Raptors

A White People’s Guide to Black History Month

February 3, 2019 By El Jones 2 Comments

It’s February, the most dangerous month of the year for free speech and free expression in Canada. A good way to start off the month if you’re white is by a bunch of white people having a conversation among themselves about how important it is to have a conversation about whether blackface is racist or […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: anti-Black racism, Black History Month, Black Lives Matter (BLM), blackface, Martin Luther King Jr., police shootings, racial profiling, Viola Desmond

When You See That Cop Light Bling, That Can Only Mean One Thing

Morning File, Saturday, July 7, 2018

July 7, 2018 By El Jones 4 Comments

1. Welcome to Waterville: Still a Jail Hey, looking for something for your child to do this summer? Why not send them to the Nova Scotia Youth Centre (Waterville)? Why not? It’s a “fabulous place” according to this video. I’m sure the people who work there are very dedicated, and there is something to be […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: El Jones, Howard Sapers, Jason Mallett, Nova Scotia Youth Centre, playground equipment, police officers flirting, racial profiling, SIRT, Waterville, youth incarceration

Police street check data shows we need more journalists, more news organizations

There may be few surprises in what the CBC uncovered in the Halifax police data, but that doesn’t make gathering and reporting the information less relevant or important. And, for that, we need journalists...

January 16, 2017 By Stephen Kimber

On October 24, 2016, CBC Halifax journalist Phlis McGregor happened to hear an interview on As It Happens about a York University research study that analyzed two years of Ottawa police data. Between 2013 and 2015, the report said, police there pulled over nearly 82,000 drivers for mostly routine checks. The data showed Middle Eastern...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: Chronicle Herald strike, Halifax Police, racial profiling

On domestic violence, PTSD, and the culture of war: Examineradio, episode #96

January 13, 2017 By Russell Gragg Leave a Comment

This week we speak with Mount Allison sociologist Ardath Whynacht and Halifax Examiner columnist, academic and activist El Jones about the public discussion surrounding the triple murder-suicide that rocked Halifax two weeks ago. Many media outlets were quick to seize on Lionel Desmond’s military service and concluded that PTSD explained the horrific violence he committed without looking […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: domestic violence, Examineradio, podcast, racial profiling

The fraught relationship between PTSD and violence: Morning File, Monday, January 9, 2017

January 7, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 21 Comments

News 1. PTSD and domestic violence “There are a lot of questions that don’t get asked about violence against women,” Lucille Harper, the executive director of the Antigonish Women’s Resource Centre, tells the CBC, which had asked Harper about the apparent murder of Shanna Desmond, Aaliyah Desmond, and Brenda Desmond by Lionel Desmond: What we saw here clearly […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brett Bundale, domestic violence against Black women, health transfers, John Palmer, limiting access to firearms, Lucille Harper, PTSD, racial profiling, Richard Starr, Shanna Desmond, street checks

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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.

Click here to read the Halifax Examiner's extensive reporting on the case.

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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