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The Oblates ignored the stories and abuse at residential schools

Morning File, Wednesday, June 9, 2021

June 9, 2021 By Philip Moscovitch 1 Comment

News 1. Gold and silver awards for Examiner contributors at the Atlantic Journalism Awards Congratulations to the members of the Examiner team who won gold and silver at yesterday’s Atlantic Journalism Awards. Rather than being held in-person, of course, the event was online, with winners announced via YouTube videos. Yvette d’Entremont won gold in the […]

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Time for a serious rethink of the Serious Incident Response Team?

A mentally disturbed man holding a pellet gun is shot and killed by police who mistook it for a handgun. The officer who killed him fired when the man pointed his fake gun at police after another officer had fired a rubber bullet at him and missed... There must be better ways to handle these cases. Just don't ask SIRT to suggest those ways.

March 14, 2021 By Stephen Kimber 6 Comments

On July 9, 2020, the RCMP responded to a “call of an armed man who was uttering threats” at a home where he lived with his mother in Eastern Passage. “When police arrived,” the Mounties said in a news release after the incident, “they located the man, a 60-year-old from Eastern Passage, armed with a […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Felix Cacchione, justice, mass killing Nova Scotia, Santina Rao, SIRT

SIRT lays assault charge against cop in case of 15-year-old Demario Chambers, but does not lay charges in the Walmart incident with Santina Rao

October 7, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

The Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), which is the provincial police oversight board, has laid a charge of common assault against Halifax police Cst. Mark Pierce for a February 21, 2020 incident that took place outside the Bedford Place Mall. In that incident, Pierce laid his hands on 15-year-old Demario Chambers, “and a struggle ensued,” according […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Policing Tagged With: Demario Chambers, Santina Rao, Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT)

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

Police brutality? Think globally, act locally

We're right to speak out about the murder of George Floyd and about the global pandemic of state violence against black people, but we — white people — also need to act locally. There's plenty for us to do right here in our own backyard.

June 7, 2020 By Stephen Kimber 4 Comments

Call it the dance of the dodge. • We need to wait, we need to respect the process, we need to make an informed decision based on the appropriate investigation…” — Halifax Police Chief Dan Kinsella, Jan. 20, 2020. • “After some initial investigation, it has been determined, based on medical records, the matter meets […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House Tagged With: anti-Black racism, Chief Dan Kinsella, George Floyd, police brutality, Santina Rao

One day in the streets doesn’t stop injustice, but it does show how Black lives matter

June 2, 2020 By El Jones 2 Comments

I’m standing in front of the Black Lives Matter banner at the protest for Regis on Saturday when my phone starts ringing insistently. It’s the jail. I walk away from the crowd and answer. A young Black man is calling from segregation at Burnside. Along with other prisoners, he filed a habeas application challenging their […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: anti-Black racism, anti-Black violence, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Blocko, Eishia Hudson, George Floyd, justice, Justice for Regis, Lynn Jones, OmiSoore Dryden, police violence, Regis Korchinski-Paquet, Renous, Santina Rao, Sharisha Benedict, Soleiman Faqiri, Take a Knee protest, Yusuf Faqiri

When is a deadline not a deadline?

Morning File, Wednesday, January 22, 2020

January 22, 2020 By Erica Butler 7 Comments

News 1. Boat Harbour Though the deadline of January 30, 2020 was set five years ago, it’s looking as if the province of Nova Scotia will not be strictly enforcing the Boat Harbour Act until April 1 this year, to allow Paper Excellence to run a power boiler throughout remaining winter months. Joan Baxter and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bayers Road bus lanes, Bayers Road widening, Bernard Mills, Brynn Budden, Correctional Service of Canada (CSC), Councillor Lindell Smith, councillor Matt Whitman, crosswalk Gottingen, Eskasoni First Nation, Halifax Shipyard, Halifax Transit ridership numbers, Indigenous prisoners, Irving Shipbuilding, Irving Shipyard, Ivan Zinger, Kevin Arjoon, Mel Rusinak, Moving Forward Together (MFT), Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI), payroll rebates, Santina Rao, Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), Shaina Luck, Sherryll Murphy, transgender, Ultra Electronics Maritime Industries, Walmart

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

Shopping while Black: Santina Rao’s experience at Wal-Mart

Morning File, Friday, January 17, 2020

January 17, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

News 1. Racial profiling “Santina Rao was at the Walmart at the Halifax Shopping Centre on Wednesday when she was accused of stealing by store staff, assaulted by the police, and arrested,” writes El Jones: Rao was shopping with her two young children, age 3 and 15 months. She paid for $90 worth of items […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Maritime Launch Services (MLS), new Art Gallery of Nova Scotia RFP, racial profiling, Santina Rao, shopping while Black, St. Francis University (St FX), Walmart

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PRICED OUT

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PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

You can learn about the project, including how we’re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on the PRICED OUT homepage.

2020 mass murders

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.

Updated regularly.

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.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

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