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Tanks but no tanks: Halifax councillors vote to cancel armoured vehicle, reallocate funding

June 9, 2020 By Zane Woodford 3 Comments

Halifax regional councillors voted on Tuesday to cancel the purchase of an armoured vehicle for the city’s police and reallocate the funding to diversity and inclusion, public safety, and fighting anti-Black racism. Councillors voted to redirect $53,500 to city’s office of diversity and inclusion to make up for a planned cut this year; a total […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Coun. Shawn Cleary, Councillor Lindell Smith, councillor Shawn Cleary, councillor Steve Adams, defund police, Deputy Mayor Lisa Blackburn, El Jones, Halifax city operating budget 2020/21, Maggie-Jane Spray, Police Chief Dan Kinsella, Rebecca Thomas, Scot Wortley, tank armoured vehicle, Terradyne

“Do right by me”: by not addressing the systematic racism of street checks, the white power structure is doubling down on Nova Scotia’s well-earned reputation for ignorance, stigma, and stench

May 21, 2019 By Evelyn C. White 4 Comments

“Until you do right by me, everything you think about is gonna crumble.” Voiced by Whoopi Goldberg in her role as Celie in the film adaptation of The Color Purple, the line has recently wafted, repeatedly, through my mind. To be sure, the thought has been prompted by the magnificent production of The Color Purple […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, Province House Tagged With: African Nova Scotians, Afua Cooper, Ban the Box, Birchtown, Black Loyalists, Christine Saulnier, Devah Pager, Ellen Page, Environmental Racism, Halifax Police, inclusive education program, Ingrid Waldron, Justice Minister Mark Furey, Nova Scotia Department of Education, Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, Racism, Scot Wortley, street checks, Underground Railroad, white power structure

Let’s read the street check report together

I don't know if there's a German word for that feeling when you're so horrified that it becomes entertaining, but if there isn't, someone should probably coin it for Black people reading the police comments in the report.

April 4, 2019 By El Jones 8 Comments

It’s been a week since the street check report was released. Despite all the politicians and police board members and police leaders being so “shocked and saddened” by the statistics, unsurprisingly, here we are a week later with politicians derailing action by talking about ending quotas that never formally existed and the police don’t admit […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Black community, Ferguson effect, Northern Guard, police anti-Blackness, Scot Wortley, street check report

Street checks are racist and dumb; they should be outlawed

Morning File, Thursday, March 28, 2019

March 28, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News 1. Street checks I’ve asked El Jones to write an article about Scot Wortley’s street checks report that was released by the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission yesterday. Jones has been quite busy and hasn’t been able to sit down and write; she tells me she’ll write an article this afternoon; in the meanwhile, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: El Jones, Halifax Regional Police Service (HRP), HMCS Toronto, Jody Wilson-Raybold’s delay on Glen Assoun file, Keith Doucette, Kirk Johnson, Larry Harrison, Michael Gorman, MLA Allan MacMaster, MLA Keith Colwell, MLA Percy Paris, Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, Scot Wortley, street checks, Tim Houston, Tony Ince, traffic stop study, Zach Churchill

Get out into the country, city slickers!

Morning File, Tuesday, March 26, 2019

March 26, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 6 Comments

I’m Suzanne Rent and I’m filling in for Tim today. You can follow me on Twitter @Suzanne_Rent News 1. Budget day in Nova Scotia It’s budget day in Nova Scotia and as expected healthcare will be one of the key spending areas. In an interview with Keith Doucette from Canadian Press, Finance Minister Karen Casey […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexander Quon, Amber Lee Neil, budget day, Chief Jean-Michel Blais, Councillor Steve Craig, Don Mills, Eldon Turner, Eldon’s Soup and Sandwiches, Grabher, Halifax Transit, Jack Julian, Jean Laroche, living wage, Matt Whitman complains about trees, Michelle Stewart, Phil Moscovitch, rural Nova Scotia adventures, rural transit, Scot Wortley, street check report, vanity licence plates, volunteering, work for free

“Networking” by its very nature is exclusionary

Morning File, Monday, September 17, 2018

September 17, 2018 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

News 1. Acadia and Rick Mehta “The university {Acadia] had good reasons to fire Rick Mehta,” writes Stephen Kimber: But by conflating and commingling those reasons with specious arguments about its own reputation and seeming to accept the notion Mehta shouldn’t be allowed to share his wrong-headed rants on social media or challenge and provoke […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Barrington Street greenway extension, Ecology Action Centre, Halifax street checks, Mark Butler, mentoring, networking, Scot Wortley, Silas Brown, SMU Cafe, Stephen Archibald and Richmond Train Station, Tufts Cove cleanup

Bearing Witness and Paying Tribute: Morning File, Saturday, November 18

November 18, 2017 By El Jones 8 Comments

1. What it’s like when someone dies in custody. An original report from prisoners Background. November 22nd will be 10 years since the death of Howard Hyde in custody. Hyde was tasered by correctional officers during a mental health crisis. His death also marks the last time there was a public inquiry in the province into […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Betty Peterson, Charlotte Guy-Jeffies, Const. Greg McCormack, Corey Rogers, death in custody, El Jones, Howard Hyde, Judge Anne Derrick, Lynn Jones, Matthew Hines, Muriel Duckworth, New Waterford Power Plant Riot, police murder of a striking miner, Scot Wortley, the first statue of women in Halifax, This is why you should subscribe to the Halifax Examiner, Viola Desmond, William Davis

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Mo Kenney. Photo: Matt Williams

Episode #18 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Mo Kenney’s new record Covers is a perfect winter companion — songs from across the rock spectrum that she’s pared down to piano or guitar and turned them into sad ballads. She joins Tara to talk about choosing and arranging them, and opens up for a frank discussion of the alcohol dependency it took a pandemic for her to confront. Plus: Movies are back (again).

This episode is available today only for premium subscribers; to become a premium subscriber, click here, and join the select group of arts and entertainment supporters for just $5/month. Everyone else will have to wait until tomorrow to listen to it.

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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.

About the Halifax Examiner

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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