The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. In a letter submitted to the courts, John Scoville, the Director of Correctional Services, outlines protective measures taken to avoid a outbreak of COVID-19, and then ends with the suggestion that being in jail is safer than being in the broader community during the pandemic: […]
Revenge porn, Grabher, and whales: Morning File, Thursday, September 7, 2017
I’m Katie. I’m a freelance journalist who likes toast. I sometimes work with cub reporters at King’s and I am filling in for Tim today. News 1. Teens get conditional discharges in revenge porn case (Unwanted sharing of sexual images, often consensually given to the distributor under false pretenses, is colloquially known as “revenge porn,” […]
Court Watch: sexual assault and the law
In Court Hubley trial continues This week saw the Crown close its case in the trial of George Edward Hubley for accessory to murder after the fact and interfering with human remains, following the 2014 murder of Catherine “Catie” Miller. Defence lawyer Brian Church chose to call his client as a witness on Monday. I...