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Street checks: Who’s sorry now? Not the premier, not the justice minister, not the police

No one in authority seems willing to apologize for the decades of "disproportionate and negative" impact street checks have had on Nova Scotia's black community. Worse, no one seems to be committed to finally ending them once and for all.

April 21, 2019 By Stephen Kimber

Our question for today: why is it so hard for the people in charge of policing in Nova Scotia to say, I’m sorry? Last week… nearly three weeks after a damning 180-page report by an independent outside consultant confirmed that black males are nine times more likely than whites to be stopped in “random” police...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Mark Furey, Racism, Stephen McNeil, street checks report

Making the right choice in addressing period poverty

Morning File, Friday, April 5, 2019

April 5, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 3 Comments

I’m Suzanne Rent and I’m filling in for Tim today. You can follow me on Twitter @Suzanne_Rent News 1. Dartmouth pharmacies make right choice in addressing period poverty Today, Highfield Park Pharmachoice in Dartmouth will start giving away feminine hygiene products to their customers in need. The pharmacy made the announcement on their Facebook page […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: ACORN Canada, Anthony Morgan, Atlantic Journalism Awards, Brian Moore, Cassidy Bellefontaine, City Nature Challenge, City of Lakes Pharmachoice, Councillor Jaimie McEvoy, Dave Ireland, David Chiasson, El Jones, feminine hygiene products, Highfield Park Pharmachoice, iNaturalist, Joan Baxter, living wage, Mary Campbell, medicinal cannabis, Michelle Gray, MLA Karla MacFarlane, New Westminster, period poverty, Piece Hall Halifax UK, power outage, Prince’s Lodge rotunda, RCMP, roadside saliva test, Rockingham Heritage society, Sharon Ingalls, street checks report, Vancity Credit Union, Walter Regan

Journalmalism 101: This week, Halifax lost four very good Canadian Press reporters; in return we got… Christie Blatchford

Morning File, Friday, March 29, 2019

March 29, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

News 1. Street checks Yesterday, I wrote: This is how it goes. Every now and then something happens — a Black man with the resources and gumption to do something about it stands up to the harassment, the results of a CBC Freedom of Information request are published — that make it temporarily impossible for […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alex Cooke, Alexa MacLean, Aly Thomson, Brett Bundale, Canadian Press (CP) layoffs, Christie Blatchford, Justice Minister Mark Furey, Keith Doucette, local reporting, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), Premier Stephen McNeil, Quinpool Road bridge reconstruction, Racism, Selena Ross, Spring Garden Area Business Association, Spring Garden Road update, Stephen Archibald and Quinpool Road concrete bridges, street checks report, Taryn Grant, trespassers at hospital, Zane Woodford

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Brian Borcherdt. Photo: Anna Edwards-Borcherdt

Brian Borcherdt came of age in Yarmouth in the 1990s. When he arrived in Halifax, the city’s famous music scene was already waning, and worse, the music he made was rejected by the cool kids anyway. After decades away from Nova Scotia, he and his young family have settled in the Annapolis Valley, where he’ll zoom in to chat with Tara about his band Holy Fuck’s endlessly delayed tour, creating the Dependent Music collective, and the freedom and excitement of the improvised music he’s making now. Plus: Bringing events back in 2021.

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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

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