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Court documents detail repeated police raids on the same cannabis dispensary

Morning File, Friday, July 19, 2019

July 19, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

News 1. Glen Assoun “Elizabeth May is calling for a federal inquiry zeroing in on the RCMP’s role in both wrongfully convicting Glen Assoun of murder and keeping the now 63-year-old in prison for 17 years,” reports Andrew Rankin for the Chronicle Herald: The Green party of Canada leader said maintaining public trust in the […]

What’s going to happen to all those crows when the Motherhouse Lands get developed?

Morning File, Thursday, December 27, 2018

December 27, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

News 1. Zinc “ScoZinc Mining Ltd. said Monday December 24 that it is poised to be one of Canada’s next base metal producers after releasing a project update and improved economic study for its wholly-owned ScoZinc zinc-lead mine in Nova Scotia,” reports Resource World Magazine: The forecast came after the company said it has completed additional […]

A person in Indigenous ceremonial dress and a boy dance on the red sand of a beach on the Minas Basin.

Episode 46 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Bretten Hannam has been working on Wildhood, in one way or another, for the past decade, pausing to make multiple short films and their debut feature, North Mountain (2015), an experience that took years itself to recover from. Wildhood is the story of a Two-Spirit Mi’kmaq teen who sets off to find the mother he thought was dead, a gorgeously rendered, gentle journey of self-discovery. In 2020 it became the first feature film to shoot in Nova Scotia in a post-COVID world. Brett stopped in on their way to the film’s world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival to chat challenges, considerations of community, and opening FIN tonight.

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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.

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