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Halifax police board to discuss defunding, body cameras, making policies public

July 2, 2020 By Zane Woodford 1 Comment

For the first time since the movement to defund police took hold across North America, Halifax’s board of police commissioners has scheduled a meeting. The city previously cancelled all the board’s meetings due to the COVID-19 pandemic, aside from those dealing with the budget in early May. El Jones reported last month that that the […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: body cameras, councillor Tony Mancini, COVID-19, defund police, Deputy Mayor Lisa Blackburn, Halifax Board of Police Commissioners, Wortley report

Defund the Halifax police

With calls around the world to redirect police resources, Halifax city councillors are tripping over themselves to see who can be most "pro police"

June 6, 2020 By Harry Critchley 5 Comments

Since the widely publicized death of George Floyd at the hands of MPD officer Derek Chauvin (what some commentators have called a “televised lynching”), calls for police accountability and even abolition have been growing, with protestors taking to the street in cities across North America, including Halifax. These calls are beginning to be heard and […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: anti-Black violence, anti-Indigenous racism, budget committee, Caora McKenna, councillor Steve Adams, councillor Tony Mancini, defund police, El Jones, Halifax city operating budget 2020/21, Halifax Police budget, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Hyde Inquiry, Leah Genge, street checks, taser, Wortley report

Enough with the cop-speak, and other policing stories

Morning File, Friday, June 5, 2020

June 5, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 3 Comments

News 1. Has the RCMP’s move away from community policing created an information gap? Colchester County councillor Mike Gregory used to be an RCMP officer, working out of the force’s now closed building on Main Street in Tatamagouche. He understands that policing has changed over the years, but he wonders if the force’s move away […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Chantel Moore, cop speak, Dayna Lee-Baggley, El Jones, Free Press, Judge Corinne Sparks, Julia-Simone Rutgers, Justice Minister Mark Furey, street checks apology, Washington Post, Wortley report, Yvonne Colbert

Is the SaltWire Network serious about its lawsuit against Transcontinental?

Morning File, Tuesday, June 4, 2019

June 4, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

1. Is the SaltWire Network serious about its lawsuit against Transcontinental? Remember that lawsuit the SaltWire Network filed against Transcontinental Media? It was kind of a big deal. I read the Statement of Claim SaltWire had filed with the court on April 10, and commented: The lawsuit hasn’t been tested in court, so we’ll see […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alex Liot, Alexander Quon, David MacKenzie, development proposals, Dexel Developments towers Spring Garden Road, Emma Stevens, fish barrier, Francois Olivier, Gus Richardson, Holly Bartlett, Jeff Nearing, Lizzie Cramm, Mark Lever, Mike Elgie, Nova Scotia Power (NSP), Oprah, Patricia Lemoine, Paul McCartney, SaltWire lawsuit, Sarah Dennis, TC Transcontinental, Trenton Generating Station, Wortley report

An armoured vehicle won’t protect people during a mall shooting, but it will protect institutional racism in the police department

Morning File, Monday, April 15, 2019

April 15, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

News 1. Gerald Regan Writes Stephen Kimber: More than 20 years after former Nova Scotia premier Gerald Regan was acquitted of sexually assaulting multiple women, other women are still coming forward with still more stories of what he did to them, still needing finally “to be heard.” Including “Catherine.” Catherine tells Kimber of an alleged […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: armoured rescue vehicle (ARV), armoured vehicle, biomass, Francois Olivier, Halifax Police, Inspector Jim Butler, International Armoured Group (IAG), Linda Pannozzo, Mary Campbell, Police Commission, police overreach, police racism, Postmedia, SaltWire lawsuit, street check report, TC Transcontinental, Wortley report

PRICED OUT

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents
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

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Episode 80 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Singer-songwriter Willie Stratton has wandered a number of genre paths, starting with raw acoustic folk as a teen phenom, moving through surf rock as Beach Bait, and landing in a Roy Orbison-style classic country on his new album Drugstore Dreamin’. Ahead of his release show at the Marquee on Friday, he stops in to explain why mixing influences makes the best art, how he approaches the guitar, and what he likes about his day job as a barber.

Listen to the episode here.

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