Halifax Regional Police wants to add a new tool to its belt. At the Board of Police Commissioners meeting on Monday, HRP’s inspector Jim Butler quickly made the case for needing an armoured rescue vehicle (ARV) added to the HRP’s fleet. He said an ARV would give officers the ability to perform duties during high-risk […]
Kaila Jefferd-Moore
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Welcoming tourists with a snow storm
Cruise ship season in Halifax started a few weeks earlier than usual–hours ahead of a late spring #NSstorm. Over 1,200 passengers, aboard the Oceania Cruises’ vessel Marina, docked Monday morning for a crisp, maritime spring day. The first cruise ship of the season arrives in #Halifax while the municipality is under a snowfall warning #Sprinter […]
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Treaty education an ongoing project in Nova Scotia
At a Halifax Regional School board meeting last June, a motion was approved to acknowledge that HRSB schools occupy unceded Mi’kmaw territory. South Shore-Bedford board representative Jennifer Raven, who put forward the motion, also announced that the department of Education and Early Childhood Development would be introducing treaty education into the province’s education curriculum come October, […]
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University without any diversity
When Dorsa Eslami first walked onto the University of King’s College campus with her mother three years ago, she immediately recognized the lack of diversity. “I haven’t had very many professors of colour. We don’t have that many professors of colour, I don’t think,” Eslami says. The only non-white professor she’s encountered at King’s in […]
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Truth, then reconciliation
Acknowledging we are on Mi’kmaw territory is planting the seed of reconciliation in Nova Scotia. Last week the Halifax Regional School Board voted to include an acknowledgement during morning announcements that schools sit on Mi’kmaw land, and in October the department of Education and Early Childhood Development will introduce treaty history into Nova Scotia’s education […]
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Checking up on street checks
Halifax police are still waiting for an independent analysis of its street check data before deciding what, if any, action to take on the controversial practice. In the meantime, more and more records keep getting added to the pile. A January CBC investigation analyzed over a decade of Halifax Regional Police data and found that […]