“Of all the cases I was involved in, Jason’s would be one of the ones that I would say is the most solvable,” says Tom Martin. Fifteen years have crawled by since the random murder of a Dartmouth teenager shocked the city. Investigators are as close now to an arrest as they always have been— not […]
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The missing, the mourned
My name is Annie Margaret Clair. I was born and raised on the reserve in Elsipogtog, New Brunswick. My first language is Mik’maq, so English is a difficult language for me to grasp. I only started speaking English when I went to school, around age five or six. English was not spoken in my home. […]
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Similar sentences for similar offenders
As a Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge sentenced Lyle Howe to three years in a federal prison for sexual assault last week, one of the former lawyer’s supporters called out, “It’s a sad day for justice.” Howe’s lawyer and the Crown jointly recommended the three-year sentence, and justice Joseph Kennedy agreed. Additionally Howe’s DNA will […]
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Memories of Loretta Saunders
James Saunders wears a shirt with a photo of his sister and their father as he hands out pink bracelets in her memory. The bracelets say “Loretta and the stolen sisters,” and the shirt, one of more than a dozen worn by her family in court last week, reads: “Speak the truth, even if your […]
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The colour of justice
A multiracial crowd of about 75 people gathers outside the George Dixon Centre at noon on June 25. Men and women carry signs that read, “Justice for Lyle, justice for men,” “Regret doesn’t equal rape” and “Jury of whose peers?” The supporters of former lawyer Lyle Howe are here to express their dismay at his […]
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Scott Jones’ attacker sentenced
The man who stabbed Scott Jones on a New Glasgow street last fall was sentenced to 10 years in prison today, minus time served. Jones was left paralyzed from the waist down. Shane Matheson pled guilty in March. “There’s a lot of effort going into awareness,” the profoundly positive Jones told Adria Young ahead of […]
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Persistence and patience
“If there is something I learned from Raymond, it is persistence and patience,” says Darren Lewis. Last Thursday, April 17, marked two years since community and LGBTQ activist Raymond Taavel was brutally attacked in the morning hours on Gottingen Street. Andre Denny, a patient at the Forensic Hospital in Dartmouth, had been released for one […]
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Holly Bartlett’s unlikely journey
Update, February 24, 2014: Halifax Regional Police and Halifax District RCMP have announced an independent review of the police investigation into Holly Bartlett’s death. For more information, click here. Work finished early that Friday afternoon, but Holly Bartlett’s day was just getting started. She had to shop for a birthday present for her six-year-old nephew—Holly […]
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Red-light greenlight: Sex work at the brink of legalization
Editor’s note, August 23: an earlier version of this article incorrectly identified Amy Lebovitch. It’s September 2010 and Rene Ross is sipping coffee from a cracked mug while she drags me through a tour of sex-work policy in Halifax, all from our booth in the Good Food Emporium on Gottingen Street. Boundaries are areas in […]
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Reefer sadness
November 6, 2012 was a momentous day for marijuana in North America. That’s when citizens in Washington state and Colorado voted in favour of ballot initiatives that decriminalize the possession of marijuana by adults. Washington’s Initiative 502 regulates the sale of marijuana through the state’s liquor control board, and extends drunk driving laws to cover […]
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Gun crazy
Thirty minutes after Halifax rang in the new year, a 16-year-old boy refused to turn over his earrings to a stranger at the Bridge Terminal in Dartmouth. Eighteen-year-old Jerrell Shephard allegedly pulled out a gun and shot the younger boy twice. Once in the chest and once in the head. Kyle Gallupe survived the gunshots. […]
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Encounters with The Sleep Watcher
Editor’s note: After this story was first published, some of the people interviewed for the story requested that their names and other identifying details be changed. We are honouring these requests, indicating pseudonyms with an asterix (*). (November 15, 2011). Hillary Windsor was enrolled in a summer course at Dalhousie in July 2010. The 22-year-old […]
