[Image-1] Halifax Regional Police have charged a Canada Border Services Agency employee with sexual assault, breach of trust and extortion. Carrie Dexter Willis, 55, of Pierrefonds, Quebec was arrested “without incident” on April 1 in Montreal and brought back to Halifax to await trial. The charges stem from 2003 when Willis was an immigration officer. […]
Sexual assault
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The case for shit lists
[Image-1] Several months ago, Anna was sexually assaulted. The man was an acquaintance in Halifax’s arts community. They had met at a party, and left together later that night. There were no warning signs about the man Anna went home with that night, and nothing to indicate his reputation for violence. But people knew. “In […]
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Wednesday’s 10 things you need to know
1 Two cannons were removed from Province House yesterday to restore their sandstone platforms. One, near the statue of Joseph Howe, was placed in 1829 and used to protect the Hollis Street entrance. The other, which was in storage, previously acted as Halifax’s noon and evening gun from 1882 to 1905. Some lucky communications worker […]
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Sex work in the shadows
Halifax’s sex workers are regularly assaulted and have even been killed on the job. But as a result of our hypocritical
attitudes toward sex—we can sell anything using appeals to our sexual selves, except sex itself—we can’t find a way to
protect these women. Meredith Dault tells their story. photos Aaron McKenzie Fraser