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Of the 24 demonstrators Halifax Regional Police arrested nearly two years ago in the wake of widespread tent removals, four are undergoing court trials. The outcome of those trials weighs on Halifax’s future.
In the end, council voted to do more within its current mandate but not request complete responsibility.
HALIFAX -- The City of Halifax will pay damages and provide a written apology after a human rights board determined a Black citizen faced discrimination by Halifax police when he was ticketed for jaywalking. Jacques Dube, the chief administrative officer, said Thursday in a release the municipality accepts the decision in favour of Gyasi Symonds following the 2017 incident. The city also says the police officers involved in the matter will undergo "Journey to Change" training, a newly created program the Halifax Regional Police developed in consultation with the African Nova Scotian c...
Despite a year of calls to defund the police, council adds $2.7 million to HRP’s budget A bleak signal of what’s to come on police reform in this city. If the words of Mike Savage, quoting Joe Biden—"Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget and I'll tell you what you value"—are true, what does Halifax Regional Council’s approach to police budgeting say? In a year teeming with calls to defund or at least reallocate police money, and in a meeting where those calls were voiced inside council’s virtual chamber, yesterday council voted to pour even more cash into th...
Defining defunding police committee gets important approval from police board With approval from the board it can finally get to work. Halifax’s Board of Police Commissioners gave another green light to the committee that’s tasked with figuring out what people in Halifax think “defunding” the police should mean. After first deciding it needed an external committee to develop a definition for defunding the police in August, the board’s been slow to let it start working, but now things should start rolling. The defunding definition committee, chaired by professor a...