Metro Halifax - January 16, 2015

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by  Metro International

WEEKEND, January 16-18, 2015
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HALIFAX
NEWS
WORTH
SHARING.
U.S. RETAIL GIANT
Six arrested in Oscar fans: Start—
MISSES THE TARGET
connection with your—outrage— ...
IN CANADA
Panama-to-Halifax
Academy Award nominations
drug trafficking noteworthy for what wasn’t CHAIN TO CLOSE ALL 133 OF ITS
CANADIAN LOCATIONS BY THE END
nominated, including the Martin
OF THE YEAR, INCLUDING ITS THREE
Men allegedly planned to traffi c Luther King Jr. pic Selma, which HALIFAX-AREA STORES PAGES 3, 16 & 22
cocaine, say Halifax RCMP PAGE 4 picked up a mere two nods PAGE 24
Time will tell if justice served: Mom
Rehtaeh Parsons
Addressing the court
Quoted
case. Man convicted ‘Humans
“We
of distributing child
actually are make
porn receives one year
allowed mistakes’
probation
to say her
name and
HALEY that was very fulfi lling The man convicted of dis-
RYAN to me.” tributing child porn in the
[email protected] Rehtaeh Parsons case stood
Leah Parsons of her daughter, Rehtaeh to address the court and
The court proceedings sur- Parsons, pictured apologized to her parents
rounding the distribution of Thursday.
child porn in Rehtaeh Parsons’ The 20-year-old, who
case may be over, but her moth- morse and resolve to make his cannot be identified, said
er says Rehtaeh’s story is far life better.” he apologized to Rehtaeh
from finished as she awaits the The 17-year-old Parsons a few days after he sent
results of a review into how her died after being taken off life- the picture but the case
daughter’s case was handled by support following a suicide also “had a huge negative
police. attempt in April 2013. Her impact on my life.”
On Thursday, the second parents say she was bullied for “I was young and made
man who pleaded guilty in the months as a result of the photo. a mistake. Humans make
child porn case was sentenced The 20-year-old was ordered mistakes. Some are worse
in Halifax youth court to a to attend counselling, not con- than others,” he said. “I will
Leah Parsons, mother of Rehtaeh Parsons, leaves provincial court in Halifax on Thursday.
year of probation for distribut- tact Parsons’ family, not drink not live with the guilt of
ing a sexually graphic image or possess alcohol and submit ANDREW VAUGHAN/THE CANADIAN PRESS someone passing away, but
showing Rehtaeh, who was 15, a DNA sample, among other I will live with the guilt of
leaning out of a window as he conditions. sending the picture.”
smiled at the camera and gave Another 20-year-old man in Both Rehtaeh’s father, Glen pioning the cause against on- by Murray Segal than the sen- The man said he pled
a thumbs-up sign. the case was given a condition- Canning, and Leah appeared line bullying, it should be the tencing results. guilty to distributing child
“Justice will only be served al discharge in November after in court and read emotional accused “because you know ... “What are in those reports, porn, not sexual assault, and
if this young man takes a differ- pleading guilty to making child victim impact statements, with better than anybody else how and what are the reasons that “a lot of things in this case
ent path in his life,” Rehtaeh’s pornography when he took the Canning speaking from Reh- that activity can destroy lives.” nothing was done when it have a slight twist to them,”
mother, Leah Parsons, told re- photo. Neither can be identi- taeh’s perspective. Leah said she’s been waiting should have been done, and but added he was “truly
porters outside court. fied because they were minors Judge Gregory Lenehan “more so” for the upcoming why no sexual assault char- sorry.” HALEY RYAN/METRO
“If this man ... has some re- when the crime occurred. said if anyone should be cham- investigative review conducted ges?” she said.
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metronews.ca HALIFAX 3
WEEKEND, January 16-18, 2015
‘It just didn’t seem to
take off , unfortunately’
N
Target closing. Three
stores to shut down in
Halifax as retail chain
set to leave Canada
E
STEPHANIE
TAYLOR
[email protected] W
Many of the shoppers head-
ing to the Target in Dar-
mouth on Thursday morning
had a little less bounce in
their step.
By the time they walked
through the doors of the S
American retailer at Mic
Mac Mall, many had already
heard the news announced
earlier that morning: the
chain would be closing all
133 of its Canadian locations
by the end of the year, in-
cluding its three Halifax-area
stores. Shoppers enter the Mic Mac Mall Target location on Thursday. Many of the shoppers heading to the Target in Darmouth on Thursday morning had a little less
“It just didn’t seem to bounce in their step. JEFF HARPER/METRO
take off, unfortunately,” said
Lisa Ross, standing outside she’s disappointed, she’s not Employee woes
the store, carrying a plastic surprised.
shopping bag bearing the “I think you can tell by No set closing
retailer’s iconic red bulls-eye shopping here it’s never very no set closing date. during a court-supervised
logo. busy, they don’t have a ton of date given In fact, they said, most liquidation and surplus pro-
The Dartmouth resi- stock,” she explained Thurs- of the staff first heard the cess. It was also announced
dent said she frequented day. “Even when they first news of the chain’s closure that employees would be
the Mic Mac Mall location opened there wasn’t a lot.” A group of Target employ- through media, but were of- provided at least 16 weeks
fairly often, having recently That same observa- ees on their break at the ficially told by management of severance, according to
bought her children’s snow- tion was echoed by Pam Mic Mac Mall location said shortly afterward. the company.
suits at the store. O’Driscoll of Porter’s Lake, as Thursday they were given Stores will be open STEPHANIE TAYLOR/METRO
But Ross said although she crossed the parking lot
to the store’s entrance.
“I prefer to come here ers Lake — opened in the fall located right next to Target when the locations will be
Quoted
more so than Walmart be- of 2013. inside Bedford Place. closing. Dickson said Bed-
cause it doesn’t seem to be “I think it’s going to “We are depending on the ford Place management is
I like Target … it’s too
busy -- ever,” she said. drastically affect our traffic big-box stores to bring traffic meeting with all of its stores
bad.” All three Target locations patterns here — big-time,” to the mall … They call them on Friday, and he expects the
in HRM — Mic Mac Mall, said Brian Dickson, owner the anchor for that reason.” impending closure of Target
Pam O’Driscoll, outside the Target in
Dartmouth Bedford Place Mall and Bay- of Whatever Gifts, which is There is no word yet on to be top of the agenda.
4 HALIFAX metronews.ca
WEEKEND, January 16-18, 2015
Six arrested in connection
with drug trafficking plot
International. RCMP no danger of any cocaine get-
ting out to the general pub-
say investigation into
lic.”
Panama-to-Halifax ring Lambe said the suspects
had planned to sell the
ongoing and more
“drugs” in other Canadian
arrests expected cities and not in Halifax.
Two of the men arrested,
Warren Clarke and John
“Dallas” Carleton Dempsey,
RUTH are members of the Inter-
DAVENPORT national Longshoremen’s
[email protected]
Association, employed by ter-
minal owners and operators
The RCMP have arrested six such as Halterm and Ceres.
men for allegedly planning Another, Paul Matthew
to traffic cocaine through Arthur, is a former union
the Port of Halifax after dup- member, though a repre-
ing them into importing fake sentative of the Halifax Em-
drugs. ployers Association said he
Police in Halifax an- hadn’t worked in the port for
nounced the arrests of six years.
men Thursday after a seven- Lambe wouldn’t speak to
month-long investigation specifics of the smuggling
dubbed “Operation Han- operation, and wouldn’t say
cock.” whether the six suspects had
Insp. Glenn Lambe of the previously succeeded in im-
RCMP’s federal and serious porting drugs to Halifax.
organized crime unit said po- “That’s part of the on-
lice obtained information in going investigation, so until
July about international drug we have that part completed,
trafficking. I can’t disclose that at this
That prompted RCMP of- time,” he said.
ficers to launch an operation Lambe did say the investi-
during which the suspects al- gation had no connection to
legedly imported about 200 any other investigations of
kilograms of fake cocaine drug trafficking through the
from Panama. port, including the investiga- Insp. Glenn Lambe, left, of the RCMP federal and serious organized crime unit and Albert Price, CBSA manager of criminal investigations, speak with the
“The individuals believed tion that resulted in the seiz- media about Operation Hancock at Nova Scotia RCMP headquarters in Dartmouth on Thursday. JEFF HARPER/METRO
there was cocaine, they ure of more than 400 kilo-
acted on that premise,” said gram of cocaine imported but Lambe said the arrests
The accused and charges
Lambe. “They handled the from Panama last November. — as well as others he said
product as if it was cocaine, Operation Hancock didn’t would likely materialize in
but there was no cocaine and take any drugs off the street, the near future — made it (cid:580)(cid:3) Paul Matthew Arthur, 59, (cid:580)(cid:3) Warren Patrick Clarke, 46, (cid:302)(cid:292)(cid:209)(cid:244)(cid:221)(cid:266)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:238)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:221)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:305)(cid:268)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:3)
worthwhile. of East Pennant,(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:254)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:251)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:3) of West Pennant; John (cid:296)(cid:305)(cid:220)(cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:221)(cid:229)(cid:550)(cid:3)(cid:289)(cid:279)(cid:296)(cid:296)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:296)(cid:255)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:238)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:3)
“What it has done is take (cid:315)(cid:255)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:296)(cid:289)(cid:255)(cid:292)(cid:209)(cid:221)(cid:317)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:292)(cid:209)(cid:244)(cid:221)(cid:3) “Dallas” Carleton Dempsey, (cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:289)(cid:305)(cid:292)(cid:289)(cid:279)(cid:296)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:238)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:292)(cid:209)(cid:244)(cid:221)(cid:266)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:553)(cid:3)
More to come six people that are involved (cid:225)(cid:292)(cid:305)(cid:251)(cid:296)(cid:550)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:273)(cid:289)(cid:302)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:255)(cid:273)(cid:289)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:302)(cid:3) 46, of Halifax; Justin Carle-
“There’s a number of leads that have to be followed in the importation of drugs (cid:209)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:292)(cid:279)(cid:268)(cid:268)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:305)(cid:220)(cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:221)(cid:229)(cid:550)(cid:3) ton Dempsey, 22, of Mount (cid:580)(cid:3) Steven Welsford Jollimore,
into Halifax and into Canada (cid:302)(cid:292)(cid:209)(cid:244)(cid:221)(cid:266)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:238)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:221)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:305)(cid:268)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:3) Uniacke; Peter Stanley 51, of Terence Bay,(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:254)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:251)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:3)
up and there’s the potential for arrests sometime in out of the system, so it has (cid:296)(cid:305)(cid:220)(cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:221)(cid:229)(cid:550)(cid:3)(cid:289)(cid:279)(cid:296)(cid:296)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:296)(cid:255)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:238)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:3) Albert Wood, 38, of Dart- (cid:315)(cid:255)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:3)(cid:289)(cid:279)(cid:296)(cid:296)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:296)(cid:255)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:238)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)
the near future.” made a substantial dent in (cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:289)(cid:305)(cid:292)(cid:289)(cid:279)(cid:296)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:238)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:292)(cid:209)(cid:244)(cid:221)(cid:266)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:553) mouth,(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:268)(cid:268)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:254)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:251)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:315)(cid:255)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:3) (cid:289)(cid:305)(cid:292)(cid:289)(cid:279)(cid:296)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:238)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:292)(cid:209)(cid:244)(cid:221)(cid:266)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:553)
their ability to bring drugs (cid:221)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:296)(cid:289)(cid:255)(cid:292)(cid:209)(cid:221)(cid:317)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:292)(cid:209)(cid:244)(cid:221)(cid:3)(cid:225)(cid:292)(cid:305)(cid:251)(cid:296)(cid:550)(cid:3)
RCMP Insp. Glen Lambe into Canada,” he said.
ICE unit
Trial set for October an apartment in the 1500
block of Hollis Street in
Man faces child
relation to an ongoing
porn charges after investigation.
in fatal beating case A suspect was arrested
Hollis Street
at the scene and computer
search equipment was seized.
Jarrett Cleroux, 20, was
A 20-year-old Halifax man held in custody and was
The trial of a man accused in The 35-year-old Membertou is facing child pornog- set to appear in Halifax
The victim
the fatal beating of a promin- man was originally scheduled raphy charges after a provincial court Thursday
ent gay rights activist outside to stand trial in Nova Scotia search on Thursday. afternoon to face one
a Halifax bar is now scheduled Supreme Court in September, Earlier in the day, count each of possession
Raymond Taavel died
to begin Oct. 19. but it was delayed when he police say the Halifax of child pornography and
outside Menz bar on
Andre Noel Denny is fired his lawyer. Gottingen Street following Regional Police/RCMP making available child
charged with second-degree Six weeks were set aside an altercation. integrated child exploita- pornography.
murder in the April 2012 death for the trial during a hearing Andre Noel Denny tion (ICE) unit searched METRO
of 49-year-old Raymond Taavel. Thursday. THE CANADIAN PRESS JEFF HARPER/METRO

6 HALIFAX metronews.ca
WEEKEND, January 16-18, 2015
Province launches text 911 for
hearing- and speech-impaired
Emergency response.
Quoted
New service breaks
down barriers “This will definitely
make a difference.”
M.J. Crawford of the Deafness Advocacy
STEPHANIE Association
TAYLOR
[email protected] of emergency services for the
Nova Scotia Emergency Meas-
James McDermott always won- ures Organizations (EMO.)
dered what would happen if he On Thursday, the province
fell down. launched a new text 911 ser-
Not out of fear of hurting vice, allowing for hearing- and
himself, but because he knew speech-impaired residents to
that as a deaf man, he relied contact emergency operators
on a family member, spouse or on their own, without relying
neighbour to come to his res- on the assistance of those able
cue and call 911 and speak to to speak.
an operator on his behalf. Minister Mark Furey, who is
“Please, we say, make a call the charge of emergency servi-
for us,” McDermott explained ces, made the announcement
to a crowd gathered at the during Thursday’s news confer-
province’s emergency manage- ence, saying Nova Scotia is the
ment office, while using an in- first province in Canada to offer Paul Mason, seated left, and call taker Rebecca Mayer demonstrate the new text 911 system at the Emergency Management Office in Dartmouth on Thursday.
terpreter. “This is a barrier. It’s the new service. JEFF HARPER/METRO
terrible.” How it works is simple: Resi-
It’s a concern shared by at dents with hearing or speech they dial 911 and a special mes- All operators in the province ness Advocacy Association new 911 system breaks down
least 55,000 other Nova Sco- loss must pre-register their sage is received by operators, are trained to use the new ser- spoke at the conference, say- barriers to better protect her
tians with hearing and speech phones with their service pro- who initiate a text message con- vice, Mason explained during a ing as a mother of two with a family.
impairments every day, accord- viders to activate the system. versation, rather than speak demonstration. son and husband who both “With the 911 text I don’t
ing to Paul Mason, director Then, when emergency strikes, back. M.J. Crawford of the Deaf- have hearing impairments, this need to feel helpless,” she said.
Audit of ferry service does not break down costs
An audit of the money-losing deemed proprietary by the Samson said the province No winter work yet
ferry service between Yar- company, he added. was getting ongoing advice
mouth, N.S., and Portland, “The message to Nova Sco- from KPMG but he declined to
Maine, supports the company’s tians is that the money that give details. Nova Star said the ferry was
operating costs but provides no was invested by the province The report says KPMG scheduled to leave Shelburne
detail as to where the money of Nova Scotia has been spent examined 1,037 transactions on Thursday for Charleston,
was spent. appropriately,” said Samson. worth more than $25 million, S.C., where it would berth for
Breakdowns on the costs “I don’t think the people of but Nova Star was unable to the immediate future or until
of Nova Star’s transactions are Nova Scotia were necessarily provide supporting documen- winter work is found.
blacked out in the $90,000, concerned with how much tation for 35 of them, worth
eight-page report by KPMG that money Nova Star spent on toi- more than $79,000. Samson
was released Thursday. let paper.” said the company is still work- lion last fall on top of a $21-mil-
Economic Development When the provincial gov- ing to provide receipts for trans- lion loan that was spent in the
Minister Michel Samson down- ernment announced the audit actions that represent less than first two months of the Nova
played the lack of detail, say- in October, it said the review one per cent of the overall total Star’s inaugural sailing season.
ing the principle finding of the would audit costs, look for sav- that were audited. That loan was supposed to
audit is what’s important to ings and advise on a plan for The government gave the last seven years.
The Nova Star ferry arrives in Yarmouth. ANDREW VAUGHAN/THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE the public. Specific costs were the future. company an additional $5 mil- THE CANADIAN PRESS
More than $300K December tally Williamswood
was facing charges from released the impaired driv- had returned to find some-
the Canada Border Services ing numbers for December, one had broken in and taken
Sackville man Nearly 80 impaired Man charged after
Agency on four offences after 2014, which showed 59 men multiple electronics.
fined in drug exporting more than 3 mil- driving charges and 20 women were charged trying to sell stolen On Tuesday, the home-
lion tablets of ephedrine in with impaired driving. There owners discovered some of
smuggling case last month: Police property online
an illegal Internet business. were 28 suspensions. their stolen property adver-
In addition a sentence Of the 51 criminal cases, tised for sale on a classified
A 63-year-old man from Up- of 18 months of house ar- Halifax police charged 79 the release said 14 drivers A Halifax man faces charges site and notified police.
per Sackville was sentenced rest, MacKinnon was fined people with impaired driv- were twice the legal limit, after attempting to sell stolen They arranged to meet
to 18-months of house $321,000 for proceeds of ing last month, including one had three times and one property online. with the suspect to buy the
arrest and fined more than crime for the Controlled one person who was four four times the limit. Halifax Regional Police items. Investigators arrested
$300,000 in Halifax Court Drugs and Substances Act, times over the limit and two Eleven drivers refused officers responded to a report the man when he showed up
Thursday for charges of drug plus a $5,000 fine for the people driving with young to give breath samples and of a break and enter on Gro- for the meeting in the 3600
smuggling. Customs Act charge. children in the car. were also charged with ver Drive in Williamswood block of Joseph Howe Drive.
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8 HALIFAX metronews.ca
WEEKEND, January 16-18, 2015
Supreme Court won’t hear tar-ponds case
Lawsuit. Sydney site top court ruled it will not No explanation other residents were ex- The Nova Scotia Court of the matter to be heard as a
has been cleaned up hear the case. posed to contaminants as a Appeal overturned the cer- class-action lawsuit.
Neila MacQueen, one of result of the tar-ponds oper- tification of the class-action The appeal court judges
and reopened as four people who filed the As usual, the Supreme ation. lawsuit in December 2013. agreed, finding that there
Open Hearth Park lawsuit more than a decade Court of Canada did not MacQueen and residents The appeal court deci- was too much variance in
ago, said she felt hopeless give reasons for its decision Joe Petitpas, Ann Ross and sion came after lawyers for the issues affecting the
after hearing Thursday’s not to hear the case. Iris Crawford were seeking the provincial and federal class members and that a
decision from the Supreme an unspecified amount in governments argued that class-action suit was not the
A Cape Breton woman who Court of Canada. compensation and a medic- the provincial Supreme best way to proceed.
was a lead plaintiff in a “I feel like I have no Sydney tar-ponds site. al monitoring fund for con- Court judge erred in certify- The class-action suit that
class-action lawsuit over the access to justice,” said In the lawsuit, MacQueen tamination from the oper- ing the case because there included more than 400
Sydney tar ponds says she is MacQueen, who lives about and other plaintiffs argued ation of the steel plant at are too many differences people.
disappointed after Canada’s 100 metres from the former that they and hundreds of the site from 1967 to 2000. in the individual cases for THE CANADIAN PRESS
The Cape Breton Rail Line is shown in this file photo. CAPE BRETON POST
Cape Breton. Company gets
OK to cease rail service
The U.S.-based owner of a In wait
money-losing rail line in
Cape Breton has been given
permission to discontinue Transportation Minister
the service in the fall. Geoff MacLellan says
The Nova Scotia Utility Genesee and Wyoming will
and Review Board says the have to wait until April 1,
Cape Breton and Central 2016, before it can apply to
Nova Scotia Railway can abandon the rail line.
cease freight-rail service
on the line running east of
the St. Peter’s junction as of says, the railway is free to
Oct. 1. continue with alternate
The railway, owned by trucking arrangements to
Genesee and Wyoming, has its customers.
until Jan. 29 to file a discon- The board says the per-
tinuance plan with the re- iod of notice is reasonable
view board. given that the province’s
The review board says $2-million annual subsidy
the railway must deliver for the line expired Sept.
goods by rail during the per- 30 and the fact it’s been
iod leading to its closure if known since last June that
the service is required by a the railway would be seek-
shipper that is prepared to ing approval to discontinue
pay a reasonable rate. the service.
Otherwise, the board THE CANADIAN PRESS

10 HALIFAX metronews.ca
WEEKEND, January 16-18, 2015
Sanctions imposed after Dalhousie
rugby club violated hazing policy
Athletes suspended. The university says club Penalties
members who attended
Tiger men’s team will
events on Sept. 20 are re-
not be able to play for quired to attend education No academic penalties are
remainder of the year sessions on hazing aware- being imposed.
ness and prevention, as well
as the harm alcohol can
cause.
Members of Dalhousie Uni- The club’s suspension This is the second time
versity’s rugby club have will be removed for next the school has investigated
been found in violation of year if it agrees that a com- complaints against one of
the school’s hazing policy mittee consisting of team its teams. The women’s
after a formal complaint members and university hockey team was sidelined
was made by an employee representatives will select in 2013 over complaints of
last September. a new club executive, with heavy drinking and humili-
Details of the complaint prospective executive mem- ating behaviour.
have never been made pub- bers interviewed and asked It also recently began
lic, but the school in Halifax how they would address inquiries into the behav-
said Thursday that the Dal- hazing. iour of 13 male dentistry
housie Tigers men’s rugby The club must also agree students after they were
club would remain sus- to ban alcohol from all team linked to a Facebook page
pended from play for the re- events and cannot enter containing sexually violent
mainder of the 2014-15 year. into agreements with alco- content about women.
The suspension is one hol companies. After the complaint
of three sanctions against “Dalhousie is committed about the rugby team be-
the club in addition to five to being a safe, respectful came public, the school The entrance to Dalhousie University is seen in this file photo. JEFF HARPER/METRO
conditions that have been and inclusive place to learn wouldn’t provide details
placed on it before it can re- and play,” the school says in about the nature of the com- the incident occurred or it was serious enough to team’s privileges.
sume play in 2015-16. a statement. plaint, who filed it, where who was involved, but said warrant a suspension of the THE CANADIAN PRESS
Herring Cove Raod
You Dal. No criminal case in
WcouIldN Facebook posts: Police Man charged
with child porn
found breaching
Halifax Regional Police have Police conditions
an finished a review of mis-
ogynistic comments about
advance female dentistry students Halifax Pthoalitc ae mina Hna clhifaarxg esady
screening at Dalhousie University and Region- with child pornography
pass cboenencl ucodme mniott ecdr.imes have aPlo lice offences is facing nine
counts of breaching his
for two The police department spokes- court-ordered condi-
says a team of senior investi- man
to see gators in the Criminal Inves- Const. tions.
Bernard Raymond
tigation Division reviewed Pierre
Dalton was charged
the material allegedly post- Bourd-
on Aug. 8 with making
ed by male classmates of the ages
starring available child pornog-
women on a now deactivat- said
Johnny ed Facebook page. Pierre Bourdages this raphy, accessing child
The department says JEFF HARPER/METRO week in pornography and pos-
Depp it will not proceed with a refer- session of child pornog-
raphy.
January criminal investigation. ence to police asking for
Dalhousie had initially the comments that there As part of his release,
22! refused a police request to was never a complaint Dalton wasn’t allowed
provide the postings based lodged or evidence of crim- to be any place near
Visit on student privacy con- inal wrongdoing. where kids would
reasonably be expected
clubmetro.com cerns, but then indicated it
to be.
to enter would co-operate. On Thursday, police
Reports of the offensive has been taken down.
say they learned Dalton
posts and the university’s But according to the
was working at a restau-
initial response prompted CBC, members of the Class
rant on Herring Cove
rallies and calls for the ex- of DDS Gentlemen page on
Road.
pulsion of the 13 students. Facebook voted on which
That job put him
The fourth-year students woman they’d like to have
in close proximity to
who were part of the Face- “hate” sex with and joked
children.
book group have been or- about using chloroform
He was arrested, but
dered to attend classes re- on women. The CBC said
police say there’s no
motely and are suspended in another post, a woman
evidence he assaulted or
from clinical duties, which is shown in a bikini with
In Theatres January 23 made contact with any
could affect their ability to a caption that says, “Bang
children.
graduate. until stress is relieved or un-
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eligible entries rec’d. Internet, email address, math skill-test req’d. Rules and entry: www.clubmetro.com. centre of the controversy THE CANADIAN PRESS