Halifax Examiner
👤 Halifax Examiner Inc
📍 NS
Jun 5, 2026
· 13 min read
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Out in the Cold, Part 1: Surveillance, smearing, and shutdown of a harm-reduction shelter
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Heuristic (v1/v3)
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ML v2 (DistilBERT)
-0.304 · LEFT
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-0.152 · CENTER LEFT
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Out in the Cold, Part 1: Surveillance, smearing, and shutdown of a harm-reduction shelter
Part 1 of an 11-month investigation: The dismantling of Halifax-based Out of the Cold Community Association followed the Nova Scotia government’s coordinated criminalization of the organization and its staff – including the country’s earliest documented use of the SCAN Act to surveil a nonprofit.
BY EUAN THOMSON
JUNE 5, 2026
Staff of Out of the Cold attended the Rally to Save the Shelters in June 2021, in front of the former Memorial Library. The City was planning to evict people from t…
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