UPDATED: Province of Nova Scotia bans street checks

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Both Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Houston and NDP justice critic Claudia Chender also sided with the province’s decision, agreeing that it should have come much sooner.

“Today’s about-face from the Liberal government is entirely a result of the dedicated and consistent work of people in the African Nova Scotian and black community, who have endured the negative impacts of street checks for too long,” said Chender. 

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