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A Halifax-based legal aid agency is urging the provincial government to scrap proposed legislative changes that one of its lawyers says could ramp up surveillance and investigations targeting vulnerable Nova Scotians. Nadia Shivji, a lawyer with Dalhousie Legal Aid, told the provincial legislature’s public bills committee Monday that an expansion of the Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods Act could disproportionately harm Black, Indigenous and immigrant communities.The existing act allows people to submit anonymous complaints about a property in their neighbourhood that they believe is linked to criminal activity. Amendments introduced in an omnibus bill tabled last week would allow complaints to…

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