Shambala Sun staffer is attacked and killed in Halifax

The assistant circulation manager of Shambala Sun magazine in Halifax was the victim of a brutal murder overnight. Raymond Taavel was beaten to death in what was apparently a homophobic attack outside the gay bar Menz. Police soon arrested a man who was a patient out on unescorted leave from the Central Nova Correctional Facility. Taavel was well known as an activist both for Pride Week and for