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Financial expert: newly released documents show mass murderer was not an RCMP informant

September 21, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 17 Comments

On Monday, Judge Laurie Halfpenny MacQuarrie signed an order releasing the next batch of six search warrant documents related to the RCMP’s investigation of the mass murders of April 18 and 19. Eight media organizations, including the Halifax Examiner, have hired lawyer David Coles to petition the court to release the documents. So far, 13 […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Brink's, Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre (FINTRAC), Information to Obtain (ITO), Jessica Davis, Judge Laurie Halfpenny-MacQuarrie, mass murderer, Northumberland Investments Inc, RCMP investigation, RCMP Sgt. Corey Kilburn, Suspicious Transaction Report (STR)

February 12 was a strange day for the man who two months later would murder 22 people

That snowy Wednesday morning, he had a bizarre run-in with Halifax police — one he gleefully bragged to Frank Magazine about. That evening, he was ticketed by an RCMP cop for driving 1-15 kph over the speed limit on a rural gravel road in Portapique — but the cop won't talk about it.

August 10, 2020 By Paul Palango 40 Comments

Last February 12 began as a poor-weather day in Nova Scotia. The province was pretty well shut down because of an overnight snowstorm. Schools and public buildings were closed in Halifax and Truro. The temperature was hovering around the freezing mark. More snow was forecast. It was not the kind of day to be wandering […]

Filed Under: Featured, Investigation, News Tagged With: Andrew Douglas, Bible Hill, bikers, Brink's, Catharine Mansley, Chief Dan Kinsella, CIBC Intria, Cliff Boutilier, confidential informants, Const. Duane Stanley, Const. Tracy Longpre, Ed Powers, fake RCMP car, Frank Magazine, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Hell's Angels, LIDAR, Natasha Pace, Nicholas Andrew Dorrington, Portapique Beach Road, Portapique mass shooting murder spree, RCMP, RCMP Assistant Commissioner Larry Tremblay, RCMP Cpl. Jennifer Clarke, Red Devils, Sgt. Michael Sims, Staff-Sgt Tanya Chambers-Spriggs, Stephen Maher

Nova Scotia RCMP release long statement denying mass shooting details unsealed this week

July 30, 2020 By Zane Woodford 4 Comments

The RCMP are brushing off explosive evidence in the mass shooting case unsealed in court this week, in a lengthy statement released on Thursday. On Monday, a Nova Scotia judge ordered that some of the redactions in search warrant documents related to the RCMP’s investigation into the events of April 18/19 be un-redacted. The ruling […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Brink's, Portapique mass shooting murder spree, RCMP investigation, RCMP statement, redacted documents

Why we need a full public inquiry into the Nova Scotia massacre

Is it a crazy idea that the Nova Scotian mass murderer was a police informant? Consider the historic context: while he was an RCMP informant, Dany Kane killed 11 people.

July 13, 2020 By Paul Palango 19 Comments

We are now about to enter our fourth month since that horrendous weekend of April 18-19, when 22 people were murdered in an unprecedented rampage in Nova Scotia by the madman denturist the Halifax Examiner is identifying as “GW.” From the outset we’ve known two things: 1) GW was a psychopathic, revenge-seeking maniac and 2) […]

Filed Under: Featured, Investigation, News Tagged With: bikers, Brink's, CIBC Intria, confidential informants, Const. Chad Morrison, Const. Heidi Stevenson, COVID-19, Dany Kane, Elizabeth McMillan, fake RCMP car, Hell's Angels, lockdown, mass shooting murder Portapique, Michael John Lawrence, pandemic, Peter Alan Griffon, Portapique Beach Road, Public Inquiry, Randy Mersereau, RCMP, RCMP Supt Darren Campbell, shooting rampage Nova Scotia, social distancing, Stephen Maher, Sylvain Boulanger

PRICED OUT

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PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

You can learn about the project, including how we’re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on the PRICED OUT homepage.

2020 mass murders

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.

Updated regularly.

Uncover: Dead Wrong

In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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