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We “drove the back roads”

On Saturday, April 18, the mass murderer and his common-law spouse travelled around the province, looking at various locations. Just hours later, those sites were associated with the murderer's rampage.

September 23, 2020 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

On Saturday, April 18, a man the Halifax Examiner refers to as GW, went on a drive with his common-law spouse (CLS). They “drove the back roads,” CLS said in a statement later given to RCMP Staff Sergeant Greg Vardy. “They … ended up near a penitentiary that GW said his uncle Glynn had been […]

Filed Under: Featured, Investigation Tagged With: Alanna Jenkins, Diefenbunker, fake RCMP car, Gina Goulet, mass murder shooting spree, mass murderer, RCMP Sgt. Angela Hawryluk, RCMP Staff Sergeant Greg Vardy, Sean Mcleod

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

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

“Body parts still in the automobile” of mass murder victim when RCMP released the car to the victim’s family, claims lawsuit

June 17, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

A newly proposed class action lawsuit names the RCMP and the Attorneys General of Canada and Nova Scotia for alleged improprieties during and after the mass murder spree of April 18/19. One of the representatives of the class action is Tyler Edison Blair, the son of Greg Blair and the stepson of Jamie Blair, both […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Andrew O'Brien, fake RCMP car, gunman Nova Scotia, Heather O'Brien, mass murder shooting spree, Patterson Law, Portapique shooting, RCMP class action lawsuit

Mass shooting lawsuit amended; victims’ families call for public inquiry

June 2, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson Leave a Comment

The class action lawsuit brought against the estate of the man who killed 22 people and injured seven others during a fiery rampage across northern Nova Scotia has been updated through an amended statement of claim. The lawsuit includes three groups of plaintiffs: those whose loved ones were murdered by the person the Halifax Examiner […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Alanna Jenkins, Atlantic Denture Clinic Inc, Berkshire Broman Corporation, class action lawsuit, Clinton Ellison, Cory Ellison, Darcy Dobson, Dawn Gulenchyn, fake RCMP car, Frank Gulenchyn, Heather O'Brien, mass shooting murder Portapique, Nicholas C. Beaton, Northumberland Investments Inc, Premier Stephen McNeil, Public Inquiry, RCMP, Robert Pineo, Ryan Farrington, Sean Mcleod

Premier McNeil: A message from my grandmother about the RCMP

May 27, 2020 By Paul Palango 8 Comments

That horrible weekend last month, all Canadians witnessed what was likely the most catastrophic collapse of policing in Canadian history. Little, if anything, went right. Twenty-two people were murdered. The gunman marauded around the province of Nova Scotia with seeming impunity, only being killed and captured because the last person he murdered had left her […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Big Allan MacLellan, Donald Walker, Dr. John Butt, fake RCMP car, Jeanne Sauvé, Mary Kennedy, Mary Sarah MacLellan, mass shooting murder Portapique, Public Inquiry, RCMP, RCMP Chief Supt. Chris Leather, Roland Michener, Steve Jarrett

Court document provides new info on mass murder

May 19, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

A court document obtained by the Halifax Examiner provides new information about the mass murder spree across Nova Scotia on April 18 and 19. The document is an “Information to Obtain” (ITO), which was delivered to a justice of the peace as an application for a search warrant related to the police investigation into the […]

Filed Under: Featured, Investigation, News Tagged With: Clint Ellison, Const. Chad Morrison, Const. Heidi Stevenson, Cory Ellison, fake RCMP car, Gina Goulet, Greg Blair, Hunter Road, Information to Obtain (ITO), Jamie Blair, Joey Webber, Lisa McCully, mass killing spree Nova Scotia, murder shooting spree timeline, Portapique, Sgt. Larry Peyton, Shubenacadie

Lots of people knew about the mass murderer’s destructive behaviour, and did nothing

May 19, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

People knew. Long before he went on a murder spree across Nova Scotia, killing 22 people, lots of people knew about the gunman, who we’re calling GW. They knew GW was disturbed, and called him a “psychopath,” a “sociopath,” “paranoid.” They knew he beat women. They knew he collected an alarming number of weapons, some […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Cpl. Dave Lane, Cst. Anthony McGrath, Cst. D. Penfold, Cst. Denis Chartrand, Cst. Holly Murphy, Cst. Jennifer Lake, Cst. Steven Wagg, Cst. Susan Lynch, eyewitness interviews, fake cop, fake RCMP car, gunman Nova Scotia, Information to Obtain (ITO), Justice Allison Rose, mass murder shooting spree, Nova Scotia mass shooting, Portapique shooting, Sgt. Angela Hawryluk, Sgt. Brian Fitzpatrick, Sgt. Derrick Blanche

Source: Halifax police held back response to mass murderer

May 4, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

On Sunday morning, April 19, the Halifax Regional Police (HRP) was alerted that a gunman (GW) was heading towards the Halifax Regional Municipality in a look-alike RCMP cruiser, and was heavily armed. Despite those warnings, HRP denied a request from its Emergency Response Team that additional members be called in. Later in the morning, HRP […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Chief Dan Kinsella, Cst. John McLeod, fake RCMP car, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), mass murder shooting spree

The mass murder isn’t “senseless” in a culture that excuses the violence of white men

Why can't we understand how the impunity with which white men are allowed to threaten, to follow around, to fixate and to harm connects to how GW was able to move in silence until it was too late? Our culture continues to give white men a pass and then act shocked in the aftermath.

May 1, 2020 By El Jones 12 Comments

After she wrote an article naming “white male terrorism” in the Nova Scotia mass shooting and other mass killings in Canada, Robyn Bourgeois, a woman of Cree heritage, predictably woke up to death threats from white men. Of the many things we were told it was “not the time” for in the wake of the […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Alexandre Bissonnette, COVID-19, COVID-19 while Black, domestic violence, fake cop, fake RCMP car, mass murder shooting spree, Rachel Zellars, racism during COVID-19, Robyn Bourgeois, white male violence

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2020 mass murders

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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.

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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.

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

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Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

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