This article contains accounts of intimate partner violence. Brenda Forbes is categorical about the complaint she made to the RCMP in July 2013, and has been since she first told her story to police and media after a gunman – whom the Halifax Examiner refers to as GW – shot and killed 22 people on […]
“I didn’t know he was the devil”: women recall their experiences with the mass murderer
This article is sexually graphic. In 2008, a woman in her 30s bought a Victorian house in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Next door was a rooming house owned by Tom Evans, an older gay lawyer. In documents compiled by the Mass Casualty Commission, the woman is referred to as AA. She was interviewed by RCMP investigators […]
Exploiting pandemic measures for profit
Morning File, Tuesday, March 22, 2022
News 1. You mean MLAs aren’t supposed to be corporate shills? Last week, it came to Joan Baxter’s attention that there was a Friends of New Northern Pulp sign up at MLA Pat Dunn’s constituency office. Dunn is the MLA for Pictou Centre and minister of African Nova Scotian Affairs. Baxter wondered whether this was […]
The Halifax Examiner’s mass murder coverage
The Halifax Examiner’s mass murder coverage includes: “RCMP investigator: There are ‘in excess of 19 victims’ in Nova Scotia’s mass murder rampage” (April 20, by Tim Bousquet) “These are the 22 people murdered in Nova Scotia on April 18-19, 2020.” (April 22, 2020 by Erica Butler, Joan Baxter, Jennifer Henderson, Tim Bousquet, Philip Moscovitch, Yvette d’Entremont, […]