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Letter to RCMP Commissioner Lucki rebuked her for trying to influence messaging after mass murders

June 28, 2022 By Jennifer Henderson 5 Comments

Editor’s note: after this article was published, the Mass Casualty Commission tabled the letter from Lia Scanlan to RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki, placing it on the commission website. You can read it here. The ongoing public inquiry into the mass murders of April 2020 is supposed to help us understand what happened and make recommendations […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Lia Scanlan, Mass Casualty Commission (MCC), Minister Bill Blair, Paul Thompson, RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki, RCMP Supt Darren Campbell

RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki tried to ‘jeopardize’ mass murder investigation to advance Trudeau’s gun control efforts

June 21, 2022 By Jennifer Henderson 1 Comment

RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki “made a promise” to Public Safety Minister Bill Blair and the Prime Minister’s Office to leverage the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020 to get a gun control law passed.  A week after the murders, Lucki pressured RCMP in Nova Scotia to release details of the weapons used by the killer. […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Policing Tagged With: Brenda Lucki, gun control, Krista Smith, Lee Bergerman, Lia Scanlan, Mass Casualty Commission (MCC), mass shooting, Neil Gallivan, Prime Minister's Office (PMO), Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, RCMP, RCMP Chief Supt. Chris Leather, RCMP Supt Darren Campbell, Sean Conlogue, Sharon Tessier

27 minutes: the RCMP’s communications division hesitated when the public most needed to be warned about the mass murderer

June 9, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

Twenty-seven minutes. That’s how much time passed during which a written tweet sat on a computer screen before someone pressed “tweet” to make it public. The prepared tweet read: “#Colchester: [perpetrator’s name] may be driving what appears to be an RCMP vehicle & may be wearing an RCMP uniform. There’s 1 difference btwn his car […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Aaron Patton, Adam Merchant, Alert Ready, Chief Dave MacNeil, Cpl. Jennifer Clarke, Cst. Heidi Stevenson, Debert, Emergency Alert Team (ERT), Enfield, gun violence, Hunter Road, Immediate Action Rapid Deployment (IARD), Jeff West, Lia Scanlan, mass killing, mass shooting, massacre, murder spree, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Mass Casualty Commission (MCC), Onslow Fire Hall, Policing, Portapique, rampage, RCMP, RCMP Chief Supt. Chris Leather, RCMP twitter alert, Shubenacadie, SIRT, Staff Sergeant Steve Halliday, Staff Sgt. Al Carroll, Staff Sgt. Brian Rehill, Staff Sgt. Bruce Briers, Staff-Sergeant Addie MacCallum, Stuart Beselt, Wentworth

Missed communications among Communications personnel led to failure to alert public to the killer’s fake police car

June 7, 2022 By Jennifer Henderson 1 Comment

Two years ago last April, health care workers Heather O’Brien and Kristen Beaton were killed in their cars on the Plains Road near Debert by a gunman posing as a police officer driving a look-a-like RCMP cruiser. Their murders took place just before 10am on Sunday April 19. According to a document released today by […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Alert Ready, Chris Leather, Cpl. Jennifer Clarke, Critical Incident Commander Jeff West, Debert, Emergency Management Office (EMO), Glenn Mason, Heather O'Brien, Inspector Dustine Rodier, Jennifer Henderson, Kristen Beaton, Lia Scanlan, Lillian Campbell, Lisa Banfield, Mass Casualty Commission (MCC), Portapique, RCMP, Staff Sergeant Steve Halliday, Staff-Sergeant Addie MacCallum, Tom Bagley, Wentworth

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

Episode 89 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.
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To sleep, perchance to dream — in this humidity?! Shakespeare By The Sea’s production of Hamlet — its first staged tragedy since 2019 — opens on August 5, and director Drew Douris-O’Hara and the man himself, Deivan Steele, stop by the show before rehearsal to chat. Topics include: climate change’s effect on outdoor theatre, the timelessness of Shakespeare’s most popular work, the failure of funding models in all times (not just during COVID), and the resilience of squirrels.

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