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Justice, Mass Casualty Commission, Policing

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

by Jennifer Henderson June 28, 2022January 9, 2023

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 […]

Mass Casualty Commission, Policing

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

by Jennifer Henderson June 21, 2022January 9, 2023

A woman sits at a table during testimony.

Policing

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

by Tim Bousquet June 9, 2022January 3, 2023

Policing

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

by Jennifer Henderson June 7, 2022January 3, 2023

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents — Credit: Halifax Examiner. All rights reserved.

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.

Credit: Ricardo Weibezahn - ICIJ

DEFORESTATION INC

Reporter Joan Baxter is one of 140 journalists from 39 media outlets across 27 countries working collaboratively on ‘Deforestation Inc,’ a project of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which looked at the ownership structure of Paper Excellence, its relationship with Asia Pulp & Paper, and how the secretive corporate empires are devastating forests in Canada and around the world.

Find all of Baxter’s articles on the Deforestation Inc homepage.

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

2020 MASS MURDERS

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, and served 17 years in prison while maintaining his innocence. In 2019, he was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner’s Tim Bousquet tells Assoun’s story on the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong. Click here to listen to the podcast.

Tag: Lia Scanlan

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

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

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

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

Nova Scotia launches review of provincial policing structure

Brad Johns once again spins the revolving door of SIRT directorship, but that won’t solve the crisis of legitimacy for the police oversight board

Mount Uniacke residents organize, submit comments as quarry owners apply for expansion

Halifax MP says council can go higher on federal housing application

NDP wants Nova Scotia municipalities to tax developers who leave lots empty