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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

“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, gun violence, gunman Nova Scotia, Heather O'Brien, mass killing, mass murder shooting spree, mass shooting, massacre, murder spree, Nova Scotia, Patterson Law, Policing, Portapique shooting, RCMP, RCMP class action lawsuit, Tyler Edison Blair

The racist (and dumb) iconography of the anti-gun control zealots

Morning File, Monday, June 15, 2020

June 15, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Black Lives Matter “We have been watching the Black Lives Matters protests and the conversations about police violence,” write a group of people in a federal prison. “We have been taking part in our own conversations with prisoners of all races. We would like to share some of our conversations and conclusions with […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: anti-gun control meme, Black Lives Matter, Doctors for Firearm Safety & Responsibility (DFSR), Evelyn White, gangbanger, gangster, gun control, Jason Stitt, Joe Bass Jr., Joe Logon, mass murder shooting spree, Michael Ackermann, pit bull, police violence, Portapique cemetery, Robyn van Nus, Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard, tank armoured vehicle

Mass murderer left a will directing that his remains be placed in the Portapique Cemetery

June 12, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

The man responsible for the Nova Scotia massacre on April 18/19, left a will directing that his “unembalmed” and “non cremated” (emphasis in original) remains be placed in a “Hudson Bay blanket” and placed in a concrete vault in the Portapique Cemetery. The mass murderer, who the Halifax Examiner is describing as GW, killed 13 […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: handwritten will, mass murder shooting spree, mass murderer, Portapique cemetery

Portapique Cemetery: we won’t accept the body of the mass murderer

June 12, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 1 Comment

The Portapique Cemetery has been the final resting place for family members of the Davison, Knight, Fletcher, and Fulton clans and other Colchester County families for nearly 250 years. Mature trees surround the three-acre graveyard, which is a mix of modern markers and scarred, weathered stones dating back as far as the 1770s. The historic […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: autopsy, Donald K. Walker, mass murder shooting spree, Portapique cemetery

Bill Casey: the shooting of the Onslow fire hall reflects a broader RCMP communications failure

June 9, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 1 Comment

The RCMP will pay for damages to the Onslow-Belmont Fire Hall. Two of the force’s officers fired dozens of shots that struck the building during the manhunt for the mass murderer who killed 22 people in April. Luckily, none of the three Belmont firefighters inside the fire hall were injured. Neither were an EMO official […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Bill Casey, Chief Robert Gloade, mass murder shooting spree, Millbrook First Nation, Minister Ralph Goodale, Onslow Belmont Fire Brigade, RCMP, RCMP Cpl. Jennifer Clarke, RCMP Cpl. Lisa Croteau, RCMP Operations Communications Centre (OCC), RCMP shooting Lower Onslow, Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), Sharon Shipley-McLellan

Nova Scotia massacre: Did the RCMP “risk it out” one time too many?

May 30, 2020 By Paul Palango 6 Comments

Catharine Mansley was a Mountie for 24 years. In time her mind began to go from all the stress of being a RCMP patrol officer in Halifax County. She began drinking. When she complained about her problem to her supervisors, that just added to them. She was caught driving drunk twice. Convicted once, she went […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Catharine Mansley, Const. Heidi Stevenson, Councillor Wade Parker, Edgar MacLeod, Jim Bronskill, Mark Furey, mass murder shooting spree, Michael Gregory, Portapique, Premier Stephen McNeil, Public Inquiry, RCMP

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

Mundane and extraordinary mysteries

Morning File, Thursday, May 14, 2020

May 14, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 5 Comments

News 1. Don’t start stressing out over who will be part of your “bubble family” yet Jennifer Henderson covered yesterday’s COVID-19 briefing for the Halifax Examiner, and reports that we shouldn’t expect the province to adopt the bubble family concept anytime soon. (The idea behind bubble families is that you choose one or two other […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: bubble families, coronavirus, COVID-19, Emma Wilkie, epidemiology, Halifax Stanfield International Airport, Helen Branswell, influenza, journalism, local media, local news, local newspapers, Maclean's, mass murder shooting spree, Ministry of Mundane Mysteries, Northwood, Outside the March, pandemic, Premier Stephen McNeil, Project Pandemic, RCMP inquiry, Spanish flu, Stephen Mayer

“He was a psychopath”

A former resident of Portapique says she called the RCMP to tell them the future gunman assaulted his domestic partner and that he had illegal weapons. The police took no action.

May 12, 2020 By Joan Baxter 16 Comments

This article contains graphic descriptions of assault. “That son of a bitch is dead.” That was the first thing Boe thought when she heard on April 19 that the RCMP had killed a man who on gone on a murderous rampage across Nova Scotia, leaving 22 dead. The murder spree started in the village of […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Brenda Forbes, gun control, Jeanne Sarson, Linda MacDonald, mass murder shooting spree, Minister Bill Blair, Nova Scotia, Persons Against Non-State Torture, Portapique, RCMP, red flag laws, Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT)

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PRICED OUT

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

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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

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

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

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