Jennifer Henderson attended the virtual post-cabinet meeting scrum Thursday, when government ministers take questions from reporters. Northwood Review: The premier and Health minister faced questions around the government’s choice to release only the recommendations and not the findings from a two-person review panel appointed to look into practices at Northwood’s Halifax facility, where 53 people […]
Nova Scotians to determine questions and guide research into mass shooting
New program aims to 'find answers and healing' in the aftermath of tragedy by seeking community input
Researchers behind a new program intended to help Nova Scotians “find answers and healing” in the wake of April’s mass shooting incident want residents to determine what topics are most important to investigate. The Heal-NS Trauma Research Program was launched yesterday. The program brings together a multidisciplinary group of researchers devoted to investigating issues related […]
Colchester councillor: change in RCMP policing model left information gap on shooter
Mike Gregory knows policing is very different today than it was in 1989 when he arrived as an RCMP officer in Tatamagouche. The recent murderous one-man rampage across central Nova Scotia has made him reflect on those differences. Gregory also served in Digby, Halifax, and Sackville over his 30-year career. In smaller locations especially, he […]
RCMP Rural Policing: Strangers in a Hurry, Policing Strangers
The debate over the RCMP’s response to the mass shootings at Portapique and other rural locations has focused on the lack of awareness of — and response to — earlier community complaints and information about the offender. I am struck by the amount of prior knowledge and information that local residents and neighbours had of […]
Inquiry into mass shooting will be announced soon
A federal-provincial inquiry into the mass shooting that claimed the lives of 22 Nova Scotians could be announced as early as next week after the details are sorted out. Attorney General Mark Furey said yesterday discussions between the province and federal Public Safety Minister Bill Blair are in the “final stages.” Premier Stephen McNeil told […]
Mass shooting lawsuit amended; victims’ families call for public inquiry
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 […]
Opposition critics on the Advisory Council on the Status of Women call for an inquiry into mass murder, but McNeil government demurs
A provincial public inquiry into the April mass shooting that resulted in the deaths of 22 people in Nova Scotia is “absolutely a must,” says Karla MacFarlane, Progressive Conservative MLA for Pictou West and critic for the Advisory Council on the Status of Women. In recent weeks, as more questions arise over how the RCMP […]
Premier McNeil: A message from my grandmother about the RCMP
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 […]
Stable owners look to feds to pony up with financial help
Morning File, Thursday, April 30, 2020
News 1.“COVID cluster” info misleads health care providers — and the public Tim Bousquet looks at all the “Covid clusters” the Nova Scotia Health Authority has mapped and how they are being used by healthcare providers. The information in those clusters is being used to deny people medical attention. Bousquet got the list of 10 […]
Daily COVID-19 update: Three more Northwood residents have died from the disease
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Three new COVID-19-related deaths were announced by the province on Tuesday, all having occurred at Northwood long-term care home in Halifax. That brings the total number of deaths to 27. The province also announced 15 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing Nova Scotia’s total to […]