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Today’s forecast: power outages and falling cranes

Morning File, Tuesday, September 22, 2020

September 22, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Weather There will be weather this afternoon, and then again Wednesday morning. It won’t be as bad as it could be, but will still be plenty powerful. As someone once said: charge your devices and order Chinese food. (Copy link for this item) 2. Expert: GW was not an informant “On Monday, Judge […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: child in car trunk Yarmouth, COVID-19, long term care (LTC), mass shooting murder Portapique, Northwood, Northwood Review Panel, nursing homes, RCMP secrecy

Witness told police that mass murderer “builds fires and burns bodies, is a sexual predator, and supplies drugs in Portapique and Economy”

July 27, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

Today, a Nova Scotia judge ordered that some of the redactions in search warrant documents related to the RCMP’s investigation in the mass murders of April 18/19 be un-redacted. This was in response to an application to the court by a media coalition that includes the Halifax Examiner. The Examiner has published the previously redacted […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: mass shooting murder Portapique, RCMP, redacted documents

Portapique: how to (maybe) turn a rickety review into a transparent public inquiry

Premier McNeil says if the panel reviewing Nova Scotia's mass shooting believes they need more authority to do their jobs, he'll give it to them. Their first order of business, therefore, should be to demand the review become a full, transparent public inquiry. Without that, there will never be public confidence in their work.

July 26, 2020 By Stephen Kimber 9 Comments

Allow me to make a modest suggestion. First, a few assumptions. Let’s assume Nova Scotia Justice Minister Mark Furey is correct. He and federal Public Safety Minister Bill Blair chose the three-member “independent and impartial” panel to “review” April’s mass shooting in Nova Scotia “because of their experience in fact-finding and independence, in-depth knowledge of […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House Tagged With: Mark Furey, mass shooting murder Portapique, Mass shooting review, Minister Bill Blair

Petition calls for mass murder inquiry with “feminist lens”

July 14, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 2 Comments

A petition containing 7,648 signatures calling for a “feminist lens” to be included in a Nova Scotia independent public inquiry into the worst mass shooting in Canadian history was sent yesterday to the prime minister; the federal ministers of Public Safety, Justice, and Women And Gender Equality; Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil; as well as […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Eleanor Cowan, Jeanne Sarson, Linda MacDonald, mass shooting murder Portapique, misogyny, Persons Against Non-State Torture, Public Inquiry, RCMP, violence against women

Why we need a full public inquiry into the Nova Scotia massacre

Is it a crazy idea that the Nova Scotian mass murderer was a police informant? Consider the historic context: while he was an RCMP informant, Dany Kane killed 11 people.

July 13, 2020 By Paul Palango 19 Comments

We are now about to enter our fourth month since that horrendous weekend of April 18-19, when 22 people were murdered in an unprecedented rampage in Nova Scotia by the madman denturist the Halifax Examiner is identifying as “GW.” From the outset we’ve known two things: 1) GW was a psychopathic, revenge-seeking maniac and 2) […]

Filed Under: Featured, Investigation, News Tagged With: bikers, Brink's, CIBC Intria, confidential informants, Const. Chad Morrison, Const. Heidi Stevenson, COVID-19, Dany Kane, Elizabeth McMillan, fake RCMP car, Hell's Angels, lockdown, mass shooting murder Portapique, Michael John Lawrence, pandemic, Peter Alan Griffon, Portapique Beach Road, Public Inquiry, Randy Mersereau, RCMP, RCMP Supt Darren Campbell, shooting rampage Nova Scotia, social distancing, Stephen Maher, Sylvain Boulanger

Cabinet roundup: Northwood review, mass shooting inquiry, schools, Liscombe Lodge, and Northern Pulp

July 3, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Business Minister Geoff MacLellan, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dr. Chris Lata, Education Minister Zach Churchill, Health Minister Randy Delorey, Hearthstone Hospitality, inquiry, Justice Minister Mark Furey, Liscombe Lodge, Lynn Stevenson, mass shooting murder Portapique, Northern pulp creditor protection, Northwood class action lawsuit, Northwood review, pandemic, Paper Excellence Canada, Premier Stephen McNeil, school reopening

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

June 16, 2020 By Yvette d'Entremont 2 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Dr. Rob Green, Heal-NS Trauma Research Program, mass shooting murder Portapique, Nova Scotia Trauma Program

Colchester councillor: change in RCMP policing model left information gap on shooter

June 5, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson and Joan Baxter 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Colchester County, community policing, Councillor Mike Gregory, inquiry, mass shooting murder Portapique, Nova Scotia Department of Justice (NSDJ), RCMP, RCMP Cpl. Jennifer Clarke

RCMP Rural Policing: Strangers in a Hurry, Policing Strangers

June 5, 2020 By Chris Murphy Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: community policing, mass shooting murder Portapique, RCMP, rural Nova Scotia, rural policing

Inquiry into mass shooting will be announced soon

June 5, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Attorney General Mark Furey, Emergency Measures Organization, mass shooting murder Portapique, Minister Bill Blair, Premier Stephen McNeil, Public Inquiry, RCMP

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Phyllis Rising — Rebecca Falvey (left) and Meg Hubley. Photo submitted

Episode #19 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Meg Hubley and Rebecca Falvey met as theatre kids at Neptune and have been friends ever since. As Phyllis Rising — that’s right, Mary Tyler Moore hive — they’re making films, plays, and are in production on The Crevice, a three-part sitcom streaming live from the Bus Stop in March. They stop by to talk with Tara about its development, their shared love of classic SNL and 90s sitcoms, and the power of close friendship. Plus: A new song from a new band.

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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.

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