News 1. Muskrat Falls delays, power bills to rise Breaking news: hydroelectricity from Muskrat Falls for Nova Scotians is delayed. I suppose that’s not breaking, now that I think of it. But as Jennifer Henderson reports, there’s some new information on just how much those delays could cost Nova Scotians. In June, the province received […]
Halifax denies former Const. Brian Johnston sexually assaulted girl, but admits she complained to police in 2009
The municipality denies that a former Halifax Regional Police officer sexually assaulted a teenaged girl in the early 1990s, but admits the same person later complained to police about the officer fathering her child. As the Halifax Examiner reported in January, a plaintiff using the pseudonym X.Y. is suing the municipality and the federal government, […]
Are ‘psychological autopsies’ junk science?
Morning File, Friday, July 8, 2022
News 1. Mass Casualty Commission Yesterday, the Mass Casualty Commission released the schedule of proceedings for the next two weeks, as follows: Monday, July 11 Foundational document: “Violence in the Perpetrator’s Family of Origin” Tuesday, July 12 Foundational document: “Perpetrator’s Violence Towards Others” Witness: Brenda Forbes Wednesday, July 13 Foundational document: “Perpetrator’s Violence Towards Common […]
Two years after Portapique, call-takers and dispatchers are still struggling
Organized chaos. The worst day of my life. Beyond the scope of anything I’ve dealt with. It seemed unreal. No time to feel. Those are a few phrases two shift supervisors used to describe the working conditions on Sunday morning, April 19 2020 at the RCMP Operations Communications Centre (OCC), where 911 operators answered call […]
‘We really don’t need any more police officers; we really don’t need any more money’
Morning File, Friday, June 10, 2022
News 1. When the hammer drops If all you have is a hammer, every problem is a nail. I’ve been thinking a lot about that aphorism — attributed both to psychologist Abraham Maslow and philosopher Abraham Kaplan, but it’s probably as old as hammers and nails — as I watch the Mass Casualty Commission. It’s just […]
27 minutes: the RCMP’s communications division hesitated when the public most needed to be warned about the mass murderer
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 […]
Bodies of five murder victims weren’t discovered by the RCMP for more than 18 hours after they were killed
The bodies of five victims on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020 — Joy and Peter Bond, Aaron and Emily Tuck, and Jolene Oliver — were not discovered by the RCMP until 4:45pm on Sunday, April 19, more than 18 hours after they were shot by the killer. Why the delay? “It did not […]
Halifax cop claims she worried the man she tased would use a pen as a weapon
The Halifax Regional Police officer who tased a man on Quinpool Road in 2019 said she felt she had no choice but to arrest him, and she was worried he was going to use a pen as a weapon. Const. Nicole Green testified during the second day of her Nova Scotia Police Review Board hearing […]
The clock is ticking down on the Mass Casualty Commission
With less than six months to go before the inquiry is supposed to file its final report, it’s worth asking if it needs an extension to what was never a realistic timetable.
Nova Scotia Mass Casualty Inquiry commissioners (MCC) (d) direct the Commissioners to submit, in both official languages, an interim report on their preliminary findings, lessons learned and recommendations no later than May 1, 2022, and a final report on their findings, lessons learned and recommendations no later than November 1, 2022… The clock is ticking. […]
Cop confidential: Why is so much of the city’s police budget discussion happening behind closed doors?
What really goes on behind closed doors? Do those doors need to be closed? Does the Halifax Regional Police need more money to do its job properly? Those, of course, are different questions, but it’s hard to answer either of the last two without knowing what happened in the first. What “disturbing facts” — as […]
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