News 1. “Involuntary compliance” In high school, I had a teacher whose approach to finding volunteers was to look at a group of us and say, “I need four volunteers. You, you, you, and you — you are the volunteers.” I thought about him this morning as I read Zane Woodford’s story on Halifax staff […]
‘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 […]
Missed communications among Communications personnel led to failure to alert public to the killer’s fake police car
Two years ago last April, health care workers Heather O’Brien and Kristen Beaton were killed in their cars on the Plains Road near Debert by a gunman posing as a police officer driving a look-a-like RCMP cruiser. Their murders took place just before 10am on Sunday April 19. According to a document released today by […]
How the mass murderer leisurely drove through the main streets of Truro without being stopped by police
Through the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, there was a series of miscommunications and mixed messages between the RCMP and the Truro Police Service such that the killer was able to slowly drive right through the centre of Truro without being noticed or confronted by Truro police. As the killer wasn’t stopped in Truro, […]
Cpl. Rodney Peterson is “not tactically sound” and “puts us at risk” says fellow cop Nick Dorrington
Morning File, Monday, May 30, 2022
News 1. Bodies not discovered for 18 hours “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 […]
The Mass Casualty Commission and the Catch-22 of witness ‘accommodation’
Allowing two RCMP officers to testify in pre-recorded sessions without the direct involvement of lawyers for the families undermines the credibility of the commission. And that's unfortunate for all of us.
I have not watched every minute of every witnesses’ testimony at the Mass Casualty Commission. As I have with the commission’s 18-and-counting foundational documents and 1,400 itemized source materials, I’ve sampled, closely watching the testimony of witnesses I expected to offer important information, dipping in and out of others as time allowed. Among my many […]
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 […]
How RCMP commanders’ bumbling response to Portapique allowed the killer to continue his murder spree
Morning File, Friday, May 27, 2022
News 1. Bumbling response to Portapique Yesterday, retired RCMP Staff Sergeant Al Carroll testified via Zoom at the Mass Casualty Commission (MCC), the public inquiry into the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020. Through his questioning of Carroll, MCC lawyer Roger Burrill aptly laid out how a series of cascading policing errors built upon each […]
The RCMP didn’t tell the public about the mass murderer’s fake police car because they didn’t want to create a ‘frantic panic’
Ever since the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, one unanswered question has been: Why did the RCMP wait so long to notify the public about the killer’s fake police car? An answer comes via RCMP Staff Sergeant Steve Halliday, who was interviewed by the Mass Casualty Commission (MCC) on November 3, 2021. According to […]
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