News 1. RCMP Commissioner tried to “jeopardize” mass murder investigation to advance federal gun control efforts The latest string of shootings south of the border, Uvalde and Buffalo chief among them, has stirred up the same debates in the United States this past month. More gun control versus freedom to live (and die) as Americans […]
Small business owners should be advocating for off-market housing
Morning file, Monday, June 20, 2022
News 1. Small businesses and housing costs There’s been a torrent of articles recently about the struggles small businesses are facing, including two articles published right here in the Halifax Examiner. This morning, Jennifer Henderson reports on a recent virtual discussion hosted by the Truro and Colchester Chamber of Commerce, in which small business owners […]
Masculinity, as defined by a friend of a mass murderer: “Men want art work that’s a picture of a gun enlarged seven feet high”
Morning File, Friday, June 17, 2022
News 1. Illegal deposit “A Halifax woman says she was denied an apartment after refusing to pay an illegal deposit to her prospective landlord,” reports Zane Woodford: Kirsten Parnell has been looking for a place since she moved back to Halifax more than a month ago. She thought she’d lucked out two weeks ago with […]
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 […]
Nova Scotia Crowns push ahead with 2023 jury trial for Randy Riley
The Crown is refusing Randy Riley’s request for a trial by judge alone, pushing ahead with a jury trial in September 2023 — well after the time limit prescribed by the court system. In 2018, Riley was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2010 killing of Chad Smith. In 2020, the Supreme Court of Canada […]
John Risley jumps on the “green” hydrogen subsidy bandwagon
Morning File, Tuesday, May 24, 2022
News 1. Mass Casualty Commission “The clock is ticking,” writes Stephen Kimber. “There are just 116 weekdays between now and the day that the Nova Scotia Mass Casualty Commission is required — by the orders in council that created it — to report back to the rest of us… Neither the federal nor provincial government […]
Project Ploughshares fails to critically interrogate proposed Nova Scotia spaceport
Morning File, Monday, May 2, 2022
News 1. Housing Trust “The Housing Trust of Nova Scotia is changing up its strategy, moving to sell its property on Maitland Street and buy hundreds of existing affordable rental units,” reports Zane Woodford: The trust, a nonprofit founded by developer and consultant Ross Cantwell in 2009, used to own two nearby properties between Gottingen […]
Record numbers of people are dying of COVID in the ‘So What?’ wave of the pandemic
Morning File, Friday, April 29, 2022
News 1. Record COVID deaths Twenty-four people died from COVID in Nova Scotia last week (April 19-25) — the highest weekly COVID death toll for the duration of the pandemic. COVID hospitalizations also increased, to 91 for the same reporting period (up from 84 the week before). As of yesterday, Nova Scotia Health reported the […]
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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