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Two deaths near Portapique on eve of mass murder anniversary
RCMP Public Information Officer Dominic LaFlamme has confirmed the RCMP received a call about the discovery of two bodies around 8am on April 17. The bodies were found near a beach on Wharf Road in Bass River, about nine kilometres west of Portapique, on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the mass murder of…
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2020 MASS MURDERS
All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.
DEFORESTATION INC
Reporter Joan Baxter is one of 140 journalists from 39 media outlets across 27 countries working collaboratively on ‘Deforestation Inc,’ a project of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which looked at the ownership structure of Paper Excellence, its relationship with Asia Pulp & Paper, and how the secretive corporate empires are devastating forests in Canada and around the world.
Find all of Baxter’s articles on the Deforestation Inc homepage.
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, and served 17 years in prison while maintaining his innocence. In 2019, he was fully exonerated.
Halifax Examiner’s Tim Bousquet tells Assoun’s story on the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong. Click here to listen to the podcast.
Read the entire series, plus articles about Glen Assoun’s wrongful conviction, on the DEAD WRONG homepage.
