Apr 26 2023 — Michael MacDonald, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — HALIFAX — In the coming days, the federal and Nova Scotia governments will face the first deadline for action recommended by the inquiry that investigated the worst mass shooting in Canadian history. The Mass Casualty Commission, which tabled its final...
Mar 31 2023 — Michael MacDonald, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — HALIFAX — The brother of a man killed during a mass shooting in Nova Scotia almost three years ago says he's keen to make sure recommendations from a public inquiry released Thursday are implemented. "It's great to have things move forward," Scott McLe...
Mar 28 2023 — Michael MacDonald, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — HALIFAX — As a public inquiry prepares for the release of its final report into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting, its findings are sure to refocus the spotlight on the RCMP's problem-plagued response to the 13-hour rampage that claimed 22 lives. Almo...
Jan 23 2023 — Michael MacDonald, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — HALIFAX — Prominent members of Nova Scotia's Black community are supporting a bid to protect the Halifax home and clinic of the late Clement Ligoure, the province's first Black doctor and an unsung hero of the 1917 Halifax Explosion. Originally from Tr...
Dec 15 2022 — Michael MacDonald, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — HALIFAX — A new and unusual theory has emerged about the coyotes that killed a young Toronto woman on a Nova Scotia hiking trail 13 years ago. Researchers say that on Oct. 27, 2009, when singer-songwriter Taylor Mitchell set out alone in Cape Breton Hi...
Dec 15 2022 — Michael MacDonald, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — HALIFAX — A new and unusual theory has emerged about the coyotes that killed a young Toronto woman on a Nova Scotia hiking trail 13 years ago. Researchers say that on Oct. 27, 2009, when singer-songwriter Taylor Mitchell set out alone in Cape Breton Hi...
Dec 1 2022 — Michael MacDonald, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — HALIFAX — The latest official population estimate for the world's most endangered species of whale is grim. A group of international experts recently confirmed there were about 340 surviving North Atlantic right whales as of last year — down from 348 r...
Oct 23 2022 — Michael MacDonald, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — HALIFAX — An ambitious plan in Nova Scotia to build North America's first coastal refuge for captive whales is at least five years behind its original schedule, newly released documents show. The project, announced in February 2020, calls for construct...
Oct 18 2022 — Michael MacDonald, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — HALIFAX — A high-profile ally of former U.S. president Donald Trump is at the centre of an academic controversy at the University of New Brunswick, where the administration has promised an independent review of how he received a PhD in 2013. Doug Mastr...
Sep 8 2022 — Michael MacDonald, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — HALIFAX — It wouldn't be a stretch to suggest the Queen held a special place in her heart for Canada. As an ardent world traveller, she visited this country more than any other during her reign, and she was in the habit of referring to it as home. If y...
Aug 14 2022 — Michael MacDonald, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — HALIFAX — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz are set to sign a green energy agreement later this month in Newfoundland that could prove pivotal to Canada's nascent hydrogen industry. The German government on Friday issued a statement confirming the agreement will be signed Aug. 23 in Stephenville, where a Newfoundland-based company […]
Jul 13 2022 — Michael MacDonald, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — HALIFAX — For 19 years, Lisa Banfield lived with a man described as a controlling, abusive psychopath who repeatedly beat her. This long-term pattern of gender-based violence is described in detail in a document released Wednesday by the inquiry investigating why Gabriel Wortman fatally shot 22 people in Nova Scotia on April 18-19, 2020 — […]
Jul 12 2022 — Michael MacDonald, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia denture maker who killed 22 people in April 2020 was long known to be a violent man, especially among disadvantaged people who owed him money, newly released documents show. In a summary of evidence released Tuesday, the inquiry investigating the mass shooting shared details about Gabriel Wortman's practice of providing […]
Jun 23 2022 — Michael MacDonald, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — HALIFAX — At the centre of the political firestorm erupting over the RCMP’s response to the worst mass shooting in Canadian history is a phrase used by police to justify withholding case information. In the weeks after a gunman killed 22 people during a 13-hour rampage on April 18-19, 2020, Nova Scotia RCMP officers insisted […]
Jun 21 2022 — Michael MacDonald, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — HALIFAX — In the days following the mass shooting that left 22 people dead in Nova Scotia, the RCMP's statements to the public were riddled with mistakes, confusion and omissions, a newly released report reveals. The document, published Tuesday by the inquiry investigating the 2020 tragedy, also asserts that key information about the case, including […]