Nova Scotia Mass Shooting Inquiry

• Group monitoring RCMP response to mass shooting inquiry needs public’s help: chair

  The chair of the independent Progress Monitoring Committee said the 16-member group doesn't have a "stick" to force the Mounties and government officials to do the right thing.

  Canada

  Sep 28, 2023
  
• Work to implement N.S. shooting inquiry recommendations gets underway

  The commission found widespread failures in how the RCMP responded to the shootings and the way the force communicated with the public during and after the killings.

  Crime

  May 31, 2023
  
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• N.S. shooting inquiry promises ‘pragmatic’ recommendations to make communities safer

  The inquiry will review more than 2,000 recommendations from 71 reports brought forward by other inquiries and reviews in Canada related to the commission's mandate.

  Canada

  Aug 29, 2022
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• Top Mountie in area of N.S. mass shooting stayed home to avoid command confusion

  The senior RCMP officer in the district of the N.S. mass shooting says he stayed home because having a 'white shirt' present at the command post would have caused confusion.

  Crime

  Jul 22, 2022
• RCMP leadership reform would minimize political interference, criminologists say

  A parliamentary committee calls RCMP commissioner Brenda Lucki and former public safety minister Bill Blair to explain what happened during the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting.

  Politics

  Jun 25, 2022
• Issuing alert about N.S. gunman would have led to more dead police: RCMP official

  A senior Nova Scotia RCMP official says she has no regrets that an emergency alert was not sent during a killer's 13-hour rampage in 2020.

  Canada

  Jun 7, 2022
• First RCMP supervisor of N.S. mass shooting describes miscue in containing the killer

  The Mountie was granted permission to testify over Zoom, after he was exempted from cross-examination by lawyers representing family of the 22 people killed in the N.S. shooting.

  Canada

  May 30, 2022
• Nova Scotia mass shooting inquiry allows RCMP witnesses, but lawyers question limits

  The RCMP's lawyer and their members' union have resisted calls for officers to testify about the police response to the April 18-19, 2020, killings.

  Canada

  Mar 9, 2022
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• Night of N.S. shootings, witnesses wondered about ‘strange’ RCMP car as it went by

  According to the Mass Casualty Commission's calendar, today's proceedings will focus on what happened overnight in Debert during the weekend of April 18-19, 2020.

  Canada

  Mar 9, 2022
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• Police union argues for limits to RCMP members testifying at inquiry on mass shooting

  The National Police Federation has argued that all officers who responded to the killings run the risk of being re-traumatized on the witness stand.

  Canada

  Mar 3, 2022