Premier Tim Houston joined Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the families of victims, survivors, and community members in Truro Thursday afternoon for the presentation of the Mass Casualty Commission’s final 3,000-page report and 130 recommendations. The premier’s office issued the following statement:  I have said from the beginning that this process needed to get answers for […]

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Municipal staff recommended minor changes to last year's failed attempt to ban non-bus traffic from the street.

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Mass Casualty Commission recommends veteran officers receive blazer distinguishable from uniforms.

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The RCMP failed survivors and surviving family members of the April 2020 mass murders, according to the Mass Casualty Commission. The report found that RCMP H Division and the Nova Scotia Victim Services were unprepared for the “immense need” in the mass casualty’s aftermath. Some individual officers and service providers did their best to adapt […]

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Despite the fact that the mass murders of April 18-19, 2020 started with an assault on Lisa Banfield, the RCMP never considered Banfield a victim — “that is, as an important witness who required careful debriefing and who would need support service,” according to the Mass Casualty Commission’s final report. The report is careful to […]

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If the RCMP had done their jobs correctly in the years leading up to the murders of April 2020, they might have found the illegal firearms in the future gunman’s possession, according to the final report released by the Mass Casualty Commission (MCC). And if they had done that, rather than failing to investigate the […]

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The Mass Casualty Commission is calling for a complete overhaul of policing in Canada, including potentially breaking up the RCMP. Even without going that far, the commission recommends sweeping changes within the RCMP, including: • The RCMP Training Depot in Regina be phased out by 2032 and replaced by a three-year university degree program to […]

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The play written and directed by Annie Valentina could have fallen into about a million traps, but somehow manages to avoid them all.

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HRM's portion of the average residential property tax bill will rise about $125 this year.

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To some degree, facts are fungible, and truth depends on the context we bring to it. But we can't let ourselves fall into some postmodernist nothing-has-ultimate-meaning hole; we should at least strive for a shared understanding of events. The Mass Casualty Commission was and remains a good approach.

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Conference set for all day Saturday in Halifax, Sydney, and online.

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“It’s a beautiful location. Who wouldn’t want to live in that building?”

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Nova Scotia has reached a contribution agreement with Parks Canada.

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“I know that even though a family doctor may have received training in surgery 20 years ago, I don’t want that doctor doing a hip replacement on me,” Raylene Langor told the legislature’s Law Amendments Committee yesterday. Langor is a practicing lawyer with expertise in regulation and describes herself as a concerned citizen. She is one […]

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Applications now open for the Black Youth Development Mentorship Program.

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Someone is out there either re-purposing actual RCMP gear or manufacturing look-alike RCMP gear for civilian use with the endorsement and encouragement of the RCMP.

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Education minister Becky Druhan had an opportunity to address larger issues of violence in our schools and lack of mental health supports. Instead, she retreated into bland obfuscation and deflection I have no doubt Becky Druhan is a smart person, more than capable of standing her ground, holding her own in the cut and thrust […]

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For me, going to Province House can sometimes feel like going to a church I wasn't raised in: the prayers and the rituals and the songs are all entirely consistent and have deep meaning for the faithful, but it's all very foreign and doesn't make much sense to the outsider. Why are we kneeling now? What's that smokey thing all about?

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Premier Tim Houston defended his government's decision to freeze income assistance rates.

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Robin Lauzon will present her honours thesis, Understanding Nova Scotia's New Virtual Care Policies: Mental Health Policy and Rural Nova Scotians, next month.

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