The Nova Scotia government has announced more mental health resources for people who live in the three counties most affected by the mass shooting in April 2020 that killed 22 people. Brian Comer, the minister responsible for the office of addictions and mental health, says residents of Colchester, Cumberland and Hants counties will benefit from…

Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston is asking people to pause for a moment of silence today at noon and again on Wednesday to remember the 22 people killed three years ago during the worst mass shooting in Canadian history. Houston issued a statement saying the impact of the tragedy in northern and central Nova Scotia…

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 McLeod told a news conference in Truro, N.S., a community about a 30-minute drive east…

The public inquiry into Nova Scotia’s mass shooting says its final report will be bound in seven volumes that total up to 3,000 pages. The report is to be released on March 30 at an event in Truro, N.S., that will be webcast on the commission’s website. In an email, the inquiry said that while…

The group that represents almost 20,000 regular members of the RCMP has submitted a list of 28 recommendations to the inquiry investigating the April 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia. The National Police Federation is calling on the province to overhaul the way it pays for policing services, to ensure the RCMP receives adequate, stable…

Former Public Safety Minister Bill Blair says he was unaware that his chief of staff asked RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki if details about the guns used in the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shootings would be made public. Blair, who is now the minister of emergency preparedness, appeared before the House of Commons public safety committee…

Federal cabinet minister Bill Blair says he is unaware if his chief of staff asked RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki whether details about the guns used in the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shootings would be made public. Blair, who is now the minister of emergency preparedness, appeared before the House of Commons public safety committee on…

Federal cabinet minister Bill Blair says he is unaware if his chief of staff asked RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki whether details about the guns used in the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shootings would be made public. Blair, who is now the minister of emergency preparedness, appeared before the House of Commons public safety committee on…

The inquiry investigating the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting has released emails detailing conflict of interest concerns raised about two members assigned last year to an RCMP team providing information to the inquiry. The emails focus on the husbands of Assistant Commissioner Lee Bergerman, the commanding officer in Nova Scotia at the time, and Halifax…

An affidavit by an RCMP security investigator details how the force obtained recordings of a tense meeting at the centre of allegations of political interference into the Mounties’ investigation into the Nova Scotia mass shooting. The affidavit sworn Friday by Supt. Jeffrey Beaulac, the RCMP’s deputy chief security officer at national headquarters in Ottawa, was released Tuesday by the public inquiry into the April 18-19, 2020,…