Tag: Nova Scotia RCMP

Jeremy MacKenzie, Leader of Online Group ‘Diagolon,’ Arrested in Nova Scotia: RCMP

Jeremy MacKenzie, the founder of the online group “Diagolon,” was arrested in Nova Scotia on Wednesday on charges related to an allegation of assault in Saskatchewan from last year. The Nova Scotia RCMP say he was arrested in Cole Harbour, N.S., on a Canada-wide warrant related to charges laid by the Mounties in Saskatchewan in July….


Military to Be Deployed to Nova Scotia to Assist Recovery After Fiona Lashes Region

Post-tropical storm Fiona, one of the strongest storms to ever strike Eastern Canada, left a trail of destruction in its wake early Saturday before lingering over western Newfoundland, where a record-breaking storm surge destroyed several homes. The devastation sent local officials scrambling amid widespread power outages and washed out roads, while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau…


RCMP ‘Did Their Best’ in Response to NS Mass Shooting: Department of Justice Canada

The RCMP’s response to the 2020 shooting rampage that left 22 Nova Scotians dead was far from perfect, but police did their best, the federal Justice Department said Friday. During the final day of public proceedings at the federal-provincial inquiry into the mass shooting, Lori Ward, general counsel for Department of Justice Canada, said there’s…


Mass Shooting Inquiry: Former Mountie Says He Quit Over Quashed Alert System Proposal

The inquiry investigating the Nova Scotia mass shooting has heard from a former Mountie who says he became so frustrated trying to get the RCMP to adopt a new public alerting system that he quit the police force. Mark Furey, who later served as Nova Scotia’s justice minister, says that in 2012, he recommended the…


Mountie Who Got to Know Killer Before NS Mass Shooting Says They Weren’t Friends

A Mountie who got to know the man who later murdered 22 people in Nova Scotia told a public inquiry Tuesday he did not consider Gabriel Wortman a friend, even though he visited the killer’s rural home 15 or 16 times between 2007 and 2011. Testifying under oath via video link, Const. Greg Wiley told…