http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2020/07/rallies-continue-push-for-public.html
http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2020/07/rallies-continue-push-for-public.html
Wednesday, 29 July 2020
Federal and provincial governments to hold public inquiry into Nova Scotia mass shootings
https://twitter.com/DavidRayAmos/with_replies
David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
Replying to @DavidRayAmos
Methinks lots
of folks may enjoy what Peter Mac Issac and his cohorts said while the
RCMP and a lot of LIEbranos were stuttering and doubletalking bigtime
N'esy Pas?
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2020/07/rallies-continue-push-for-public.html
#nbpoli #cdnpoli
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioT6vj0zA_Q&t=3045s
Citizens Rise Against Corruption in Trudeau Government
From: Peter Mac Isaac <prmibullrun@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 21:42:20 -0300
Subject: Re: RE The "Strike back: Demand an inquiry Event." Methinks
it interesting that Martha Paynter is supported by the Pierre Elliott
Trudeau Foundation N'esy Pas?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
A lot of info to chew on - every now and then we win one - Today we
won a partial victory when the provincial liberals threw the federal
liberals under the bus forcing their hand . Now the spin will be to
get a judge they can control.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjxatZIus_o
Police Corruption? Nova Scotia Shooter - Behind The Scenes
---------- Original message ----------
From: Timothy Bousquet <tim@halifaxexaminer.ca>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 05:41:36 -0300
Subject: Re: fea3
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Hello, I’m taking a much-needed vacation and will not be responding to
email until August 4. If this is urgent Halifax Examiner business,
please email zane@halifaxexaminer.ca.
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From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 00:47:00 -0400
Subject: Re: 13 deadly hours Methinks somebody in CBC should say hey
to your old buddies Landslide Annie and Big Bad Billy Blair for me
N'esy Pas Mr Prime Minister Trudeau The Younger???
To: prmibullrun <prmibullrun@gmail.com>, Norman Traversy
< traversy.n@gmail.com>, CabalCookies <cabalcookies@protonmail.com>,
El.Jones@msvu.ca, tim@halifaxexaminer.ca, "steve.murphy"
< steve.murphy@ctv.ca>, kevin.leahy@pps-spp.gc.ca,
Charles.Murray@gnb.ca, JUSTWEB <JUSTWEB@novascotia.ca>,
AgentMargaritaville@
< Bill.Blair@parl.gc.ca>, "kevin.leahy"
< kevin.leahy@pps-spp.parl.gc.
mlaritcey@bellaliant.com, mla@esmithmccrossinmla.com,
toryrushtonmla@bellaliant.com, kelly@kellyregan.ca,
mla_assistant@alanapaon.com, stephenmcneil@ns.aliantzinc.ca, PREMIER
< PREMIER@gov.ns.ca>, info@hughmackay.ca, pictoueastamanda@gmail.com,
markfurey.mla@eastlink.ca, claudiachendermla@gmail.com,
FinanceMinister@novascotia.ca, kevin.leahy@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, pm
< pm@pm.gc.ca>, istayhealthy8@gmail.com, prmi@eastlink.ca,
"Katie.Telford" <Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca>
Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>,
elizabeth.mcmillan@cbc.ca, lisa.mayor@cbc.ca, RPineo@pattersonlaw.ca,
smcculloch@pattersonlaw.ca
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Pineo, Robert" <RPineo@pattersonlaw.ca>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 04:40:12 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: 13 deadly hours Perhaps Elizabeth McMillan
and Lisa Mayor should have another talk with the lawyers Sean.Fraser
and Robert Pineo EH?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Thank you for your email. I will be attending outside meetings during
the week of November 16, 2020 and will not have access to my telephone
or email. I will return your messages during the evenings. Thank you
and have a nice day.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Bill.Blair@parl.gc.ca
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 04:40:10 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: 13 deadly hours Perhaps Elizabeth McMillan
and Lisa Mayor should have another talk with the lawyers Sean.Fraser
and Robert Pineo EH?
To: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Thank you very much for reaching out to the Office of the Hon. Bill
Blair, Member of Parliament for Scarborough Southwest.
Please be advised that as a health and safety precaution, our
constituency office will not be holding in-person meetings until
further notice. We will continue to provide service during our regular
office hours, both over the phone and via email.
Due to the high volume of emails and calls we are receiving, our
office prioritizes requests on the basis of urgency and in relation to
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your local of Member of Parliament for assistance. To find your local
MP, visit: https://www.ourcommons.ca/
Moreover, at this time, we ask that you please only call our office if
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Should you have any questions related to COVID-19, please see:
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**
Merci beaucoup d'avoir pris contact avec le bureau de l'Honorable Bill
Blair, D?put? de Scarborough-Sud-Ouest.
Veuillez noter que par mesure de pr?caution en mati?re de sant? et de
s?curit?, notre bureau de circonscription ne tiendra pas de r?unions
en personne jusqu'? nouvel ordre. Nous continuerons ? fournir des
services pendant nos heures de bureau habituelles, tant par t?l?phone
que par courrier ?lectronique.
En raison du volume ?lev? de courriels que nous recevons, notre bureau
classe les demandes par ordre de priorit? en fonction de leur urgence
et de notre r?le dans le service aux ?lecteurs de Scarborough
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veuillez contacter votre d?put? local pour obtenir de l'aide. Pour
trouver votre d?put? local, visitez le
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Cordialement,
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bill.blair@parl.gc.ca<mailto:b
< mailto:bill.blair@parl.gc.ca>
On 11/23/20, David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
> https://newsinteractives.cbc.
>
>
> 13 deadly hours
>
> November 22, 2020
>
> Over 13 hours, a man disguised as a Mountie travelled nearly 200
> kilometres through Nova Scotia, killing 22 people. The Fifth Estate
> explores what the RCMP knew about the gunman that night, how they
> remained one step behind and why the public was left in the dark.
>
> Text by Elizabeth McMillan and Lisa Mayor
>
> Editing by Janet Davison
>
> "It seems to me that the RCMP are not wanting the entire story to come
> out about how the response to this tragedy took place," Rob Pineo, a
> lawyer representing the families of the victims in a lawsuit against
> the shooter's estate, told The Fifth Estate. "To be frank, [their
> response] seems to be quite embarrassing [for the RCMP]."
>
>
> http://davidraymondamos3.
>
>
> Wednesday, 29 July 2020
>
> Federal and provincial governments to hold public inquiry into Nova
> Scotia mass shootings
>
>
> https://twitter.com/
>
> David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
> Replying to @DavidRayAmos
> Methinks lots of folks may enjoy what Peter Mac Issac and his cohorts
> said while the RCMP and a lot of LIEbranos were stuttering and
> doubletalking bigtime N'esy Pas?
>
>
> https://davidraymondamos3.
>
>
> #nbpoli #cdnpoli
>
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?
>
>
> Citizens Rise Against Corruption in Trudeau Government
> 18,724 views
> •Streamed live on Jul 27, 2020
>
>
> Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson
> 38K subscribers
> Citizens Rise Against Corruption in Trudeau Government - Peter Mac Issac
>
>
> ----------Origiinal message ----------
> From: Sean.Fraser@parl.gc.ca
> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 10:33:11 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: YO Melanie Joly and Pablo Rodriguez Methinks
> Steven Guilbeault, his buddy Catherine Tait and all your former nasty
> minions in CBC must take courses on playing dumb N'esy Pas?
> To: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>
> Thank you for your message. Please note that due to the volume of
> inquiries our offices are receiving, I have written an automated
> message below, and I have attached frequently asked questions to try
> and address some of the common things we are hearing about. If you
> still have questions about the Government’s response to COVID-19 after
> reading the below, please reply to this e-mail and we will be pleased
> to assist you.
>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: "Pineo, Robert" <RPineo@pattersonlaw.ca>
> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 15:25:26 +0000
> Subject: Re: RE Families of Shooting Victims Disappointed by
> “Independent Review” I just called Correct?
> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
> < smcculloch@pattersonlaw.ca>
> Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> Why are you quoting my statement back to me?
>
> Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef>
>
> ________________________________
> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
> Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2020 9:53 AM
> To: smcculloch@pattersonlaw.ca; rpineo@pattersonlaw.ca
> Cc: motomaniac333
> Subject: RE Families of Shooting Victims Disappointed by “Independent
> Review” I just called Correct?
>
> http://www.pattersonlaw.ca/
>
>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: "McCulloch, Sandra" <smcculloch@pattersonlaw.ca>
> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 12:53:30 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: RE Families of Shooting Victims Disappointed
> by “Independent Review” I just called Correct?
> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>
>
> Thank you for your email. I will be away from my office conducting
> discovery examinations on July 27th through 29th. I will respond to
> your e-mail as soon as possible. Please contact 902.897.2000 if your
> matter requires more urgent
> attention.https://
>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 09:53:20 -0300
> Subject: RE Families of Shooting Victims Disappointed by “Independent
> Review” I just called Correct?
> To: smcculloch@pattersonlaw.ca, rpineo@pattersonlaw.ca
> Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> http://www.pattersonlaw.ca/
>
>
> Families of Shooting Victims Disappointed by “Independent Review”
>
> The “Independent Review” announced by Ministers Furey and Blair is
> wholly insufficient to meet the objectives of providing full and
> transparent answers to the families and the public, identifying
> deficiencies in responses, and providing meaningful lessons to be
> learned to avoid similar future tragedies.
>
> The choices of commissioners, and in particular Former Chief Justice
> Michael MacDonald, were thoughtful and appropriate for an inquiry.
> Former Chief Justice MacDonald is of the highest rank in judicial
> capabilities and is of unassailable integrity. That said, any
> decision- maker can only render decisions based on the information and
> evidence presented to them.
>
> The announced “independent review” model, to be conducted in a
> so-called “non- traumatic” and “restorative” way, will prejudice the
> panel by restricting the evidence and information being presented.
>
> In a public inquiry setting, such as was employed in the Marshall and
> Westray public inquiries, interested parties had the opportunity to
> question the witnesses. It is a very well- held maxim in our common
> law legal tradition, that cross-examination is the most effective
> truth-finding mechanism available. Without proper and thorough
> questioning, the panel will be left with incomplete and untested
> evidence upon which to base its decision. This is completely contrary
> to our Canadian notions of fair and transparent justice.
>
> Most disappointingly, Ministers Furey and Blair have hidden behind
> their contrived notion of a “trauma-free” process to exclude the full
> participation of the families under the guise of protecting them from
> further trauma. This is not how the families wish to be treated.
> Minister Furey has spoken with the families, so he must know that they
> want to participate, not to be “protected” by an incomplete process.
>
> The families want a full and transparent public inquiry. Why will
> Minister Furey not give them this? Why will he not give the citizens
> of Nova Scotia this? “We are all in this together” has been the slogan
> throughout 2020 - the families simply want us all, the public, to be
> in this together now to figure out a better tomorrow for families and
> the Province.
>
> For further inquiries, please contact:
>
> Robert H. Pineo
> 902-405-8177
> rpineo@pattersonlaw.ca
>
>
> Sandra L. McCulloch
> 902-896-6114
> smcculloch@pattersonlaw.ca
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 09:04:13 -0300
> Subject: YO Bill.Blair Now that a full Public Inquiry is in order
> Methinks people such as Anne McLellan, Ralph Goodale Leanne Fitch,
> Allan Carroll, Mark Furey and YOU should testify under oath N'esy Pas?
> To: Norman Traversy <traversy.n@gmail.com>, CabalCookies
> < cabalcookies@protonmail.com>, El.Jones@msvu.ca,
> tim@halifaxexaminer.ca, "steve.murphy" <steve.murphy@ctv.ca>,
> kevin.leahy@pps-spp.gc.ca, Charles.Murray@gnb.ca, JUSTWEB
> < JUSTWEB@novascotia.ca>, AgentMargaritaville@
> "Bill.Blair" <Bill.Blair@parl.gc.ca>, "kevin.leahy"
> < kevin.leahy@pps-spp.parl.gc.
> mlaritcey@bellaliant.com, mla@esmithmccrossinmla.com,
> toryrushtonmla@bellaliant.com, kelly@kellyregan.ca,
> mla_assistant@alanapaon.com, stephenmcneil@ns.aliantzinc.ca, PREMIER
> < PREMIER@gov.ns.ca>, info@hughmackay.ca, pictoueastamanda@gmail.com,
> markfurey.mla@eastlink.ca, claudiachendermla@gmail.com,
> FinanceMinister@novascotia.ca, "Bill.Morneau" <Bill.Morneau@canada.ca>
> Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>,
> kevin.leahy@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>, istayhealthy8@gmail.com,
> prmi@eastlink.ca, "PETER.MACKAY" <PETER.MACKAY@bakermckenzie.
> "Katie.Telford" <Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: Bill.Blair@parl.gc.ca
> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 21:48:08 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: RE The "Strike back: Demand an inquiry
> Event." Methinks it interesting that Martha Paynter is supported by
> the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation N'esy Pas?
> To: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>
> Thank you very much for reaching out to the Office of the Hon. Bill
> Blair, Member of Parliament for Scarborough Southwest.
>
> Please be advised that as a health and safety precaution, our
> constituency office will not be holding in-person meetings until
> further notice. We will continue to provide service during our regular
> office hours, both over the phone and via email.
>
> Due to the high volume of emails and calls we are receiving, our
> office prioritizes requests on the basis of urgency and in relation to
> our role in serving the constituents of Scarborough Southwest. If you
> are not a constituent of Scarborough Southwest, please reach out to
> your local of Member of Parliament for assistance. To find your local
> MP, visit: https://www.ourcommons.ca/
>
> Moreover, at this time, we ask that you please only call our office if
> your case is extremely urgent. We are experiencing an extremely high
> volume of calls, and will better be able to serve you through email.
>
> Should you have any questions related to COVID-19, please see:
> www.canada.ca/coronavirus<http
>
> Thank you again for your message, and we will get back to you as soon
> as possible.
>
> Best,
>
>
> MP Staff to the Hon. Bill Blair
> Parliament Hill: 613-995-0284
> Constituency Office: 416-261-8613
> bill.blair@parl.gc.cabill.blair@parl.gc.ca
>
>>
>
> **
> Merci beaucoup d'avoir pris contact avec le bureau de l'Honorable Bill
> Blair, D?put? de Scarborough-Sud-Ouest.
>
> Veuillez noter que par mesure de pr?caution en mati?re de sant? et de
> s?curit?, notre bureau de circonscription ne tiendra pas de r?unions
> en personne jusqu'? nouvel ordre. Nous continuerons ? fournir des
> services pendant nos heures de bureau habituelles, tant par t?l?phone
> que par courrier ?lectronique.
>
> En raison du volume ?lev? de courriels que nous recevons, notre bureau
> classe les demandes par ordre de priorit? en fonction de leur urgence
> et de notre r?le dans le service aux ?lecteurs de Scarborough
> Sud-Ouest. Si vous n'?tes pas un ?lecteur de Scarborough Sud-Ouest,
> veuillez contacter votre d?put? local pour obtenir de l'aide. Pour
> trouver votre d?put? local, visitez le
> site:https://www.noscommunes.
>
> En outre, nous vous demandons de ne t?l?phoner ? notre bureau que si
> votre cas est extr?mement urgent. Nous recevons un volume d'appels
> extr?mement ?lev? et nous serons mieux ? m?me de vous servir par
> courrier ?lectronique.
>
> Si vous avez des questions concernant COVID-19, veuillez consulter le
> site : http://www.canada.ca/le-
>
> Merci encore pour votre message, et nous vous r?pondrons d?s que possible.
>
> Cordialement,
>
> Personnel du D?put? de l'Honorable Bill Blair
> Colline du Parlement : 613-995-0284
> Bureau de Circonscription : 416-261-8613
> bill.blair@parl.gc.cabill.blair@parl.gc.ca>
> < mailto:bill.blair@parl.gc.ca>
>
>
> After backlash, governments agree to hold public inquiry into Nova
> Scotia shooting
> By Alexander Quon & Elizabeth McSheffrey Global News
> Posted July 28, 2020 10:42 am
>
> WATCH: The federal government is now proceeding with a public inquiry
> into the Nova Scotia massacre that left 22 innocent people dead in
> April. Elizabeth McSheffrey looks at why Ottawa is changing paths now,
> and what the inquiry has the power to do.
>
> The decision to hold a review into the mass killing in April that
> resulted in the deaths of 22 people in Nova Scotia took three months
> to arrange. In less than a week the decision has been undone after a
> massive wave of public backlash.
>
> Federal Public Safety Minister Bill Blair announced on Tuesday a
> public inquiry will be held into the mass shooting that began in
> Portapique, N.S. on April 18 and came to an end nearly 100 km away, 13
> hours later.
>
> “The Government of Canada is now proceeding with a full Public
> Inquiry, under the authority of the Inquiries Act,” said Blair in a
> statement.
>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: Allan Carroll <allan.carroll@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 18:14:09 -0400
> Subject: Re: Trust that Murray Segal's appointment to whitewash the
> Rehteah Parsons matter did not surprise me after the meail I sent this
> weekend (AOL)
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> I will be AOL commencing July 27, 2013 and returning on August 13,
> 2013. Cpl David Baldwin of Amherst Det will be assuming my duties
> during my absence. Should you require immediate assistance, please
> contact the main Amherst office number at 902-667-3859.
>
> For inquiries about the Crisis Negotiation Team, please contact
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>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: "Fitch, Leanne" <leanne.fitch@fredericton.ca>
> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 14:05:24 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: Re Federal Court file no T-1557-15 Now this
> is interesting As soon as Brad Wall got reelected as Premier he began
> blocking my email Go Figure EH David Drummond???
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
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> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: "Hon.Ralph.Goodale (PS/SP)" <Hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca>
> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 16:39:00 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks this afternoon Harjit Sajjan and
> his minions should go to Federal Court pull my file (T-1557-15) from
> the docket then read statement 83 real slow N'esy Pas?
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> Merci d'avoir ?crit ? l'honorable Ralph Goodale, ministre de la
> S?curit? publique et de la Protection civile.
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>
>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: "Fitch, Leanne" <leanne.fitch@fredericton.ca>
> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 16:38:59 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks this afternoon Harjit Sajjan and
> his minions should go to Federal Court pull my file (T-1557-15) from
> the docket then read statement 83 real slow N'esy Pas?
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
>
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https://www.frankmagazine.ca/portapique911calls
The sneaky Frank dudes whimped out so I stepped up to the plate as usual
EXCLUSIVE: Portapique 911 calls reveal what RCMP knew from the start
Jamie Blair (family handout)
http://colchesterfuneral.frontrunnerpro.com/book-of-memories/4195389/blair-greg--jamie/obituary.php
by Paul Palango
In a 25-minute span on April 18, 2020, near the beginning of Gabriel Wortman’s murderous rampage in which he killed 22 people, three people called 911 for help. One was a desperate Jamie Blair, who had less than two minutes left in her life. Another was her 12-year-old son, who calmly and heroically, tried to tell the operator what was happening. The third was from Andrew MacDonald who, along with his wife, Katie, was ambushed by Wortman.
All three said the shooter lived in the neighbourhood. One called the shooter “Gabe”. Another said he was a denturist.
All three told the 911 operators that the shooter was driving a police car.
The RCMP has said from the outset that it didn’t know that Wortman was driving a marked cruiser until told so by his common-law wife Lisa Banfield, who purportedly had emerged from a night of hiding in the nearby woods.
The information is contained in 911 audio tapes provided to Frank Magazine and the Nighttime Podcast with Jordan Bonaparte by a confidential informant we are calling Deep Blue.
The time-stamped tapes are heart-wrenching and disturbing to hear but each one contains valuable information about what the RCMP knew at the time and strongly suggests that the force has been attempting to cover up that fact for reasons that are currently unknown.
Frank has decided to both report on the tapes and publish them online because it deems that the content contained in them to be in the public interest.
We acknowledge that the recordings are graphic. We encourage anyone who is squeamish not to listen to the tape.
Of the three 911 calls we obtained, two of them were provided to us in pieces. Digital audio software allowed us to put the pieces together.
The first call to 911 appears to have been placed at 10:01 p.m., as the RCMP admitted, but it wasn’t from the children. It was from 40-year-old Jamie Blair (JB) just before Wortman came upon her and murdered her. The call was time-stamped at 22:01:13.
JAMIE BLAIR’S CALL TO 911
911: 911. What is your emergency?
Jamie Blair: (inaudible) my neighbour (inaudible) been shot.
911: I'm sorry I can't make out what you are saying.
JB: my neighbour is (inaudible) fucked up, I think he just shot my husband.
911: You think your husband’s been shot?
JB: Yes.
911: Okay. Do you have a home phone or land line to that location, where are you?
JB: I don’t.
911: What is your civic address?
JB: 123 Orchard Beach Drive in Portapique.
911: 123 Orchard Beach, is your husband injured?
JB: I don't know, he is laying on the deck, I don't know what the fuck is going on, there is a police car in the fucking driveway.
911: There’s police cars in the driveway?
JB: There (inaudible) police car, but he drives...he a denturist and he drives..those police cars….
911: I'm sorry, did you say there were police car in your driveway?
JB: There is an RCM (inaudible) labeled RCMP (inaudible) if it’s a police car or if it’s not a police car.
911: Listen, you’re at 123 Orchard Beach Drive in Portapique, Colchester County?
JB: Yes.
911: You called from 902 (phone number)?
JB: Yes.
911: Is your husband injured?
JB: I don’t know.
911: Can you see him?
JB: He is lying face down on the deck.
911: Okay. Has he moved?
JB: I went back out to check on him and the man was coming back up on the deck with a big gun.
911: Okay, stay on the line and we’re going to the police don't hang up.
JB: (inaudible) anywhere?
RCMP: RCMP, Bonjour. Hello, can you see your husband from where you are?
The tape cuts off at this point. We do not know what is on the RCMP part of the tape.
It was around this point that Wortman returned to the house, found Blair and shot her numerous times in the face.
After he killed her, Wortman fired a number of shots at Blair’s children who were hiding behind a locked bedroom door. One of those bullets narrowly missed one of the boys. According to a source close to the family, Wortman yelled at the boys, words to this effect: “She should have died the first time.”
In the aftermath, bullet holes could be found around the house, through various windows and walls, in the soffit outside and in a garage door. Wortman pulled some burning logs out of the fireplace and placed them on the floor in a feeble attempt to burn down the house and possibly incinerate Jamie Blair. According to another source, in a bizarre move, Wortman placed hot dog or hamburger buns on a stove and tried to ignite them, before he left the scene. The Blair children came out of hiding to find their mother killed -- horribly mutilated and unrecognizable.
They put the logs back into the fireplace and then went outside where their father was lying dead face down on the porch. Their family dog, Zoey, a nine-year-old miniature pinscher, had also been shot, but would survive after being rushed to a veterinarian in Truro hours later.
One of the boys dug into their dead-father’s pants pocket and pulled out his cell phone, before they both gingerly made their way over to the McCully property, through a path in a patch of woods to the south. During this period, it has been previously reported, it appears that Wortman circled by the house twice, but didn’t see the boys.
McCully ushered the children into the basement with her daughter and son and then went to check what was happening. It was then that she likely came across Wortman, who shot her in the head on her front lawn.
The next call to 911 was logged in at 10:16:30. It was from Jamie Blair's 12-year-old son. He and Lisa McCully’s 12-year-old daughter were in the basement. Their younger brothers had left the house and gone outside.
The boy took charge of the situation. In a clear and composed tone of voice, he heroically attempted to explain the gravity of the situation to a male 911 operator who couldn’t seem to focus on the situation or the possible perils facing the four children.
JAMIE BLAIR’S ELDEST SON CALLS 911
911: Hello?
JAMIE BLAIR'S SON: Um, there is a crazy man, and he is burning down his own garage, he came over to our house, killed both our parents, and is burning down our house!
911: Ma'am where are you at right now do you know the address?
JBS: Yes, we are at our neighbour’s house in, in between... we are at … what's your address?
LISA MCCULLY'S DAUGHTER: (inaudible) 1-2…
911: Are you in Portapique?
JBS: Yes, Portapique! (inaudible)
911: K, Miss, miss, miss, I understand we’ve already got calls in for this area, you say there is a fire there now?
JBS: Yes, there is a huge fire.
911: Do you know which house you are at there in Portapique?
JBS: Um, 135 Orchard Beach Road…
911: 135 Orchard Beach Road?
JBS: Orchard Beach Drive. Do you know where Portapique Beach Drive is?
911: Yep.
JBS: I mean Portapique Beach Drive is?
911: Yes.
JBS: (inaudible) And then you take a left on the first one.
911: Okay. Is that where the fire is?
JBS: Yes.
911: Yes? Okay, just stay on the phone for me okay?
JBS: Yes, that's where we are and ….
911: Miss
JBS: The fire is right across
911: The fire is across the street?
JBS: Yes
911: So at 136?
JBS: Yes, wait, 135 Orchard Beach Drive.
911: That's where you are at, right now?
JBS: Yes
911: OK where is the fire at? Is it across the street?
LMD: Yes, it’s right across the street from us.
JBS: Yes, our house, my and my little brother’s house is 123 Orchard Beach Drive, right beside it.
911: 123, OK. And the fire is at 123?
JBS: He came in, he shot my father ten times. My mom was calling (911) and he came in and he killed her.
911: Okay. And where is she at? Is she still in the house?
JBS: She's dead. In her room.
911: In her room. Okay.
JBS: And she is burning. (inaudible) is on fire.
911: Okay, where is the guy who did this?
JBS: We don't know. He pulled out of the driveway and left.
911: Did you see what kind of vehicle?
JBS: It was a police car, I couldn't find, uh, I couldn’t find the license.
911: Okay. Did you see anything else about the vehicle. You said it was a police car?
JBS: Yes, it was.
911: It was?
JBS: Like a police car.
911: Ok, alright, so we’ve got police are on the way for the other part of this I'm going to put you in contact with fire. Okay we have 135 Orchard Beach Drive in Portapique.
JBS: Oh, and they shot our dog, and half of our dog is missing
911: Ok, 135 Orchard Beach Drive in Portapique, Colchester County. Right?
JBS: Yes.
911: Okay. Do you have a cellphone number or a number we can get you?
JBS: No. Alex, what’s your phone number?
LMD: We don’t have one.
JBS: We don't have one. Her mom went over there, and she hasn't came back.
911: Okay
JBS: We don't know where our little brothers are they went outside, I guess.
911: Okay, alright, you don't have a phone number or anything?
JBS: No, we don't.
911: Okay, alright, just stay on the phone for me okay, I'm going to put you through to fire for a second. Okay?
JBS: Okay.
FIRE DISPATCHER: Operator.
911: It's 911 Truro for Bass River fire. Alright, so we got a fire across the street from 135 Orchard Beach Drive in Portapique.
JBS: Yes! and it is huge!
911: Miss, Miss, just let me talk to her for a second, okay?
JBS: It’s a sir.
BASS RIVER FIRE: 135 Orchard Beach Drive and where?
911: In Portapique, in Colchester County. She doesn't have a callback number, uhhh there was an incident there with a shooting and everything involved so there are police and ambulance going there as well but the house was also lit on fire.
JBS: And there are more bullets (inaudible, crosstalk)
911: Miss, Miss, just one moment please!
BASS RIVER FIRE: Is it secure there for fire to go ahead?
911: Not at this point, we are still getting all the other resources together.
BASS RIVER FIRE: Once it's secure, we can send fire over.
KIDS: Hello?
911: Okay. Perfect. Will do. Bye. Hi ma'am, Miss, you still there?
JBS: Sir, it's a sir.
911: Okay. Just one second. Okay? I'm going to put you through to fire..er to police. One second. Okay?
JBS: Yes.
(Telephone rings)
RCMP: Hello, RCMP.
JBS: Hello?
RCMP: Hi.
Once again, the tape cuts off here. We do not know what is on the RCMP part of the tape.
Afterward the RCMP said it rushed to the scene, scoured the area for Wortman and went door to door evacuating people. That didn’t happen on Orchard Beach Drive and vicinity, where 11 of the 13 people murdered at Portapique Beach that night were shot. Nobody was evacuated. The RCMP told McCully’s family that the children were on the phone for two hours with RCMP members and support staff before they were rescued. In fact, previous communications tapes obtained by Frank showed that the children were left in the house for three hours before being rescued.
The RCMP also told the McCully family that the children were safe because the RCMP had members hidden around the house protecting them at all times. It was the same line that the force used with Nathan Staples who was on Wortman’s purported hit list, as well as at least one other person, who asked not to be identified. There is no proof that the RCMP actually did such a protective maneuver, but the McCully family, for one, continues to believe that they did.
Back to that Saturday night in Portapique. About four and a half minutes after Jack Blair was transferred over to the RCMP, another 911 call came in.
Andrew and Katie MacDonald had a cottage at the intersection of Portapique Beach Road and Orchard Beach Drive. They had noticed the raging fire burning at Wortman’s warehouse/man den at 136 Orchard Beach Drive and decided to check it out. As they drove toward the blaze, they were on the phone with 911. They then noticed that there was also a fire burning in the kitchen of Frank and Dawn Gulenchyn’s house. They saw a police car parked in the driveway of the Gulenchyn’s. They passed the Gulenchyn house, turned around and were heading back to it, still talking on 911. As they approached the house, the RCMP cruiser approached them door-to-door. Here is the transcript, some of which is barely decipherable. AM is Andrew and KM is Katie MacDonald. The call was logged at 10:25:31 p.m.
ANDREW MACDONALD’S CALL TO 911
911: 911, what is your emergency?
AM: Hi, I am calling from Portapique, there’s a house on fire down the road from our house. I just didn’t know if someone called already?
911: Yup, so you can see the house on fire?
AM: Yeah.
911: What's the address?
AM: It’s...I don't know the exact address but it's on Orchard Beach Road.
911: Okay, yeah we’ve got a few calls there, so Orchard Beach Road in Portapique, Colchester County?
AM: Yup.
911: (operator repeats the caller’s phone number and he replies with an affirmative) … and you see the house on fire?
AM: Yeah, we just drove down the road to check it out. But yeah, it’s like a big garage. it's one of our neighbours, so, he is probably not there.
911: Okay, just one moment I'm just gonna connect you to fire to make sure, okay, just one moment.
AM: Yeah
911: (calls fire department) 911 Truro calling for a fire call for Bass River Fire, you got the call there. We believe it's 123 Orchard Beach Road?
KM: Oh my God…
(crosstalk)
911: …yeah, it should be close to that area, Orchard Beach Drive in Colchester County?
(crosstalk)
AM: There's another house on fire here.
911: (to fire department) He’s on the road there and he can see. You see two houses on fire?
AM: Yeah, we just drove by another house, and their whole kitchen is on fire…
KM: What the fuck?
AM: …there is a police officer in the driveway.
FIRE DISPATCH: RCMP are you aware of the situation that is going on -- on that road?
911: Yeah, he's saying there are two houses now on fire so...just thought we would update you there.
FIRE DISPATCH: Ok.
911: And he’s at (phone number). Are the two houses beside each other sir?
AM: No, they are down the road…
911: Down the road from each other?
(inaudible)
AM: Yeah. And there’s a police officer parked at this driveway, so I don't know what... like he is coming around I don't know if he is going to talk to me or what?
911: Is it safe for him to be on that road right now?
AM: Hi … Hi.
(loud gunshot)
911: Sir?
KM: Oh God (screaming) oh God!
911: Sir?
(Sound of vehicle accelerating)
AM: I’ve been shot. I’ve been shot.
911: Fire, are you aware there are possibly a second fire?
KM: What the fuck is happening?
AM: It’s my neighbor Gabe, he just shot me in the arm.
KM: Please help us …. 911!!!
The tape we were provided ends here.
The MacDonalds raced up Orchard Beach Drive and then came into contact with the first RCMP officer on the scene, Constable Stuart Beselt. They relayed to him what had happened and, as previously reported, Beselt apparently radioed his dispatcher the information about Wortman being dressed as a police officer and driving an RCMP car.
The 911 tapes do not tell the whole story, obviously, because we haven’t yet seen the RCMP side of the story. That being said, one senior police officer who heard the tapes says the conduct of the 911 operators was, at best, questionable.
“They are staying calm and controlled, so calm and controlled that they aren’t listening to the situation,” said the veteran cop.
“You can see them checking off a list entirely unaware that some children are trapped in a basement and that a demonic killer is not that far away from them. He could come back at any time. By the time the kids called, they already knew that people had been murdered next door. There’s no sense of urgency.”
The tapes strongly suggest that the RCMP has, from the outset, been playing games with the families, the public and, likely, the courts and governments. From Jamie Blair’s call at 10:01, the RCMP appeared to do everything it could to downplay any information about Wortman, his police uniform and his RCMP lookalike cruiser.
For example, it didn’t issue its first Tweet about the incident until a full one hour and 31 minutes after Jamie Blair’s call – at 11:32 p.m:
#RCMPNS is responding to a firearms complaint in the #Portapique area. (Portapique Beach Rd, Bay Shore Rd and Five Houses Rd.) The public is asked to avoid the area and stay in their homes with doors locked at this time.
The next morning the RCMP stated that it first learned that Wortman had a replica police car after his underdressed common-law wife, Lisa Banfield, emerged after 8 ½ hours or so in the woods told them so.
At 8:54 a.m. – almost 11 hours after Jamie Blair’s description was given to them, supported by the other two 911 calls – the RCMP issued this Tweet:
51-year-old Gabriel Wortman is the suspect in our active shooter investigation in #Portapique. There are several victims. He is considered armed & dangerous. If you see him, call 911. DO NOT approach. He’s described as a white man, bald, 6”2-6’3 with green eyes.
The RCMP, once again, forgot to mention that Wortman was dressed as a Mountie and driving a vehicle that looked exactly like a RCMP cruiser.
It wasn’t until 10:17 a.m. – a full 12 hours after Blair’s first call – that the RCMP admitted how Wortman was dressed and what vehicle he was driving:
#Colchester: Gabriel Wortman may be driving what appears to be an RCMP vehicle & may be wearing an RCMP uniform. There’s 1 difference btwn (sic) his car and our RCMP vehicles: the car #. The suspect’s car is 28B11, behind rear passenger window. If you see 28B11 call 911 immediately.
Still there was no public alert, no roadblocks and three more people would end up dying – RCMP Constable Heidi Stevenson, Good Samaritan Joey Webber and Wortman’s fellow denturist Gina Goulet, with whom he had had an affair.
One would think that all this would be the subject of the upcoming Mass Casualty Commission’s work, but the insider who supplied us with these tapes is skeptical about what the Commission will accomplish.
True Blue said that part of their motivation for coming forward is their personal frustration with the stonewalling by the RCMP, not only in this matter, but also in other cases in Nova Scotia in the past.
Finally, the 911 calls strike at the heart of the RCMP’s contention that it only knew about Wortman and the police car from Lisa Banfield.
That’s patently false, and raises serious questions about the nature of the force’s relationship with Banfield, whom the force has called a “victim” from the first week.
Now that we know a little bit about what really happened that night without the interference, deflection and deceptions of the RCMP clouding the issue, one can only wonder what more there is to know.
Finally, there is this. Over the past 14 months the RCMP have played games with the timeline, comically so in the first few days. It had problems nailing down when the first call had come in. At one point it was 10:15. At another it was 10:01. They even said, in so many words, that the children in the basement had made the first call at 10:01. They allowed the timing of Jack Blair’s call to be conflated with Jamie Blair’s first call – effectively making her and her tragic story disappear.
The use of conflation is an old RCMP trick to hide evidence. It’s something that we will see again in our next story.
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N.S. Mass Casualty Commission to announce participants in Portapique probe
Chris Lambie · Posted: April 30, 2021, 4:43 p.m.
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'I have no idea who to trust anymore': card raises independence
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'We have got to have someplace to put our trust': High expectations
for the Mass Casualty Commission
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Published Friday, June 4, 2021 7:28PM ADT
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#372 The RCMP’s Portapique Narrative Is Falling Apart
Frank Magazine publisher Andrew Douglas and reporter Paul Palango
discuss their bombshell story, and what the RCMP may still be hiding
about Gabriel Wortman.
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Wednesday, 29 July 2020
Federal and provincial governments to hold public inquiry into Nova
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Methinks lots of folks may enjoy what Peter Mac Issac and his cohorts
said while the RCMP and a lot of LIEbranos were stuttering and
doubletalking bigtime N'esy Pas?
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Citizens Rise Against Corruption in Trudeau Government
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Subject: Re: RE The "Strike back: Demand an inquiry Event." Methinks
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Trudeau Foundation N'esy Pas?
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A lot of info to chew on - every now and then we win one - Today we
won a partial victory when the provincial liberals threw the federal
liberals under the bus forcing their hand . Now the spin will be to
get a judge they can control.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Police Corruption? Nova Scotia Shooter - Behind The Scenes
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Nova Scotia Shooter Behind The Scenes with Paul Palango a former
senior editor at The Globe and Mail and author of three books on the
RCMP, the most recent being Dispersing the Fog, Inside the Secret
World of Ottawa and the RCMP. His work on the Nova Scotia massacre has
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Public inquiry calls for removal of 'highly sensitive' 911 calls from N.S. mass shooting
Recordings of 911 calls from the night of the Portapique massacre have been leaked to the press, and they prove that the RCMP have been lying from the start about a crucial piece of information. But somehow it’s the journalists that published the calls who are facing an angry public backlash.
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'We have got to have someplace to put our trust': High expectations for the Mass Casualty Commission
Published Friday, June 4, 2021 7:28PM ADT
PORTAPIQUE, N.S. -- Members of the Mass Casualty Commission visited the small Nova Scotia community where last year's April tragedy began as part of its fact-finding work.
The Commission had issued a community notice on its website regarding its visit to Portapique at the end of May.
The site visit began at 9 a.m. Friday.
"Today, the focus is on the work that Nova Scotians expect us to be doing," said Barbara McLean, investigations director with the commission.
"It's important for those most impacted, it's important to Nova Scotians to see we're in the community, advancing the work of the Commission," said McLean.
A native of Antigonish, N.S., McLean is deputy police chief of the Toronto Police Service with 31 years of policing experience.
She and several other members of the investigation, legal, research, and communities outreach teams spent time walking the dirt roads in and around the area where the 2020 April massacre began on the night of April 18.
Twenty-two people were killed during the shooter's 13-hour rampage, including a pregnant mother.
McLean said it is important to the commission to visit all communities in Colchester County affected by the events of the tragedy.
"To have an understanding of the physical layout, the geography," said McLean, "that will help us understand the context and circumstances of what happened here."
Tom Taggart, the municipal councillor for District 10 in Colchester County, which includes Portapique, says he has been helping the commission liaise with members of the community.
"I think that they understand the trauma that's sometimes created when strangers arrive in their community," said Taggart.
Taggart said he's glad to see the team of experts on the ground doing their work.
He has high expectations for the commission when it comes to finding answers for Nova Scotians.
"I want to hold their feet to the fire," he said. "I have questions I want them to answer."
Taggart said the commission has its work cut out for it, as many have been left grappling with a mistrust of the authorities involved in investigating what happened.
"They've got a huge challenge before them," he said, "to regain the trust of those residents and the community."
Taggart is among three Colchester County councillors who issued a statement Thursday, condemning the recent publication of audio from three 911 calls made from Portapique that fatal night.
Councillors Lisa Patton and Marie Benoit were also part of the statement, which read in part.
"…we are extremely concerned for the harm caused to families who were re-traumatized by the content of (the) 911 recordings released…we believe this to be absolutely deplorable."
AUDIO OF CALLS SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED
While the councillors acknowledge the content of the calls is important, they say the audio should never have been published by a Halifax-based magazine.
The calls have not been independently verified by CTV, but the audio
indicates at least three callers to 911 that night shared details of the
killer's replica police car early on.
That information was not shared with the public until a tweet from the Nova Scotia RCMP 12 hours later.
Both Patton and Benoit say that's cause to question the RCMP's actions.
"The higher-ups (at the RCMP) need to say what happened, if mistakes
were made," says Benoit. "That's the only way I think they might get
some trust back within the communities and the families."
"There were a lot of mistakes made," said Patton, "Just own them, that's all we ask."
Dalhousie University professor emeritus of law Wayne MacKay agrees.
"It now appears that contrary to what police had said at the time, and even more recently," MacKay said, "they did know about the police car fairly early on."
MacKay says the Mass Casualty Commission would have access to 911 calls as part of the evidence gathered for its examination.
He says the latest details raise questions around why an emergency alert was not issued during the tragedy.
"How many lives might have been saved here," MacKay says, "I think that is now accentuated yet again."
As recently as Thursday, the Nova Scotia RCMP have maintained investigators only confirmed details of the shooter's vehicle on the morning of April 19th.
Finding answers to these questions, and more, now part of the task facing the Mass Casualty Commission.
"We have got to have someplace to put our trust," says Taggart, "and I'm hoping it's them."
Members of the Mass Casualty Commission visited the small Nova Scotia community where last year's April tragedy began as part of its fact-finding work.
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| District | Councillor | Phone Number |
|---|---|---|
| Mayor | Christine Blair | 902-895-6537 |
| District 1 | Councillor Eric Boutilier | 902-890-5866 |
| District 2 | Councillor Laurie Sandeson | 902-957-2206 |
| District 3 | Councillor Geoff Stewart, Deputy Mayor | 902-673-3039 |
| District 4 | Councillor Mike Cooper | 902-671-2854 |
| District 5 | Councillor Tim Johnson | 902-899-0590 |
| District 6 | Councillor Karen MacKenzie | 902-324-8729 |
| District 7 | Councillor Michael Gregory | 902-305-4002 |
| District 8 | Councillor Lisa Patton | 902-890-8630 |
| District 9 | Councillor Marie Benoit | 902-956-1774 |
| District 10 | Councillor Tom Taggart | 902-647-2025 |
| District 11 | Councillor Wade Parker | 902-890-5840 |
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'I have no idea who to trust anymore': card raises independence questions about Nova Scotia's Mass Casualty Commission
An Onslow woman who witnessed two RCMP officers shoot up the fire hall near her home just over a year ago is questioning why a senior Mountie in plain clothes visited her last month, handing out an RCMP business card that says Nova Scotia Mass Casualty Commission.
RCMP Chief Superintendent John Robin and a woman who was also dressed in plain clothes visited Sharon McLellan and her husband Tim on April 12.
“I don’t even know who this man was, to be honest. I allowed him into my house. But apparently, he’s not who he was supposed to be,” McLellan said Wednesday.
“I have no idea who to trust anymore.”
She was left with the impression that Robin was with the Mass Casualty Commission. “That’s what his card said.”
'Very professional'
Robin was “very professional” when he showed up at her family’s industrial shop adjacent to her home.
“He just asked how we were doing. Never asked a thing about the fire hall,” McLellan said. “He was very pleasant; he was very easy to talk to.”
Robin noted that his wife, RCMP Chief Superintendent Janis Gray -- the officer in charge of the Mounties in the Halifax area -- works in policing in Halifax. Though McLellan said she was left with the impression Gray works for the Halifax Regional Police, not the Mounties.
'Extraordinary efforts' required
Robin’s visit – reported Wednesday in Frank Magazine – raises questions about the independence of the joint federal-provincial public inquiry meant to probe, among other things, how the RCMP handled the April 18-19, 2020, mass killings that left 22 Nova Scotians dead.
“When he spoke with her, why would he not have made it clear that his employment and his perspective on this was of the Mounties, not of the (Mass) Casualty Commission?” said Wayne MacKay, a Dalhousie University law professor.
“Given the importance of the Mass Casualty Commission being independent and everybody seen to be independent, I think the RCMP should go to extraordinary efforts to make sure that they’re not in any way confusing people who they employ as being in some way employed by or connected with the commission. So, I think it’s imperative that those lines be clearly drawn.”
If Robin’s civilian clothing and his business card “leave any doubt about that, that should be corrected,” MacKay said.
A Mountie spokesman said Wednesday that “Robin is the officer in charge of co-ordinating the RCMP’s responses to the Nova Scotia Mass Casualty Commission. He is responsible for ensuring that the Mass Casualty Commission is provided with information they require from the RCMP, in order to conduct their examination and provide answers to the victim’s families and the public.”
Both the RCMP and the commission confirmed Wednesday that Robin does not work for the Mass Casualty Commission.
'We want to provide clarity'
“The Mass Casualty Commission has been made aware that a business card is providing confusion,” Emily Hill, a lawyer for the commission, said in a written statement.
“We want to provide clarity. The Mass Casualty Commission is an independent inquiry. The Commission does not employ anyone from the RCMP. We are asking the RCMP to clarify the card to avoid further confusion.”
The RCMP did not make Robin available Wednesday to speak to the matter. RCMP spokesman Cpl. Chris Marshall confirmed that Robin’s business card does say Mass Casualty Commission.
The card was clear, in French
The French wording on Robin’s business card indicates he is working on the RCMP’s response to the commission, Marshall said.
“The word ‘Response’ is missing from the English portion. He is having the cards reprinted to correct this,” said the RCMP spokesman.
“I want to … emphasize that no RCMP employee, past or present, including C/Supt. Robin, has ever been employed by the Mass Casualty Commission and their work is completely independent of the RCMP. C/Supt. Robin is the officer in charge of co-ordinating the RCMP’s responses to the Nova Scotia Mass Casualty Commission and his business cards are being updated to reflect this and correct any confusion.”
The province's Serious Incident Response Team cleared the Mounties in March of wrongdoing in the fire hall shoot up. The SIRT investigation found that the officers reasonably believed the man at the fire hall might have been the mass killer.
'That's what I find odd'
“What I found really weird was when they shot up the fire hall and nobody even talked to us for a year,” McLellan said. “And then, all of a sudden, I get a phone call from B.C. wanting to set up a meeting with us and then, the next week, he shows up at our work. That’s what I find odd. And I told him that.”
The B.C. call came from the RCMP’s Hazardous Occurrence Investigation Team, she said, noting a Cpl. Kyla Lounsbury visited her two days before Robin showed up.
“I Googled her and she seems legit,” McLellan said.
McLellan is adamant the two RCMP officers who shot up the fire hall should be punished.
“I want to see those two fired because the SIRT report is full of crap,” she said.
Public inquiry calls for removal of 'highly sensitive' 911 calls from N.S. mass shooting
WARNING: This story contains details some readers may find distressing.
The public inquiry examining the circumstances of the Nova Scotia mass killing is calling for Frank Magazine to remove "highly sensitive" audio of 911 calls placed the night 13 residents were murdered in Portapique, N.S., including one by a child who witnessed his parents dying.
Several family members of people killed expressed outrage and anguish on social media after the tapes and transcripts of three calls made on April 18, 2020, were posted online Wednesday evening. The tapes were obtained by freelance journalist Paul Palango, who has been covering the mass shooting for Frank and Jordan Bonaparte's Nighttime podcast. CBC does not know who shared the calls with them.
The calls were made by Jamie Blair, her son who was 12 at the time and a man who lived nearby who was shot by the gunman while driving.
Jamie and Greg Blair were among 22 people killed on April 18 and 19, 2020, when a 51-year-old denturist masquerading as a Mountie shot neighbours, acquaintances and people he'd never met over the course of 13 hours in Portapique, Wentworth, Debert and Shubenacadie. He also burned three homes of people he killed.
The Mass Casualty Commission, the joint federal and provincial inquiry examining the circumstances of the tragedy, issued a statement Thursday saying it "condemns the access and posting of the highly sensitive audio recordings."
"We are extremely concerned for the privacy of those affected by the content, especially the child," the statement said.
Meanwhile, the RCMP says it is investigating whether the release of the recordings broke any laws.
RCMP condemns the release of recordings
Asst. Commissioner Lee Bergerman, commanding officer of the Nova Scotia RCMP, acknowledged that the Mounties have not been commenting on the mass shootings due to the public inquiry and lawsuits but said "given the heartbreaking effect on victims' families and on our employees, we are publicly condemning the publication of the audio recordings."
She said the force's family liaison officer has assured families they are looking into whether "the source of the recordings and any related offences that may have occurred with respect to unauthorized release, possession and subsequent publishing."
Police shot and killed Gabriel Wortman at a gas station in Enfield, N.S., on Sunday, April 19. By that point, he'd travelled nearly 200 kilometres and, during and much of that, he was driving a decommissioned police cruiser that he'd outfitted with decals, making it nearly identical to a real officer's vehicle.
The audio posted by Frank Magazine Wednesday night shows that the three callers told 911 dispatchers about a gunman and what appeared to be a police vehicle between 10 p.m. and 10:25 p.m., before RCMP officers arrived in the community. RCMP didn't share with the public that their suspect was disguised as a Mountie for another 12 hours, at which point the force tweeted a photo of the replica cruiser.
On the calls, Jamie Blair specifically said her neighbour, a denturist who drove police cars, shot her husband. Her son told the 911 operator the man who killed his parents pulled out of their driveway in a police car. The Portapique resident who was shot identified his neighbour by his first name.
Amid
their manhunt on April 19, 2020, Nova Scotia RCMP tweeted this picture
of the mock police vehicle used in the shootings. The tweet said
"There's one difference between (the suspect's) car and our RCMP
vehicles: the car number." (Nova Scotia RCMP)
Last fall, the CBC's The Fifth Estate reported that the man who lived in Portapique called 911 to report two fires on Orchard Beach Drive and relayed that there appeared to be an RCMP officer in a cruiser outside a home when it ignited.
In an audio statement the man gave to a private investigator working on behalf of victims' families, the man said he was on the phone with the dispatcher when the cruiser approached him and the person driving, who he recognized as his neighbour, shot him. His account is also included in search warrant documents unsealed by the courts.
CBC News also previously reported that Tyler Blair said investigators told him his stepmother was the first person to call for help at 10:01 p.m., reporting that her husband had been shot outside their home and that his younger brother subsequently called 911 for help from a neighbour's home.
911 system transfers calls
Nova Scotia's Emergency Management Office administers the 911 system and there are four call centres across the province. When people dial, they initially speak with a provincial 911 operator who then transfers them to police, poison control, fire or Emergency Health Services.
The audio excerpts published by Frank appear to be from when the callers first dialled 911, before the call taker determined they needed to speak with RCMP. In two of the calls, the 911 operators appeared to be communicating with a third person about the need for firefighters.
Brendan Maguire, the minister responsible for the Emergency Management Office, which oversees the 911 system, said this is the first time in 20 years that audio from a 911 call has been "leaked."
"It's very important that people understand the confidentiality around the 911 calls," he said.
"People are calling that have been assaulted, that are in some of the worst cases, worst states of their life, and the public needs to be assured that when they call that these phone calls are private and that they're being addressed."
Justice Minister Randy Delorey said his department was looking into whether to refer the release of the calls to the privacy commissioner to investigate.
Premier Iain Rankin said he did not listen to the calls and he would not comment on the information about the replica vehicle being shared early on April 18, 2020.
"It's important that we allow that independent arm's length process to unfold and they'll consider all of this," Rankin said. "We look forward to looking at the results and taking action wherever we need to."
The commission said people who are struggling as a result of the calls can contact a confidential provincial crisis line anytime of day or night at 1-888-429-8167.
"We understand that this is extremely difficult for many people and the content can be re-traumatizing," its statement said.
Last RCMP press conference 1 year ago
In the days following the tragedy, RCMP officials acknowledged they had received information about a police vehicle from the man who was injured in Portapique, but they stressed much of the information about their suspect came to them around dawn, when the gunman's spouse emerged from hiding.
"This included the fact that he was in possession of a fully marked and equipped replica RCMP vehicle and was wearing a police uniform," said Supt. Darren Campbell in an April 24, 2020, press conference.
When asked about when police determined the gunman was wearing a police uniform and driving a replica cruiser during an April 22 press conference, Chief Supt. Chris Leather said a "key witness," who was Wortman's spouse, provided information between 7 and 8 a.m. on April 19.
"Prior to that, we did not have all those details. The bulk of the details about our suspect came to us at that time," Leather said.
Police have also said that while they knew the gunman owned several decommissioned vehicles, they believed he had three and didn't learn of a fourth until they spoke with his spouse, Lisa Banfield.
Thursday afternoon, Cpl. Lisa Croteau reiterated these statements in response to questions from CBC.
"Fairly early into our involvement we learned of a possible suspect and that the individual lived in a home in the community of Portapique, " she said in an email.
Croteau said that Saturday night, the suspect's home and garage were burning as were two police vehicles located on his properties. But she said it wasn't until RCMP spoke to their "key witness" Sunday morning that they "confirmed the suspect was Gabriel Wortman and that he was in possession of a fully marked and equipped replica vehicle, was wearing a police uniform and was in possession of several firearms."
The RCMP has not held a press conference on their investigation into the mass shootings since June 4, 2020.
For anyone who needs mental health support connected to the release of the 911 calls, the commission has set up a confidential 24-hour crisis line 1-888-429-8167.
Nova Scotia is also offering 24/7 support through the Mental Health Provincial Crisis Line 24/7 at 1-888-429-8167.
With files from Kayla Hounsell, Michael Gorman and Jean Laroche
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Weapons charges against gunman's spouse, others withdrawn in case linked to N.S. mass shooting
Lisa Banfield, her brother and brother-in-law went through restorative justice
Three people who supplied ammunition to the gunman who killed 22 Nova Scotians two years ago have had their criminal charges dismissed.
Lawyers for all three — Lisa Banfield, James Banfield and Brian Brewster — appeared in Nova Scotia provincial courts Tuesday morning to complete the process.
All three had been charged with weapons offences, and all three opted to have their charges dealt with through restorative justice, meaning they didn't face a trial and have no criminal record.
Lisa Banfield was the long-time partner of the gunman. James Banfield is her brother. Brian Brewster is her brother-in-law.
Lisa Banfield asked the two men to use their firearms certificates to purchase bullets. The gunman was not legally allowed to possess weapons or bullets.
James
Lockyer is a lawyer for Lisa Banfield, the partner of the mass shooter
who killed 22 people in April 2020 across Nova Scotia. (CBC)
Police said when the trio was charged that none of them knew what the ammunition was to be used for.
"It's a big relief that they're over, for her," Lisa Banfield's lawyer, James Lockyer, said outside court Tuesday. "For me, too."
But Lockyer said he still has misgivings.
"I will go as far to say I was always disturbed by the fact the RCMP charged Lisa," Lockyer said.
Tom Singleton, who represented Brian Brewster, also has questions about the charges.
"I have serious misgivings about the fact the charges were laid in the first place and what type of investigation was carried on by the RCMP that actually justified laying the charge," Singleton said following court.
While Singleton said Brewster realizes that by going the restorative justice route he's unlikely to get the answers he wants, avoiding the stress of a trial was worth it to his client.
During the restorative justice process, Singleton said that Brewster and his wife had what he described as some rather informal meetings with counsellors from the restorative justice program.
James Banfield and his lawyer initially had misgivings about the process because they worried representatives of 21 of the families would get directly involved and it would become unwieldy. That didn't happen.
Neither Brewster nor James Banfield appeared in court in person Tuesday. Lisa Banfield was flanked by her two sisters, just as she was when she testified before the inquiry last week.
The inquiry has heard that the people in the United States who played a role in helping the gunman, Gabriel Wortman, obtain three guns from Maine have not been charged, and investigations into the firearm issue on that side of the border have closed.
Questions at commission about charges
Under cross-examination by Lockyer at the Mass Casualty Commission later Tuesday, RCMP Chief Supt. Darren Campbell testified that he supported the decision to charge Lisa Banfield, though he said he was not involved in the conversations with Crown prosecutors.
Campbell said there were two key issues he considered with other officers: the public interest in laying the charges and how the charges would be perceived.
He said the optics of charging Lisa Banfield were discussed at a meeting just before the charges were announced on Dec. 4, 2020.
"For example, in terms of domestic violence victims, victim-blaming, I thought that would be a significant issue that would need to be addressed," he said.
"In terms of the victim families and what their expectations were or weren't, how sympathetic they might be or non-sympathetic to Lisa Banfield, that was an area of concern for me."
RCMP Supt. Darren Campbell was the support services officer at the time of the shootings. (CBC)
Another factor Campbell considered, he said, was advancing the ongoing investigation into the provision of firearms used in the offences.
"Personally, I was weighing out optically how that would look. It's one thing to have a gun. It's one thing to have bullets. It's another thing to have guns and and bullets together, because then they can become lethal," he said.
Lockyer asked Campbell, "Did the optics include that it might be perceived as an attempt to divert attention from the responsibility of the RCMP for what had happened on the night of the murders?"
Campbell replied, "No. That actually never crossed my mind, personally."
Lockyer also questioned whether Campbell was privy to the RCMP's strategy of avoiding giving Lisa Banfield, James Banfield and Brian Brewster their "10B rights" before they were questioned about the transfer of ammunition. 10B rights are the right to retain counsel and prevent self-incrimination.
Campbell said he did not know what cautions or rights were provided to them.
Banfield re-enacted what she saw and experienced the night of the mass casualties for police investigators in October 2020, just weeks before she was charged.
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Judge in case of N.S. gunman's spouse denies defence's request for private meeting
Case involving Lisa Banfield is due back in court May 5
A case involving the common-law spouse of the man responsible for killing 22 people last April in Nova Scotia will return to court May 5 after it was determined the defence's request for a private meeting with the judge and Crown before a plea wasn't appropriate.
Lisa Banfield, 52, is facing two counts of unlawfully providing the shooter with ammunition in the month leading up to the mass killings.
She had been scheduled to enter a plea Tuesday, but her lawyer, James Lockyer, called into Dartmouth provincial court and requested an adjournment so there could be a judicial pre-trial conference — a meeting held in chambers, as opposed to open court.
"I think it would be a very helpful process," said Lockyer, who is based in Toronto. "If I were to tell you why, I think you'd very quickly agree with me … I'm not trying to be difficult, believe me."
Judge Theodore Tax initially agreed to the meeting. He noted it wasn't a typical request, but added that Lockyer wasn't required to explain.
"It sounds like there are some issues that need to be discussed in some detail with the Crown attorney maybe before a plea," said Tax during the brief court appearance.
However, in the hours that followed, Tax determined such a meeting should not go ahead as scheduled on April 14. He asked that the case return to court March 31.
"Upon further reflection, the court is of the view that such a request is not in conformance with the rules of the court or the open courts principle," Jennifer Stairs, director of communications for the Nova Scotia Judiciary, said in an email.
On Wednesday, Tax thanked the Crown and defence for returning to court on short notice. Crown prosecutor Mark Heerema and defence counsel Jessica Zita, who works with Lockyer, told the court they had plans to discuss issues related to the case in a teleconference next week.
Tax set May 5 as the next court date. He said he would hear a plea at that time or consider another adjournment if lawyers felt it was necessary.
The case is proceeding summarily, meaning a judge alone is presiding over the matter.
Summary offences are considered less serious than indictable offences. Fines are less than $5,000 and jail terms don't exceed two years less a day.
Twenty-two people were killed in the shooting on April 18 and 19, 2020. (CBC)
Banfield's brother James Blair Banfield, 54, of Beaver Bank, N.S., and her brother-in-law Brian Brewster, 61, of Lucasville, N.S., are also accused of unlawfully providing the shooter, Gabriel Wortman, with .223-calibre Remington cartridges and .40-calibre Smith & Wesson cartridges in the month leading up to the massacre that started in Portapique, N.S.
James Banfield is scheduled to enter a plea April 12. Brewster's case is due back in court April 19, the first anniversary of the mass shooting.
When RCMP announced the charges in December, the force said in a press release that the three had no prior knowledge of Wortman's actions on April 18 and 19.
That weekend, Gabriel Wortman killed 22 neighbours, acquaintances and strangers in several communities while masquerading as an RCMP officer.
The denturist torched his own cottage, garage and other homes over a 13-hour period before being shot dead by police at a gas station in Enfield, N.S.
The charges the trio face are the only ones laid in relation to investigation into what happened. Though the gunman could not be brought to trial, from the outset police said they were looking into how he obtained the weapons he used, the uniform he wore and whether he had assistance.
Multiple lawsuits
Meanwhile, Lisa Banfield is also suing Wortman's estate, which has been estimated to be worth $2.1 million. In her statement of claim, which was filed with the Nova Scotia Supreme Court last summer, she said she was the victim of an assault and battery, and she suffered physical, emotional and psychological injuries and trauma.
A separate proposed class-action lawsuit against the gunman's estate alleges it is liable to the families of the victims who lost their lives or those who were injured due to his actions. The statement of claims filed in the case says the gunman injured six people, killed five pets and burned or damaged four homes and three vehicles.
That suit added Banfield, her brother and brother-in-law as defendants on Feb. 5. The updated statement of claim alleges that Lisa Banfield "was aware of and facilitated Wortman's preparations, including but not limited to, his accumulation of firearms, ammunition, other weapons, gasoline, police paraphernalia, and the outfitting of a replica RCMP vehicle."
Banfield has not yet responded to that case and the allegations have not yet been tested in court.
The
burned remains of Gabriel Wortman’s cottage in Portapique, N.S. Wortman
disguised himself as a Mountie and over the course of 13 hours the
night of April 18, 2020, and the following morning travelled nearly 200
kilometres in and around Portapique, killing 22 people. (Steve Lawrence/CBC)
She has also never commented publicly, but court records shed some light on what Banfield told police last April. Summaries of two of the four interviews RCMP conducted with her were released in search warrant documents after CBC and other media organizations went to court to gain access.
The records show that numerous people, including Banfield, told investigators that Wortman was unfaithful and abusive to his partner of 19 years.
She told police that on April 18, when they were celebrating their anniversary, he became enraged and attacked her, firing shots in her direction and attempting to lock her in a decommissioned police cruiser after he set fire to their cottage.
Banfield told investigators she escaped and hid in a truck and then in the root system of a tree overnight.
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