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NS Mass Casualty Commission: Early Lucki Emails Showed She Was Against Releasing Details On Weapons
It appears RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki was against releasing details on weapons just a few days after the Nova Scotia mass shooting.
In emails released yesterday at the public inquiry, Lucki told then-federal public safety minister Bill Blair’s office on April 23, 2020 that the information was ‘directly related to the active investigation’ and shouldn’t be made public.
Just days later, Superintendent Darren Campbell held a news conference and didn’t release the details, prompting an alleged angry response from Lucki in a meeting afterwards.
Lucki and the Prime Minister’s office have been accused by Campbell and another RCMP staffer of pressuring police to release the details to help advance gun legislation.
They have denied the allegations.
Nova Scotia shootings: The RCMP’s step-by-step account of what happened (full transcript)
Before the first 911 call came in, there was an assault between the gunman and a person known to him in Portapique, Nova Scotia RCMP Superintendent Darren Campbell said at a press conference Friday morning
On Friday, April 24, Superintendent Darren Campbell, Support Services Officer, Nova Scotia RCMP spoke to the media in Dartmouth, N.S., with an update on the investigation into the murders that took place over the previous weekend.
I am Superintendent Darren Campbell, Support Services Officer, Nova Scotia RCMP.
Before I begin and provide you with information related to the incidents as they unfolded, I want to first acknowledge those who lost their lives.
Twenty-two innocent people were killed at the hands of a gunman and three people were injured. To call this a tragedy is an understatement. Some of those who lost their lives did so while trying to save others. They are heroes.
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I want to express my sincere condolences to all the families.
There are two elements that I would like to address before going through the incidents as they unfolded.
The incidents happened in rural Nova Scotia. Portapique is a community in Colchester County in the central part of the province. This is a small community; about 100 people live there year-round. The homes are set back from the road, some are old, others new, and some are summer residences along the Bay of Fundy. This is a quiet community, there are no sidewalks or streetlights.
Map of Nova Scotia highlighting the location of Wentworth, Portapique, Debert, Shubenacadie, Milford and Enfield and their proximity to Halifax. (RCMP)
The RCMP implements a Critical Incident Command structure when responding to complaints that may impact public safety. Highly skilled and trained officers come together as a team in order to direct emergency personnel and the multiple specialized policing units deployed when responding to a complaint.
These two elements are important to be aware of as I go through the timeline of the incidents.
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The following details I will be sharing with you have been put together because of the benefit of hindsight, of knowing what happened. The police officers responding to the initial 911 call and the subsequent calls did not have the benefit of the knowledge I am about to share with you. The initial complaint was of a shooting.
To help explain the timeline I will be talking about three clusters of incidents. The first cluster was in Portapique on Saturday night. On Sunday, there was a second cluster of incidents in Wentworth, Glenholme, and Debert. And then, a third and final cluster in Shubenacadie, Milford and Enfield.
Cluster one
A closer view of the locations in Portapique, Nova Scotia where shooting incidents first occurred. Markers depict where victims were found. (RCMP)
What we learned as part of the investigation is that on April 18 before the first call came in there was an assault between the gunman and a person known to him in Portapique.
The victim managed to escape from the gunman and hid overnight in the woods.
Following this, police received the first call to 911 with a report of a shooting at a home in Portapique.
Officers arrived at 10:26 p.m. where they located a male leaving the area with an apparent gunshot wound.
They learned that this man was shot while driving his vehicle.
The victim indicated a vehicle drove by him while he was driving and the shot came from the passing vehicle.
Officer arranged for EHS to attend to the victim and he was taken to hospital by EHS.
Several of their units responded to the area and upon arriving, located several people who were deceased lying in the roadway. There were also several structures already on fire.
In total there were over seven locations where people were found deceased. Many of the deceased were discovered while responding members were checking homes for victims and/or suspects. At this time, police began looking at a number of possible suspects as a result of the information they were receiving.
While the situation was unfolding, the Critical Incident Program was engaged and staging to take control of the critical incident.
At this point perimeters were established. Specialized Units responded including Police Dog Services, Emergency Response Teams and a DNR helicopter. We also had the Explosives Disposal Unit, crisis negotiators and the Emergency Medical Response Team on stand by. Within a very short time, we also engaged specialized units and resources from J Division in New Brunswick.
Over a lengthy period of time, first responders engaged in clearing residences, searching for suspects, providing life-saving measures. Telecommunicators remained on the line with witnesses in the immediate area.
Fairly early into our involvement, we learned of a possible suspect and learned the individual lived in a home in the community of Portapique.
The possible suspect’s home and garages were fully engulfed in flames. Two police vehicles as well as a third vehicle were also burning on the property.
We also learned that the gunman was in possession of a pistol and long-barrelled weapons. He was also known to own several vehicles that looked like police vehicles.
Our efforts to locate the suspect continued throughout the night.
After 0630, at daybreak, a victim emerged from hiding after she called 911.
Our officers responded and it was at that time that, through a significant key witness, we confirmed more details about Gabriel Wortman. This included the fact that he was in possession of a fully marked and equipped replica vehicle and was wearing a police uniform. He was in possession of several firearms that included pistols and long guns.
At that time, we issued a BOLO (Be on the Look Out), a bulletin that included a description of the suspect and vehicle, to all police officers in Nova Scotia.
We maintained containment of the scene and continued to search for the suspect.
Cluster 2
Markers depict locations where victims were found as well as the start time of each incident: Portapique (11:26 pm, April 18);
Wentworth (9:35 am, April 19); Debert (10:06 am, April 19) (RCMP)
More than 12 hours after our initial arrival in Portapique, we began receiving a second series of 911 calls in an area more than 60 km away.
Our investigation has revealed that the gunman attended a residence on Hunter Road in the Glenholme area.
At that location, the gunman killed two men and a woman and set residence on fire.
At least two of the victims here were known to the gunman.
Our investigation uncovered that the gunman then travelled to a residence on Hwy 4 in Glenholme.
He knocked on the door and awoke the residents. He was known to the occupants. They identified him to 911 call takers and said he was driving a police vehicle and carrying a long gun.
They didn’t answer the door and he left.
The gunman continued southbound on Hwy 4 from Glenholme to the Wentworth area.
He encountered a woman out walking and shot the woman at roadside. He continued south towards Debert.
At that point he encountered two people driving their vehicles. A witness described that he pulled over one of the vehicles and shot one of the occupants. He continued driving down the same road, encountered a second vehicle and shot and killed that female victim.
During this second series of events, from the timing of the first call on Hunter Road to the last incident, it was about a distance of 44 kilometres.
Cluster 3
Markers depict locations where victims were found as well as the start time of the incident: Milford (10:49 am, April 19);
Enfield (approximately 11:26 am, April 19) (RCMP)
Constable Morrison and Constable Stevenson were communicating and arranged to meet. Constable Morrison was waiting for Constable Stevenson at Hwy 2 & Hwy 224. What appeared to be a marked RCMP vehicle approached Constable Morrison. As they had prearranged to meet at that location, Constable Morrison thought the vehicle was Constable Stevenson.
The approaching police vehicle was actually driven by the gunman. The gunman pulled up beside Constable Morrison and immediately opened fire. Constable Morrison received several gunshot wounds and began to retreat from the area, driving his vehicle away from the scene. He notified other officers and dispatch that he was shot and that he was en route to EHS station for emergency medical attention.
During that time, Constable Heidi Stevenson was nearby in that area, believed to be driving northbound on Hwy 2 while the gunman was travelling southbound on Hwy 2. At that point, both vehicles collided head on. Constable Heidi Stevenson engaged the gunman. The gunman took Constable Stevenson’s life. He also took Constable Stevenson’s gun and mags.
A passerby stopped and was fatally shot by the gunman. The gunman set both Constable Stevenson’s vehicle and the replica police vehicle on fire. He left the scene, driving south on Hwy 224 in the passerby’s vehicle, which was described as a silver SUV.
The gunman travelled south on Hwy 224 for a short distance where he entered a home on the East Side of Hwy 224. That home happened to be the home of a woman known to the gunman. The gunman shot and killed the female resident.
The gunman then removed the police clothing he was wearing and transferred his weapons to the female victim’s vehicle which was a red Mazda 3.
The gunman travelled south on HWY 224, coming to the Big Stop Irving in Enfield. While he was at the gas pumps, one of our tactical resources came into the gas station to refuel their vehicle. When the officer exited the vehicle, there was an encounter and the gunman was shot and killed by police at 11:26 a.m.
The distance the gunman travelled from the first shooting of Constable Morrison to the encounter with police at the Big Stop is approximately 23 km.
The situations within the clusters of critical incidents were rapidly evolving, which has increased the complexity of investigating the horrific incidents.
Nova Scotia RCMP continue to ask for anyone who has information about any of these incidents to contact us. We are looking for photos, videos, and any other material that may help. No piece of information is too small, and if you have information we would like to hear from you.
We ask those with information to call the RCMP tip line at 1-902-720-5959. We’ve already gotten many tips and we thank the public for taking the time to reach out.
A topographical map of the region of Nova Scotia where shooting incidents occurred. Markers depict the locations and start times of incidents. (RCMP)
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The RCMP is broken
The iconic force is fraying under the strain of its rural policing model, tragic mistakes, an ugly past and a controversial present
An RCMP police car in front of Parliament in Ottawa (Marc Bruxelle/Alamy)
Leon Joudrey shuts his phone off before he goes to bed, so when he awoke in his Portapique, N.S., home early on the morning of April 19, he had no idea that 13 of his neighbours, including some of his closest friends, had been murdered while he slept.
When he awoke at around 3 a.m., Joudrey had texts from friends asking if he was okay. He didn’t understand what had happened, so he decided to jump in his truck and drive around the community for a look. In the darkness, he didn’t realize that some of the houses he drove past were no longer standing, that they had been burned to the ground.
He came across an RCMP vehicle on the road. Through a loudspeaker, the officers directed him to go to the end of the road but did not roll down their windows to talk to him about what was going on. Joudrey instead went home to check on his dogs. The killer was by this time kilometres away in the community of Debert, but the RCMP didn’t know that.
August 2020 cover of Maclean’s
Joudrey would like to know why the officers didn’t talk to him. “They could have saved a lot of troubles in my life if they would have put down their window. Didn’t they wonder who I was and where I came from?”
Joudrey went home, took out his shotgun and sat in his bedroom with his two dogs. At about 6 a.m., the common-law wife of the killer knocked on his door. She was barefoot and distraught. The night before she had been assaulted by the killer and escaped. Joudrey gave her a pair of running shoes and called 911. The RCMP showed up soon after. “They roll in three vehicles, jump out, they come toward my house. They didn’t call me out of the house. I could have shot all of them.”
Joudrey’s dogs, Basil and Yzerman, ran up to the police.
“The guy had his gun right against the back of my dog’s neck, just standing there. He wasn’t paying attention. And these are the Ninja Turtles, the SWAT guys. I said, ‘Get your gun away from my f–king dogs.’ He said, ‘We’re not here for dogs.’ ”
They took the killer’s common-law wife away, but still he says nobody told him what had happened. Only when a friend called did Joudrey learn that his closest friends had been murdered. He is haunted by that, and has had to abandon his home and move away to cope with the stress. “I drove around for two or three hours, the most confusing two or three hours of my life, with all my friends dead and I didn’t know it. Now that I know what happened, it was like driving through a graveyard.”
Joudrey, a forest technician, can’t understand why the RCMP didn’t evacuate the tiny community while the killer was at large. “I fight forest fires. The first thing you do is get people out of their houses. You don’t leave them, see if the fire gets them.” He is unhappy with how the RCMP handled him that night, and upset that no one has followed up with him. “They didn’t do anything right.”
Joudrey, with dogs Yzerman (left) and Basil, wonders why the RCMP didn’t evacuate Portapique (Photograph by Darren Calabrese)
Relatives of the victims have similar feelings about the RCMP. After the killer left Portapique a smoking ruin, he gave the Mounties the slip and drove on back roads in his replica RCMP cruiser to a welding shop, where he parked for the night. In the morning, dressed in a Mountie uniform, he killed a couple he knew, then four random strangers, including two nurses, Heather O’Brien and Kristen Beaton, who was pregnant.
Her widower, Nick Beaton, like many Nova Scotians, thinks the RCMP should have used the provincial emergency alert system to warn the public. “The RCMP are as responsible for my wife and unborn baby’s death as much as that low-life,” says Beaton. “I can 100 per cent guarantee that with a warning my wife would be alive today. I can promise you that with every existence of my soul. She would not have went out the door.”
O’Brien’s daughter, Darcy Dobson, is furious that it took the Mounties seven hours to notify her family that her mother had passed away. “I pray that they f–king learn something,” she says. “If nothing else, they learn something because they made some horrible, horrible mistakes. I’m trying to tread lightly . . . but they dropped the ball in Nova Scotia.”
Dobson’s father is one of the people who has proposed a class action lawsuit against the RCMP and the province, saying the authorities failed to “protect the safety and security of the public.” The lawsuit alleges that the RCMP returned a vehicle to one family with gun casings and human remains inside, and that the initial RCMP response was hampered by understaffing.
The Nova Scotia shooting looks like a disaster for the Mounties—a slow-motion wreck that will grind on for a decade as inquiries, investigations and lawsuits move through the courts. It was the beginning of a miserable spring for the force and its new commissioner, Brenda Lucki, the first woman to ever hold the job. Lucki will likely face difficult questions about how the force responded in Nova Scotia for as long as she is in her job. Twenty-two people were killed—including beloved officer Heidi Stevenson—one officer was injured and an unknown number are off with PTSD after sorting through the smoking ruins left by the killer.
While that disaster was still fresh, Lucki had to face a long-overdue racial reckoning, as Black Lives Matter protests in the United States put the focus on police methods on both sides of the border. In the midst of that once-in-a-generation social revolution, Lucki struggled to respond to complaints about systemic racism in the RCMP. Some First Nations leaders called for her resignation, while others called for the abolition of the RCMP. It is a political moment that creates a generational opportunity for politicians who have for decades let the RCMP manage itself rather than insisting on fundamental change.
Throughout, 20,000 officers across the country continued their work, most of them patrolling the back roads, their morale hurting. And while activists in cities called for the defunding of police, in rural areas, where crime rates are higher and response times longer, many worry that there aren’t enough police to keep them safe.
This is the structural problem at the heart of the RCMP, an instantly recognizable symbol of Canada around the world. Its essential work as a federal force is undermined by its obligations as an underfunded rural police force working on contract for provincial and municipal governments. Increasingly, it looks like the Mounties are struggling at both of these competing missions, and are too often a danger to both themselves and the people they are sworn to protect.
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Since 1885, there has been one place where Mounties are made—a sprawling facility on the outskirts of Regina, the RCMP Academy, which is known within the force as Depot. It was here, in 1885, where the Mounties hanged Métis leader Louis Riel in front of the mess hall, which was later converted to a chapel.
The RCMP’s critics say the intensely hierarchical and change-resistant culture of the force comes from the paramilitary structure, which is drilled into the heads of “cadets” when they spend six months at Depot, where they are formed into “troops,” taught how to march, shoot, and arrest suspects, and learn the traditions of the RCMP.
“The task of the Regina Depot is, without a shadow of a doubt, the inculcation of RCMP values,” says Robert Gordon, a criminologist at Simon Fraser University (SFU). “It’s a standard military practice of taking a group of people and . . . you strip them of all their previous humanity and rebuild them so . . . when the officer blows the whistle, they will go over the lip of the trench. It worked 100 years ago. But policing is far more complicated now and I don’t think the military model is viable anymore.”
A recruit is subdued during training at the RCMP Academy in 1957 (Metro/BIPs/Getty Images)
The roots of the system are in the force’s history—the North West Mounted Police—a paramilitary force created to extend eastern power into the plains. Sir John A. Macdonald ordered the force created in 1873, modelled on the Royal Irish Constabulary, after American wolf hunters massacred more than 20 Assiniboine people in the Cypress Hills in Saskatchewan. And in 1877, the force gave sanctuary to Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, who was fleeing the genocidal U.S. Army.
But the North West Mounted Police was soon involved in military campaigns to repress Indigenous uprisings, both Métis and Cree, helping colonial authorities to force Indigenous people onto reserves, where many starved. It enforced apartheid-style pass laws and helped force Indigenous children into residential schools, where many were abused and an untold number died of preventable diseases exacerbated by malnutrition.
Indigenous leaders say this bitter legacy of genocidal colonialism continues now. Since the RCMP polices much of rural Canada, and also is responsible for national security, Mounties are typically called on to clear blockades and to gather intelligence on Indigenous activists that resource companies consider a threat. They have brought snipers to blockades in British Columbia and New Brunswick, military-style shows of force—“lethal overwatch” in the words of the RCMP—that Indigenous people consider a calculated attempt at intimidation.
This painful history means that community policing carried out by the RCMP in Indigenous communities is hampered by mutual suspicion. Consider the case of Chief Allan Adam, who was knocked to the ground and repeatedly punched by an RCMP officer as he and his wife were trying to drive away from Boomtown Casino in Fort McMurray, Alta., on March 10.
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Adam, the chief of nearby Fort Chipewyan, was stopped because of an expired licence plate on his truck, which he had picked up earlier that day from the RCMP, who had impounded it. Adam was upset that the RCMP, which earlier called him to pick up the vehicle, was now stopping him and his wife. He took a confrontational tone, swore at the officer and removed his jacket. Tempers got higher when the officer, for unknown reasons, put his hands on Adam’s wife, who suffers from rheumatoid arthritis. Another officer, Constable Simon Seguin, tackled Adam, knocking him to the ground, and repeatedly punched him, putting him in a chokehold, while Adam complained of police brutality. The Mounties charged him with resisting arrest and assaulting an officer and locked him up overnight.
Senior RCMP officers, after reviewing dash-cam video of the incident, say the officers handled it properly. “It was determined that the members’ actions were reasonable and did not meet the threshold for an external investigation.” When the video became public a month later, most people who saw it did not think the members’ actions were reasonable. It went viral, shaming Canada around the world. Climate activist Greta Thunberg, who had met with Adam, denounced the attack: “I’m shocked by this shameful abuse by the RCMP.”
Chief Adam in his doctor’s office after his March 10 arrest (Courtesy of Ben Parson)
When the RCMP dropped charges against Adam in June, it was revealed that while Seguin was working, he was himself awaiting trial on assault charges. His bosses, the same hierarchy that decided there was no problem with the way he handled the arrest of Chief Adam, had approved him to keep working while he faced charges. The RCMP says it is “reviewing” the question of why Seguin’s charges were not publicly disclosed.
In an interview with Maclean’s, Adam says for him the brutality of the arrest was not unusual. “I guess in the ordinary world of First Nations people, this is just a day-to-day arrest by the RCMP.”
Adam is not universally popular in Fort Mac, because he has spoken out about the environmental damage caused by the oil industry and met with activists and celebrities who oppose the oil sands. He is suspicious that the Mounties want to get him for political reasons. “History shows that John A. Macdonald put up the RCMP to go and make way for the settlers and the extraction of the resources,” he says. “Coming from the 1800s, they did that to the Scottish and Irish peoples, and what they did is brought that same tactic to Canada. They used the same tactics to get us away from the land and the RCMP has been imposing systemic racism right from the day they were founded here in Canada. They took action against Louis Riel and it continues to grow. When does Canada say, maybe it’s time to look at the police?”
The RCMP says the incident started as a routine traffic stop and has referred it to the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team for an independent investigation. “The employees of the Alberta RCMP have built positive relationships with Indigenous and visible minority communities across the province and we continue working to make those relationships better,” says Fraser Logan, Alberta RCMP media relations manager. “While we understand that at the moment this relationship is strained, earning the trust and confidence of Indigenous communities in Alberta remains a top priority for us.”
Alvin Fiddler, grand chief of the vast Nishnawbe Aski Nation in northern Ontario, called Chief Adam after the incident to check in on him. Fiddler, who helped build an Indigenous police force that polices 35 communities with 160 officers, went across the country listening to witnesses of abuse at residential schools with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He says a common theme was bad feelings about the RCMP. “And it goes way back, you know, to the Indian residential school system. They were the ones that came and snatched the children away from their parents’ arms, from their communities. Many of them are now in their 60s, 70s, 80s, and even now they’re still pretty traumatized, whenever they see an RCMP officer, because they remember they were the ones that came to get them away from their families.”
READ: The RCMP’s step-by-step account of what happened in Nova Scotia (full transcript)
After the video of the Adam beating came to light, the Alberta deputy commissioner denied systemic racism within the RCMP, and then Commissioner Lucki said she was “struggling” with the question. Under political pressure, she later acknowledged that it exists. Within hours after she reversed herself on the question, Rodney Levi, a New Brunswick Mi’kmaq, was shot to death by RCMP officers.
Lucki appears to still be struggling with the concept. At a meeting of the Commons public safety committee on June 23, Gatineau MP Greg Fergus, a Liberal, asked her for an example of systemic racism in the RCMP. She discussed a fitness test that is difficult for people under six feet. “That would be systemic discrimination, but I’m trying to think of systemic racism,” said Fergus.
She could have mentioned that, according to an analysis of crime statistics by CTV, Indigenous people are 10 times more likely to be shot by RCMP.
Fiddler was disappointed with Lucki’s response. “Her first instinct was deny, deny, deny, then wobbling for a couple of days, ‘Maybe there is systemic racism.’ You know what? As a leader, you know, whenever you’re asked a tough question, your first response, that’s your response.”
Lucki declined an interview request for this story.
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It has been a tough spring for the RCMP, which followed a tough winter, a tough year, a tough decade. The force seems to reel from crisis to crisis, repeatedly studied, analyzed, audited, sued, charged, convicted, found wanting by anyone asked to sit in judgment of its sprawling community policing empire.
And everyone—even the most faithful retired staff sergeants, whose identities are so closely tied to the red serge and the stetson that they bridle at any criticism—thinks the force has allowed community policing, the relentless demand for bodies in detachments, to drain the organization of the resources it needs to address its core function: federal policing.
The RCMP is responsible for human trafficking, drugs, national security, organized crime and money laundering. Enforcing those laws is demanding, technical work and not a good fit for the many officers who are promoted after spending a few years in the sticks.
One former Mountie who worked on specialized money-laundering and national security investigations, who could not use his name because of concern for his current employment, says he often worked with officers who were not equipped to handle the demands of the job. “We’d get guys . . . who came out of the north, who just spent two years in one of the communities, and they were suddenly in the drug section or the market enforcement team or something, but [with] no particular skills to work in those settings.”
Officers without the background for the work would try to avoid it, he says. “If you’re writing a wiretap warrant, you get a [person] with a Grade 12 education, they’re probably not equipped to do that level of writing. And so they’re going to try not to do it. They’re just going to do whatever they can to get out of doing it.”
Canada is widely seen as a safe haven for money launderers, both because of legal loopholes and because the RCMP is not willing or able to put the resources into the demanding and technical investigations necessary to track and seize dirty money. In testimony at the Cullen Commission into money laundering in British Columbia this spring, police witnesses testified that they don’t have trained people doing the necessary work to stop criminals from washing their money in that province, where it is estimated to be a multi-billion-dollar industry.
In committee on June 23, Liberal Brampton MP Kamal Khera asked Lucki about calls to remove contract policing from the RCMP’s mandate and to rename the force. “Under our modernization efforts, like I said, no stone will be left unturned,” said Lucki. “And one of them is a review of contract policing, but I have to say, having now been in this position, and being exposed to police agencies from around the world, our model, as much as it’s sometimes criticized, is the envy of most police agencies because of its flexibility and nimbleness in times of crisis.”
Experts do not agree.
“The people who get shortchanged on this is actually the federal government, because its federal police force spends most of its time, effort, energy and resources on contract policing, and what I might call distractions from federal priorities,” says Christian Leuprecht, a professor at the Royal Military College (RMC) of Canada, who wrote an in-depth report on the Mounties for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
The model—with the federal government subsidizing the force in rural areas while municipal forces police the cities—means that the RCMP is stuck doing the policing nobody else wants, driving officers into the ground.
In Ontario and Quebec, where provincial forces are under the same regulatory umbrella as municipal forces, they train and work together more easily than the RCMP works with municipal forces.
While the Portapique shooting was under way, for example, the RCMP called in officers from Moncton, two hours away, rather than asking for help from the police in Truro, 30 minutes away. The officers did not know the area. Call logs released under access-to-information law by the Truro Police Department show that one RCMP officer had to ask if there was a hospital in Truro. A Truro officer had to give directions to an out-of-town Mountie who was having a hard time finding the local RCMP building.
A review of the Robert Pickton murders blamed, among other things, the division between the RCMP and the Vancouver police, which meant Pickton was picking up his victims in one jurisdiction and killing them in another.
In Surrey, B.C., the mayor has a mandate to get rid of the RCMP and start a municipal force, but the RCMP, which is about to lose its most urban jurisdiction, is fighting back, with former Mounties leading the charge. In Alberta, Premier Jason Kenney is considering starting a provincial force.
If the politicians do not stop them, the RCMP and its allies—including the union and retired RCMP officers—are likely to fight tooth and nail to hang onto Surrey rather than let it go and use the opportunity to beef up understaffed detachments across the country.
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Tom Taggart is the municipal councillor for District 10 of Colchester County, the sparsely populated rural area west of Truro, including the quiet seaside village of Portapique. His constituents rely on an RCMP detachment in Bible Hill, a 40-minute drive from Portapique.
Taggart was already raising questions about the adequacy of the policing service in his community before the mass shooting. After the shooting, he asked the RCMP to brief him on whether there were six officers on that night, as there are supposed to be, or whether there were four. The RCMP answered the question, but he is not permitted to share the answer with the public because the RCMP will only share with municipal officials on condition that they keep it secret.
“There surely was not a full complement of officers on duty and able to respond that night,” he says in an interview. “There were minimums that they are permitted. I can’t say whether they were there or not.”
Taggart thinks the Truro Police Department might provide better service for his area. “Most of my concerns prior to April 18 were around value for money. That’s not the case anymore. I want a service review. I want to understand. And we deserve, if we pay for six officers a shift, that we get six officers a shift.”
The problem for Colchester County, Taggart says, is that even if he convinced council to increase its tax rate to add several officers, to allow for more regular patrols on the back roads, the county can’t be sure they would get them. “The issue is that the RCMP cannot—I am absolutely certain in my mind—they cannot provide that service, because they’ll be stealing people from somewhere else.”
Taggart was raising questions about policing in his Nova Scotia community before the shooting (Photograph by Darren Calabrese)
Taggart calls this “musical badges,” where the RCMP move Mounties around to backfill vacancies in detachments, robbing Peter to pay Paul. “When the whistle blows, what badge is in what chair?” Insiders have long complained that the force will list names on detachment rosters of officers who are off on medical leave, serving on peacekeeping missions overseas or backfilling in other detachments. The result: on paper the force is at full strength, but in reality, rural detachments are chronically understaffed, which means the officers on the ground are overworked. Darryl Davies, a criminologist at Carleton University, says when he used to work in the law-enforcement directorate of the federal Public Safety department, they called it “Mountie math.”
“When I said, well, what’s Mountie math? They said, well, Mountie math is the RCMP. They never tell us how many officers they have in any location at any given time. So I say, well, why? They say for security reasons? Bulls–t.”
Even when detachments are at full strength, the RCMP relies on fewer officers per person than municipal forces. A 2018 Globe and Mail investigation found that in suburban Vancouver, the most urban part of Canada that the RCMP still polices, some detachments relied on one officer for every 956 residents, while the Vancouver Police Department has one officer for every 494 residents. That means individual Mounties carry heavier caseloads and are more likely to patrol alone in a squad car, which is especially dangerous in rural areas where backup is far away. An officer in Great Village, next to Portapique, is recovering from serious injuries after he was assaulted in June by a distraught man.
An internal Public Safety memo obtained by access-to-information law by the Canadian Press found “growing dissatisfaction” with contract policing from other levels of government. “Public Safety Canada and the RCMP have confirmed there are systemic sustainability challenges impacting the whole of the RCMP,” the memo said.
To encourage municipalities and provinces to use the RCMP, the federal government subsidizes the force by 10 to 30 per cent, at a cost of $750 million a year. For cash-strapped local governments, that is too good an offer to turn down; 153 municipalities have contracts with the RCMP, as do three territories and all the provinces but Ontario and Quebec. But it is about to get more expensive. In 2019, the National Police Federation won the right to unionize 20,000 officers and reservists, and members voted 97 per cent in favour of certifying. They are seeking improvements to pay, higher staffing levels and better equipment and training.
RCMP pay and training, once the envy of other police forces, have lagged for decades. A starting constable makes just $53,000. In Vancouver, where RCMP officers and municipal police regularly cross paths, Vancouver constables out-earned their Mountie counterparts by $14,000 a year in 2019. A 2015 RCMP pay study found that RCMP officers in isolated fly-in communities received a $14,524 hardship allowance, compared with $21,502 for members of the Sûreté du Québec and $32,000 for Ontario Provincial Police.
Much of rural Canada is policed by overworked, underpaid RCMP officers. They are also not always as well-equipped as their counterparts in other forces. In 2005, four “heavily outgunned” RCMP officers in Mayerthorpe, Alta., were murdered at a remote farm. The force was told to get rifles for officers, but in 2014, when a Moncton, N.B., man started shooting Mounties, killing three, officers were forced to respond with pistols. “You’ve heard of bringing a knife to a gunfight,” one Mountie told Global News. “Here we are bringing a hand pistol to a rifle fight.”
Davies, the Carleton criminologist, was hired to help the Mounties buy new rifles. He says when Bob Paulson was appointed commissioner, he was skeptical about the plan, out of a fear of militarizing the force. Davies was chilled by how quickly other senior Mounties changed their view to align with the boss’s position. He has since become a persistent critic of the RCMP, pointing to a management culture that is excessively secretive and authoritarian. “The politics of the RCMP is a major problem when it comes to trying to decipher and understand what’s happening in places like Mayerthorpe, Moncton, Portapique and so on because of the secret, subterranean nature of this organization.”
Video stills show the shooter at Brink’s making a $475,000 withdrawal on March 30
Months after the Portapique rampage, the RCMP has yet to answer many questions about the killer, the RCMP’s failure to act on previous complaints about him and the fact that for 13 hours, he was able to travel around the province while the RCMP looked for him in the wrong places. The force has declined to answer repeated questions from Maclean’s about a $475,000 withdrawal that the killer made from a Brink’s cash depository, which experts say has the hallmarks of a payment to an informant, something the RCMP denies. In interviews with the Toronto Star and the CBC, the RCMP denied having a “special relationship” with the shooter, but did not explain the source of the funds.
The RCMP points to an ongoing investigation into the source of the killer’s guns as the reason why it won’t reveal more information about the killing. It is unlikely that we will learn more unless there is a public inquiry, which is in the hands of the attorney general of Nova Scotia, Mark Furey. Furey, a former RCMP staff sergeant, has yet to act.
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The management problems that left Moncton Mounties with handguns bravely running at a shooter with an assault rifle is no one-off. Senior officers have repeatedly been found to have mismanaged other vital issues, often at great expense. A 2019 investigation by Global News found that “$220 million has been spent in the last 20 years on everything from sexual harassment lawsuits to human rights complaints and federal inquiries into nepotism, workplace bullying and turf wars with other police agencies.” A few months after Global’s investigation, the force paid out another $100 million to settle a sexual harassment class action suit.
The force has a long history of denying wrongdoing, aggressively rebutting and smearing whistleblowers, before being forced into humiliating reversals in court. When Cpl. Catherine Galliford, a high-profile British Columbia spokesperson for the force, sued after being subjected to sexual harassment by several officers over two decades, to the point that she developed post-traumatic stress disorder, the RCMP responded by filing a statement of defence alleging she was an alcoholic. RCMP lawyers forced her to go through 11 discovery sessions, quizzing her about her sex life and other personal matters. It ultimately settled with thousands of female Mounties and civilian employees.
“Harassment remains a serious and persistent problem for the RCMP,” said a 2017 report from Ian McPhail, chairperson of the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP. “Despite some efforts, the RCMP has failed to effect the necessary changes in a meaningful or systematic way.” McPhail said the RCMP has a “dysfunctional organizational culture.”
The report also notes: “The senior leadership of the RCMP has therefore demonstrated over the last several decades that it is incapable of making the systemic reforms necessary to effect cultural change on its own.”
The last real overhaul of the RCMP was made when Justin Trudeau’s father, Pierre, ordered a royal commission, in 1977, after rogue Mounties were found to be playing dirty political tricks, burning down a barn, for instance, to prevent a meeting from happening between American Black Panthers and Quebec separatists. The Trudeau government eventually stripped the RCMP of its intelligence arm, creating CSIS, the national spy service. Since then, governments have tinkered, but none have had the will to force real reform on the national police by imposing a civilian board or separating federal and contract policing.
“No federal government and no federal minister has seen a benefit in getting engaged in what is bound to be a very complex and divisive national conversation about the RCMP,” says the RMC’s Leuprecht. “Because if it goes pear-shaped, they have to own it.” In his report, Leuprecht contrasts that with the approach Jean Chrétien’s government took after Canadian soldiers beat a teenager to death during a deployment to Somalia in 1993. “Unlike the political direction received by the Canadian Armed Forces post-Somalia, which entailed sustained monitoring of implementation for several years, politicians have preferred to defer to the commissioner to fix the problems in the RCMP without subsequent monitoring.”
Leuprecht and other experts say it’s time for Ottawa to stop pushing its police on jurisdictions and get the RCMP out of contract policing. And Indigenous leaders want the federal government to properly fund Indigenous police agencies, and encourage more First Nations to police themselves.
Lucki did praise the RCMP’s model when asked about contract policing, but she didn’t answer Liberal MP Khera’s other question, about whether it’s time to change the force’s name.
The force has a global brand, with the most recognized police uniform in the world. “That’s the attitude that has served them well for years, so long as people in the country kept Dudley Do-Right at the front of their minds,” says SFU’s Gordon. “It’s not a paramilitary organization that has a history of suppression of Indigenous peoples in order to further imperial conquest in North America. It’s a Hollywood image that’s survived and that prevails.”
That brand, the powerful image, which is so closely bound to our history, good and bad, seems to also prevent politicians from acting on rational bureaucratic analyses of the force. Leuprecht says Canada should look to Northern Ireland, where the Royal Ulster Constabulary was renamed after the Good Friday Agreement, to distance it from its colonial roots, and is now called the Police Service of Northern Ireland—an important step in the reconciliation process.
And experts all agree—have all long agreed—that the RCMP needs civilian oversight, a police board of worthies, at arm’s length from the government, to run the service, like the ones that run every decent police service in developed countries. The previous public safety minister, Ralph Goodale, went halfway, bringing in an advisory board (which Trudeau has incorrectly called a “management board”).
The government could also reinvent the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission (CRCC) for the RCMP, or replace it with a more powerful body. The CRCC only reviews about 250 of 2,500 complaints a year, leaving the rest to be investigated by the Mounties. Under the current structure, when the commission completes a review, it sends its report to the RCMP, which can sit on it for as long as it likes. The force now has 181 reports awaiting release. The oldest one—almost four years old—has to do with a strip search of a female prisoner. A report on the RCMP’s response to the 2016 shooting death of Colten Boushie was delivered to the force in January. Lucki says she plans to release it in the fall.
There are signs, however, that the patience of Canadians is wearing thin. During Lucki’s appearance at committee in June, MPs were polite, but they did not look like they were buying what she was selling.
The names of those killed by the gunman appear on a flag at a memorial in Portapique, N.S. (Photograph by Darren Calabrese)
Tom Taggart, who has lost faith in the Mounties’ ability to keep Portapique residents safe, plans to take a resolution to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities calling on the RCMP to modernize contract policing, and stop playing games with rosters. He wants fully staffed detachments, and officers who know the area.
“I do not care if it is Truro [Police], RCMP or OPP. But I want change. I do not want someone who drives in here from three hours away, works a couple days, fills a position, then throws his gear in the trunk, slams it shut and goes home, who doesn’t know anybody in the community, good guys or bad guys, or if there is a hospital in Truro.” Taggart says rank-and-file Mounties know the force needs to be fixed.
History suggests that only politicians can force the RCMP to change, that it will not change itself, but that is risky territory for governments. RCMP investigations into Airbus, the sponsorship scandal, Mike Duffy’s expenses and SNC-Lavalin have all posed existential threats to Canadian prime ministers. That may explain why governments have not acted, and why they may be reluctant to act, even though everyone ought to be able to see that this is an institution that needs to be torn apart and put together again.
CORRECTION, July 9, 2020: An earlier version of this story misstated Leon Joudrey’s occupation. He is a forest technician, not a forester.
This article appears in print in the August 2020 issue of Maclean’s magazine with the headline, “The end of the RCMP?” Subscribe to the monthly print magazine here.
Mass shootings caused by 'masculinity,' says report commissioned by Nova Scotia inquiry
The paper makes few mentions of the April 2020 massacre in which a 51-year-old man driving a replica police car murdered 22 people
RCMP
officers prepare to take mass shooter Gabriel Wortman into custody at a
gas station in Enfield, N.S. on Sunday April 19, 2020. Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tim Krochak Amid criticisms that Nova Scotia’s Mass Casualty Commission has been far too reticent to criticize police actions amidst Canada’s deadliest mass shooting, this week the inquiry took a different focus: the role of “masculinity.”
“Our research suggests that mass shootings are a gendered issue: they fundamentally have to do with the relationship between men, masculinity, and guns,” read the report tabled this week by the inquiry.
Mass Shootings and Masculinity, drafted by two University of California sociologists, told the commissioners that mass shootings are inherently “enactments of masculinity,” and that in addition to curbing gun ownership, governments must pursue “cultural change.”
The Mass Casualty Commission is convening hearings this week into the April 2020 active shooter incident in which a 51-year-old man driving a replica police car murdered 22 people at locations across rural Nova Scotia.
In addition to probing the details of the massacre and the police response, the commission has also been mandated to examine “gender-based and intimate partner violence.”
Notably, the massacre’s perpetrator had a lengthy history of violence against his common-law partner, Lisa Banfield. His April 2020 killing spree began after an argument in which he shot at Banfield and attempted to lock her in one of his replica police cars (she escaped, and ultimately survived the massacre).
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Nova Scotia mass shooting gunman drew police attention 10 years before killings
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Questioning his decisions, RCMP supervisor during N.S. mass shooting took 16-month leave afterward
Another expert report received by the commission looked at the statistical link between gender-based violence and mass casualty attacks. “There is emerging evidence of a very real public risk of ‘private’ violence,” reads the report, which was commissioned for the inquiry from researchers out of Australia’s Monash University.
But the University of California report does not examine any of the specifics of the Nova Scotia shootings, and only briefly touches on Canadian mass shootings generally. Rather, it focuses almost entirely on mass shootings in the United States, where the phenomenon is known to occur with far greater frequency as compared to the rest of the world.
The 44-page report writes that U.S. mass shootings do not always correlate to state-level rates of gun ownership (Alaska, one of the most armed states, also has one of its lowest levels of mass shootings). So, researchers also cite a raft of sociological papers linking gun violence with race, right-wing politics and even “masculine overcompensation.”
“Gun ownership, gun-related fatalities, and gun violence more generally are all gendered phenomena,” it reads.
Researchers note at several points throughout the paper that their theories may have little bearing on Canada. While attributing American mass shootings to a protection-centric U.S. gun culture, the paper also says that Canada seems to have a “pre-1970 U.S. gun culture” which primarily treats firearms as hunting implements. Not mentioned is that in Canada, unlike the United States, it is technically forbidden to own firearms for the purposes of personal protection.
In one of the report’s few direct mentions of the Nova Scotia massacre, the authors write only that it “resists easy classification.”
Mass Casualty Commission hearings first began in February, and have faced heavy criticism from the families of massacre victims for its apparent reticence to question police actions during the 13 hours of the massacre.
Perhaps most notably, the inquiry decided not to include evidence from a victim’s FitBit showing that she had a pulse for more than eight hours after RCMP members declared her dead.
Hundreds of documents related to the inquiry have also been mysteriously removed from the Mass Casualty Commission’s website, including testimony from RCMP members criticizing the understaffing at select detachments and even internal accusations that one member allowed the shooter to “get away.”
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How the N.S. mass shooter controlled, exploited women around him
Important to recognize abusive behaviour as a red flag, advocates say
The gunman who would kill 22 people across Nova Scotia in a mass shooting had controlled and abused women around him for years, including his longtime partner and others who were in vulnerable situations.
The public inquiry into the mass shooting is examining what happened on April 18-19, 2020, when Gabriel Wortman destroyed several homes and killed neighbours and strangers across the province — including a pregnant woman — while driving a mock police car.
Documents released by the inquiry include accounts from his common-law spouse Lisa Banfield about his years of emotional and physical abuse, and women who had sexual relationships with the gunman or met him briefly while partying in his garage.
Kaitlin Geiger-Bardswich, a spokesperson for Women's Shelters Canada, said one of these interviews, from a woman dubbed EE in inquiry transcripts, caught her attention.
EE lived near the gunman's Portapique cottage, and first met him around 2014. She told police she'd do odd jobs around the gunman's property, cleaned his cottage, and helped build the large garage that would eventually house his police paraphernalia.
Kaitlin
Geiger-Bardswich is a spokesperson for Women’s Shelters Canada, which
is a participant in the inquiry in a coalition with the Transition
Houses Association of Nova Scotia and Be the Peace Institute. (CBC)
She had a small place with no running water. EE said she relied on the gunman for everything from firewood in the winter to food and liquor, since she didn't have a car or job at the time.
"He'd take me up to his house and run my tub for me and put out all nice warm towels and he always had a little special soap for me, it was all done up pretty and stuff and then he'd feed me," EE told police.
"At that point in my life … he was like a miracle to me."
EE said they were always good friends, and also had an ongoing sexual relationship.
Geiger-Bardswich said the situation is concerning and fits a larger trend of the gunman's predatory behaviour with women.
"He was a smart person. He knew that there was this power dynamic. He knew that he could use and exploit women's vulnerabilities and their needs, their basic needs to get what he wanted," said Geiger-Bardswich.
EE described one time when she and the gunman had group sex with a young woman who was a patient at his denturist clinic in Dartmouth, N.S.
The gunman would focus on patients who were on social assistance or lived on "the streets," EE said, and he would bring them back to his cottage and "treat them like queens."
The
former Atlantic Denture Clinic in downtown Dartmouth, N.S., was owned
by the gunman Gabriel Wortman. Photo taken on April 20, 2020. (Craig Paisley/CBC)
The Department of Community Services has confirmed the Atlantic Denture Clinic, which the gunman owned, received provincial funds to deliver services to clients receiving Employment Support and Income Assistance, and those in the Disability Support Program.
Between 2015 and 2020, he received $434,406 from the province for these services.
Linda MacDonald and Jeanne Sarson, two Truro nurses who advocate for women's rights, heard other stories about the denture clinic. They have successfully pushed for the inquiry to consider gender-based violence in its mandate.
After the gunman's name and face went public, MacDonald and Sarson said they got a call from a woman who had once been his patient. She was so "terrified" about what he did to her while she was in his clinic that she didn't finish her treatment.
"She felt he got her alone in the room in the chair, and sexually assaulted her," MacDonald said. "This woman didn't even like taking that route around his office anymore."
Jeanne
Sarson (left) and Linda MacDonald are women's rights advocates from
Truro, N.S., and participants in the public inquiry into the Nova Scotia
mass shooting of 2020. (CBC)
A Portapique neighbour, Brenda Forbes, has said no one believed her when she told RCMP in 2013 that Wortman had abused Banfield. Nothing came of her complaint.
Then, on April 18, 2020, the rampage started when the gunman attacked Banfield and threw her into the mock cruiser. She has told police she was able to escape through the partition in the car, and hid in the woods overnight.
It wasn't the first time. Banfield said there'd been at least 10 other physical assaults over the years, and the gunman was controlling about where she went. Banfield said he didn't like that she spoke with her siblings every day, because he wanted all of her attention.
She described one time where two of the gunman's friends were in the Portapique cottage as the gunman choked and punched Banfield on a bed. The men asked the gunman to "leave her alone" but never stepped in, she said.
Ongoing abuse
Banfield has told police the gunman would often blame her after the assaults.
"He'd always say like, why did you make me do that? It's your fault. Like, and I knew it's not my fault, I'm not stupid. But yet, you know, why I put up with it, I don't know," she said.
George
and Brenda Forbes tried to tell police about Gabriel Wortman's abuse of
his partner, and that he had illegal guns in his home, but say police
did not investigate. (CBC)
Sarson said there's still a long way to go in today's society to change beliefs and attitudes about intimate-partner violence, which she said is often still considered a "family matter".
"It still is — 'well, that's happening in their relationship, it's none of our business,' but it is our business. I think we have to make it our business," Sarson said.
Another woman said she wanted to report the gunman's fake police car and odd behaviour — but felt too intimidated to take that step.
EE's daughter, who also partied at the gunman's garage, told police following the mass shooting that the gunman's fully marked RCMP car and uniforms scared her. She was convinced he was either an officer or hosted parties with "dirty cops."
DD later revealed to the commission she thought reporting the gunman would only make things worse, or she wouldn't be believed.
"You can't just walk into a police station … because we didn't know and potentially, like, we don't know how deep this goes into the police. I could have been in danger," DD said.
One of the gunman's acquaintances in Portapique, Rob Doucette, said the gunman would make aggressive advances on women in the area at parties, sometimes getting into a hot tub nude. One time, Doucette said he and another man saw him go after Lisa McCully and they "physically had to take his hands off her."
McCully was one of the first people the gunman killed on April 18.
Twenty-two
people died on April 18 and 19, 2020. Top row from left: Gina Goulet,
Dawn Gulenchyn, Jolene Oliver, Frank Gulenchyn, Sean McLeod, Alanna
Jenkins. Second row: John Zahl, Lisa McCully, Joey Webber, Heidi
Stevenson, Heather O'Brien and Jamie Blair. Third row from top: Kristen
Beaton, Lillian Campbell, Joanne Thomas, Peter Bond, Tom Bagley and Greg
Blair. Bottom row: Emily Tuck, Joy Bond, Corrie Ellison and Aaron Tuck.
(CBC)
Doucette said he'd see the gunman get mad if a woman rejected him — "he'd like start calling them whores and this and that."
An expert report for the inquiry said that many mass murderers have been violent to the women in their lives — and their partners are usually the first victims of such attacks.
An analysis of twelve years of mass shootings in the United States between 2009 and 2020 concluded that mass shootings are often "intermingled with acts of domestic violence." Based on reports of 262 incidents, it found that in at least 53 per cent of mass shootings, the attacker shot a current or former intimate partner or family member during the attack.
A
photo of the gunman's decommissioned 2017 Ford Taurus that he made into
a replica cruiser, and used during the N.S. mass shootings across April
18-19, 2020. (Mass Casualty Commission)
Women's Shelters Canada is a participant in the inquiry, represented by legal counsel, in a coalition with the Transition Houses Association of Nova Scotia and Be the Peace Institute. Sarson and MacDonald are also participants but self-represented.
The inquiry is expected to hear more from Banfield in the coming weeks, but there has been no decision released yet on when or how she will testify.
The next phase of the inquiry, expected to last through the summer, will also delve deeper into various issues including how intimate partner and gender-based violence played into the mass shooting.
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the Nova Scotia Mass Shooting - Jan 2, 2022 - Open Lines and Updates with Paul Palango
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22 Murders by Paul Palango
Paul Palango
As
news broke of a killer rampaging across the tiny community of
Portapique, Nova Scotia, late on April 18, 2020, details were oddly hard
to come by. Who was the killer? Why was he not apprehended? What were
police doing? How many were dead? And why was the gunman still on the
loose the next morning and killing again? The RCMP was largely silent
then, and continued to obscure the actions of denturist Gabriel Wortman
after an officer shot and killed him at a gas station during a chance
encounter.
Though retired as an investigative journalist and
author, Paul Palango spent much of his career reporting on Canada's
troubled national police force. Watching the RCMP stumble through the
Portapique massacre, only a few hours from his Nova Scotia home, Palango
knew the story behind the headlines was more complicated and damning
than anyone was willing to admit. With the COVID-19 lockdown sealing off
the Maritimes, no journalist in the province knew the RCMP better than
Palango did. Within a month, he was back in print and on the radio,
peeling away the layers of this murderous episode as only he could, and
unearthing the collision of failure and malfeasance that cost a quiet
community 22 innocent lives. (From Random House Canada)
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Was Gabriel Wortman Flagged for Domestic Terrorism in the Months Leading up to the Nova Scotia Mass Shootings?
Between March and December of 2019 an eBay user with a PayPal account named ‘200bassriver’ made numerous purchases of vehicle accessories commonly used by police. On March 22nd, 2019 the ‘200bassriver’ account purchased a Ford Taurus Interceptor center console and four days later a push bar for a Taurus Interceptor.
(ito 90.2)
Over the course of the next nine months the makings of a fully functional police car was largely purchased piece by piece, paid for via PayPal and often shipped to an address in Maine or a denture clinic at 193 Portland Street, Dartmouth.
(Ito 90.5)
Anyone reading this post is likely well aware of how this replica police cruiser was used, but many bay unaware that long before the mass shootings it seems authorities had been contacted by PayPal regarding these irregular purchases. As it turns out, several of the purchases made by Gabriel Wortman were explicitly labeled as being ‘intended for police use’ via eBay.
(ito 72.9.1.4)
PayPal Canada Co reported Gabriel Wortman to FINTRAC as they believed his accounts were being used to “make purchases for items utilized in the facilitation of domestic terrorist activities”
The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada aka FINTRAC’s mandate is to “Facilitate the detection, prevention and deterrence of money laundering and the financing of terrorist activities, while ensuring the protection of personal information under its control.”
The final purchase PayPal reported Wortman to FINTRAC for was made December 5, 2019, over four months before his thirteen hour rampage.
These facts leave this author with unanswered questions…
Were these ‘suspicious transactions’, that were forebodingly believed to be a precursor to a domestic terrorism event, ever followed up on by FINTRAC authorities?
Did FINTRAC investigate and refer Wortman’s sketchy purchases to the RCMP or even CSIS?
Was FINTRAC just another one of the malfunctioning fail safes in this tragedy?
N.S. gunman's spouse feared killing started while looking for her, documents say
Lisa Banfield's statements summarized in applications RCMP made for search warrants, production orders
The partner of a man who killed 22 people in Nova Scotia last April confided in a friend that she feared the gunman had been going door to door searching for her during the violent rampage, according to an RCMP document summarizing statements to investigators.
Further redactions were lifted Friday in 20 documents related to the mass killing investigation, revealing Lisa Banfield told police she experienced "guilty feelings" that her common-law spouse might have gone to locations where she was potentially hiding out "and killed the people as he went along."
"Lisa questions whether people would have died if she didn't run away," the documents said.
Gabriel Wortman killed neighbours, acquaintances and strangers over a period of 13 hours before he was shot dead by police at a gas station in Enfield, N.S., on April 19, 2020.
Properties, records searched
Investigators sought more than 20 search warrants and production orders to search properties, businesses, phone and financial records. In applications to do the searches, Sgt. Angela Hawryluk summarized information gathered in the case and requested that the documents remained sealed.
CBC and a consortium of media organizations applied for access to the records last spring and have been going through the court process ever since. Parts of the documents released Friday with approval from a provincial court judge had previously been released with redactions. Some portions remain blacked out.
Twenty-two
people died on April 18 and 19. Top row from left: Gina Goulet, Dawn
Gulenchyn, Jolene Oliver, Frank Gulenchyn, Sean McLeod, Alanna Jenkins.
Second row: John Zahl, Lisa McCully, Joey Webber, Heidi Stevenson,
Heather O'Brien and Jamie Blair. Third row from top: Kristen Beaton,
Lillian Campbell, Joanne Thomas, Peter Bond, Tom Bagley and Greg Blair.
Bottom row: Emily Tuck, Joy Bond, Corrie Ellison and Aaron Tuck. (CBC)
Banfield told police about her concerns and relayed the same fear that Wortman had been searching for her during the rampage to Kevin von Bargen, a Toronto-based lawyer who was friends with the couple, according to a summary of his statement to RCMP by phone on April 21, 2020.
All references to von Bargen had previously been redacted from the documents. He told investigators he'd bonded with Wortman over their shared passion for restoring motorcycles after they connected through a group in 2017.
Mutual friend shocked by killings
They were close, having stayed at each other's homes, and exchanged thousands of emails.
Von Bargen told investigators he was shocked to hear about the killings and that Banfield had told him it "sounded like Gabriel was going around door to door looking for her."
He had last talked to the shooter two days before the attacks about a shed extension and COVID-19. He told police that in the past month, they'd discussed the gunman's plans to retire and how he had withdrawn his savings.
A few sections of his statement remain blacked out.
Van Bargen is not currently representing Banfield. But Banfield's lawyers, Jessica Zita and James Lockyer, had objected to parts of his statements being released, arguing it invaded solicitor-client privilege.
The new sections released Friday include a summary for a caution interview Banfield gave to police on April 28, in which she appears to have elaborated on the events leading up the shootings in the rural community where she and Wortman spent time at their cottage.
The
burned remains of Gabriel Wortman’s cottage, seen here with the
unmarked Ford Taurus Police Interceptor sedan parked outside. 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, Nova Scotia, killing 22 people. (Steve Lawrence/CBC)
Banfield explained that the previous night, the gunman had accused her of ruining their 19th anniversary when she became upset a friend hadn't supported their plan to have a commitment ceremony the following year, according to the search warrant documents.
Though Banfield said she tried to apologize to her partner, imploring him that she was mad at their friend and not him, she told investigators Wortman still became enraged.
Banfield attacked in bed
The documents detail how the 51-year-old denturist attacked Banfield after finding her in bed crying, pretending to be asleep.
"She was trying to talk Gabriel down and at one point [he] said, 'I'm done, I'm done. It's too late Lisa, I'm done,'" the records state.
The references to Banfield's police statements don't include any mention of prior conflicts or issues Wortman had with neighbours, whom she told investigators she barely knew.
But the records say she told investigators that leading up to that weekend, her partner had become increasingly paranoid about COVID-19, believing that he would die and that financial institutions would collapse. She said that motivated him to stock up on gas and rice and to withdraw half a million dollars in cash, which police later found buried amid the rubble of their property, one of several the shooter burned.
Banfield, her brother James (Jimmy) Banfield and brother-in-law Brian Brewster are all charged with unlawfully providing the gunman with ammunition.
A civil suit filed by the families of victims also alleges Lisa Banfield purchased some of the gas her partner later used to torch homes.
The claims have not yet been tested in court.
'Afraid to leave'
The search warrant documents describe Banfield telling investigators about instances where "little things … set him off." In one case — which a neighbour later spoke publicly about — Wortman strangled Banfield outside.
Banfield told police she knew her partner cheated on her, and that he'd intentionally humiliate her around patients at the denture clinic where they worked together.
But he "always said things about hurting her family so she was afraid to leave," the documents state.
That April night, Banfield said Wortman told her they were going to go to Dartmouth together, and she believed he had plans to kill people there, according to the documents.
The remains of Wortman's home and the burnt shell of a mock RCMP cruiser. (Steve Lawrence/CBC)
The gunman restrained his partner, first by tying a cloth around her wrists and then with one handcuff, according to the documents.
He carried a flashlight and called her an idiot when she tripped trying to get away as he dragged her between their properties.
The gunman also "took Lisa's shoes and threw them in opposite directions and said, 'Now you can't run, bitch,'" one application for a warrant states.
It's unclear how or when Banfield removed the handcuff, but she told police she escaped after sliding open a divider in the replica police car that Wortman had outfitted to look like an actual cruiser. She said she escaped while Wortman was inside collecting a gun from the garage where they'd been drinking and Facetiming with friends earlier in the evening.
Two overnight hiding spots
The ITOs — a type of document seeking authorization for a search warrant — also detail where exactly Banfield told police she hid overnight: first in a truck and then under a tree.
"Lisa Banfield heard shots and thought Gabriel might blow the truck up and she left that hiding spot and eventually came across a tree with an exposed root stem and hid inside the cavity," the document states. That section was previously redacted.
The
gunman's cottage in Portapique was destroyed in a fire he set, but a
large deck along the shore was mostly intact. Pictured is the area under
the structure. (Steve Lawrence/CBC)
She told investigators she "could see a fire, hear voices and bangs and thought it could be Gabriel."
Police picked Banfield up after she knocked on a neighbour's door around 6:30 a.m.
Public inquiry starting
The commissioners in a public inquiry have been tasked with looking at the causes, context and circumstances giving rise to the tragedy, as well as the police response and the steps taken to inform, support and engage with victims, families and affected citizens.
Their mandate includes looking at the role of gender-based and intimate partner violence as well as access to firearms.
Their final report is due by November 2022.
N.S. gunman fired at spouse before locking her in replica cruiser, documents say
Warning: This story includes graphic details some readers may find disturbing
The man responsible for killing 22 people in rural Nova Scotia attacked his common-law partner when she was in bed and fired several shots in her direction before locking her in his replica RCMP cruiser, according to newly unsealed documents.
A Nova Scotia provincial court judge approved lifting redactions Thursday on much of the summary of a statement Lisa Banfield gave to police April 19, 2020, detailing the violence she endured in Portapique, N.S., on the night Gabriel Wortman killed 13 of their neighbours.
The following morning, the denturist killed nine other people in Wentworth, Debert and Shubenacadie. Police shot and killed the 51-year-old at a gas station in Enfield, N.S., more than 13 hours after the first 911 call.
Banfield, who is now charged with two counts of unlawfully providing the gunman with ammunition, has never spoken publicly about the killings. Little is known about what she experienced or witnessed beyond the redacted summaries of statements she gave to investigators.
Twenty-two
people died on April 18 and 19. Top row from left: Gina Goulet, Dawn
Gulenchyn, Jolene Oliver, Frank Gulenchyn, Sean McLeod, Alanna Jenkins.
Second row: John Zahl, Lisa McCully, Joey Webber, Heidi Stevenson,
Heather O'Brien and Jamie Blair. Third row from top: Kristen Beaton,
Lillian Campbell, Joanne Thomas, Peter Bond, Tom Bagley and Greg Blair.
Bottom row: Emily Tuck, Joy Bond, Corrie Ellison and Aaron Tuck. (CBC)
CBC News and other media organizations have applied to the courts for access to search warrants and applications the RCMP made to gain authorization to conduct searches of properties, banking and electronic records related to the investigation into the mass killing.
The court first released seven of the warrants in May with 1,950 redactions, but now further details have been made public.
One section of Banfield's statement that was previously blacked out states Wortman "was abusive toward her in the past but she never reported any of the abuse." Other sections reference people recounting to police Wortman's violence toward his longtime partner.
A woman who'd texted with Banfield the night of April 18, 2020, told investigators the gunman was a "sociopath, abusive and cheated on Lisa."
"If anything was going to happen it was Gabriel killing Lisa and then killing himself," she told police. Her name, like those of most of the people RCMP interviewed, is redacted.
According to the documents, on the evening of April 18, Banfield and her partner of 19 years were celebrating their anniversary over drinks. But they began arguing after announcing to two friends in Houlton, Maine on a Facetime call that they were going to have a commitment ceremony the following year.
Thirteen Deadly Hours: The Nova Scotia Shooting
A summary of Banfield's statement references both "I" and "she," making it somewhat unclear who said what. But it appears someone said "don't do it" in relation to the ceremony, which upset Banfield and "pissed off" Wortman.
Initially, the 52-year-old woman left the large garage on Orchard Beach Road, that police refer to as the warehouse, but her statement said she returned to apologize and found Wortman mad. At that point, she returned to their cottage on Portapique Beach Road and went to bed.
On
April 19, RCMP in Nova Scotia released this photo of a mock RCMP
vehicle that the Nova Scotia mass shooter drove. The RCMP say it wasn't a
real cruiser, but looked identical in every way, with the exception of
the numbers police circled in this photo. Lisa Banfield told police the
gunman locked her in the backseat. (Nova Scotia RCMP)
Wortman came after her there and "ripped the blankets off of her and started to beat her up," according to the documents.
He "told her to get dressed and said, 'It's done,'" the records said. He then doused the log cabin-style cottage with gasoline and told Banfield to grab a gun from inside.
It's unclear from the documents exactly what time this happened. Banfield described that they started walking back to the warehouse, which is 1.5 kilometres by road and a much shorter distance through a wooded area.
Barefoot in the woods
She told police that Wortman refused to let her walk behind him and "ripped her shoes off her feet." At one point, she managed to get loose but fell while running away, the documents said. The gunman grabbed her by her hair, pulled her toward the warehouse and started shooting at the ground around her feet after managing to handcuff one of her hands.
"Banfield begged Gabriel Wortman not to kill her. He shot the firearm again and then put her in the back of the police car," the documents said.
The
shooter killed 22 people and burned several buildings, including his
cottage in Portapique and a large garage one street away. (Steve Lawrence/CBC)
The gunman had adapted one of four decommissioned cruisers he owned with police gear that included roof lights, a bar on the front bumper and a divider that separated the front and back seats. Banfield told police she was able to pry open a window in the divider, and ran into the woods while her partner was upstairs in the garage.
She told police she heard gunshots while hiding in the woods and at one point saw a building go up in flames. Banfield didn't emerge until knocking on a neighbour's door around 6:30 a.m. AT, at which point 911 was called.
Banfield, relatives named in lawsuit
Banfield was added as a defendant this week to the proposed class-action lawsuit launched by families of the victims. Her brother, James Banfield, and her brother-in-law, Brian Brewster, were also named as defendants.
A statement of claim in the civil case alleges that she "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." The allegations have not been tested in court.
James Banfield and Brewster are also charged with unlawfully providing the shooter with .223-calibre Remington cartridges and .40-calibre Smith & Wesson cartridges in the month leading up to the massacre. All three are due back in court March 9.
In a separate lawsuit, Lisa Banfield is suing her former partner's estate, which is valued at $2.1 million and includes six properties, three corporations and $705,000 in cash seized from the wreckage of the cottage.
In her statement of claim, Banfield said she was the victim of assault and battery, and suffered physical, emotional and psychological injuries and trauma.
Meanwhile, the commissioners in a public inquiry have been tasked with looking at the causes, context and circumstances giving rise to the tragedy, as well as the police response and the steps taken to inform, support and engage with victims, families and affected citizens.
Their mandate includes looking at the role of gender-based and intimate partner violence as well as access to firearms.
Their final report is due by November 2022.
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Neighbour reported N.S. mass shooter's domestic violence, weapons to police
'Even though I'm military and I know how to use a weapon, that man scared the crap out of me,' woman says
A former neighbour of the gunman behind last month's mass shooting in Nova Scotia says she reported his domestic violence and cache of firearms to the RCMP years ago and ended up leaving the community herself due to fears of his violence.
Brenda Forbes said that in the summer of 2013, she told police about reports that Gabriel Wortman had held down and beaten his common-law spouse behind one of the properties he owned in Portapique, a coastal community west of Truro.
Domestic violence is being examined as a key aspect of the mass shooting, as police have said the rampage began on the night of April 18 after the gunman argued with his common-law spouse and restrained and beat her before she managed to escape into the woods.
He went on to kill 22 people and burn a number of homes before police shot and killed him outside a gas station in Enfield, N.S.
Forbes said her first awareness of Wortman's domestic violence was shortly after he moved to Portapique in the early 2000s, when his partner came to her door and asked for help.
"She ran to my house and said Gabriel was beating on her and she had to get away. She was afraid," said the 62-year-old veteran of the Canadian Forces.
The faces of the victims killed by the gunman in the April 18-19 mass shooting. (CBC)
Forbes said she encouraged her neighbour to seek help but recalled that she was frightened of her partner and of repercussions of going to police due to threats he'd made against her family.
She said that in 2013, she learned Wortman had been seen hitting his partner behind one of his properties.
"He had her on the ground, was strangling her ... He was beating on her," she said of the account she heard, saying there were three male witnesses.
"On that incident, I called the RCMP and I told them what happened, and I said he has a bunch of illegal weapons, and I know because he showed them to us," said Forbes, who has since moved outside the province.
She said that in response to her complaint, the RCMP interviewed her while she was working at a cadet camp in Debert, N.S., and she retold the story. She said she encouraged one of the three witnesses to give his account to police, but he refused, saying he feared violence from Wortman.
Witness wanted more thorough investigation
Forbes, who first told her story to the Halifax Examiner, said it upset her that police seemed unable to take firmer action on her complaint.
"From what I got from the RCMP, because [the partner] would not put in a complaint, as she was scared to death, they basically said, 'There's not much we can do. We can monitor him but there's not much else we can do,'" she said.
Wentworth
volunteer firefighters douse hot spots as an excavator digs through the
rubble of a destroyed home linked to the deadly shooting rampage in
Wentworth Centre, N.S. (Tim Krochak/Getty Images)
The Canadian Press emailed the RCMP about the prior report of domestic abuse, but a spokesperson wasn't immediately available for comment.
RCMP Supt. Darren Campbell said during a news conference last month that investigators "have spoken to witnesses who have provided information to us about prior assaults; those are all things that we are dealing with right now."
He has also said that investigators are speaking to the former common-law spouse to gain a better understanding of previous incidents.
However, Forbes said she felt at the time the incident should have been more thoroughly investigated.
"If you tell them that he may have illegal weapons, should you not go and check it out?" she asked.
Flowers
can be seen in front of the RCMP detachment in Enfield, N.S. Members of
the public signed a Canadian flag in memory of an officer killed during
the incident. (Robert Short/CBC)
'I was scared'
Her husband, who also served in the Canadian Forces, recalled being shown their neighbour's weapons cache.
"He knew I had weapons, being in the military, so he was always one of those guys who had to show others that whatever they had, he had something better," George Forbes said. Wortman showed him firearms, including pistols and a rifle, in the garage, he said.
"We reported that to the police also," he said. Police have said the gunman didn't have a licence for his weapons.
Brenda Forbes said that after she reported the abuse incident to the RCMP's Truro detachment, Wortman became more aggressive toward her.
George Forbes recalled him coming to the front door and threatening his wife. Brenda Forbes said Wortman would drive around their house and park outside the door.
"I was scared. ... Even though I'm military and I know how to use a weapon, that man scared the crap out of me," she said.
She said she and her husband left the area in 2014 out of growing fear and discomfort over Wortman's behaviour.
Police block the highway in Debert, N.S., on April 19 amid the mass
shooting, which spanned two days and several communities. (Andrew
Vaughan/The Canadian Press)
Calls for inquiry into role misogyny played in mass killing
Linda MacDonald, a founder of Persons Against Non-State Torture, said in an interview that advocates who are trying to reduce violence against women have long seen a connection between hatred of women and mass shootings.
The Truro-based nurse is among the signatories of a recent statement that called for a deeper look at the role misogyny played in the April 18-19 killings.
"There's definitely an element of male violence against women in this crime," she said. "Our main request is an independent public inquiry with a feminist analysis included."
MacDonald said if male violence against women was considered more seriously in the criminal justice system, it could avoid tragedies such as the one that occurred in Nova Scotia.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/checkup/canada-firearm-ban-violence-against-women-advocates-1.5553689
Advocates say new firearms ban part of 'suite of protections' needed to protect women from violence
Gun lobbyists furious about ban, saying it misses mark if it's intended to protect women from violence
When the federal government unveiled its ban on 1,500 kinds of "assault-style" firearms on Friday, it was billed as an important move to reduce violence against women.
"On average, one woman dies of domestic violence in Canada every three days," said Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, who drew links between assault weapons and gender violence.
"These guns make it easier to commit mass murder. The culture around their fetishization makes our country inherently more dangerous for the most vulnerable: women and girls. It is unacceptable in 2020 that gender is still a factor in how safe you feel."
Certainly, women's groups have long pushed for stricter gun control in Canada. Those calls intensified after police revealed the recent rampage in Nova Scotia that killed 22 people started with a domestic violence incident at a home in Portapique.
For Nathalie Provost, the assault-rifle ban was a longtime coming. Provost was shot four times by a gunman at Montreal's École Polytechnique in 1989. The ban includes the weapon used in that shooting: a Ruger Mini-14 rifle.
"I'm not sure we will be able to erase the possibility of having those kinds of awful massacres like they had in Nova Scotia … but if we can decrease the risk of death and injuries by gun, I think we will have succeeded in something very important for all Canadians," she told CBC Radio's Cross Country Checkup.
Nathalie
Provost, who survived Montreal’s École Polytechnique massacre in 1989,
says the government's assault-rifle ban was a longtime coming. (Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press)
Still, if the goal is to reduce the killing of women and girls in Canada, also known as femicide, gender advocates believe the assault-style rifle ban is merely a first step in a larger battle.
'An important milestone'
Amanda Dale calls the ban on assault weapons "an important milestone," arguing the Nova Scotia mass killings were rooted in misogyny reminiscent of the Montreal massacre and the van attack in Toronto.
She's a member of the advisory panel for the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability (CFOJA) and former head of a Toronto legal clinic dedicated to fighting violence against women.
"These guns were used in mass murders in which women were often the target, so it's a very important step forward," she said.
Mass shooters like Alexandre Bissonnette or Marc Lépine were law-abiding citizens until they did something awful.
- Nathalie Provost, who was shot four times during École Polytechnique massacre
Yet as sensational as mass shootings are, they account for a small fraction of homicides in Canada. When it comes to femicide, the larger problem is intimate partner violence.
In 2018, guns were the most commonly used weapon when women were killed by an intimate partner, accounting for approximately one-third of cases, according to analysis by the CFOJA.
However, it's less clear exactly what types of guns were used in those homicides.
"Information on the type of gun used in shootings was available in only 40 per cent of the cases, but where information was known, handguns and long guns were almost equally represented," wrote the authors of #CallItFemicide, which reviewed 148 killings of women and girls in Canada in 2018.
Hunting rifles and handguns
The report suggests intimacy and rurality increase the risk of femicide for women and girls, which raises questions about licensed long guns.
"In the murder of women, we most often see hunting rifles used, because they are ready [at] hand in an escalating situation often," said Dale.
"Additionally, we see the rates of domestic violence much higher in rural areas … and that's where we see those guns."
Amanda Dale says the firearms ban is merely part of a 'suite of
protections' required to protect women from violence. (Submitted by
Amanda Dale)
Dale argues the assault rifle ban is merely part of a "suite of protections" required to protect women from violence.
Provost, meanwhile, says banning assault rifles "is just a beginning," suggesting that "this government has to do something at a [federal] level on handguns."
During the 2019 election campaign, Justin Trudeau said a Liberal government would leave it to cities to restrict or ban handguns. Provost doesn't believe that will work.
"It will be a real cacophony. It will be a patchwork of inapplicable laws," said Provost. "If it's tough to do gun control at the Canadian level, imagine it at the city level."
'Also taking guns away from women'
Gun lobbyists, on the other hand, are furious about the new ban, saying it misses the mark if it's intended to protect women from domestic violence.
Tracey Wilson of the Canadian Coalition for Firearms Rights argues that the focus should be on providing resources to women living with abusive spouses.
"If it's really about protecting women, let's not forget that they are also taking guns away from women when they're doing that," said Wilson.
"[The government] coming to my home and taking my firearm away from me now doesn't do anything to help women out there who are suffering right now."
Provost expects the gun debate to remain heated in Canada, but disagrees gun control is unfair to law-abiding citizens with legally owned firearms.
"There are too many very dangerous weapons legally owned," said Provost.
"Mass shooters like Alexandre Bissonnette or Marc Lépine were law-abiding citizens until they did something awful and incredible.… I'm still having that wound in my flesh, 30 years after. And if you ask all the families who lost their daughters, they're still crying today."
Interviews by Kirthana Sasitharan and Kate Cornick
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N.S. mass shooter's first wife says he pinned her to floor in fit of violent rage
The unnamed woman's statement is part of a growing narrative detailing Gabriel Wortman's decades-long pattern of violence towards women
Author of the article:
Lisa
Banfield, second from left, spouse of Gabriel Wortman, is escorted by
friends along with lawyer James Lockyer, right, as they leave Nova
Scotia Provincial court in Dartmouth on Wednesday, March 9, 2022.
Banfield's lawyer withdrew her not guilty plea to charges related to
illegally transferring ammunition to Wortman. Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan HALIFAX — The former wife of the man responsible for the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia says he once pinned her to the floor during a fit of rage, confirming that the killer’s violence towards women extended back to the 1990s.
The woman’s statement, which includes details about a second violent outburst, is now part of a growing narrative detailing Gabriel Wortman’s decades-long pattern of violence towards women.
That chronology includes a statement from a former neighbour who said she told RCMP that the man attacked his spouse, Lisa Banfield, when they were living in Portapique, N.S., in 2013.
Some lawyers are calling on the inquiry to ask the neighbour, Brenda Forbes, to provide in-person witness testimony as the commission explores the role gender-based violence played in the tragedy.
In the case of the killer’s first wife, the interview with police also includes her description of incidents in the 1990s when her husband’s drinking would contribute to violent rages.
During one incident at the couple’s home in Dartmouth, N.S., the former wife recalled how he used a hammer to smash a collection of shelves and expensive figurines when he was triggered by the sight of dust on the shelves.
When she fled from the home, he threatened to smash her car windows with the hammer, she told police.
“There was another time he got very upset when he was drinking … he actually pinned me down on the floor that day,” she said. “I was very scared that day, too.”
After the 2020 killings, several of the gunman’s neighbours in Portapique came forward to describe the man as jealous, controlling and abusive. And police confirmed that on the night the murders started, he had bound and attacked his longtime partner.
The next day, Banfield told police that her spouse had devolved from a “loving, kind and generous” man when they first met, to a moody partner who since 2003 had routinely assaulted her.
“In the past, he was abusive and I would appease him and say whatever I could to make it stop,” she told RCMP Staff Sgt. Greg Vardy during an interview at the Colchester East Hants Health Centre in Truro, N.S.
Banfield told the RCMP she didn’t report the abuse because she “didn’t want to get him in trouble. And in hindsight, I wish I would’ve, because maybe this wouldn’t have happened.”
At the time of the interview, Banfield was being treated for injuries she suffered on April 18, 2020, when Wortman attacked her at their home in Portapique.
Banfield, then 51, described other beatings at the cottage, saying her spouse’s explosive anger was typically triggered by small disputes. Before the assault in April 2020, Banfield said the last time she experienced intimate partner violence was three years earlier.
Among other things, the public inquiry’s mandate includes investigating the role of gender-based violence.
In a research report commissioned by the inquiry, two professors at Monash University in Australia found that all mass shootings in western countries in recent decades have been carried out by men.
The paper concludes that there is a “significant minority” of mass shootings that also involve the targeting of specific women, “often an intimate partner, as the first victim,” and that there is growing evidence of the linkages between gender-based violence and mass shootings.
“In order to better understand, prevent and respond to mass casualty attacks, there is a need to better understand, prevent and respond to gender-based violence,” the report says.
Meanwhile, participating lawyer Anastacia Merrigan has told the inquiry there are discrepancies between the evidence provided by Forbes — the killer’s former neighbour — and the RCMP’s description of how they responded to her complaint.
In a summary of evidence, the inquiry said a responding officer took “minimal notes” at the time of Forbes’s complaint and that other information had been purged from RCMP files.
The inquiry’s summary says a constable who responded to the complaint in 2013 is quoted in an RCMP report saying he didn’t remember Forbes reporting a domestic assault.
Merrigan, who represents the Transition House Association of Nova Scotia, said she wants the inquiry to provide a more critical view of what happened with Forbes’s complaint.
“To date, the foundational document has adopted the evidence provided by the RCMP almost without question,” she told the inquiry last week.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 11, 2022.
Nova Scotia mass shooting gunman drew police attention 10 years before killings
Police warned about Wortman's threats of violence on three separate occasions
Author of the article:
Commission
counsel Amanda Byrd presents information at the Mass Casualty
Commission inquiry into the mass murders in rural Nova Scotia on April
18/19, 2020, in Halifax. Photo by Andrew Vaughan /The Canadian Press
The first occurred in June 2010 when RCMP in Moncton, N.B., were contacted by the gunman’s uncle. Glynn Wortman told RCMP Const. Len Vickers that his nephew, who lived in the Halifax area, had threatened to kill his parents. Later that day, Vickers informed Sgt. Cordell Poirier of Halifax Regional Police that he had also received a complaint from Wortman’s father, Paul, about a death threat from his son.
Poirier’s report on the incident says he and another officer went to the killer’s home in Dartmouth, N.S., where they spoke to his spouse, Lisa Banfield, at 3:25 a.m.
The document says Banfield told the officers that Wortman was asleep. She said he had been upset over a letter he had received the day before related to a lengthy legal battle with his parents over property. Poirier asked Banfield if there were any weapons in the home and she said no.
Poirier later checked with the Canadian Firearms Registry for any possible weapons and reported that “If (the perpetrator) has any weapons they are not registered.” The document states that Wortman had never applied for a firearms licence.
Poirier’s report said he eventually spoke with Gabriel Wortman, who told him over the phone that he had a pellet gun and two inoperable antique muskets hanging on the wall of his cottage in Portapique, N.S.
The Halifax sergeant reported that he contacted RCMP Const. Greg Wiley, who said he was a friend of Wortman’s and would attempt to meet him to discuss the complaint. The document states that Wiley, who worked out of the Bible Hill detachment near Portapique, had struck up a rapport with the killer after responding to a report of a tool theft from his cottage around 2007-08.
The office of denturist Gabriel Wortman in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Photo by SEAN DEWITT /REUTERS
However, Poirier reported closing the file on Aug. 26, 2010 after he couldn’t get in touch with Wortman’s father. Meanwhile, the inquiry said Wiley told the inquiry’s investigators he couldn’t recall speaking with Poirier in 2010, and RCMP lawyers later advised that Wiley couldn’t find relevant notes after a search of his home following the mass shooting.
A second threat, this one against police, prompted a warning from the Truro, N.S., police department nearly a year later. On May 4, 2011 the Criminal Intelligence Service of Nova Scotia issued an officer safety bulletin to police agencies about Wortman written by Cpl. Greg Densmore, who warned that Wortman “wants to kill a cop.”
The bulletin was based on information from an unnamed person who told police that Wortman was in possession of at least one handgun and several long rifles that were stored in a compartment behind the flue in his Portapique cottage.
Poirier took note of the bulletin which he thought represented a “viable threat.”
He reported that he spoke to Densmore, the author of the bulletin, and to Wortman’s father before contacting Bible Hill RCMP, where Const. John McMinn, the on-duty supervisor, said he was unaware of the bulletin. Poirier said he provided McMinn with his report from 2010, including information about Wortman’s personal vehicle.
The document says McMinn conducted a database search, but it adds no further details.
Wortman allegedly smuggled drugs and guns from Maine for years and had
hiding spaces in several of his residences. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew
Vaughan
The third incident involves a report filed to police on July 6, 2013 by an ex-neighbour of the gunman in Portapique. Brenda Forbes told the inquiry commission that she reported her belief about illegal weapons during a complaint about a domestic violence incident involving Lisa Banfield, the gunman’s spouse.
However, RCMP record searches following the 2020 mass shooting indicate the responding officers took “minimal notes” at the time. Much of the information had since been purged, and RCMP investigators eventually concluded that the incident was “outside the parameters of the homicide (mass shooting) investigation.”
An RCMP email on June 9, 2020 also said there “seems to be a discrepancy” in Forbes’s memory of her call to police and added that there was no record of a “domestic occurrence” on the day Forbes described. “Our member who spoke to her in 2013 says he believes that call was about Brenda — not about a domestic against someone else,” the email states.
A fire-destroyed property registered to Gabriel Wortman at 200 Portapique Beach Road. Photo by Andrew Vaughan /THE CANADIAN PRESS
Forbes subsequently told the inquiry in an Aug. 19, 2021 interview that police never called her back about her complaint, and they did not make a voice recording when she spoke with them.
Meanwhile, the inquiry’s foundational document also released details about the gunman’s arsenal at his home in Portapique.
It shows that relatives on both sides of his family and others, including neighbours and people who had worked on his property, had been shown his guns. Several people were also shown where they were hidden in the Portapique cottage and in an adjacent warehouse.
All described weapons including high calibre pistols, assault rifles and shotguns, and the document makes it clear that Wortman wasn’t shy about telling people that he had obtained some of the guns in the United States.
Some of the 18 known victims of the Nova Scotia mass shootings. Photo by Facebook; Handouts
Lisa Banfield told the inquiry in an interview that he had “Rambo and military-style guns” and had purchased his handguns in the United States and brought them back to Canada hidden in the back of his truck.
When the gunman was killed by police as he stopped to refuel a stolen car north of Halifax, he had several weapons in his possession.
The document states police recovered a Glock 23 pistol, a Ruger P89 pistol, a Colt Carbine 5.56 semi-automatic rifle, a Ruger Mini-14 semi-automatic rifle and a Smith & Wesson Model 5947 handgun that belonged to RCMP Const. Heidi Stevenson, whom the gunman had killed shortly before.
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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 22:45:13 -0300
Subject: Fwd: Methinks Paul Palango and his strange buddies should at
least agree that his Justice Minister's computer should its not Canada
Day yet N'esy Pas Jagmeet Singh???
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As far as I know it still ain't Canada Day YET EH Tommy Boy Taggart???
Perhaps your Number One fanboy Paul Palango will figure out whats
wrong with the computers in Nova Scotia
In the "Mean" time Please enjoy my blog over the long weekend
Wednesday, 22 June 2022
RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki tried to ‘jeopardize’ mass murder
investigation to advance Trudeau’s gun control efforts
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From: "McCulloch, Sandra" <smcculloch@pattersonlaw.ca>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 01:26:01 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks Paul Palango and his strange
buddies should at least agree that his Justice Minister's computer
should its not Canada Day yet N'esy Pas Jagmeet Singh???
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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These dudes like to tell and sell many tales
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
the Nova Scotia Mass Shooting - June 26, 2022 - with Adam Rodgers and Paul Palango
the Nova Scotia Mass Shooting - June 19 2022 - Weekly Updates with Paul and Jordan
1,180 viewsPaul Palango and I will discuss recent developments related to the Nova Scotia Mass Shooting.
However this dead man won't be telling any tales anymore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Sonny Barger - “Sons of Anarchy” actor and founder of Hells Angels
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From: Justice Minister <JUSTMIN@novascotia.ca>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 00:08:46 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks Trudeau the Younger's buddy Jagmeet
Singh claimed that he cared about alleged interference in N.S.
shooting probe N'esy Pas Marco Mendicino???
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Thank you for your email to the Minister of Justice. Please be assured
that it has been received by the Department. Your email will be
reviewed and addressed accordingly. Thank you.
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 12:50:39 -0300
Subject: Re: N.S. mass shooting failures Deja Vu Anyone???
To: darren.campbell@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
Bill.Blair@parl.gc.ca, bmassey@justice.gc.ca, "Amato, Mike #509"
<509@yrp.ca>, brenda.lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
ethics-ethique@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
akennedy@quispamsis.ca, "elizabeth.mcmillan"
<elizabeth.mcmillan@cbc.ca>, Justice Minister <JUSTMIN@novascotia.ca>,
PREMIER@novascotia.ca
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From: "Singh, Jagmeet - M.P." <Jagmeet.Singh@parl.gc.ca>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 00:05:55 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks Trudeau the Younger's buddy Jagmeet
Singh claimed that he cared about alleged interference in N.S.
shooting probe N'esy Pas Marco Mendicino???
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
(Le français suit l'anglais)
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---------- Original message ----------
From: "Joly, Mélanie - M.P." <Melanie.Joly@parl.gc.ca>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 00:05:54 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks Trudeau the Younger's buddy Jagmeet
Singh claimed that he cared about alleged interference in N.S.
shooting probe N'esy Pas Marco Mendicino???
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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Sincèrement,
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---------- Original message ----------
From: "Anand, Anita - M.P." <Anita.Anand@parl.gc.ca>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 00:05:55 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks Trudeau the Younger's buddy Jagmeet
Singh claimed that he cared about alleged interference in N.S.
shooting probe N'esy Pas Marco Mendicino???
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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Tel: (905) 338-2008
---------- Original message ----------
From: "Fraser, Sean - M.P." <Sean.Fraser@parl.gc.ca>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 00:05:54 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks Trudeau the Younger's buddy Jagmeet
Singh claimed that he cared about alleged interference in N.S.
shooting probe N'esy Pas Marco Mendicino???
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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---------- Original message ----------
From: "Bergen, Candice - M.P." <candice.bergen@parl.gc.ca>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 00:05:54 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks Trudeau the Younger's buddy Jagmeet
Singh claimed that he cared about alleged interference in N.S.
shooting probe N'esy Pas Marco Mendicino???
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
On behalf of the Hon. Candice Bergen, thank you for contacting the
Office of the Leader of the Official Opposition.
Ms. Bergen greatly values feedback and input from Canadians. We read
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Sincerely,
Office of the Leader of the Official Opposition
------------------------------
Au nom de l’hon. Candice Bergen, nous vous remercions de communiquer
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---------- Original message ----------
From: "Findlay, Kerry-Lynne D. - M.P." <kerry-lynne.findlay@parl.gc.
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 00:05:57 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks Trudeau the Younger's buddy Jagmeet
Singh claimed that he cared about alleged interference in N.S.
shooting probe N'esy Pas Marco Mendicino???
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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---------- Original message ----------
From: "Lantsman, Melissa - M.P." <melissa.lantsman@parl.gc.ca>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 00:05:56 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks Trudeau the Younger's buddy Jagmeet
Singh claimed that he cared about alleged interference in N.S.
shooting probe N'esy Pas Marco Mendicino???
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Hello,
We have received your email message. Thank you very much for contacting us.
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Sincerely,
Melissa Lantsman
Member of Parliament for Thornhill
---------- Original message ----------
From: "Van Popta, Tako - M.P." <Tako.VanPopta@parl.gc.ca>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 00:05:56 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks Trudeau the Younger's buddy Jagmeet
Singh claimed that he cared about alleged interference in N.S.
shooting probe N'esy Pas Marco Mendicino???
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
PLEASE READ
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---------- Original message ----------
From: "Ruff, Alex - M.P." <Alex.Ruff@parl.gc.ca>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 00:05:57 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks Trudeau the Younger's buddy Jagmeet
Singh claimed that he cared about alleged interference in N.S.
shooting probe N'esy Pas Marco Mendicino???
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Thank you for contacting the office of Alex Ruff, Member of Parliament
(MP) for Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound.
MP Ruff welcomes hearing from constituents on issues that are
important to them. A reply to your email will be provided as soon as
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---------- Original message ----------
From: "Barlow, John - M.P." <John.Barlow@parl.gc.ca>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 00:05:56 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks Trudeau the Younger's buddy Jagmeet
Singh claimed that he cared about alleged interference in N.S.
shooting probe N'esy Pas Marco Mendicino???
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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home address and postal code.
---------- Original message ----------
From: "Stewart, Jake - M.P." <jake.stewart@parl.gc.ca>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 00:05:57 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks Trudeau the Younger's buddy Jagmeet
Singh claimed that he cared about alleged interference in N.S.
shooting probe N'esy Pas Marco Mendicino???
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Hello,
Thank you for your correspondence. This is to acknowledge that our
office has received your email and we are working on your request.
If you are a constituent and require immediate assistance, please call
our office at 506-778-8448 and a member of our staff will be happy to
assist you.
Thank you and have a great day,
Office of MP Jake Stewart
Shadow Minister for National Revenue
Miramichi-Grand Lake
------------------------------
Bonjour,
Merci pour votre message. Ceci est pour vous aviser que nous avons
reçu votre courriel et que nous travaillons sur votre demande.
Si vous êtes un électeur de notre circonscription et que vous avez
besoin d'assistance immédiate, s'il-vous-plaît veuillez téléphoner
notre bureau au 506-778-8448 et un membre de notre équipe se fera
plaisir de vous servir.
Merci et bonne journée,
Jake Stewart, député
Ministre fantôme du Revenu National
Miramichi-Grand Lake
---------- Original message ----------
From: "Hogan, Bill Hon. (JPS/JSP)" <Bill.Hogan@gnb.ca>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 00:05:50 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks Trudeau the Younger's buddy Jagmeet
Singh claimed that he cared about alleged interference in N.S.
shooting probe N'esy Pas Marco Mendicino???
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Thank you for your email, it is important to me.
Due to the volume of emails that I receive daily and my schedule I
will respond as soon as possible. It may take up to a week.
You may also reach out to my Constituency Assistant Kim Carvell
277-6020 and she may be able to assist you quicker.
Thank you
Bill Hogan
MLA Carleton
277-6020
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From: Premier of Ontario | Premier ministre de l’Ontario <Premier@ontario.ca>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 00:05:52 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks Trudeau the Younger's buddy Jagmeet
Singh claimed that he cared about alleged interference in N.S.
shooting probe N'esy Pas Marco Mendicino???
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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From: "McCulloch, Sandra" <smcculloch@pattersonlaw.ca>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 19:36:06 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks Robert Pineo and his cohorts should
agree that the old rule "Never believe anything until it is officially
denied" still applies N'esy Pas Paul Palango?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
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From: "Bergen, Candice - M.P." <candice.bergen@parl.gc.ca>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 19:36:08 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks Robert Pineo and his cohorts should
agree that the old rule "Never believe anything until it is officially
denied" still applies N'esy Pas Paul Palango?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 16:36:00 -0300
Subject: Methinks Robert Pineo and his cohorts should agree that the
old rule "Never believe anything until it is officially denied" still
applies N'esy Pas Paul Palango?
To: PREMIER@gov.ns.ca, "Bill.Blair" <Bill.Blair@parl.gc.ca>,
"Brenda.Lucki" <Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "blaine.higgs"
<blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>, "Mark.Blakely" <Mark.Blakely@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>,
mcu <mcu@justice.gc.ca>, "Marco.Mendicino"
<Marco.Mendicino@parl.gc.ca>, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>, "Katie.Telford"
<Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca>, "Michelle.Boutin"
<Michelle.Boutin@rcmp-grc.gc.
<michelle.rempel@parl.gc.ca>, "Candice.Bergen"
<Candice.Bergen@parl.gc.ca>, kevin.leahy@pps-spp.parl.gc.ca
Charles.Murray@gnb.ca, JUSTWEB <JUSTWEB@novascotia.ca>, Newsroom
<Newsroom@globeandmail.com>, "Mike.Comeau" <Mike.Comeau@gnb.ca>,
"Louis.Leger" <Louis.Leger@gnb.ca>
Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>, andrewjdouglas
<andrewjdouglas@gmail.com>, smcculloch@pattersonlaw.ca,
NightTimePodcast <NightTimePodcast@gmail.com>, tim
<tim@halifaxexaminer.ca>, jennifer@halifaxexaminer.ca,
rpineo@pattersonlaw.ca, paulpalango <paulpalango@protonmail.com>
Hmmmm
https://www.cbc.ca/news/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/
Is the OPP still hanging around???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
the Nova Scotia Mass Shooting - June 12 2022 - Weekly Updates with
Paul and Jordan
1,579 views
Streamed live on Jun 12, 2022
Nighttime Podcast
7.35K subscribers
Paul Palango and I will discuss recent developments related to the
Nova Scotia Mass Shooting.
Advance questions and comments can be submitted by voice memo at
nighttimepodcast.com/contact
Deja Vu Anyone???
https://davidraymondamos3.
Wednesday, 29 July 2020
Federal and provincial governments to hold public inquiry into Nova
Scotia mass shootings
> 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.ca
> mlaritcey@bellaliant.com, mla@esmithmccrossinmla.com,
> toryrushtonmla@bellaliant.com, kelly@kellyregan.ca,
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> FinanceMinister@novascotia.ca, "Bill.Morneau" <Bill.Morneau@canada.ca>
> Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>,
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> 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.
>
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>
> 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
> Sgt.Royce MacRae at 902-720-5426 (w) or 902-471-8776 (c)
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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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> 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>
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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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> Friday, 18 September 2015
> David Raymond Amos Versus The Crown T-1557-15
>
https://www.halifaxexaminer.
RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki tried to ‘jeopardize’ mass murder
investigation to advance Trudeau’s gun control efforts
June 21, 2022 By Jennifer Henderson 1 Comment
a man and a woman
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki.
Photo: Government of Canada
RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki “made a promise” to Public Safety
Minister Bill Blair and the Prime Minister’s Office to leverage the
mass murders of April 18/19, 2020 to get a gun control law passed.
A week after the murders, Lucki pressured RCMP in Nova Scotia to
release details of the weapons used by the killer. But RCMP commanders
in Nova Scotia refused to release such details, saying doing so would
threaten their investigation into the murders.
The Trudeau government’s gun control objectives were spelled out in an
order in council issued in May 2020, and were encapsulated in Bill
C-21, which was tabled last month, but the concern in April 2020 was
the extent to which politics threatened to interfere with a
cross-border police investigation into how the killer managed to
obtain and smuggle into Canada four illegal guns used to commit many
of the 22 murders.
The RCMP subsequently learned the killer paid a man named Neil
Gallivan to purchase one assault-style rifle at a 2019 gun show in
Houlton, Maine. The killer also obtained two illegal handguns from a
close friend and collector named Sean Conlogue.
No charges have been laid against either Gallivan or Conlogue, and
it’s still unclear why.
“Reduced to tears”
RCMP Support Services Officer Darren Campbell
But the Mounties didn’t have that information on April 28, 2020 — just
one week after the murders — when Nova Scotia Supt. Darren Campbell
briefed journalists at a news conference.
Compared to earlier briefings given by Chief Supt. Chris Leather, the
head of Criminal Operations, Campbell was much more forthcoming. He
answered questions about the timeline for the murders, the possible
motivation of the gunman, and the condition and role of intimate
partner Lisa Banfield.
On the firearms question, Campbell told journalists he “couldn’t get
into details… because the investigation is still active and ongoing,”
except to confirm the gunman had several semi-automatic handguns and
two semi-automatic rifles.
Shortly after the news conference Campbell, Asst. Commander Lee
Bergerman, Leather, and Nova Scotia Communications director Lia
Scanlan were summoned to a meeting. RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki and
a deputy from Ottawa were on the conference call. Lucki was not happy.
Campbell’s handwritten notes made immediately following that meeting
describe what happened:
The Commissioner was obviously upset. She did not raise her voice
but her choice of words was indicative of her overall dissatisfaction
with our work. The Commissioner accused us (me) of disrespecting her
by not following her instructions. I was and remain confused over
this. The Commissioner said she told Comms to tell us at H Division to
include specific info about the firearms used by [the killer]….However
I said we couldn’t because to do so would jeopardize ongoing efforts
to advance the U.S. side of the case as well as the Canadian
components of the investigation. Those are facts and I stand by them.
Campbell noted that Lucki went on at length and said she was “sad and
disappointed” that he had not provided these details to the media.
Campbell continued:
The Commissioner said she had promised the Minister of Public
Safety and the Prime Minister’s Office that the RCMP (we) would
release this information. I tried to explain there was no intent to
disrespect anyone however we could not release this information at
this time. The Commissioner then said that we didn’t understand, that
this was tied to pending gun control legislation that would make
officers and the public safer. She was very upset and at one point
Deputy Commissioner (Brian) Brennan tried to get things calmed down
but that had little effect. Some in the room were reduced to tears and
emotional over this belittling reprimand.
Keeping the death toll from the public
A document released by the Mass Casualty Commission (MCC) today —
“Public Communications from RCMP and Government After Portapique” —
indicates there were earlier sources of tension between National RCMP
Headquarters in Ottawa and ‘H’ Division in Nova Scotia over how
information concerning the victims would be controlled.
Lia Scanlan was the director of strategic communications for the RCMP
in Nova Scotia. She told the commission the national RCMP HQ was aware
a news conference was planned for 6pm on Sunday evening, April 19,
2020, and it was “explicitly stated that we were doing all the
communications.”
During this first surreal briefing only hours after the gunman and
been shot and killed by police, most of the focus was on the murder of
RCMP Cst. Heidi Stevenson rather than the murders of multiple
civilians. Only 10 minutes into the press conference, and in response
to a reporter’s question, Chief Supt. Chris Leather shocked most Nova
Scotians when he confirmed there were “in excess of 10 victims.”
Leather had been told one hour before the briefing there were at least
15 confirmed victims at 15 crime scenes, with the possibility of more.
Many who watched the live briefing observed the RCMP officer appeared
like a deer caught in headlights.
But Nova Scotia ‘H’ Division did not have control of the message.
Contravening the agreed protocol, throughout the early hours of Sunday
evening, RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki agreed to a number of
one-on-one interviews with reporters. At 7:36pm, CBC News quoted Lucki
as stating there were 13 victims; at 7:40pm, CTV reported Lucki had
said 14 victims; and at 7:56pm, the Canadian Press quoted Lucki as
having confirmed 17 dead, including the gunman.
The public and the press corps were both confused and alarmed.
“So how does it happen that Commissioner Lucki….?”, MCC lawyer Krista
Smith started to ask Communications director Lia Scanlan during an
interview last February.
“I don’t know, ask National Headquarters,” retorted Scanlan.“The
commissioner releases a body count that we (Communications) don’t even
have. She went out and did that. It was all political pressure. That
is 100% Minister Blair and the Prime Minister. And we have a
Commissioner that does not push back.”
At 10:21 Sunday night, Lia Scanlan emailed Sharon Tessier, the senior
communications manager at RCMP National Headquarter, and two
colleagues asking them to speak to Lucki about releasing victim
information:
Can I make a request that we stop changing the number of victims.
Please allow us to lead the release of information. It looks
fragmented and inconsistent. I spoke with the Commanding Officer
tonight and we will be updating this tomorrow.
We knew at the time of the press event it was more than 10
(victims) but that is what we came to ground on for the event. That is
our plan tomorrow, to update as our members continue their jobs and
discover more crime scenes and bodies. The changes in number are
causing our phones to ring off the hook…
For consideration, Lia
Despite the frustration of journalists and citizens trying to grasp
the magnitude of what had happened in northern Nova Scotia, the
reporting of the number of deceased would continue to change over the
next couple of days.
At the second news briefing held Monday April 20 at 2pm, Leather said
“I can confirm there are 19 victims but we expect there may be more.”
Asked why, Leather suggested that because so many homes had burned to
the ground, it might take longer to find and identify other victims.
That sounded reasonable. Unfortunately, it didn’t square with notes
from the the Major Crimes Investigation unit. The notes show
Investigators had confirmed 22 victims as of 11pm the previous Sunday
night. At the 2pm news conference Monday afternoon, RCMP in Nova
Scotia said they could not release the names of the civilian victims
until the Medical Examiner had completed forensic identifications. But
by 5:25pm that same day, the MCC document shows all next-of-kin
families of victims had been notified so there was no compelling
reason not to release the names.
Ultimately, the RCMP didn’t release the names until after media
outlets, including the Halifax Examiner, had independently reported
them.
In Ottawa, Public Safety minister Bill Blair and Commissioner Lucki
conducted their own media briefing on Monday at 2:30pm.
The senior Communications manager from RCMP HQ, Sharon Tessier, had
called Nova Scotia Comms earlier in the day to say HQ supported
releasing the names of all victims. During his briefing Blair
announced that the killer’s victims included “a nurse, a teacher,
corrections officers, a serving police officer, parents, neighbours,
and friends.” Blair and Lucki talked about “18 lives” being lost,
adding to the inconsistency and confusion over how large a tragedy had
occurred.
On Tuesday April 21, RCMP in Nova Scotia posted information on its
Facebook account that named the communities where the killer had taken
lives and confirmed a total of 23 victims. Later in the day that
number was adjusted to 22 and the revised post acknowledged the killer
had been shot and killed by police.
About Jennifer Henderson
Jennifer Henderson is a freelance journalist and retired CBC News
reporter. email: jennifer@halifaxexaminer.ca
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the Nova Scotia Rampage - Part 3 - a History of Domestic Violence (with Jane Gerster)
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From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 21:33:24 -0400
Subject: Fwd: A Little New Years Eve Deja Vu for Trump, Trudeau, RCMP,
FBI, CBC, CTV Frank Magazine, Vice Magazine, Feminists, the Ghosts the
Queens Crook Tim Richardson and his buddy the Evil Fat Bastard of
Edmonton commonly known as Mr Baconfat
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https://www.nighttimepodcast.
the Nova Scotia Rampage - Charlene Bagley, Daughter of Tom Bagley's open letter (recorded Dec 22, 2020)
Nova Scotia, April 18-19, 2020
Over a period of thirteen hours, a 51 year old denturist carried out Canada’s most deadly act of mass murder.
Dressed in a police officer’s uniform and driving a replica police cruiser, this murderer would leave a trail of innocent victims and burnt homes in his wake. In total twenty two Nova Scotians lost their lives including a pregnant woman, a RCMP Constable, and many other innocent victims who were unfortunate enough to cross his path.
In this episode of Nighttime, I will address critisim I’ve received about my willingness to question the RCMP’s version of the events, and I’ll do it by sharing an open letter by Charlene Bagley, Daughter of the 16th victim Tom Bagley.
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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 17:17:03 -0400
Subject: A Little New Years Eve Deja Vu for Trump, Trudeau, RCMP, FBI,
CBC, CTV Frank Magazine, Vice Magazine, Feminists, the Ghosts the
Queens Crook Tim Richardson and his buddy the Evil Fat Bastard of
Edmonton commonly known as Mr Baconfat
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nsinvestigators@gmail.com, tim@halifaxexaminer.ca, "darrow.macintyre"
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'Nobody was safe from it': Edmonton blogger charged with rare hate
crime targeted individuals across Canada
Police say Barry Winters, 62, made derogatory remarks about race,
gender, politics
Roberta Bell · CBC News · Posted: Jun 14, 2017 5:38 PM MT
Edmonton police Sgt. Gary Willits of the hate crimes unit said the
investigation into blog posts targeting numerous individuals took more
than a year. (Scott Neufeld/CBC)
Blogs that led to a rare charge of promoting hatred were more extreme
than anything he's ever seen before, says an Edmonton police
investigator.
"I've never seen such extreme hatred from an individual," said
Edmonton police Sgt. Gary Willits. "He just kept spewing and nobody
was safe from it.
"He literally in some of these blogs was saying to kill people."
After an investigation of more than a year, Edmonton police confirmed
Wednesday a CBC News report a day earlier that revealed Barry Winters,
62, was charged with wilful promotion of hatred on a blog called The
Baconfat Papers and other blogs between 2014 and 2016. But police say
there's reason to believe the posts date back at least two years
earlier.
Copies of the blog submitted for evidence by one of many complainants
in the case show the blogger repeatedly made derogatory comments about
numerous individuals across the country, including a number of
well-known politicians and LGBTQ advocates in Edmonton.
The remarks don't exclusively target one particular group, but focus
on various factors, including race, gender, sexual orientation and
culture. Others attack individual politicians in various levels of
government.
Willits said it's possible some people still don't know they were
targeted in the blog posts.
Glenn Canning, based in Toronto, said there were dozens of posts on
Winters' blog between 2014 and 2016 about his daughter, Rehtaeh
Parsons. She committed suicide after she was sexually abused by a
group of teenage boys at a party in Halifax in 2013.
Canning said he discovered his daughter and his family were the
subject of the blog posts after someone contacted him and told him
about them.
It just broke my bloody heart in half to read that.
- Rehtaeh Parsons 's father Glen Canning
The blogs that focused on Rehtaeh were "just disgusting and sick," Canning said.
"It just broke my bloody heart in half to read that. It was cruel and
it is even crueller to know that the guy did it for no other reason
than he enjoyed hurting somebody."
Canning said he was in touch with police over the past year after they
opened the investigation. He's glad police have finally laid a charge.
"I've cried over this," Canning said. "When it happens to you over a
very personal thing, it affects you pretty badly."
Marni Panas, an Edmonton-based LGBTQ advocate, said she was appalled
when she stumbled across posts on a blog suggesting she move to a
country where transgender women, like herself, are persecuted.
You don't know who's on the other end of these keyboards.
- Marni Panas
"You don't know who's on the other end of these keyboards.You don't
know what they're capable of and that instills a real fear," said
Panas, who notified police in 2016.
Panas said she has experienced online hateful comments before, but
said it stood out that the blogger in this instance was from the same
city.
She said she'd never met the the blogger, to her knowledge, but
wondered what would happen if she did.
Willits said police began the investigation in early 2016, after they
received complaints about the blog posts. Collecting the evidence was
time-consuming and complicated, he said, because patterns of hatred,
threats and harm had to be documented meticulously.
Willits said stating an opinion, a personal dislike, of something or
someone, is not the same as "intruding on others" and "uttering
threats."
The charge Winters faces is rare. Alberta Justice said in an email
that province-wide, that type of charge has only been laid on three
other occasions since 2011.
Edmonton police had to seek approval from the attorney general to
charge the blogger, who police say had a growing following numbering
into the thousands.
The posts were filled with derogatory words and "dehumanized scorn"
toward people and identifiable groups, Willits said.
CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices
https://www.cbc.ca/news/
Professor hopeful hate-crime charge will deter others, despite death of accused
'Of course, it’s tragic when anyone passes away and very said, I
think, in this case,' LGBTQ advocate says
CBC News · Posted: Jul 12, 2017 3:45 PM MT
A rare hate-crimes court case in Edmonton is over but the complainants
may not have the kind of closure they were hoping for.
The man charged with wilful promotion of hatred for offensive language
he used on his blog, The Baconfat Papers, died of a stroke July 4, one
of the complainants confirmed Wednesday.
The Edmonton police hate crimes unit charged Barry Winters this spring
after receiving complaints about his blog from LGBTQ advocates,
including Kris Wells, the faculty director of the University of
Alberta's Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services.
•Edmonton police charge blogger with hate crime against prof
•'Nobody was safe from it': Edmonton blogger charged with rare hate crime
•Rise in reported hate crimes in Alberta no surprise to many
"Of course, it's tragic when anyone passes away and very sad, I think,
in this case," Wells told CBC News.
"I don't think there's any resolution," Wells said. "This person
hasn't been held accountable; only in the sense of karma, perhaps, if
you believe in that — the universe taking care of things on its own
terms."
Even though there will be no court hearing or decision, Wells is
hopeful the nature of the charge will act as a deterrent to others
using racist, homophobic or sexist language.
"When you cross that line from free speech to hate speech, there will
be consequences. That's probably the most important message out of
these charges."
Wells said he was shocked at the "hateful and horrific nature of the
comments," when he read Winters's blog over two years ago. Wells was
one of several people targeted with violent threats.
"I'm used to lots of issues being directed my way because of the work
that I do and in the LGBTQ community, but this really was beyond any
bounds of acceptability."
Wells acknowledged that the threshold is high for police to lay
hate-crime charges, but he's hoping more people will report to police
if they suspect someone's behaviour falls under that part of the
Criminal Code.
Wells said only one in 10 hate crimes is reported in Canada.
Statistics Canada data show the rate of hate crimes in Alberta rose 39
per cent in 2015, compared to a five-per-cent rise nationally.
The Alberta Justice and Solicitor General office said the charge
against Winters will be stayed before Aug. 4, which was to be
Winters's next court appearance.
CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 18:49:52 -0700
Subject: Re the many Webpages of Frank Magazine, Vice Magazine,
Feminists, Philip Rose, Glen Canning, Dean Roger Ray, Patty Baby Doran
and the Mindless Evil Fat Bastard in Edmoton commonly known as Mr
Baconfat
To: "rod.knecht" <rod.knecht@edmontonpolice.ca>
<sunrayzulu@shaw.ca>, "scott.macrae" <scott.macrae@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>,
Glen Canning <grcanning@gmail.com>, patrick_doran1
<patrick_doran1@hotmail.com>, Rhansen <Rhansen@calgarypolice.ca>,
pol7163 <pol7163@calgarypolice.ca>, blake <blake@frankmagazine.ca>,
bourdap <bourdap@halifax.ca>, oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, jesse
<jesse@jessebrown.ca>, sean <sean@canadalandshow.com>,
"Stephen.Horsman" <Stephen.Horsman@gnb.ca>, "danny.copp"
<danny.copp@fredericton.ca>, macklamoureux@gmail.com, Cindy Bruneau
<Cindy.Bruneau@edmonton.ca>, "don.iveson" <don.iveson@edmonton.ca>,
"don.marshall" <don.marshall@edmonton.ca>, themayor
<themayor@calgary.ca>, woodsideb <woodsideb@fredericton.ca>, deanr0032
<deanr0032@hotmail.com>, "Gary.Rhodes" <Gary.Rhodes@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>,
bluelightning 03 <bluelightning_03@hotmail.com>
<smcintyre@sylvanlake.ca>, mgorman <mgorman@herald.ca>,
"selena.ross@cbc.ca" <selena.ross@cbc.ca>, michael@frankmagazine.ca,
mikegormanhfx@gmail.com, meghan@feministcurrent.com,
christopherrowe@gmail.com, philiprose123@gmail.com, "Kevin.leahy"
<Kevin.leahy@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Journal)" <dstaples@edmontonjournal.com>
"joshua.skurnik" <joshua.skurnik@hotmail.com>, "macpherson.don"
<macpherson.don@dailygleaner.
acampbell@ctv.ca, Newsroom <Newsroom@globeandmail.com>, cblatchford
<cblatchford@postmedia.com>
I hope by now Mack Lamoureux has figured out that I am NOT Mr Baconfat
and that he has checked the malevolent blog close enough to see what a
liar Mr Baconfat has proven himself to be.
First lets quote one of his latest blogs
https://baconfatreport.
"Since that bombastic threat NO media has contacted me until now, and
Mr. Lamoureux freelancing for an obscure “on-line” sort of alternative
“news” magazine VICE Canada, two galaxies over in the “cyber-space
universe” called referring to me as “David” and hounded me with three
or four e mails for an “interview.” Its gratifying to know that Mr.
Canning has finally been successful in his cries for media assistance
in dealing with me, that evil bastard, and that blog in the “outer
reaches of the cyber-space universe."
"NO media has contacted me until now"
YEA RIGHT???
Following that "little epsitle" Mr Bconfat posted a YouTube of his
butt buddy Patty Baby Doran.
https://baconfatreport.
To relieve yourselves of boredon perhaps everybody and the
"journalists" amongst you in particular should fast forward to 28
minutes and 30 sec and freeze fames as you read two emails between Mr
Baconfat and Frank Magazine last year from last year. DUHHH???
Kinda easy to see that your old blogging buddy Mr Baconfat is a
Monumental Liar with a very poor memory kinda like you N'esy pas
Chucky Leblanc? Like you Mr Baconfat deletes his blogs once a Faux Pas
has been exposed which is why I must save his words and yours EH
Chucky Baby?
However there is much more that the VICE dudes should enjoy. It proves
that the arseholes within CBC, CTV, Global, the Herald, the Irving
Empire and Frank Magazine etc have known about Glen Canning and Mr
Baconfat's questionable actions all along. But this recent news should
have embarassed the Hell out the RCMP and their boss Mr Harper. Yet
nobody gave a damn Eh Kevin Leahy
http://www.cbc.ca/news/
There is a lot more to be found within the following link. If you read
you will see I explained this to Frank Magazine et al in great detail
last year so there is no need to be redundant.
http://thedavidamosrant.
Here is just a taste so the that evil bastard Mr Baconfat can eat his
own words and hopefully choke on them..
http://baconfat53.blogspot.ca/
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Glen Canning's Insane Jihad Against Us Infidels!
Glen Canning and his ex wife Leah Parsons have been waging a
relentless Jihad of sort against anyone that does not buy the "family
Parsons /Canning " propaganda about the life and martyrdom of "Saint
Rehtaeh of Parsons." Glen and Leah's Jihad against myself and others
has taken strange turn in the last few weeks. A few short weeks ago
seemingly one of the parents of the principles of the Rehtaeh Parsons
tragedy emailed me to complain the "antics of Leah Parsons and Glen
Canning." Glen Canning sent 7 emails and six obscene hate filled
epistles to my blog comments. Also Gen Canning made a threatening and
harassing telephone call to my wife's place of employment. And today
things got "curiouser and curiouser" when Mike Gorman of Halifax's
Frank Magazine emailed some questions for me, as he is reporting about
the Rehtaeh Parsons" media circus of the last year or so. Is Mr.
Gorman a mere shill for Glen Canning?
One of the questions Mr. Gorman posed to me was, "was I going to
defend myself and launch a lawsuit. After I answered his query, it
occurred to me that "those four boys" vilified, slandered, outted by
anonymous, Team Parsons / Canning, and the Feministas, would have a
very good case to litigate against all of these parties. These lads
were never charged with a crime, never convicted, their identities
protected by law, were abused, exposed, threatened, and their lives
ruined by a "lynch mob" fomented and directed by Glen Canning and Leah
Parsons using social media.. It seems to me these people have been
grievously wronged and injured by the Canning, Parsons duo and are
entitled to considerable legal remedy. Glen Canning and Leah Parsons
ought to pay recompense to the collateral damage victims of their
"Holy War."
Mr. Gorman was entirely ignorant of "Rehtaeh's Law, that deals with
cyber-bullying, harassment by posting, and distributing humiliating,
and or naked pictures on social media. The behavior that some say
drove poor Rehtaeh to suicide is now illegal. The ignorant Mr. Gorman
wondered what effect would Rehaeh's Father "suing" me under Rehteah's
Law would have on me. "Rehtaeh's Law is a CC of C section. So Mr.
Canning has no input in the laying of such charges. I further educated
Mr Gorman, that no one can "cyber-bully" Rehtaeh Parsons because she
is dead as a Mackeral. There are no naked or pornographic pictures of
Rehtaeh, nor of Mr. Glen Canning for that matter, if he is considering
saying he is a victim of a miscreant violating Rehtaeh's Law. In fact
I haven't harassed, bullied, sent unsolicited email, or communicated
with anyone. I write a blog. A blog Glen Canning frequently visits and
reads very much on his volition.
Glen Canning and his ex wife Leah Parsons have been impersonating
people on the world wide web, harassing them, and threatening them,
because there is money to be made being "poor victims. And they would
NOT want or let anyone jeopardize that. Mr. Canning has NO legal
options, recourse, or means to shut me or others up.
That's game, set and match, Glen!
Posted by Seren at 1:35 PM
Hence VICE Magazine has every chance in the world to set the record
straight. EH Jesse Brown and Chucky Leblanc?
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 22:26:22 -0700
Subject: Whilst Chucky Leblanc was having a little pow wow with Jesse
Baby Brown in Fat Fred City his old blogging butt buddy the Very Evil
Bastard Mr Baconfat of Edmonton was busy typing his latest epistle
about Vice Magazine, Glen Canning and Mean Old Me
To: Jeff.Callaway@wildrose.ca, David.Price@wildrose.ca,
finance@wildrose.ca, "Heather.Forsyth"
<Heather.Forsyth@assembly.ab.
"Raj.Sherman" <Raj.Sherman@assembly.ab.ca>, Rachel Notley
<Rachel.Notley@assembly.ab.ca>
<greg.clark@albertaparty.ca>, "Marianne.Ryan"
<Marianne.Ryan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
highwood@assembly.ab.ca, joe.anglin@assembly.ab.ca, "Danielle.Smith"
<Danielle.Smith@assembly.ab.ca
SHutton@stikeman.com, LacLaBiche.StPaul.TwoHills@
brian.hodgson@assembly.ab.ca, Shayne.Saskiw@assembly.ab.ca, sunrayzulu
<sunrayzulu@shaw.ca>, "rod.knecht" <rod.knecht@edmontonpolice.ca>
patrick_doran1 <patrick_doran1@hotmail.com>, Rhansen
<Rhansen@calgarypolice.ca>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
<macklamoureux@gmail.com>, Glen Canning <grcanning@gmail.com>, jesse
<jesse@jessebrown.ca>, sean <sean@canadalandshow.com>,
"Jacques.Poitras" <Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca>, "David.Coon"
<David.Coon@gnb.ca>, oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, "Leanne.Fitch"
<Leanne.Fitch@fredericton.ca>
Which blog will get more hits? Survey Says?
http://
https://baconfatreport.
Better yet does anyone even care?
That said perhaps Mr Lamoureux should finally sprout some balls and
answer my emails or at least pick up the phone and give me call. Most
folks know that I find it very offensive to be thought of as the evil
Mr Baconfat EH Cindy Buneau and Rod Knecht?
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
902 800 0369
https://davidraymondamos3.
Saturday, 26 December 2020
ATTN Sidney Powell et al I just called your office in Texas and many
of your associates within the Dec 11th filings
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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 19:07:58 +0000
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To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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From: Bill.Blair@parl.gc.ca
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 19:08:11 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: FWD ATTN Sidney Powell et al I just called
your office in Texas and many of your associates within the Dec 11th
filings
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
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
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 15:07:53 -0400
Subject: FWD ATTN Sidney Powell et al I just called your office in
Texas and many of your associates within the Dec 11th filings
To: info@lionelmedia.com, liveneedtoknow@gmail.com,
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Dark To Light: A Meeting With The President
Radio Influence Staff
December 21, 2020
3
Patrick Byrne joins us today for a passionate conversation about his
meeting with the President of the United States. There isn’t a need
for many show notes.
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Now say Hey to the Yankee lawyer in Hells Kitchen Mikey Leron who
calls himself "Lionel" in Youtue and other so called free thinkers
then go figure why I am so pissed off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Need to Know: The Fetzer Report World Premiere
•Streamed live on Sep 3, 2020
Giuseppe Vafanculo Need to Know: The Fetzer Report
The first episode Special Report Features Professor Jim Fetzer along
with commentators Giuseppe Vafanculo from Revolution Radio and Susan
Bradford Author & Muckraking Journalist
http://susanbradford.org/
Susan was lead investigative journalist in the Abramoff investigation,
exposing the machinations of the Deep State within Indian Country and
Bob Mueller's partisan prosecution of Republican superlobbyist Jack
Abramoff and the executives of Enron. She has broken a number of
stories that have been picked up by ABC News and other national media.
https://www.bitchute.com/
Jim Fetzer
2211 subscribers
Need to Know Episode 93 (23 December 2020) with Giuseppe Vafanculo and
David Scorpio. Whistleblower shares witnessing traitorous betrayal of
Trump at Friday night White House Meeting. Trump appoints Sidney
Powell Special Counsel, traitors in White House block her entry. Jenna
Ellis calls out traitor Barr. Pence lets down Trump again. More and
more election fraud revealed. Some GOP Congressmen will challenge
electoral fraud on House floor. Trump threatens to veto stimulus bill
unless direct payments upped to $2,000. Drunken Pelosi parties
maskless with no social distancing--traitorous HYPOCRITE! 5 key
elements to scamdemic. Who finally admits most PCR tests reveal
nothing but the common cold. 3,150 MRNA ejection recipients sickened
enough to require hospitalization. 50% of US States plan to deny White
People the MRNA quackccination. Russian scientist who worked on COVID
quackccine stabbed, falls out of window (another suicide). Netanyahu
government collapses, 4th Israeli election in 2 years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
America the Unrecognizable
9,600 views
Streamed live on Dec 23, 2020
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From: Lionel Media <info@lionelmedia.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 20:16:31 +0000
Subject: The New Lionel Nation Channel
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
Remember what it was like to think dangerously? When expression and
thought weren't throttled. When we questioned everything.
** “Censorship reflects society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is
a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.” – Potter Stewart
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Here’s the news. I’ve a new channel. A new platform. A new paid
subscription membership
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not on any social media platform. It’s LionelMedia
(https://lionelmedia.com/) . New and improved. Remember when thinking
was dangerous and unregulated? You know. Freedom of speech. Freedom of
thought, expression, belief. Unfettered, unencumbered, unplugged.
Remember? Sounds too good to be true. But it’s happening. Here
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Countering the deep state, police state, intel state, shadow
government and ruling class #BigTech fascists. Ahem.
My story. Tuesday morning, 11 September 2001 CE. Redpilled. Big time.
Everything changed for me and I haven’t been the same since. I was in
NYC and couldn’t believe what I was seeing. And then I couldn’t
believe what I was reading and seeing on TV. But the truth was online.
This was before social media and Twatter, Fecesbook and that other
thing. It was Wild West Internet. The theories and hypotheses were
exploding. Many daft, many deranged and many spot-on and deadly
accurate. Perfect. We were called Truthers. Translation: People who
didn’t believe the official account (for a variety of reasons).
Imagine that, derided for wanting the truth. And it was fun and cool
and dangerous. And great.
But wait, there’s more. If you want to question vaccine safety
especially as to kids and you’re not RFK Jr. with Kennedy immunity,
you’re an Anti-Vaxxer and you’re off social media. Remember in 2016
when tough guy wannabe and overrated actor Bobby De Niro dared to
screen “Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe”? Seems that tough guy
Bobby got whacked and backed down. As the NYT reported
(https://www.nytimes.com/2016/
: “Facing a storm of criticism over its plan to show a documentary
about the widely debunked link between vaccines and autism, the
Tribeca Film Festival on Saturday pulled the film from its schedule
next month.” Did you catch that? Widely debunked link between vaccines
and autism. You’d better say it’s debunked or you’ll go the way of
Jenny McCarthy. Who? (Precisely.)
I said there was more. Doubt that UBL was dispatched in a gun battle
in Abbottabad and tossed into the drink à la Luca Brasi with not one
single morgue shot available and question the seemingly endless
passels of ex-Navy SEALs who swear they single-handedly plugged Osama
bin Forgotten, you’re a Deather. Ditto for questioning Saddam’s phone
cam dispatch. Unsure as to Barry O’s provenance (and you can think
Hillary C for that one), you’re a Birther (and a racist). Think that
masks don’t work (as Fauci said repeatedly) other than to steam up
glasses and perpetuate the culture of anonymity, you’re a Masker. (OK,
I made that one up). Bottom line, if you don’t regurgitate the pap,
the story line, you’re on your own. And for most folks they couldn’t
care less. Just let them pose half nude in front of a bathroom mirror
or perseverate the illusion and fantasy of hotness via beauty app and
they’re fine. That’s the way it works. Addict folks to social media
and then demand that they abide by the
rules of insipidity or lose their exhibitionist license. Sorry,
Sparky, not for me.
Then, it all changed. After social media hooked everyone with an
unlimited narcissism stage it changed the rules. Don’t talk at all of
the aforementioned or anything about hydroxychloroquine, stolen
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I need my own platform. I'm being second-guessed, sanctioned,
penalized, throttled, demonetized. And for what exactly? Especially
now with a spate of ex-Mafia made channels regaling you with lurid
tales of hits and murder and "the life." (Whither omertà?) That’s OK.
But dare to discuss COVID therapeutics and you’re Elvis. Sorry. Look,
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It’s what I’ve been doing professionally for 33 years inter alia.
Heritage MSM news platforms are dead. Shock jocks are dinosaurs.
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December 23, 2020
Overstock's colorful founder has tales to tell about the Russia hoax
By Andrea Widburg
Patrick Byrne, Overstock's founder, has long suspected that Obama set
up a police intelligence state that's been calling the shots in
American politics since 2015. On Sunday, he pushed back against those
of Trump's legal advisers demanding surrender. On Tuesday, he claimed
that Obama had blackmailed Hillary Clinton to own her politically. If
that's true, what Byrne is saying can upend the American political
scene.
The New Yorker profiled Byrne early in December. Sheelah Kolhatkar,
who wrote the profile, thinks Byrne is probably as crazy as John
McAfee, with both given over to life-destroying conspiracy theories.
Kolhatkar plays fair, though, and cannot deny his brilliance.
Former employees describe a memory trick he likes to perform, in
which he studies a deck of cards for a few minutes and then recites
back the order of the cards, one by one. "When he's on, he's smart,
charming, complex, and brilliant," Marc Cohodes, who was once a critic
of Overstock and is now an investor in the company, told me.
While Byrne may be eccentric, he's often right. He was the first to
realize that investment firms and stock traders were colluding to
drive stock prices down. He was accused of being paranoid, but the
financial crisis proved he was correct. Additionally, while Byrne's
tales about his adventures sound like fiction, that doesn't mean they
are:
David Luban, a professor of law at Georgetown University who has
known Byrne since teaching him as an undergraduate, observed that
improbable things seem to happen to Byrne with remarkable frequency.
"He's a hard man to bet against," Luban said. "So many of his stories
that have seemed utterly incredible turn out to be true."
Byrne's biggest adventure was his relationship with Maria Butina, who
was later convicted of acting as an unregistered Russian foreign
agent. When she approached him, he was worried enough to report that
fact to the FBI and was surprised when the Fibbies were unconcerned.
Throughout their one-and-a-half-year affair, Byrne kept the FBI
apprised.
Eventually, Byrne decided that the FBI were the baddies, and were
setting up Butina, who was arrested in July 2018:
By then, Byrne's suspicions about the F.B.I. had crystallized into
a belief that he had been part of a plot by high-ranking members of
the Obama Administration to commit political espionage, in an attempt
to control the next President.
Byrne also claims that the Obama administration planned the Russia
hoax as early as 2015:
According to the government's version of events, the F.B.I. opened
Crossfire Hurricane, its investigation into possible ties between the
Trump campaign and the Russian government, on July 31, 2016, after it
found out that the Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos had told
an Australian diplomat that he'd heard that Russians had compromising
information about Hillary Clinton. Byrne claims that it all really
started a year earlier, when the F.B.I. became aware of his
relationship with Butina.
We know that the government's account — that they opened the
investigation on July 31, 2016 — is a lie. A July 28, 2016 Peter
Strzok text to Lisa Page refers to already open counter-intelligence
investigations. Moreover, Clinton and the DNC had hired Fusion GPS in
April 2016 to investigate Trump's alleged Russian ties. Byrne thinks
Strzok was an architect of the Russia hoax and used Byrne's
relationship with Butina to further it.
Strzok denies all knowledge of Bryne and Butina. As a reminder, this is Strzok:
Peter Strzok's creepy smirks freak out Twitter audience
On Sunday, Bryne spoke about a meeting in the Oval Office and claimed
that Trump's legal advisers are betraying him by urging him not to
fight massive election fraud:
Now Byrne has gone on record to say that he was part of a 2015 sting
operation that saw Hillary accept multi-million-dollar bribes from
foreign governments. Byrne thought the sting was to reveal Hillary's
criminality, only to discover that it was to give Obama a hold over
her when (as everyone assumed) she entered the White House. You can
see the video clip here in which Byrne explains that Obama had used
the Deep State to set up a blackmail operation.
The big question is whether Byrne is a fabulist, whose utterances we
should ignore — or is he, instead, a brilliant, successful, connected,
often prescient man who's currently a voice in the wilderness and
should be taken very seriously? I don't have an answer for that, but
his statements seem consistent with what we know about Hillary's
corruption and the Obama Deep State, including the FBI.
Image: Patrick Byrne Interview with Ann Vandersteel. YouTube screen grab.
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Those were your latest videos now enjoy one mine from 2007 published a
full year before the RCMP falsely arrested me after the FBI had
arrested the Yankee Goveno Spitzer in Washington
Obviously (I reloaded It in this YouTube Channel after Google bought
YouTube and maliciously deleted my old faithful account)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
RCMP Sussex New Brunswick
1,586 views
Oct 9, 2010
MaritimeMalaise
Below is a true copy of my latest email It was sent today to Sidney
Powell byway of her webpage format The lawyers found below will get
regular email just like I have done with you people (I already called
them all and spoke to some and left messages with the rest)
Perhaps all you lawyers should check my work from years ago and call
me back ASAP???
https://www.scribd.com/doc/
On 12/13/20, Pam Stavropoulos <pstavropoulos@iprimus.com.au> wrote:
> Thank you David!
>
> Really appreciate wide dissemination of these concerns as you clearly
> recognise.
>
> Regards,
>
> Pam S.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Raymond Amos <pstavropoulos@iprimus.com.au>
> Sent: Monday, 14 December 2020 2:16 PM
> To: pstavropoulos@iprimus.com.au
> Subject: Contact Form submission from
> http://pamstavropoulos.com.au/
>
> Sender's name: David Raymond Amos
> E-mail: David.Raymond.Amos333@gmail.
> Phone: 506 434 8433
>
> Message: ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos
> Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2020 23:14:01 -0400
> Subject: ATTN Yanis Varoufakis and Pam Stavropoulos I just tweeted about
> your concerns about Julian Assange and global economy etc
> To: y.varoufakis@parliament.gr
> Cc: motomaniac333
>
> Yanis Varoufakis
> Web Site:
> https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu
> Email:
> y.varoufakis@parliament.gr
> Address:
> Parliament Mansion (Megaro Voulis), GR10021
> Athens / Tel. +30 2103707568 / Fax +30 2103707570.
>
> Check out the attachment for USA litigation over 18 years ago
>
>
> Please notice that the webcasts and transcripts of this hearing went
> missing not long before the economy crashed in 2008 Find the letter
> fom Spitzer to me on page 12 within the document I offer as
> "Integrity-Yea-Right" and ask yourself why Assaage has never metioned
> me In fact I bet that you folks won't either
>
> https://www.banking.senate.
>
> Review of Current Investigations and Regulatory Actions Regarding the
> Mutual Fund Industry
>
> Date: Thursday, November 20, 2003
>
> Witness Panel 1
>
> Mr. Stephen M. Cutler
> Director - Division of Enforcement
> Securities and Exchange Commission
> Cutler - November 20, 2003
> Mr. Robert Glauber
> Chairman and CEO
> National Association of Securities Dealers
> Glauber - November 20, 2003
> Eliot Spitzer
> Attorney General
> State of New York
> Spitzer - November 20, 2003
>
>
>
> Yanis Varoufakis
> @yanisvaroufakis
> ·
>
> Law and Disorder: The case of Julian Assange - DiEM25
> The conviction of Julian Assange would signify a new dystopian
> landscape in which all investigative journalism risks prosecution.
> diem25.org
>
> David Raymond Amos
> @DavidRaymondAm1
> ·
> 1h
> Perhaps you and I should have a long talk ASAP?
>
> FYI this old pdf file is the tip of the iceberg of things that Bolton
> and Assange have known about yours truly for many years
>
> https://www.scribd.com/doc/
>
> David Raymond Amos
> @DavidRaymondAm1
> ·
> 41m
> The first link I offer in the blog Greece is among the many that
> received hundreds of documents byway of registered US Mail as I
> returned home to run for public office 6 more times while suing the
> Queen
>
>
> http://davidraymondamos3.
>
> Notice Assange and Trumps lawyer's email before they became famous?
>
>
> http://thedavidamosrant.
>
> From: Birgitta Jonsdottir
> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 07:14:02 +0000
> Subject: Re: Bon Soir Birgitta according to my records this is the
> first email I ever sent you
> To: David Amos
>
> dear Dave
> i have got your email and will read through the links as soon as i
> find some time keep up the good fight in the meantime
>
> thank you for bearing with me
> i am literary drowning in requests to look into all sorts of matters
> and at the same time working 150% work at the parliament and
> the creation of a political movement and being a responsible parent:)
> plus all the matters in relation to immi
>
> with oceans of joy
> birgitta
>
> Better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are
> not.
>
> Andre Gide
>
> Birgitta Jonsdottir
> Birkimelur 8, 107 Reykjavik, Iceland, tel: 354 692 8884
> http://this.is/birgitta – http://joyb.blogspot.com -
> http://www.facebook.com/
>
>>>> From: "Julian Assange)" editor@wikileaks.org
>>>> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 3:15 PM
>>>> Subject: Al Jazeera on Iceland's plan for a press safe haven
>>>>
>>>> FYI: Al-Jazeera's take on Iceland's proposed media safe haven
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?
>>>>
>>>> More info http://immi.is/
>>>>
>>>> Julian Assange Editor WikiLeaks http://wikileaks.org/
>>>>
>>>> From: "David Amos" david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>> To: "Julian Assange)" editor@wikileaks.org
>>>> Cc: "Dan Fitzgerald" danf@danf.net; "Byrne. G" Byrne.G@parl.gc.ca
>>>> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 8:35 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: Al Jazeera on Iceland's new plan Thanx Here is
>>>> something
>>>> about Iceland and Banksters Al Jazeera would enjoy
>>>>
>>>> Checkout this old pdf file from 2005 at about page two or three
>>>>
>>>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/
>>>>
>>>> Then read on and chuckle
>>>>
>>>> From: postur@fjr.stjr.is
>>>> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009
>>>> Subject: Re: RE: Iceland and Bankers etc I must ask the obvious
>>>> question. Why have you people ignored me for three years?
>>>> To: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>>
>>>> Dear David Amos
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately there has been a considerable delay in responding to
>>>> incoming letters due to heavy workload and many inquiries to our
>>>> office.
>>>>
>>>> We appreciate the issue raised in your letter. We have set up a web
>>>> site www.iceland.org where we have gathered various practical
>>>> information regarding the economic crisis in Iceland.
>>>>
>>>> Greetings from the Ministry of Finance.
>>>>
>>>> Tilvísun í mál: FJR08100024
>>>>
>>>> From: postur@for.stjr.is
>>>> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008
>>>> Subject: Regarding your enquiry to the Prime Ministry of Iceland
>>>> To: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>>
>>>> David Raymond Amos
>>>>
>>>> Your enquiry has been received by the Prime Ministry of Iceland and
>>>> waits attendance.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>>
>>>> From: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008
>>>> Subject: I just called to remind the Speaker, the Bankers and the
>>>> Icelanders that I still exist EH Mrs Mrechant, Bob Rae and Iggy?
>>>> To: Milliken.P@parl.gc.ca, sjs@althingi.is, emb.ottawa@mfa.is,
>>>> rmellish@pattersonlaw.ca, irisbirgisdottir@yahoo.ca,
>>>> marie@mariemorneau.com, dfranklin@franklinlegal.com,
>>>> egilla@althingi.is, william.turner@exsultate.ca
>>>> Cc: Rae.B@parl.gc.ca, Ignatieff.M@parl.gc.ca, lebrem@sen.parl.gc.ca,
>>>> merchp@sen.parl.gc.ca, coolsa@sen.parl.gc.ca, olived@sen.parl.gc.ca
>>>>
>>>> All of you should review the documents and CD that came with this
>>>> letter ASAP EH?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/
>>>>
>>>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/
>>>>
>>>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps Geir Haarde and Steingrimur Sigfusson should call me back
>>>>
>>>> Veritas Vincit
>>>> David Raymond Amos
>>>>
>>>> The Reykjavík Grapevine
>>>> Hafnarstræti 15
>>>> 101 Reykjavík
>>>> Iceland
>>>> grapevine@grapevine.is
>>>> +354-540-3600
>
> http://davidraymondamos3.
>
> Wednesday, 2 August 2017
>
> Attn Andrey Dvornikov, tel. (+7) 499 244 32 54 RE Nikki Haley meeting
> with Vasily Nebeznya.Russia's new ambassador to the United Nations,
> This was the pdf file attached to the email found below
>
> https://www.scribd.com/
>
>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: "MAY, Theresa" theresa.may.mp@parliament.uk
> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 12:12:24 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: Attn Andrey Dvornikov, tel. (+7) 499 244 32
> 54 RE Nikki Haley meeting with Vasily Nebeznya.Russia's new ambassador
> to the United Nations,
> To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>
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> ---------- Original message ----------
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> fin.financepublic-
> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 12:12:16 +0000
> Subject: RE: Attn Andrey Dvornikov, tel. (+7) 499 244 32 54 RE Nikki
> Haley meeting with Vasily Nebeznya.Russia's new ambassador to the
> United Nations,
> To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>
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> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: David Amos
> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:51:14 -0400
> Subject: RE FATCA, NAFTA & TPP etc ATTN President Donald J. Trump I
> just got off the phone with your lawyer Mr Cohen (646-853-0114) Why
> does he lie to me after all this time???
> To: president , mdcohen212@gmail.com, pm ,
> Pierre-Luc.Dusseault@parl.gc.
> B.English@ministers.govt.nz, Malcolm.Turnbull.MP@aph.gov.au
> pminvites@pmc.gov.au, mayt@parliament.uk, press , "Andrew.Bailey" ,
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> "CNN.Viewer.Communications.
> Cc: David Amos , elizabeth.thompson@cbc.ca, "justin.ling@vice.com,
> elizabeththompson" , djtjr , "Bill.Morneau" , postur ,
> stephen.kimber@ukings.ca, "steve.murphy" , "Jacques.Poitras" ,
> oldmaison , andre
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> ---------- Original message ----------
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> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 22:05:00 +0000
> Subject: RE: Yo President Trump RE the Federal Court of Canada File No
> T-1557-15 lets see how the media people do with news that is NOT FAKE
> To: David Amos
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> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 12:38:43 -0400
> Subject: Re: RE The call from the Boston cop Robert Ridge (857 259
> 9083) on behalf of the VERY corrupt Yankee DA Rachael Rollins
> To: David Amos
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> Subject: Automatic reply: RE The call from the Boston cop Robert Ridge
> (857 259 9083) on behalf of the VERY corrupt Yankee DA Rachael Rollins
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>> ---------- Original message ----------
>> From: David Amos
>> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:15:59 -0400
>> Subject: Hey Ralph Goodale perhaps you and the RCMP should call the
>> Yankees Governor Charlie Baker, his lawyer Bob Ross, Rachael Rollins
>> and this cop Robert Ridge (857 259 9083) ASAP EH Mr Primme Minister
>> Trudeau the Younger and Donald Trump Jr?
>> To: pm@pm.gc.ca, Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca,
>> Ian.Shugart@pco-bcp.gc.ca, djtjr@trumporg.com,
>> Donald.J.Trump@donaldtrump.com
>> Frank.McKenna@td.com, barbara.massey@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>> Douglas.Johnson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>> washington.field@ic.fbi.gov, Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>> gov.press@state.ma.us, bob.ross@state.ma.us, jfurey@nbpower.com,
>> jfetzer@d.umn.edu, Newsroom@globeandmail.com, sfine@globeandmail.com,
>> .Poitras@cbc.ca, steve.murphy@ctv.ca, David.Akin@globalnews.ca,
>> Dale.Morgan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, news@kingscorecord.com,
>> news@dailygleaner.com, oldmaison@yahoo.com, jbosnitch@gmail.com,
>> andre@jafaust.com>
>> Cc: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>> wharrison@nbpower.com, David.Lametti@parl.gc.ca, mcu@justice.gc.ca,
>> Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.
>>
---------- Original message ----------
From: "Finance Public / Finance Publique (FIN)"
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:52:33 +0000
Subject: RE: RE FATCA, NAFTA & TPP etc ATTN President Donald J. Trump
I just got off the phone with your lawyer Mr Cohen (646-853-0114) Why
does he lie to me after all this time???
To: David Amos
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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:51:41 +0000
Subject: Re: RE FATCA, NAFTA & TPP etc ATTN President Donald J. Trump
I just got off the phone with your lawyer Mr Cohen (646-853-0114) Why
does he lie to me after all this time???
To: David Amos
Erindi þitt hefur verið móttekið / Your request has been received
Kveðja / Best regards
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---------- Original message ----------
From: "B English (MIN)"
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:51:29 +0000
Subject: Automated response from the office of Hon Bill English
To: David Amos
Thank you for your email to the Prime Minister.
This is an automated response.
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---------- Original message ----------
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Subject: PM Invites
To: David Amos
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the Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP.
Your invitation will be considered in light of the Prime Minister's
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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:51:35 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: RE FATCA, NAFTA & TPP etc ATTN President
Donald J. Trump I just got off the phone with your lawyer Mr Cohen
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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:51:14 -0400
Subject: RE FATCA, NAFTA & TPP etc ATTN President Donald J. Trump I
just got off the phone with your lawyer Mr Cohen (646-853-0114) Why
does he lie to me after all this time???
To: president , mdcohen212@gmail.com, pm ,
Pierre-Luc.Dusseault@parl.gc.
B.English@ministers.govt.nz, Malcolm.Turnbull.MP@aph.gov.au
pminvites@pmc.gov.au, mayt@parliament.uk, press , "Andrew.Bailey" ,
fin.financepublic-
"CNN.Viewer.Communications.
Cc: David Amos , elizabeth.thompson@cbc.ca, "justin.ling@vice.com,
elizabeththompson" , djtjr , "Bill.Morneau" , postur ,
stephen.kimber@ukings.ca, "steve.murphy" , "Jacques.Poitras" ,
oldmaison , andre
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:15:59 -0400
> Subject: Hey Ralph Goodale perhaps you and the RCMP should call the
> Yankees Governor Charlie Baker, his lawyer Bob Ross, Rachael Rollins
> and this cop Robert Ridge (857 259 9083) ASAP EH Mr Primme Minister
> Trudeau the Younger and Donald Trump Jr?
> To: pm@pm.gc.ca, Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca,
> Ian.Shugart@pco-bcp.gc.ca, djtjr@trumporg.com,
> Donald.J.Trump@donaldtrump.com
> Frank.McKenna@td.com, barbara.massey@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
> Douglas.Johnson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
> washington.field@ic.fbi.gov, Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
> gov.press@state.ma.us, bob.ross@state.ma.us, jfurey@nbpower.com,
> jfetzer@d.umn.edu, Newsroom@globeandmail.com, sfine@globeandmail.com,
> .Poitras@cbc.ca, steve.murphy@ctv.ca, David.Akin@globalnews.ca,
> Dale.Morgan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, news@kingscorecord.com,
> news@dailygleaner.com, oldmaison@yahoo.com, jbosnitch@gmail.com,
> andre@jafaust.com>
> Cc: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
> wharrison@nbpower.com, David.Lametti@parl.gc.ca, mcu@justice.gc.ca,
> Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.
>
>>> From: Justice Website <JUSTWEB@novascotia.ca>
>>> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:21:11 +0000
>>> Subject: Emails to Department of Justice and Province of Nova Scotia
>>> To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com" <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Mr. Amos,
>>> We acknowledge receipt of your recent emails to the Deputy Minister of
>>> Justice and lawyers within the Legal Services Division of the
>>> Department of Justice respecting a possible claim against the Province
>>> of Nova Scotia. Service of any documents respecting a legal claim
>>> against the Province of Nova Scotia may be served on the Attorney
>>> General at 1690 Hollis Street, Halifax, NS. Please note that we will
>>> not be responding to further emails on this matter.
>>>
>>> Department of Justice
>>>
>>> On 8/3/17, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If want something very serious to download and laugh at as well Please
>>>> Enjoy and share real wiretap tapes of the mob
>>>>
>>>> http://thedavidamosrant.
>>>> ilian.html
>>>>
>>>>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/
>>>>>
>>>>> As the CBC etc yap about Yankee wiretaps and whistleblowers I must
>>>>> ask them the obvious question AIN'T THEY FORGETTING SOMETHING????
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?
>>>>>
>>>>> What the hell does the media think my Yankee lawyer served upon the
>>>>> USDOJ right after I ran for and seat in the 39th Parliament baseball
>>>>> cards?
>>>>>
>>>>> http://archive.org/details/
>>>>> 6
>>>>>
>>>>> http://davidamos.blogspot.ca/
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.archive.org/
>>>>>
>>>>> http://archive.org/details/
>>>>>
>>>>> FEDERAL EXPRES February 7, 2006
>>>>> Senator Arlen Specter
>>>>> United States Senate
>>>>> Committee on the Judiciary
>>>>> 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
>>>>> Washington, DC 20510
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear Mr. Specter:
>>>>>
>>>>> I have been asked to forward the enclosed tapes to you from a man
>>>>> named, David Amos, a Canadian citizen, in connection with the matters
>>>>> raised in the attached letter.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mr. Amos has represented to me that these are illegal FBI wire tap
>>>>> tapes.
>>>>>
>>>>> I believe Mr. Amos has been in contact with you about this previously.
>>>>>
>>>>> Very truly yours,
>>>>> Barry A. Bachrach
>>>>> Direct telephone: (508) 926-3403
>>>>> Direct facsimile: (508) 929-3003
>>>>> Email: bbachrach@bowditch.com
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>>> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 09:32:09 -0400
>>>> Subject: Attn Integrity Commissioner Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C.,
>>>> To: coi@gnb.ca
>>>> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>>
>>>> Good Day Sir
>>>>
>>>> After I heard you speak on CBC I called your office again and managed
>>>> to speak to one of your staff for the first time
>>>>
>>>> Please find attached the documents I promised to send to the lady who
>>>> answered the phone this morning. Please notice that not after the Sgt
>>>> at Arms took the documents destined to your office his pal Tanker
>>>> Malley barred me in writing with an "English" only document.
>>>>
>>>> These are the hearings and the dockets in Federal Court that I
>>>> suggested that you study closely.
>>>>
>>>> This is the docket in Federal Court
>>>>
>>>> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.
>>>>
>>>> These are digital recordings of the last three hearings
>>>>
>>>> Dec 14th https://archive.org/details/
>>>>
>>>> January 11th, 2016 https://archive.org/details/
>>>>
>>>> April 3rd, 2017
>>>>
>>>> https://archive.org/details/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is the docket in the Federal Court of Appeal
>>>>
>>>> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The only hearing thus far
>>>>
>>>> May 24th, 2017
>>>>
>>>> https://archive.org/details/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This Judge understnds the meaning of the word Integrity
>>>>
>>>> Date: 20151223
>>>>
>>>> Docket: T-1557-15
>>>>
>>>> Fredericton, New Brunswick, December 23, 2015
>>>>
>>>> PRESENT: The Honourable Mr. Justice Bell
>>>>
>>>> BETWEEN:
>>>>
>>>> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
>>>>
>>>> Plaintiff
>>>>
>>>> and
>>>>
>>>> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
>>>>
>>>> Defendant
>>>>
>>>> ORDER
>>>>
>>>> (Delivered orally from the Bench in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on
>>>> December 14, 2015)
>>>>
>>>> The Plaintiff seeks an appeal de novo, by way of motion pursuant to
>>>> the Federal Courts Rules (SOR/98-106), from an Order made on November
>>>> 12, 2015, in which Prothonotary Morneau struck the Statement of Claim
>>>> in its entirety.
>>>>
>>>> At the outset of the hearing, the Plaintiff brought to my attention a
>>>> letter dated September 10, 2004, which he sent to me, in my then
>>>> capacity as Past President of the New Brunswick Branch of the Canadian
>>>> Bar Association, and the then President of the Branch, Kathleen Quigg,
>>>> (now a Justice of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal). In that letter
>>>> he stated:
>>>>
>>>> As for your past President, Mr. Bell, may I suggest that you check the
>>>> work of Frank McKenna before I sue your entire law firm including you.
>>>> You are your brother’s keeper.
>>>>
>>>> Frank McKenna is the former Premier of New Brunswick and a former
>>>> colleague of mine at the law firm of McInnes Cooper. In addition to
>>>> expressing an intention to sue me, the Plaintiff refers to a number of
>>>> people in his Motion Record who he appears to contend may be witnesses
>>>> or potential parties to be added. Those individuals who are known to
>>>> me personally, include, but are not limited to the former Prime
>>>> Minister of Canada, The Right Honourable Stephen Harper; former
>>>> Attorney General of Canada and now a Justice of the Manitoba Court of
>>>> Queen’s Bench, Vic Toews; former member of Parliament Rob Moore;
>>>> former Director of Policing Services, the late Grant Garneau; former
>>>> Chief of the Fredericton Police Force, Barry McKnight; former Staff
>>>> Sergeant Danny Copp; my former colleagues on the New Brunswick Court
>>>> of Appeal, Justices Bradley V. Green and Kathleen Quigg, and, retired
>>>> Assistant Commissioner Wayne Lang of the Royal Canadian Mounted
>>>> Police.
>>>>
>>>> In the circumstances, given the threat in 2004 to sue me in my
>>>> personal capacity and my past and present relationship with many
>>>> potential witnesses and/or potential parties to the litigation, I am
>>>> of the view there would be a reasonable apprehension of bias should I
>>>> hear this motion. See Justice de Grandpré’s dissenting judgment in
>>>> Committee for Justice and Liberty et al v National Energy Board et al,
>>>> [1978] 1 SCR 369 at p 394 for the applicable test regarding
>>>> allegations of bias. In the circumstances, although neither party has
>>>> requested I recuse myself, I consider it appropriate that I do so.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> AS A RESULT OF MY RECUSAL, THIS COURT ORDERS that the Administrator of
>>>> the Court schedule another date for the hearing of the motion. There
>>>> is no order as to costs.
>>>>
>>>> “B. Richard Bell”
>>>> Judge
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Below after the CBC article about your concerns (I made one comment
>>>> already) you will find the text of just two of many emails I had sent
>>>> to your office over the years since I first visited it in 2006.
>>>>
>>>> I noticed that on July 30, 2009, he was appointed to the the Court
>>>> Martial Appeal Court of Canada Perhaps you should scroll to the
>>>> bottom of this email ASAP and read the entire Paragraph 83 of my
>>>> lawsuit now before the Federal Court of Canada?
>>>>
>>>> "FYI This is the text of the lawsuit that should interest Trudeau the
>>>> most
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Original message ----------
>>>> From: justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca
>>>> Date: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:18 PM
>>>> Subject: Réponse automatique : RE My complaint against the CROWN in
>>>> Federal Court Attn David Hansen and Peter MacKay If you planning to
>>>> submit a motion for a publication ban on my complaint trust that you
>>>> dudes are way past too late
>>>> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>>
>>>> Veuillez noter que j'ai changé de courriel. Vous pouvez me rejoindre à
>>>> lalanthier@hotmail.com
>>>>
>>>> Pour rejoindre le bureau de M. Trudeau veuillez envoyer un courriel à
>>>> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca
>>>>
>>>> Please note that I changed email address, you can reach me at
>>>> lalanthier@hotmail.com
>>>>
>>>> To reach the office of Mr. Trudeau please send an email to
>>>> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca
>>>>
>>>> Thank you,
>>>>
>>>> Merci ,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://davidraymondamos3.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 83. The Plaintiff states that now that Canada is involved in more war
>>>> in Iraq again it did not serve Canadian interests and reputation to
>>>> allow Barry Winters to publish the following words three times over
>>>> five years after he began his bragging:
>>>>
>>>> January 13, 2015
>>>> This Is Just AS Relevant Now As When I wrote It During The Debate
>>>>
>>>> December 8, 2014
>>>> Why Canada Stood Tall!
>>>>
>>>> Friday, October 3, 2014
>>>> Little David Amos’ “True History Of War” Canadian Airstrikes And
>>>> Stupid Justin Trudeau
>>>>
>>>> Canada’s and Canadians free ride is over. Canada can no longer hide
>>>> behind Amerka’s and NATO’s skirts.
>>>>
>>>> When I was still in Canadian Forces then Prime Minister Jean Chretien
>>>> actually committed the Canadian Army to deploy in the second campaign
>>>> in Iraq, the Coalition of the Willing. This was against or contrary to
>>>> the wisdom or advice of those of us Canadian officers that were
>>>> involved in the initial planning phases of that operation. There were
>>>> significant concern in our planning cell, and NDHQ about of the dearth
>>>> of concern for operational guidance, direction, and forces for
>>>> operations after the initial occupation of Iraq. At the “last minute”
>>>> Prime Minister Chretien and the Liberal government changed its mind.
>>>> The Canadian government told our amerkan cousins that we would not
>>>> deploy combat troops for the Iraq campaign, but would deploy a
>>>> Canadian Battle Group to Afghanistan, enabling our amerkan cousins to
>>>> redeploy troops from there to Iraq. The PMO’s thinking that it was
>>>> less costly to deploy Canadian Forces to Afghanistan than Iraq. But
>>>> alas no one seems to remind the Liberals of Prime Minister Chretien’s
>>>> then grossly incorrect assumption. Notwithstanding Jean Chretien’s
>>>> incompetence and stupidity, the Canadian Army was heroic,
>>>> professional, punched well above it’s weight, and the PPCLI Battle
>>>> Group, is credited with “saving Afghanistan” during the Panjway
>>>> campaign of 2006.
>>>>
>>>> What Justin Trudeau and the Liberals don’t tell you now, is that then
>>>> Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien committed, and deployed the
>>>> Canadian army to Canada’s longest “war” without the advice, consent,
>>>> support, or vote of the Canadian Parliament.
>>>>
>>>> What David Amos and the rest of the ignorant, uneducated, and babbling
>>>> chattering classes are too addled to understand is the deployment of
>>>> less than 75 special operations troops, and what is known by planners
>>>> as a “six pac cell” of fighter aircraft is NOT the same as a
>>>> deployment of a Battle Group, nor a “war” make.
>>>>
>>>> The Canadian Government or The Crown unlike our amerkan cousins have
>>>> the “constitutional authority” to commit the Canadian nation to war.
>>>> That has been recently clearly articulated to the Canadian public by
>>>> constitutional scholar Phillippe Legasse. What Parliament can do is
>>>> remove “confidence” in The Crown’s Government in a “vote of
>>>> non-confidence.” That could not happen to the Chretien Government
>>>> regarding deployment to Afghanistan, and it won’t happen in this
>>>> instance with the conservative majority in The Commons regarding a
>>>> limited Canadian deployment to the Middle East.
>>>>
>>>> President George Bush was quite correct after 911 and the terror
>>>> attacks in New York; that the Taliban “occupied” and “failed state”
>>>> Afghanistan was the source of logistical support, command and control,
>>>> and training for the Al Quaeda war of terror against the world. The
>>>> initial defeat, and removal from control of Afghanistan was vital and
>>>>
>>>> P.S. Whereas this CBC article is about your opinion of the actions of
>>>> the latest Minister Of Health trust that Mr Boudreau and the CBC have
>>>> had my files for many years and the last thing they are is ethical.
>>>> Ask his friends Mr Murphy and the RCMP if you don't believe me.
>>>>
>>>> Subject:
>>>> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:02:35 -0400
>>>> From: "Murphy, Michael B. \(DH/MS\)" MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca
>>>> To: motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>>>>
>>>> January 30, 2007
>>>>
>>>> WITHOUT PREJUDICE
>>>>
>>>> Mr. David Amos
>>>>
>>>> Dear Mr. Amos:
>>>>
>>>> This will acknowledge receipt of a copy of your e-mail of December 29,
>>>> 2006 to Corporal Warren McBeath of the RCMP.
>>>>
>>>> Because of the nature of the allegations made in your message, I have
>>>> taken the measure of forwarding a copy to Assistant Commissioner Steve
>>>> Graham of the RCMP “J” Division in Fredericton.
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>
>>>> Honourable Michael B. Murphy
>>>> Minister of Health
>>>>
>>>> CM/cb
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Warren McBeath warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:34:53 -0500
>>>> From: "Warren McBeath" warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>>> To: kilgoursite@ca.inter.net, MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca,
>>>> nada.sarkis@gnb.ca, wally.stiles@gnb.ca, dwatch@web.net,
>>>> motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>>>> CC: ottawa@chuckstrahl.com, riding@chuckstrahl.com,John.
>>>> Oda.B@parl.gc.ca,"Bev BUSSON" bev.busson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>>>> "Paul Dube" PAUL.DUBE@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>>> Subject: Re: Remember me Kilgour? Landslide Annie McLellan has
>>>> forgotten me but the crooks within the RCMP have not
>>>>
>>>> Dear Mr. Amos,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your follow up e-mail to me today. I was on days off
>>>> over the holidays and returned to work this evening. Rest assured I
>>>> was not ignoring or procrastinating to respond to your concerns.
>>>>
>>>> As your attachment sent today refers from Premier Graham, our position
>>>> is clear on your dead calf issue: Our forensic labs do not process
>>>> testing on animals in cases such as yours, they are referred to the
>>>> Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown who can provide these
>>>> services. If you do not choose to utilize their expertise in this
>>>> instance, then that is your decision and nothing more can be done.
>>>>
>>>> As for your other concerns regarding the US Government, false
>>>> imprisonment and Federal Court Dates in the US, etc... it is clear
>>>> that Federal authorities are aware of your concerns both in Canada
>>>> the US. These issues do not fall into the purvue of Detachment
>>>> and policing in Petitcodiac, NB.
>>>>
>>>> It was indeed an interesting and informative conversation we had on
>>>> December 23rd, and I wish you well in all of your future endeavors.
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>
>>>> Warren McBeath, Cpl.
>>>> GRC Caledonia RCMP
>>>> Traffic Services NCO
>>>> Ph: (506) 387-2222
>>>> Fax: (506) 387-4622
>>>> E-mail warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C.,
>>>> Office of the Integrity Commissioner
>>>> Edgecombe House, 736 King Street
>>>> Fredericton, N.B. CANADA E3B 5H1
>>>> tel.: 506-457-7890
>>>> fax: 506-444-5224
>>>> e-mail:coi@gnb.ca
>>>>
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>>> Sunday, 19 November 2017
>>> Federal Court of Appeal Finally Makes The BIG Decision And Publishes
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𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗮 𝗥𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗲 - 𝗨𝗻𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/ns-gunman-2011-warning-1.5589277
2011 tip that warned N.S. gunman wanted 'to kill a cop' was purged from RCMP records
RCMP can’t say what was done with the bulletin that was sent to police agencies in 2011
Police agencies across Nova Scotia were warned in May 2011 that a denturist named Gabriel Wortman had a stash of guns and said he wanted "to kill a cop," according to records newly obtained by CBC News.
But the Nova Scotia RCMP can't say what, if anything, was done with the tip about the man who police believe went on to kill 22 people, including an RCMP officer, in rural Nova Scotia in April.
The 2011 warning came after an unnamed source approached Truro police Cpl. Greg Densmore with detailed information about where Wortman kept his guns, including that he may have been transporting a handgun between his home in Dartmouth and his cottage in Portapique, N.S.
CBC News obtained a copy of Densmore's report from the Truro Police Service through an access-to-information request. Sections are redacted, but it shows the bulletin was distributed through the Criminal Intelligence Service of Nova Scotia, a network of policing agencies that share information.
There appear to be contradictions around who was responsible for acting on the tip.
RCMP vehicles block the crime scene in Portapique on April 26. (Olivier Lefebvre/CBC)
Wortman's cottage in Portapique is in RCMP territory, but his principal residence in Dartmouth was not in RCMP jurisdiction, said Cpl. Jennifer Clarke, spokesperson for the Nova Scotia RCMP.
She doesn't know if anyone from the RCMP ever followed up on the concerns.
"I don't know what was done or what wasn't done at the time," she told CBC News.
CBC followed up with Clarke on Friday, but she wasn't able to provide any additional details about what the RCMP did with the 2011 tip.
"We can't speak about specifics of the follow up to the 2011 bulletin because our database records have been purged as per our retention policies," Clarke wrote in an email.
"Preliminary indications are that we were aware and at minimum provided assistance to [Halifax Regional Police], which aligns with the RCMP's approach for such enquiries."
Bulletin purged from RCMP records
The Halifax Regional Police say they investigated the tip at the time and even interviewed some of Wortman's relatives. Investigators determined that any information about weapons was related to Wortman's cottage and not his property in Dartmouth.
They sent their findings to the RCMP, according to Const. John MacLeod, a spokesperson for the Halifax Regional Police.
Cpl.
Jennifer Clarke, a spokesperson for the RCMP in Nova Scotia, isn't sure
what was done to follow up on a tip from 2011 about the man who later
carried out a mass shooting in Nova Scotia. (CBC)
But Clarke said that as the manhunt for the gunman began in Portapique late on April 18, the RCMP didn't have the information in the 2011 bulletin at their disposal as it had been purged from their records. She said the force typically keeps such warnings for only two years.
When asked whether that information could have been helpful to officers who responded to the shooting, Clarke said it was difficult to say.
"I mean, it's hypothetical if there is something that could've been done to prevent this," she said. "I think myself and any number of people would want to know that. But I don't know."
'It's a piece of the story'
The bulletin came to light April 19 when an officer from the Amherst Police Service recognized Wortman's name and dug up the 2011 notice in his email. He shared the information with his supervisor, who passed it on to the RCMP, according to Amherst Police Chief Dwayne Pike.
Truro Police Chief Dave MacNeil said one of his officers also recovered the nine-year-old document about a week later, after it was brought to their attention.
Truro
Police Chief Dave MacNeil says officer safety bulletins are issued
rarely, and one of his officers submitted the one about Wortman in 2011.
(Elizabeth McMillan/CBC)
It's the latest indication that there were warning signs years in advance that Wortman was dangerous.
"This is the largest mass [shooting] in Canada's history, and it's a piece of the story," MacNeil said in an interview.
"What piece that plays, I don't know. I'm not at liberty to speculate on that, but it's information that should be shared with the public."
The 2011 bulletin was the second time in less than a year that police had been made aware of Wortman's possibility for violence, the documents revealed.
The bulletin describes how Wortman was investigated for "uttering death threats to his parents" on June 2, 2010. That investigation also included information that he had several guns.
Halifax Regional Police investigated, but closed the file without laying charges, according to its spokesperson.
He said there wasn't enough evidence to lay charges or get search warrants.
The 2011 tip
In the officer safety bulletin from 2011, Densmore writes that he received information from an unnamed source on May 3 saying that Wortman had "stated he wants to kill a cop" and was upset with how police investigated a break-and-enter complaint he made.
"He believes police did not do their job in relation to this investigation," Densmore wrote.
The tipster told police that Wortman was "under a lot of stress lately" and was starting to have some mental health issues, describing him as "becoming a little squirrelly."
A
screenshot from a 2011 officer safety bulletin, which contained a tip
about Wortman, who earlier this year killed 22 people in rural Nova
Scotia. (Truro Police Service)
Densmore's submission also noted that Wortman kept a handgun within arm's length — in his nightstand while he slept and with him when he travelled. The tipster said they saw Wortman's guns themselves.
"Mr. [Wortman] may also be in possession of several long rifles located at his cottage located at [address redacted]; these firearms are stored in a compartment located behind the flue," Densmore's submission stated.
Officer urged caution when dealing with Wortman
Densmore indicated that he was disseminating the tip to warn any officers that might come into contact with Wortman.
"This information is from an uncoded and unproven source but had to be fanned out for officer safety just in case, so if any officers [have] dealings with Mr Wortman, they should use caution," Densmore wrote in a May 3, 2011, email to a redacted RCMP email address, according to the documents obtained by CBC News.
The email correspondence included discussion of the vehicles Wortman drove between Dartmouth and Portapique. The records say Wortman had six plated vehicles registered in his name at that time, and one unplated vehicle.
MacNeil, who now sits on the executive of the Criminal Intelligence Service Nova Scotia, said officer safety bulletins like the one Densmore submitted are rare — only a few are sent per year, usually when it's thought that someone has the means, motive and desire to cause harm to an officer.
Typically, when Truro Police receive that type of information pertaining to their coverage area, the force would treat it like a tip from Crime Stoppers and act on it, MacNeil said.
"We would open an investigation. We would open a file on it, we would assign an investigator and we would try to determine the validity of the information with an eye to criminal charges if they're warranted at the end of the day," he said.
The faces of the 22 people killed by a gunman in Nova Scotia last month. (CBC)
Because the tip about Wortman didn't fall into Truro's coverage area, he said, his police force's involvement ended after it was submitted. He couldn't comment on what other jurisdictions did with the information.
"We've never dealt with this gentleman. We've never investigated him other than we received this information from a member of the public, which our officer was, thankfully, engaged enough to say 'Hey, this is important. I'd better make note of it,'" he said.
But Clarke, the spokesperson for the Nova Scotia RCMP, said while the bulletin's contents were "concerning," RCMP often receive similar bulletins about people from other jurisdictions or who might be passing through theirs.
"This incident is massive, and it's going to take a lot of analysis to determine what, if anything, we can learn, how we can change, and I don't know that any of that is being discussed right now," Clarke said.
"Right now we're focused on the investigation and ensuring that the families are kept apprised of what's happening as the investigation develops."
If you are seeking mental health support during this time, here are resources available to Nova Scotians.
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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 12:22:02 +0000
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Subject: Yo Premier McNeil Trust that my emails to the nasty bastards
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you can stop running your mouth off about things of which you know shit-all
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<https://twitter.com/purdyjan> does bullying sensitivity training make one
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Bullshit Sensitivity training is exactly that, thin skinned people/Adult
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Round Three easily proves that Premier McNeil and the dudes in Frank
Magazine have received and acknowledged my emails in the past The question
is what did Nova Scotia's Justice Minister's do with the Hard Copy sent by
REGISTERED US Mail in 2005?
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2015
I and hundreds of others it seems received about twenty mass e-mailings
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Hey David! If you, little Glenford Canning, the boys at Frank Magazine, and
anonymous don’t like this humble blog…don’t read it!
Oh dear, call me “Maxwell” lol lol lol
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Leah Parsons Says!
by baconfatreport
<https://baconfatreport.
2015
Killer “parent” and entrepreneur Leah Parsons says ! “My daughter will be
remembered for what she stood for!” That’s a big negatory Leah baby! Retaeh
Parsons will be known for having a really stupid name, (Heather in
dyslexic) and for being a thirteen year-old slut that would do anything or
fuck anyone to “sit at the cool-kids table at school.” Rehtaeh Parsons will
be remembered for killing herself because she had to rid herself of two
disinterested, abusive, and now self-promoting “parents.”
The world, Canada and Maritime kanada is a better place with the
self-inflicted demise of little Rehtaeh Parsons. There’s one less hooker on
the streets of Halifax, there’s one less uneducated bimbo with four kids on
the welfare rolls. One less scum from maritime kanada with her hand in our
pockets.
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Glenford Canning’s “Rape Culture!”
by baconfatreport
<https://baconfatreport.
2015
Rehateh Parsons was her daddy’s “very special angel!” Long before what Leah
Parsons called”that fateful party,” Glenford Canning would in the dark of
night do what the early Old Testiment Prophets referred to as “wash her
feet,” and or “lie with,” his daughter Rehtaeh Parsons. By the time Rehateh
Parsons was a prepubescent thirteen years old she was already emotionally
and intellectually damaged if not destroyed by Glenford Canning. Rehtaeh
Parsons at thirteen was “acting out,” lying to her entirely disinterested
“parents,” attending regularly sex parties and abusing both alcohol and
recreational drugs. “That fateful party” was NOT little Rehteah’s “first
rodeo” but only the culmination of a very large number drunken incidences
of sexual congress with a multiplicity of partners… all them completely
consensual.
Rehtaeh Parsons extinguished her worthless life to rid herself of her
disinterested “mother” and abusive “father. Her “life” was ended by her
“father” before it had an opportunity to begin.
If there were any justice in this world and there isn’t, Leah Parsons and
Glenford Canning would be dead.
Ping Back that Glen
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Justice for Child Abusers Glenford Canning, and David Amos
by baconfatreport
<https://baconfatreport.
2015
What’s there not to love?
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The Canning / Parsons Crime Syndicate!
by baconfatreport
<https://baconfatreport.
18, 2015
The sordid, tragic, criminally negligent, and culpable story of little
Rehtaeh Parsons is finally over! The contrived self-serving false
allegations, lies and cries of rape were just that; contrived,
self-serving false allegations, lies and cries of rape. A couple of day’s
ago the last principle or former teenage-boy was adjudicated, judged and
sentenced in a Halifax “kangaroo court,” for doing what all teenagers did
all those years ago, sending risqué pictures of each other on their cell
phones. Two teenage boys, and what began as a couple of teenage-girls were
tossing back “vodka shots.” Notwithstanding the begging and protestations
of the girl, Rehtaeh who had gone to the party with, for Rehtaeh not to
fuck her boyfriend, Rehateh climbed the stairs to the bedroom with two
young boys, including her friend’s paramour to fuck their brains out.
Last evening I posted two news pieces from the National Post, and Frank
Magazine on this Blog, about this sordid hoax, and elaborate confidence
scheme. Longstanding, and well-known cyber-troll and criminal stalker of
women David Amos of Halifax sent literally thousands of unsolicited, and
spam e mails to thousands of “victims” last evening, complaining about this
Blog and its posts from the National Post, and Frank Magazine were
“cyber-stalking Glenford Canning!” That I was perpetrating salacious, and
slanderous libel upon, and “cyber-stalking” poor Glenford Canning by
posting two pieces from the national media.
Canada, and Canadians have finally learned the truth about Rehtaeh Parsons,
her fictious rape, the true circumstances regarding her suicide, the
character of her “killer parents” Glen Canning and Leah Parsons, but more
importantly the entire elaborate hoax and con job this entire sordid tale
became.
Back to what Leah Parsons called “that fateful party,” Rehtaeh Parsons goes
up the stairs to the bedroom with two boys, one of them her best friend’s
boyfriend. Rehtaeh is described to be naked from the waist down, leaning
over a window, and they have been screwing for a while. Suddenly Rehtaeh
says she’s going to be sick, and one of the two boys places her in range of
the window so she wouldn’t spew on the floor. Rehteah then goes to the
bathroom, and whilst she was there, the two teenage-boys shared a smoke by
the window. When Rehtaeh returns, she tells the boys she wants to continue
with the “sexual athletics,” and so this entirely consensual sex continues.
Teenagers “tweet,” Face Book, share, everything, no one’s High School years
aren’t without significant emotional trauma. Little Rehtaeh was more than
OK, with that evening’s sexual athletics for over a week…until the pictures
appeared on or in cyber-space.
Police witness statements relate Rehtaeh telling “friends” she didn’t want
to be perceived as a “slut,” when she first saw the photos in cyber-space,
and at that point Rehtaeh, Leah, and Glenford decided one of Rehtaeh’s
numerous consensual sexual adventures was now a ” vicious gang rape ” by
four boys. As Halifax Police and the RCMP conducted two over year-long
investigations, there wasn’t a scintilla of evidence of rape, by four boys,
two boys or any boys. During two police investigations the ” Canning /
Parsons Crime Syndicate” engaged hacker collective anonymous to “out” boys
that weren’t involved, and one boy that wasn’t even at there. Glen Canning
had anonymous even hack the computer accounts of the Father of one the
boys investigated. Leah Parsons led lynch mobs through the streets of
Halifax tearing handbills off posts, that told Haligonians to await the
results of the police investigations. Leah Parsons whined, cried, and lied
to the media how she was frightened, and threatened that handbills were
posted saying…”innocent until proven guilty.” The Rehteah Parsons, Leah
Parsons, / Glenford Canning crime family bullied, threatened, stalked, and
harassed innocent boys, and their parents. The Parsons / Canning crime
family vilified, libeled, and propagandizing against the boys and their
family’s, the Parsons / Canning criminals knew were innocent… because there
was never a rape. Two police investigations found no evidence of a rape or
sexual assault because their wasn’t any.
Even at the time “of that fateful party,” the Parsons / Canning marriage
was problematic, it was a dysfunctional family, a broken home, the parents
were disinterested, and abusive. While the Parsons / Canning crime family
were conducting a social media circus, lynch mob, and con, seventeen
year-old Rehtaeh had stopped attending school, became addicted to drugs,
and was co-habitating with a twenty-three year-old man. On April 4 2013
Rehtaeh after a quarrel with her adult significant other, went home and
hanged herself. The ever opportunistic, and looking to make a buck Leah
Parsons and Glenford Canning immediately called every and all media outlets
to remonstrate loudly Rehtaeh’s suicide was the result of the “four boys”
that “viciously gang raped” her. The problem was….there was no rape. The
Parsons / Canning crime syndicate now had tragically lost one of its
members. But Glenford and Leah simply blamed The Crown, the Halifax police,
the Nova Scotia government, the “culture of rape in Canada,” The Halifax
School Board, the four “little bastards” that “viciously gang raped” her,
and now the little bastards who took those action photos, of Rehtaeh in
consensual action. Since Rehtaeh had “shrugged off this mortal
coil,” the Parsons / Canning crime syndicate has made a bundle. Clearly
Rehtaeh Parsons was screwed up long before ” that fateful party”. Little
Rehtaeh’s “parents ” gained far more from her death than ever when she was
alive .
They say “you can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can’t
fool all the people all the time.” The Glenford Canning / Leah Parsons
crime organization has outlived its welcome in Halifax according to Frank
Magazine. Frank Magazine suggested that “was past time for Glen Canning to
get a real job.” Glen Canning recently posted the genitalia of a college
professor, on twitter in a fit of righteous altruistic rage. When the last
boy was sentenced a couple of days ago, the judge lectured both the boy
being sentenced and Glen Canning for taking pictures of a sexual nature.
Glen Canning knew it and Halifax’s media knew it.
No one screwed up the Rehtaeh Parsons’ case or investigation. Its past time
for the Canning / Parsons crime syndicate to consider simply to shut the
fuck up…you’re liars!
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Glenford Canning…”A Killer Dad!”
by baconfatreport
<https://baconfatreport.
18, 2015
Haligonians are starting to wish that Glenford and Leah were long gone.
by Parker on 8 January 2015 at 23:31 · Email a comment
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A legal lynching took place Thursday at the hands of the media, Glen
Canning, and the Mount Saint Vincent University administration. They and we
should all feel a bit dirty.
Michael Kydd, a part-time instructor at Mount Saint Vincent University,
was suspended, then resigned, after he was found to have had a brief sexual
relationship with a student.
The student was 38 years old, Kydd is 40. The course was a distance
education offering, the sex consensual. The woman says they were both going
through a difficult patch—Kydd was separated from his wife and seeking a
divorce—when they found comfort in each other’s arms. A total of two
liaisons, a bit of sexting, and some shared explicit photos.
On one occasion, Kydd prorated a grade for the woman, as he had for other
students, when a medical emergency prevented her from attending an exam.
A few weeks ago, the unnamed woman somehow began meeting with Canning, the
crusading father of the late Rehtaeh Parsons, and shortly after, she
reported the affair to the school administration. Yesterday Canning tweeted
a bowdlerized photo of the man’s penis along with some disapproving text.
I’ll pause for a moment while you absorb that.
When teenaged boys texted an explicit photo of Rehtaeh, Canning
understandably demanded their hides. Throughout the process leading to the
boys’ sentencing, he was constantly on the news and in social media,
condemning their actions and the bullying it engendered.
He showed no such concern for Kydd’s children, or the families
involved, when he shared an explicit photo without consent yesterday—only
an impulse to indulge in slut-shaming of his own. When his lewd display
touched off a firestorm on Twitter, he deleted the tweet but remained
unrepentant.
The Mount suspended Kydd, and gratuitously reassured students the accused
instructor was “not currently in the classroom”—gotta keep up the fantasy
he posed some kind of menace, don’t you know. President Ramona Lumpkin
issued a statement affirming the university’s sensitivity to “protecting
and supporting the student who has made this allegation and… providing
whatever supports needed.”
Like a backbone, maybe?
The only backbone in evidence belonged to Kydd, who summoned reporters to
his lawyer’s office, where he read a statement acknowledging his actions
and announced he had resigned from his part-time teaching job.
“I did not want to compound my mistake—and this is my mistake—by failing to
come forward and take responsibility,” he said. “I expect my career to be
ruined.”
Seriously? Of all the characters in this tawdry operetta—the jilted ex-lover,
the avenging hypocrite, the prissy president—Kydd is the only one I’d
trust with work, children, or the truth. He’s the only one who owned up,
spoke plain words, shouldered responsibility.
This is but the latest example of what happens when authorities substitute
zero tolerance for considered judgment.
I’d say the Merit Contractors Association of Nova Scotia, where Kydd serves
as president, is fortunate to have a person of his character. I
suspect they won’t be stampeded into joining the lynch mob.
One last thing: Will this episode finally persuade the Halifax media to
exercise critical judgment and stop treating Canning as a hero whose every
mean-spirited utterance is regarded as received truth?
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Glen Canning Pornographer!
by baconfatreport
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16, 2015
Get this dick out of here”: has Glen Canning fallen out of love with the
media?
by Blake Hunsley
[image: "Get this dick out of here": has Glen Canning fallen out of love
with the media?]
<http://www.frankmagazine.ca/
Something very strange happened at the hearing held today to sentence the
man who shared the infamously ‘intimate’ photo of Rehtaeh Parsons. When the
hearing ended and the assembled representatives of the local press held out
their cameras and microphones to receive Glen Canning’s latest
pronouncements, he walked right past them. Briskly too, without a word or a
glance. I’m surprised there wasn’t more of an audible gasp in the room.
As his appearances on virtually every network and newspaper cover across
this nation and beyond have shown again and again, Glen’s not one to shrink
from publicity. So why today, on such an important day, would he avoid the
press entirely? Well it likely has to do with an uncomfortable question he
was asked on his way in to court earlier in the day. After a slightly
awkward introduction (a hand was extended in friendship, it was not
reciprocated), Frank editor Andrew Douglas asked Glen for a comment on his
recent unauthorized sharing of an ‘intimate image’ (see dick pic) belonging
to former MSVU sex-ed business instructor Michael Kydd. “Today’s about my
daughter,” Canning replied. When pressed further, Canning’s wife Krista
attempted to intervene, but Glen reminded us all that he can (and
frequently does) speak for himself. “Go fuck yourself,” he said, before
demanding that another woman in his entourage “Get that dick away from me.”
If Glen was tired of hearing about his poorly thought out photo sharing
before the hearing, he must have been absolutely exhausted after listening
to the sentencing judge. “You are responsible for sharing that photo,” the
judge said, theoretically to the accused. “Every time the image is viewed,
the person depicted is victimized again and again.” To his credit, Glen did
not begin to squirm visibly as the judge hammered home the dire
consequences of sharing compromising photos without permission.
“Intimate images cannot be shared without consent under any circumstances,”
the judge said, “An adult knows this and would not be excused for doing so.”
Talk about awkward. The judge couldn’t have been any clearer if he’d come
down from his lofty perch, grabbed Glen Canning by the shoulders, and
slowly and patiently pronounced every word while staring him straight in
the face. Small wonder Mr. Canning suddenly developed an aversion to
publicity.
But the timing of his new-found media shyness couldn’t be more
disappointing. You see, Michael Kydd’s dick pic isn’t the only ‘intimate
image’ I’d like to ask Glen Canning about. I’d also like to ask him about
the dozen very intimate pictures featured on his Model Mayhem
<http://www.modelmayhem.com/
While these photos, taken by amateur photographer Glen, were all presumably
shared with the consent of their subjects, there’s something terribly
off-putting about a grieving father who crusades against the exploitation
of young women posting photos of young girls that would make an American
Apparel marketing agent blush.
<http://photos.modelmayhem.
That some of the women appear to be minors is even more disturbing. There
may be only partial nudity pictured, but the photos are all very sexual,
and far from what you might expect to see posted by the father of a girl
made famous after being exploited in photos shared online.
After browsing through Glen’s collection of young nubiles, clicking on the
link titled “Glen Canning Multimedia Productions” takes you to a website
that is dominated by the story of Rehtaeh, and her father’s efforts to make
the internet a safer place for young women. ‘Help prevent sexual
exploitation’ is the central theme of the second site. ‘Check out these
fine, young hotties’ seems to be the main message of the first. The
transition is jarring, to say the least.
If Glen Canning can’t see the apparent conflict between these two facets of
his online presence, then I have to seriously question his judgement. Just
like I questioned it when he published Michael Kydd’s dick pic. Or when he
championed laws that eroded our privacy. Or when he sent Anonymous to
chastise his online critics. Or when he took a revisionist history approach
to recounting his daughter’s tragically short life. Or…
The list goes on, and week by week it grows longer. Glen apparently remains
unrepentant over the dick pic sharing incident.
Messages left with Glen questioning his thoughts on the judge’s statements,
and the contents of his Model Mayhem account, have not been returned.
blake@frankmagazine.ca
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Frank Magazine’s Got Glen Canning “Dead to Rights.”
by baconfatreport
<https://baconfatreport.
2015
Glen Canning and Leah Parsons were killer parents. Rehaeh Parsons killed
herself to rid herself of her abusive “parents.”
Halifax’s Frank Magazine has got their number!
Is Rehtaeh’s dad a secret cyberbully?
by Andrew Douglas
There are more indications that *Glen Canning* has become the very thing
he’s vowed to eradicate.
It appears that Glen, under cover of anonymity, has taken to calling his
online critics down to the lowest, including but not limited to inviting
one individual to kindly “shoot yourself”.
The contrast between those words – uttered on the news discussion
website *novascotialive.com
<http://novascotialive.com>* – and Glen’s countless public statements on
the evils of cyberbullying, at conferences and in classrooms across the
continent, couldn’t be more stark.
When I presented Glen with several comments made under the username *Anne P*,
he denied making the remarks, and questioned how I could prove he did. But
he wasn’t interested in any answers. It was a brief conversation,
punctuated with several angry curse words. And then, following an
invitation to “have a nice day, dick,” he hung up on me.
—
This isn’t the first time Glen’s online behaviour has been called into
question. In *January,* he was roundly criticized
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**Kydd*‘s penis, after the adult student with whom he had an affair ran to
Glen for counsel, for whatever reason. Later, Glen withstood another round
of denunciation when *Frank* reporter *Blake Hunsley* revealed that Glen’s
hobbies include taking photographs of young-looking models “that would make
an *American Apparel* marketing agent blush
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Glen Canning’s knack for finding his way into the news cycle on a
semi-daily basis, nearly two years after the tragic death of his
daughter, *Rehtaeh
Parsons*, has long been commented upon in an increasingly wide array of
circles. Much like impassable sidewalks in *Halifax* this winter, Glen
Canning has become, quite simply, an unavoidable fact of life.
Just this month, the local news media breathlessly reported that Glen
traveled to *New York* to address the *United Nations* — about the scourge
of cyberbullying, of course. And there’s the Rehtaeh documentary, which we
also learned recently will premiere at the *Hot Docs* film festival next
month. No doubt, Glen will be photographed on the red carpet in
*Toronto *sporting
a scarf and black t-shirt, along with all the other artsy folk.
After a few days without any news from Glen, I took to the Frank Magazine
*Twitter* account on *March 19* to question whether he made it through the
storm alright. Unbeknownst to me at the time, just minutes after that tweet
went up, a conversation thread criticizing Frank Magazine and its staff
appeared on Nova Scotia Live. A few days later, the thread was brought to
my attention via a newly-minted Twitter account, *@Terminal_Zen*, and its
owner, Anne P. The Twitter account was initially established to give a
wider audience to the N.S. Live discussion thread – also begun by somebody
called Anne P. – and the Twitter account holder proceeded to blame Frank
and its staff for, among other things, perpetuating rape culture, being
anti-woman and homophobic, and being “gutless assholes”.
Curious about this mysterious Anne P., I took to Nova Scotia Live to find
out what else she’s been saying. As far as I could tell, the account was
created in mid-*March*. And when she wasn’t criticizing Frank – which is
fair enough, hey, it’s a free country – she spent the rest of her time
defending Glen Canning from criticism on several fronts. About the Mike
Kydd incident, and, most notably, about a recent arrest made by military
police over online comments made on a *DND* computer. As you probably know,
the comments had to do with the Rehtaeh Parsons case, and the man arrested
turned out to be the father of one of Rehtaeh’s tormentors. But since the
military case involves a potential code of conduct violation and is not a
criminal matter at all, the arrest has been widely criticized, most notably
in a *March 4* *National Post* editorial that questions why an arrest,
search warrants, and the involvement of military police was necessary at
all.
On the Nova Scotia Live discussion board, Anne P shows a laser-like focus
on the details of the case, and she’s pissed:
“Canning made a complaint to the military police in *October*. A complaint.
One. Related to the words said on his web site. He made it to the military
police in Halifax,” she blusters.
“Not plural idiot. And not about *Wikipedia*. So fuck off. It’s in the
online stories if you can read shithead”.
Over on the National Post website comment section, a poster named
*TerminalZen*, while mounting another spirited defense of Glen, has words
with a fellow by the name of *Philip Rose*. I should note here that last
year Glen Canning wrote a detailed piece on his website, accusing the very
same Philip Rose of cyberbullying *Amanda Todd,* the *B.C.* teenager that
killed herself in *2012*. In that piece, Glen also claimed that Philip Rose
had reported him to police for being a pedophile.
In their exchange on the National Post website, “TerminalZen” accuses
Philip of being one of Amanda Todd’s cyberbullys. And then he tells Philip
that “the police always ignore you. Not that you’ve ever gone to them”.
Could that be an allusion to Glen’s belief that Philip reported him to
the *Canadian
Centre for Child Protection*, I wonder?
And then there’s Anne P.’s derisive comment: “You’ve never served, have
you?”
Glen, as you might know, is retired military.
It’s certainly beginning to look like Terminal Zen and Anne P, in all their
iterations, serve as pseudonyms to mask Glen Canning. Even moreso when you
consider that the Twitter account is using a photograph of a cyberbullied
gay teenager, *Adam Roberts*, whose cause Glen has championed on his
personal website. A *Google* reverse image search for the photo –
essentially, a way to find out where else on the web the photograph has
appeared – comes up empty. Deeper digging determines that the exact
photograph was one that was formerly used on the “*Adam’s Story*” *Facebook*
group, a forum run by Adam and his family. There are two other places that
particular photograph has appeared: on the Rehtaeh Parsons website, and
yes, you guessed it, on Glen Canning’s own website.
Another item of interest: Anne P.’s Twitter username, Terminal_Zen, was
changed just this morning, to something else. Which is notable because Glen
has an affinity to the concept of Zen: a section of his website is even
dedicated to “Seeking Zen”.
Anne P’s N.S. Live profile was deleted earlier this week. But screengrabs
taken by Frank Magazine show Glen – sorry, Anne P. – calling Glen Canning’s
detractors “retards,” “psychotic assholes,” and more. And, on one occasion,
as I mentioned up top, the one which invites a critic to kill himself.
In a thread dedicated to criticizing former *Coast* honcho/current *Halifax
Examiner* editor *Tim Bousquet*, Anne P. tells one commenter to “shoot
yourself. please”.
Two days before Glen – sorry, Anne P. – uttered those words, an article
appeared on *glencanning.com <http://glencanning.com>* with the
headline *Cyber-hate
is no joke*. To highlight just how far kids will go when showering hate on
one another, a real “mean tweet” is quoted verbatim:
“No one likes you. Do every one a favour. Kill yourself”.
It would seem there’s no shortage of adults willing to use such language
today as well.
Tonight, *March 26*, Glen Canning is scheduled to appear on an internet
radio chat show – at *voiceamerica.com <http://voiceamerica.com>* – in
order to discuss Rehtaeh, and “other victims of sexual violence and
cyber-harassment”. It sounds like one of those open-line call-in shows, so
I hope someone calls to ask him his thoughts about any “cyber-harassment”
he himself might have participated in lately.
*andrew@frankmagazine.ca <andrew@frankmagazine.ca> *
February 24, 2015
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David Amos is Gone
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by baconfatreport
<https://baconfatreport.
For several years I have enabled a stupid man, an uneducated man, a
criminal man, a pedophile, a liar, an animal that called my wife, my
daughter, my wife’s employer, my landlord, the owner of my favourite pub,
the mayor, the Premier of Alberta, the Prime Minister, the amerkan FBI, US
Marshall’s Service, Canadian Forces Military Police, the Military Police
Complaints Commission, the RCMP, the RCMP Complaints Commission…et al.
This animal e mailed me at least 10 times a day. He has been blocked, David
Amos is done. I will of course write here in this blog about him, and his
family of cum swallowing sex workers…But David Amos has been silenced.
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February 23, 2015
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Glenford Canning, David Amos, and Edmonton City Council
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by baconfatreport
<https://baconfatreport.
Alberta Municipal Affairs Minister Dianna McQueen said, “Alberta’s cities
should not expect to be immune from cuts in the coming budget, even though
no decisions have been made yet.” She further announced, “the collapse in
oil prices drills a 7 billion dollar hole in Alberta coffers, which means
the province has to look at everything.”
Meanwhile back at Edmonton City Council Chambers, Ben “I want to be your
ho,” Henderson has his earphones on, listening to the dulcet strains of
Maria Dunne, stroking his crotch, and wishing for a blow job from her. Ben
“I want to be your ho” Henderson’s hero is Bill Clinton and loves chunky
bimbos in blue dresses.
Grandmother Bev Essinger the only bimbo on Edmonton City Council, has just
shot up ketamine. She is happily in the “K Hole.” Her eyes are glazed over,
her mouth drooling, and she is reclining in her chair with her legs spread,
skirt hiked up, and council creature Michael Oshry is lapping at her
pussy , as council is “called to order” by His Honour “the mayor.” “His
Honour” Don “the vacuous” Iveson begins to drone on once again how the
“province” and the federal government “need to make more investments in
backhanders to city politicians, and cash to municipal budgets, so
both, crooked addicted politicians, and the cities, “can have nice
things.” These are the same degenerate drug and sex addicts that
raised the city property tax rate by 5.8% and raised their salaries by 3.8
% . Mayor Don “the vacuous” Iveson says. “We’re all in this together,” but
I don’t see “council” sharing with the public any of the free dope they
get. ” I mean really!”
In this “council meeting” its clear His honour “the mayor” has few
coherent, lucid moments remaining. He tries to convince “council” of
the necessity of “approving an additional tax levy on Edmontonians” to buy
more quality drugs for “council” and to “fund other future LRT lines.” In
Dandy Don’s last coherent thoughts in this meeting, and orgy, he suggests
Edmonton transit users, also ought be charged more, in the form of
increases from one to ten percent. Don Iveson on heroin called
this, “council” developing a long-term strategy for transit. Most people
would call it an insane and drug fueled attempt to “get blood from a stone.”
Whilst Edmonton’s august City Council is “meeting” David Amos and his
“kiddies” Laura “the butt”, Gracie “the slut,” and Max “the angry faggot”
are circulating around “council” soliciting drug, and alcohol
inspired, entirely consensual , pay as you go sexual services. Business
appears to be brisk. David Amos’ faggot son has his pants around his ankles
and lubing up his “corn hole” for little Michael Oshry.
Glenford Canning is looking for a unoccupied dick to take a ” dic pic” of
for his twitter account and to latch his lips onto, and then I imagine, to
cry rape! Little David Amos, is in the corner of “council chambers”
masturbating, thinking of the next batch of spam e mails he’s going to send
tonight.
There you have it, another “city council” meeting. They say. “Canadians
love good government and lots of it!” But is there anyone in their right
mind that would call this…”peace order and good government?”
“It was rape Daddy, really!”
https://davidraymondamos3.
Monday, 23 November 2020
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???
https://twitter.com/
David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
Replying to @DavidRayAmos
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???
https://davidraymondamos3.
#nbpoli #cdnpoli
https://newsinteractives.cbc.
David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
Replying to @DavidRayAmos
Methinks the CBC will NEVER reveal the truth This will be another
attempt to make the RCMP appear to be not as incompetent and corrupt
as they truly are N'esy Pas?
http://davidraymondamos3.
#nbpoli #cdnpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/
Season premiere: Documentary about the N.S. shootings
Thirteen Deadly Hours: The Nova Scotia Shootings airs Monday, Nov. 23
at 9 p.m. on CBC TV / CBC Gem
CBC Communications · Posted: Nov 20, 2020 2:28 PM AT
The Fifth Estate presents a comprehensive inquiry into this year's
mass shooting in Nova Scotia, chronicling 13 hours of mayhem that
constitute one of Canada's deadliest events. We hear from the families
of many of the 22 victims, and the terrible final moments their loved
ones faced. Many questions remain about how the RCMP responded to the
situation, and whether enough was done to protect the community.
Watch The Fifth Estate Monday, Nov. 23 9 p.m. (9:30 NT) on CBC TV and CBC Gem.
Tune in to CBC Nova Scotia News Tuesday at 6 p.m. for an encore broadcast.
Related stories:
RCMP gunfire at Onslow fire hall during N.S. mass shootings 'total
chaos' for witnesses
AUDIO: Firefighters wondering why RCMP shot up hall during April shooting
Work on cruiser used in N.S. mass shooting began 9 months before
rampage, court documents reveal
Spouse witnessed N.S. gunman torching their cottage, court documents say
CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Police Corruption? Nova Scotia Shooter - Behind The Scenes
86,369 views
Streamed live on Jul 28, 2020
Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson
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
been published in MacLeans and the Halifax Examiner.
---------- 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.
Thanks,
Tim Bousquet
Editor
Halifax Examiner
----------Origiinal message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 09:09:14 -0300
Subject: RE The "Strike back: Demand an inquiry Event." What a
difference a day makes EH? Notice CBC ain't talking about this yet?
To: "darrow.macintyre" <darrow.macintyre@cbc.ca>, "barbara.massey"
< barbara.massey@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
< Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, washington field
< washington.field@ic.fbi.gov>, "Frank.McKenna" <Frank.McKenna@td.com>
Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>, prmibullrun@gmail.com,
"Catherine.Tait" <Catherine.Tait@cbc.ca>, "Chuck.Thompson"
< Chuck.Thompson@cbc.ca>
----------Origiinal message ----------
From: "MinFinance / FinanceMin (FIN)" <fin.minfinance-financemin.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 12:04:25 +0000
Subject: RE: 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: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
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----------Origiinal message ----------
From: Premier <PREMIER@novascotia.ca>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 12:04:54 +0000
Subject: Automatic Reply
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Citizens Rise Against Corruption in Trudeau Government
58,732 views
Streamed live on Jul 27, 2020
Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson
Citizens Rise Against Corruption in Trudeau Government - Peter Mac Issac
----------Origiinal message ----------
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.
---------- Original message ----------
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.ca
mlaritcey@bellaliant.com, mla@esmithmccrossinmla.com,
toryrushtonmla@bellaliant.com, kelly@kellyregan.ca,
mla_assistant@alanapaon.com, stephenmcneil@ns.aliantzinc.ca
< 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
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:
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Thank you again for your message, and we will get back to you as soon
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Best,
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Parliament Hill: 613-995-0284
Constituency Office: 416-261-8613
bill.blair@parl.gc.ca<mailto:b
**
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
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En outre, nous vous demandons de ne t?l?phoner ? notre bureau que si
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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.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.ca
> mlaritcey@bellaliant.com, mla@esmithmccrossinmla.com,
> toryrushtonmla@bellaliant.com, kelly@kellyregan.ca,
> mla_assistant@alanapaon.com, stephenmcneil@ns.aliantzinc.ca
> < 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.
>
>>
>
> **
> 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.
> < 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
> Sgt.Royce MacRae at 902-720-5426 (w) or 902-471-8776 (c)
>
>
>
> ---------- 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>
>
> Due to a very high volume of incoming email to this account there is
> an unusual backlog of pending responses. Your query may not be repleid
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13 deadly hours
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.
November 22, 2020
It was just days before his 46th birthday and Greg Blair was finally mortgage- and debt-free. He and his wife, Jamie — affectionately known as Chicken to her friends and family — ran a business together, selling and installing propane and natural gas equipment across Nova Scotia. In their downtime, they loved being outdoors and spent their days surrounded by family.
"They're great people," Tyler Blair told The Fifth Estate. "Very hard workers. My father worked very hard his whole life and ... was about to start living life."
On the night of April 18, 2020, the Blairs hosted two neighbours for dinner in their rural community of Portapique. With COVID-19 restrictions in place, they ate steak and potatoes at a table set up in the garage with the doors open, allowing the cool spring air in.
After dinner, the couple planned to spend the evening burning some brush they'd cleared that day. But around 10 p.m. that night, their plans were interrupted.
- WATCH | The Fifth Estate: 13 Deadly Hours on CBC Gem
Gabriel Wortman wasn't a friend of the Blairs. The denturist had a log cottage on Portapique Beach Road, the next road over, and would drive by their house on the way to his other property, a lavish garage where he meticulously worked on his collection of motorcycles.
Parked inside that warehouse on Orchard Beach Road, unknown to many, was a fully marked replica police vehicle Wortman had put together.
People in the community considered Wortman eccentric. From time to time, he'd show off his bar with its extensive liquor supply inside the wood-panelled garage. But some who knew him say he was a nasty drunk and prone to fits of rage — whether it be directed at people he'd hire to work on his property or his long-term partner.
That April night, after RCMP say he got in an argument with his partner, Wortman started a rampage, killing 22 people across Nova Scotia in Canada's largest mass shooting in modern history: 13 people in Portapique; four in Wentworth; two in Debert; three more in Shubenacadie.
WATCH | Tyler Blair says his dad and stepmom were "great people":
N.S. shooting victims were 'about to start living life'
Saturday: 10:01 p.m.
He told The Fifth Estate that while his younger brothers, aged 10 and 12, were playing video games, his stepmother Jamie and the young boys heard Greg yell, "What the f--k are you doing with a gun?"
They heard a shot. In an instant, Greg was killed steps from his front door.
"That's when Jamie ran back into the [house] and got [my brothers] and pushed them down the hallway, and they all ran down into their bedroom," Tyler Blair said.
He said his stepmother called 911 at 10:01 p.m. She was the first person to alert the RCMP to a problem in Portapique. She stayed on the line while shielding her sons from the gunman on the other side of the bedroom door.
Greg and Jamie Blair were killed at their home as their two
young sons hid under a bed, where a bullet nearly missed them as it went
through the mattress. (Jamie Blair/Facebook)
"My two little brothers hid behind the bed, and Jamie put her back up against the interior door of their bedroom," Tyler Blair said. "He just shot right through it."
Much later, when Tyler went to the house to collect some of Greg and Jamie's things, he said he found at least eight bullet holes through that bedroom door.
"There's one that actually went through the mattress of the bed, where my little brothers were hiding, and probably missed them by about a foot," he said.
After witnessing their mother die, the young boys realized the gunman was trying to set the house on fire. The older boy found logs from their wood stove strewn across the floor. The propane stove was on, with hotdog and hamburger buns thrown on the top near the flaming elements.
Seven months later, bullet holes can be seen in a window and
the exterior wall of the Blairs' house. (Steve Lawrence/CBC)
The brothers bolted through the woods towards their neighbour's house to seek help.
In the meantime, the shooter continued on his rampage through Portapique. Thirteen people would be dead by the time he left the community, and he was far from finished.
Saturday: About 10:05 p.m.
Next door to the Blairs, elementary school teacher Lisa McCully had been enjoying the saltwater air during her nightly ritual — a peaceful walk along the shore.
Portapique is a small, rural community overlooking a river that flows into Cobequid Bay, the easternmost tip of the Bay of Fundy. It's made up of a mix of cottages, trailers and homes nestled on the shore. There are a handful of gravel roads and no street lights. About 100 or so people call the area home, although the population doubles during the summer when families flock to the beach.
McCully moved to the area in part because she loved being close to nature. When she wasn't making music, the 49-year-old spent her free time hiking, doing yoga and playing with her children.
"She was fearless, she was your classic mama bear, she was so protective of everyone," said her sister Jenny Kierstead.
After
McCully returned home and put her son and daughter to bed that evening,
she noticed something troubling and stepped outside.
She lived
directly across from Wortman's garage, though dense spruce trees usually
blocked the view of anything beyond the driveway and the metal gate he
normally kept locked. That night though, the building's frame was
disintegrating against the moonless sky.
"She had gone out to see
these flames that were higher than the tree line, and went out because
she saw an RCMP officer," Kierstead said. "Probably [to] ask, should we
evacuate, what the heck is going on?"
The burned-out patch of grass shows where Gabriel Wortman's
garage used to be — directly across the road from Lisa McCully's red
house. (Steve Lawrence/CBC)
McCully then approached someone she thought was a Mountie there to help.
It was Wortman, dressed as an RCMP officer — standing near a marked vehicle. As she approached him, he shot and killed her.
Kierstead said it was reassuring to learn from police that her sister died instantly.
McCully's children remained inside alone but answered the door when the Blair boys later showed up looking for help. After calling 911, the four friends huddled under the stairs in the basement.
The RCMP dispatcher tried to keep them calm and told them to wait for someone to rescue them. The dispatcher told the kids an RCMP officer would have a special word they would tell the children so they would know it was a real officer — and that it was finally safe to come out.
Saturday: 10:20 p.m.
Lisa McCully wasn't the only person alarmed by the fire at Wortman's garage. After they noticed flames, a man and woman who lived up the road jumped in their car to get a closer look and called 911.
The man, who we'll refer to as PR, has never spoken publicly about his experience and declined to be interviewed.
The Fifth Estate obtained an audio statement he gave in August to a private investigator who is working on behalf of victims' families to investigate the events of that night.
In the statement, he describes telling the RCMP about being shot by Wortman in a mock-RCMP vehicle — information the RCMP didn't share with the public until more than 12 hours after they'd received it.
PR said that while driving to see what was going on, he and his wife spotted an RCMP vehicle parked in front of Frank and Dawn Gulenchyn's blue house at the top of Orchard Beach Drive.
Frank and Dawn Gulenchyn's retirement home in Portapique no
longer exists. It was one of three homes belonging to victims that the
gunman burned. (Steve Lawrence/CBC)
PR said they told the dispatcher that it appeared an RCMP
officer was already on scene, but he found it strange that the car was
empty and the roof lights weren't on.
The couple continued down the road towards the fire, and as they got closer realized it was coming from the denturist's garage. PR said he thought to call his neighbour Gabe and tell him, but remembered Gabe didn't have a cellphone. PR and Gabe were friendly — they'd been neighbours for nearly a decade. PR said they would have a beer together now and then or talk about working on cars or motorcycles.
After seeing the fire, PR and his wife turned around and went back up the road — still on the phone with 911, where the operator was trying to transfer them to the fire department. They stopped in front of the Gulenchyns' and noticed someone was now in the cruiser.
"Over the cop car and through the kitchen window the whole kitchen lit up on fire fast," PR said. "Like, fast. So, we kinda [thought], something's wrong."
"Not very often you see two fires at once and like, why is there a police officer here?" he said. "It didn't make sense."
(CBC)
The Fifth Estate has learned that by that
point, at least three people had called 911, including Jamie Blair, who
reported that her husband was killed by a gunman before she, too, was
shot shortly after 10 p.m.
But PR said the dispatcher didn't tell him what was going on. Months later, he told the investigator that he is still frustrated that he and his wife weren't warned of the danger ahead.
"So there's 20-some minutes before we called and ... they should have told us to get the f--k out of there, but they didn't," he said in the audio obtained by The Fifth Estate. "Why didn't the dispatcher know to tell us to get out of there because people are getting shot?"
As they drove back towards their house, they noticed someone was in the RCMP car — and that person started driving towards them. The car pulled up beside PR and his wife.
"I rolled down the window to tell the RCMP officer that one, we're not lighting the fires, and two, we're on the phone with 911," PR said.
That's when the man he thought was an RCMP officer rolled down his own window and started firing a handgun at them.
PR recognized the shooter was his neighbour, Gabriel Wortman.
"We ducked quickly and I got shot in my forehead and one went through my arm," the audio tapes obtained by The Fifth Estate reveal. "My wife was OK but at that point I saw Gabe ... and I saw his gun. He had a laser sight on the gun and thank God he did, because if not I wouldn't have seen the handgun at all because it was dark."
Despite being hit twice — one bullet through the shoulder, the other grazing his forehead — PR managed to drive away.
Around 10:26, he encountered the first RCMP officer on scene. His account was confirmed in a summary of his police statement contained in search warrant documents CBC and other media organizations obtained in court.
WATCH | Clinton Ellison describes the terrifying night he
spent hiding in the woods after he discovered his brother had been shot
by the gunman:
"It was dark and it was terrifying for anybody there," he said. "I don't know how they, those first officers on scene, I can't imagine what they had to walk into."
RCMP 'overwhelmed'
Audio of Nova Scotia's Emergency Health Services (EHS) dispatch that night reveals that at 10:49 p.m., they were told RCMP were "overwhelmed" and needed help.
When the specialized Emergency Response Team (ERT) eventually arrived kitted out in SWAT gear from Halifax, 130 kilometres away, they tried to clear some houses on the first road in the subdivision — pounding on doors and telling people to get out fast. They left others to sleep through the night, unaware of what was happening around them.
But it's unclear what happened on the ground when police arrived. In the seven months since the tragedy, the RCMP would not say how many officers were dispatched but insist the support was sufficient and officers followed their training.
"As dictated by their training, their objective was to locate and to stop that threat," Supt. Darren Campbell said in a media conference on June 4. "This is exactly what those RCMP first responders were working towards."
Portapique is nestled on the shores of Cobequid Bay, which
leads into the Bay of Fundy. Along the eastern edge, there is a dirt
road along a blueberry field that the gunman used to get out of the
community. (Steve Lawrence/CBC)
People who were in the area that night have a different story.
Witnesses have told The Fifth Estate the initial response consisted of three to four officers. How, when or even if they advanced on the scene in Portapique is still a mystery.
A neighbour, who spoke to The Fifth Estate on the condition of anonymity, said he didn't see any police presence on Orchard Beach Drive, the scene of six killings, until the emergency response team arrived at 12:45 a.m. Sunday — nearly three hours after he called 911 reporting gunshots.
Another resident, Leon Joudrey, said he encountered an ERT vehicle outside Wortman's burnt cottage but didn't see any police officers when he drove around Orchard Beach Road around 4 a.m., unaware his neighbours had been killed.
"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]."
The Fifth Estate has learned police didn't make it to the home of Emily, Jolene and Oliver Tuck until 19 hours after police believe they were killed in their home. Investigators would later tell family members they didn't discover the three bodies until 5 p.m. Sunday — 19 hours after police believe they were killed.
It would also take the RCMP more than two hours to rescue the four children hiding in Lisa McCully's basement.
The two McCully children and the two Blair children hid in
the basement of Lisa McCully’s house for more than two hours, waiting
for the RCMP to rescue them. (Steve Lawrence/CBC)
"It shouldn't take two hours to go in and get four young kids out of an area that you know some madman's running around with a gun," Blair told The Fifth Estate. "It is a f--king long time for them to be sitting there ... I don't know why somebody wasn't sent in earlier to get them out of there."
The RCMP later told their families that as many as six officers were stationed around the house to protect the children. But Blair doesn't buy it.
"The RCMP have been caught in so many lies already," he told The Fifth Estate. "It's hard for me to believe a word that comes out of their mouth."
On the ground and in their makeshift operations headquarters in a nearby firehall, the RCMP seemed to be putting the pieces together about the horror that had unfolded in Portapique.
Around 3 a.m., an RCMP investigator called PR to go over his story again. They spoke for about an hour and PR sent the investigator a photo of Wortman he'd found on Facebook, "just to confirm," he said.
PR said in total, he told the RCMP three times about Wortman and the marked car.
But it wouldn't be until 12 hours after PR's first conversation that the RCMP would share that crucial information with the public.
The RCMP has repeatedly refused to speak with The Fifth Estate about the mass shootings.
During the 13-hour rampage, the RCMP communicated with the public via Twitter. They'd later say they were counting on local media to relay information to the public.
At 11:32 p.m. the RCMP first tweeted they were dealing with a "firearms complaint" in Portapique — no mention of fires, a gunman or anyone being hurt or killed.
(CBC)
And critically, no mention of those key details The Fifth Estate has learned they were investigating overnight: that it was Wortman in a mock-RCMP vehicle.
According to internal bulletins that were circulated to police agencies across the province, by 1 a.m., the RCMP had identified the 51-year-old as a suspect who was "armed and dangerous" and associated him with "an old white police car."
The RCMP spent the night tracking vehicles associated with the gunman, including three decommissioned police cars. They found one white Ford Taurus burning at each of the shooter's properties in Portapique. A third would be located at his business in Dartmouth.
When all three cars had been accounted for, The Fifth Estate has learned the RCMP made a fateful assumption. By dawn, they concluded the gunman must have taken his own life — not an unusual outcome after a violent rampage — and thought they'd find the evidence somewhere in the rubble of his torched properties.
An RCMP source says some officers were even sent home at that point.
And while Mounties blocked off a section of Highway 2 connected to Portapique Beach Road, there was something else they hadn't realized: Portapique had a back way out — a dirt road along a blueberry field that leads to the highway, a few hundred metres from the subdivision's main entrance.
RCMP have said their investigation later determined the gunman escaped down that road about 20 minutes after police arrived — driving approximately 27 kilometres to the community of Debert. He spent the night parked behind a welding shop.
Sunday: 6:30 a.m.
The RCMP have always insisted they didn't know that Wortman was using a replica police car until around 6:30 a.m. Sunday.
"Those details came in their totality to us early in the morning of Sunday, after a key witness was located and interviewed," RCMP said in a media conference on April 22. "Prior to that time, we did not have all those details. The bulk of the details about our suspect came to us at that time."
That key witness was the gunman's spouse. Police say they got in a fight and he assaulted her, which was the start of the rampage that Saturday night.
The Fifth Estate has learned the woman told investigators that Wortman restrained her with a handcuff on one of her wrists. She said she escaped from the marked police car by crawling through the window in the divider between the front and backseat, fleeing and hiding until daybreak.
Around 8 a.m., after police spoke with her, an updated bulletin was sent out, telling other police forces the gunman was potentially driving a "fully marked Ford Taurus," and gave the car number. It warned "he could be anywhere in the province" and "was arrestable for homicide."
At almost the same time the RCMP was telling other police services that information, the force released its second tweet — saying there was an "active shooter" investigation in Portapique, not "anywhere in the province" as they had said internally.
Two hours later, around 9 a.m., the RCMP identified Wortman publicly as the suspected shooter in a tweet. But that tweet still contained no mention of a mock-RCMP car or a police uniform.
It wouldn't be until after 10 a.m. Sunday, and after the gunman killed 19 people, that police would release this information. It remains unclear why they waited.
They also didn't mention he could be anywhere in the province, as they'd identified internally — or even the possibility that he'd left Portapique, where he left behind the bodies of 13 of his neighbours.
Among those killed in Portapique were Jolene Oliver, Aaron Tuck and their daughter Emily and three couples who retired to Portapique in recent years: Joy and Peter Bond, Frank and Dawn Gulenchyn and John Zahl and Joanne Thomas. Corrie Ellison, 42, was also shot on Orchard Beach Road after going to see if anyone was in trouble when he spotted the flames at Wortman's warehouse. His brother, who discovered his body, hid in the woods for hours fearing the gunman was after him, too.
Seven months later, many families of 22 victims who were
killed in Canada's largest mass shooting struggle with what they say is a
lack of information from the RCMP. (CBC)
Sunday: 6:30 a.m.
As word of the destruction began to travel informally among family and friends, people awoke to their normal Sunday routines. For those whose weekend rituals included scrolling through social media, some spotted posts about police activity in a corner of Colchester County.
At this point, the information released to the public via Twitter by the RCMP was still only that there was an active shooter in Portapique, and residents in that area should stay inside with their doors locked. People in other parts of the province were cautious, but saw no reason to worry.
But that bright Sunday morning, what looked like a Mountie in a patrol car was travelling north, taking the lone highway into the Wentworth Valley. He wouldn't stop until he was more than halfway across northern Nova Scotia.
Around 6:30 a.m., videos taken along a country road 50 kilometres from Portapique show the mock-RCMP cruiser with a distinctive black push bar heading to the home of Sean McLeod and Alanna Jenkins, who worked as managers at federal penitentiaries.
Sean and Alanna were father and stepmother to two daughters, who say their parents loved to host friends and their home on Hunter Road was always welcoming.
WATCH | Amielia McLeod says her dad and stepmom were loving, welcomed everyone:
Daughter of N.S. shooting victim reflects on dad's life
2 years ago 0:17
"I wouldn't be who I am without him, like I grew up going
fishing, hunting, like he taught me everything. They were really caring,
selfless, loving, fun," said Sean's daughter Amielia McLeod.
The family does not know why the killer targeted them that morning or what he did during the three hours he spent at their home.
Police believe he killed the couple and their two dogs shortly after he arrived. Before he left, he set the house on fire and neighbours say in a matter of minutes, flames engulfed the wall of windows that faced the Wallace River where Sean and Alanna loved to spend their days floating.
In the early hours of April 19, 2020, the gunman travelled
north from Portapique, taking the lone highway into the Wentworth
Valley. (Steve Lawrence/CBC)
The gunman also killed Tom Bagley close to the deck of the home where McLeod and Jenkins lived. Bagley was a retired former firefighter who was out for a walk.
Surveillance videos captured Wortman's car leaving Hunter Road at 9:23 a.m., driving faster than he had hours earlier. On the highway heading south from Wentworth, the gunman killed another stranger, Lillian Campbell, who was out walking.
By now, the information released to the public via Twitter by the RCMP was still that there was an active shooter in Portapique, and residents in that area should stay inside with their doors locked.
It was during these hours that the gunman's spouse emerged from hiding in Portapique, and the RCMP realized their suspect may not be where they thought he was. Around 9 a.m., the RCMP began to receive frantic calls from Wentworth.
When RCMP officers arrived on Hunter Road sometime after 10 a.m., the shooter was long gone — continuing his killing spree close to the warehouse where he'd spent the night.
Sunday: 9:59 a.m.
About 40 kilometres from Portapique in Onslow Mountain, Nick Beaton was making breakfast for his two-year-old son. His wife, Kristen, had just left for work.
She worked for the Victorian Order of Nurses, travelling around Nova Scotia taking care of those who needed her. She was a continuing care assistant and during the COVID-19 pandemic, she was especially tired — she was pregnant and had a small child at home.
"She was going to work early in the morning you know six, seven in the morning whatever it was, and [before she left] she came in and gave me a big kiss and a big hug and she said, 'Baby you're the best,'" Nick Beaton said.
"Little did I know that would be the last kiss I'd have."
Nick Beaton said he and his wife, Kristen, shown her during
her first pregnancy, had a perfect life with their young son. She had
just found out she was pregnant with their second child when she was
killed. (Nick Beaton/Facebook)
Meanwhile, in nearby Masstown, Heather O'Brien was also getting ready for the day; the nurse, who worked for the same organization as Beaton, was hoping to spend her day off working on her garden. Before she got started, the mother of eight wanted to check in on her family.
Earlier that morning, O'Brien's daughter Darcy Dobson was awoken by her husband with heartbreaking news: their friends Greg and Jamie Blair had been shot and killed in Portapique. Her husband was Jamie's cousin; their sons played hockey together.
"At that point, we weren't sure what had happened [in Portapique]," Dobson said. "I got up at 5:30, made a cup of coffee and called my mom."
Knowing her family was shaken by that news, O'Brien offered to swing by with a round of coffees for her children and smiles for her 12 grandchildren. They all lived in a loop in Colchester County, close enough that O'Brien could stop in for visits and the drinks would still be delivered hot.
"She knew we were all kind of a little bit on edge about what was happening in Portapique," Dobson told The Fifth Estate. "More than anything she just kinda wanted to see us, make sure everybody was OK."
At this point, the only information the O'Brien family had was that something was happening in Portapique and police were still there, so she didn't think much of leaving her house more than 20 kilometres away from the scene.
As she drove, she called a fellow nurse who lived on the opposite side of Portapique. Since there was only one rural highway for her friend to travel — the road that went through Portapique — and the RCMP had part of it blocked off, O'Brien wanted to make sure her coworker could still make it to her appointments.
Heather O'Brien was mother to eight and loved spending time with her 12 grandchildren. (Submitted by Darcy Dobson)
Little did O'Brien know the gunman was heading her way, and she was about to run into him on Plains Road in Debert.
She never made it to the coffee shop.
Not far away, after Kristen Beaton left for work, her husband Nick was texting her updates of what was happening in Portapique.
"I'm thinking that ... it was like an isolated incident, that him and family got into it," he said. “Not thinking that he's out targeting innocent people."
The Beatons weren't worried, but were still being careful.
They chatted while she was pulled over on the side of Plains Road, waiting for her next visit. As they spoke, Nick cautioned her not to stop for anyone.
By this time, the RCMP had tweeted the name and a photo of their suspect.
"I just said, 'OK, I'm gonna go to his Facebook to find his picture and send it to you just in case you see him to avoid him,' or what have you," Nick Beaton said.
The photo was a smiling man in a ball cap. It was the last text Kristen Beaton read. The man in the photo came across Beaton as she was pulled over on the side of the road.
At that very same time, Heather O'Brien was heading down the same road, talking to her colleague on the phone. She saw what she thought was an RCMP car.
This RCMP handout photo shows the gunman's car driving through Debert at 10 a.m. on the morning of April 19. (RCMP)
At 9:59 a.m., O'Brien heard gunshots. She sent a text message to her kids in their family group chat:
RCMP.
Shots fired Debert.
It was likely the gunfire that killed Kristen Beaton.
"The coworker asked her where she was, and she said the RCMP was there and at that point she had screamed," said Dobson.
The line dropped. Her friend frantically dialled 911.
"I think she probably felt safe [seeing the] RCMP car," Dobson said. "If there's shots being fired in Debert, like at least the cops are here."
O'Brien was killed by the gunman just a few hundred metres from Kristen Beaton.
When O'Brien and Beaton left their homes Sunday morning, they and their families weren't aware that the gunman had fled Portapique — or even that the situation was ongoing.
A memorial for Kristen Beaton sits at the side of Plains Road in Debert, where she was killed. (Steve Lawrence/CBC)
"It would have been after mom was killed that they posted he was [nearby]," O'Brien's daughter Darcy Dobson said. "It was after she was killed that they posted he was in an RCMP car."
About 15 minutes after O'Brien and Beaton were killed, Nova Scotia RCMP tweeted their suspect could be dressed as a Mountie driving a vehicle that was all but identical to an actual cruiser. It was 15 minutes too late for the two women. And it was nearly 12 hours after the RCMP received that information.
"The [RCMP] had an opportunity to stop him before the people who died on the 19th were killed," said Dobson. "They failed to give the public the information they needed to stay safe."
"I've gone over and over and over again they didn't release that he was dressed as an officer," Nick Beaton said.
He is adamant if they knew that information, his wife would be by his side today.
"If the RCMP had've armed us with the information of who he was and what they knew by 11 o'clock Saturday night ... she wouldn't have even been on the road," he said.
"Me and many other blue nosers in Nova Scotia were sitting on their front deck with their firearms protecting their family. And she'd have been behind me, she'd have been safe."
In all, the RCMP would release 10 tweets over the 13-hour rampage — releasing new tweets as they received information and sightings of the gunman as he traversed Nova Scotia.
Sunday: 10:49 a.m.
As the RCMP were frantically trying to track down their suspect, Const. Chad Morrison waited in his squad car to meet a colleague. By then, police knew the gunman was on the move.
He and Const. Heidi Stevenson both worked out of Enfield, an hour's drive from Portapique, and had been called to Colchester County to help set up roadblocks. They agreed to meet at an intersection about 50 kilometres from Debert.
According to court documents, Morrison pulled up to an approaching police car in Shubenacadie thinking it was Stevenson there to meet him. It wasn't.
The gunman pulled out a handgun and started firing at Morrison. He was shot in the arm, and managed to drive away — frantically pressing the emergency alarm in his car as he sped off.
The gunman’s mock cruiser was finally stopped when he
collided with Const. Heidi Stevenson. The silver SUV was driven by Joey
Webber, who was killed by the gunman when he pulled over to help.
(Submitted by Rob Pineo)
Meanwhile, less than 500 metres from where he struck Morrison, the gunman spotted Stevenson. He turned to intercept her, veering both cars into the guardrails of the ramp onto Highway 2 where they collided.
They exchanged gunfire and Stevenson, a 23-year member of the force and mother of two, was killed. The RCMP say Stevenson died a hero, sacrificing her life to protect the people of Nova Scotia.
The gunman then killed Joey Webber, who stopped to help after seeing the two crashed cruisers. The 36-year old father of three had been en route to buy furnace oil, and like the many other victims was unaware of any danger nearby.
The shooter stole Stevenson's police-issue pistol and lit the cruisers on fire before taking off in Webber's SUV.
Sunday: 11:26 a.m.
Half an hour later, police finally stopped their suspect at a busy gas station not far from Halifax's international airport.
He was driving a car stolen from his final victim, Gina Goulet. After fleeing from where the two cruisers burned, Wortman killed Goulet in her nearby home.
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Goulet was a denturist who had twice battled cancer. She
loved salsa dancing and fishing. Her beloved German Shepherd was shot
but the dog survived.
When the gunman stole her car, the gas tank was almost empty. He soon headed to one of the area's busiest gas stations.
But as fate would have it, a member of the Emergency Response Team who was en route to try and stop the gunman had also pulled into the Big Stop in Enfield to get gas.
The RCMP officer recognized Wortman, and the gunman was shot and killed. Police later found five guns in his vehicle.
At 11:26 a.m on Sunday, 13 hours after it began, the rampage had ended.
The aftermath
In the months since the tragedy, the RCMP has offered few answers for families or the public. The force held five media conferences, the last in early June. Media organizations, including the CBC, have gone to court to try to gain access to search warrant documents.
In the early days after the shooting, RCMP said they had no files on Wortman. But police documents obtained by the CBC reveal the 51-year-old wasn't a stranger to police.
He was convicted of assaulting a teen in 2001 and investigated for threatening his parents in 2010.
The following year, Truro police received a tip that Wortman was mentally unstable, had firearms and threatened to kill a cop. In 2013, a neighbour in Portapique reported to police that Wortman was abusive towards his partner and had illegal weapons. None of these incidents resulted in charges and it's unclear to what extent police investigated.
"How in the hell is he not a red flag?" said Heather O'Brien's daughter Darcy Dobson. "It seems to me that a wealthy man with charisma got away with doing whatever the hell he wanted."
In the months since losing his wife, Nick Beaton has embarked on his own investigation, trying to piece together information about the shooter and what happened over those 13 hours.
"I tried to sit back so I could heal, so I could deal with it, and I can't," he said. "I need answers. There's too many questions, there's too many things not answered."
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In a meeting with investigators, he asked the Mounties to explain how they reached the conclusion that their suspect was dead.
"They couldn't answer it, they were going to look into it and get back to me," Beaton told The Fifth Estate. "I haven't heard nothing yet, it's been months.
"I can lay here and bawl the rest of my life, which I know Kristen wouldn't want, or fight."
Beaton is one of the named plaintiffs in the proposed class-action lawsuit against Wortman's estate. The families are also suing the RCMP and the province.
"We just want answers, we want the truth, full transparency," he said. "We want the RCMP to say we messed up, we made mistakes here, here and here we're learning from it and it's not going to happen again.
"It wasn't the men and women officers that day that I'm upset at, it's the force in general, it's the top brass, it's the people making the decisions."
He and other family members grew frustrated over the summer as calls for a public inquiry went unanswered.
On the same day Beaton and Dobson led a march of family members to the Bible Hill RCMP detachment in support of an inquiry, they learned the federal and provincial justice ministers would announce an independent review, but not the public inquiry they asked for.
Family and friends of victims, including Sean McLeod's
daughters, Taylor Andrews, left, and Amielia McLeod, attend a march
demanding an inquiry into the April mass shooting in Nova Scotia that
killed 22 people, in Bible Hill, N.S., on July 22, 2020. (Andrew
Vaughan/The Canadian Press)
Public outcry was swift and harsh, and within a week, federal Public Safety Minister Bill Blair backtracked and said an inquiry would go ahead. In October — days after the six-month anniversary of their loved ones deaths — family members finally got a timeline.
"I have often said this, if it was myself or one of my sisters, my brother, or my dad, [my mother] would have done everything I have done and more," Dobson said. She knows her mother would have settled for "nothing less than the truth."
"She would have demanded it, she'd have been worse than me," she said. "Everybody says you know, I am out there — and I am loud ... they would have been scared if she walked in the doors of that RCMP station because she wouldn't have taken no for an answer on anything."
The inquiry's final report is due by Nov. 1, 2022. Until then, families are left to grieve their loved ones without fully understanding how they came to lose them so violently.
"I know as much now as I knew in April or May," Tyler Blair said. "It's disgraceful.... We shouldn't have to fight and beg for answers."
With his parents gone, Blair now cares for his younger brothers and is running the family business. Although he and his father had talked about him taking it on eventually, it wasn't meant to happen this soon, this way.
"I'm just doing what I should do — what my father would want me to do."
With files from Linda Guerriero and Gillian Findlay
If you are seeking mental health support during this time, here are resources available to Canadians.
If you have a tip about this or any other story, contact elizabeth.mcmillan@cbc.ca or lisa.mayor@cbc.ca
Lisa McCully was ‘creeped out’ by a neighbour in Portapique; then he killed her
The Portapique sign on Highway 2 was adorned with a NS tartan sash following the mass shooting that began there on April 18, 2020. Photo: Joan Baxter
In the days before the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, the killer was harassing Lisa McCully, who lived in Portapique, driving in front of her home and “creeping her out,” according to an RCMP officer who knew her.
McCully was the killer’s third victim on Saturday night, April 18, when she left her two children in her house to investigate a fire across the road. She was shot dead next to the fence along her property line.
A history of abuse and intimidation
Reporting by the Halifax Examiner coupled with documents being released by the Mass Casualty Commission are painting a more detailed picture of the murderer as a controlling man obsessed with sex, who would intimidate and harass those who wouldn’t accede to his demands.
The killer, who the Halifax Examiner refers to as GW, physically abused Lisa Banfield, his common-law spouse, at least as early as 2005, Brenda Forbes told the Examiner in an interview with reporter Joan Baxter. Forbes and her husband had lived in Portapique when GW and Banfield moved into the community in 2004.
Forbes and her husband began socializing with GW and Banfield, but that relationship soured quickly.
GW “had put advances on Brenda and wanted to get into her pants,” another neighbour, Richard Ellison, told MCC investigators. “And when that didn’t happen, then things kind of fell apart.”
“They weren’t even in that house for a year when Lisa [Banfield] ran over to my house one day saying that Gabriel was beating her up and she was scared,” said Forbes. “She wanted to hide somewhere because he had blocked her car with his truck so she couldn’t get out. But she managed to get away from the house.”
Forbes said she told Banfield that she needed to get help, that there were “a lot of services” and “a lot of places” that would keep her safe, but Banfield said that there was no way she could flee the relationship, because if she had, he would have killed her.
Forbes told other people in the community that GW was abusive but wasn’t believed.
“About half of them said, ‘oh no, he’s such a nice guy, he would never do stuff like that,’ and just pshawed me, basically,” Forbes told Baxter.
After people in Portapique began talking about GW violently attacking Banfield — he had thrown her to the ground and choked her in front of his uncle and another man who lived in the community, but neither intervened — Forbes called the RCMP. She hadn’t seen the choking incident herself, but she knew about GW’s weapons. “He’s got a shit load of illegal weapons. I’ve seen them. My husband has seen them,” she said.
Forbes said she and her husband know what weapons Canadians are allowed to own with a Firearms Acquisition Certificate, and that they knew GW’s weapons were not legal. So she told the RCMP that, and then in their presence, she called GW’s relative and put him on speakerphone so the Mounties could hear him:
So I called [the relative] and I said… “would you be willing to talk to the RCMP about what happened with Lisa and the illegal weapons that Gabriel has?” And he said, “no way, because he’s already told me he’ll kill me, because he’s already told me that he’s killed people in the United States.”
And I said, “Okay … just chill. Just relax. Don’t worry about it.” I hung up and the RCMP basically said, “the only way that we can actually get the information on this and prove it … like for her being beaten and strangled and stuff like that. She has to say it.” And there’s no way that she would do that. Gabriel had her under his thumb. And I mean, literally. If her family came over, he would be right beside her. So she wouldn’t say anything to them about what happened at all.
Forbes said Banfield was often left to work in the Dartmouth denturist office and GW would come to Portapique and a string of women would come by the warehouse. Forbes told Banfield about this, and Banfield confronted GW.
And that’s when it “got scary,” said Forbes. “He dragged her back up to our house,” Forbes told Baxter. “He pounded on the door. [My husband] opens it. And Gabriel starts screaming.” Forbes told GW that she had merely told Banfield the truth, and then he “grabbed hold” of Banfield and “dragged her back out.”
Soon after, Forbes’ husband had to go abroad for work, leaving Forbes alone in the house. GW began harassing her. “He stopped his vehicle right in front of my house,” said Forbes. “He got out of the vehicle, stood there and stared at the house for a good half hour, scaring the shit out of me. And this happened about four days in a row.”
Forbes was so frightened by GW that she and her husband sold their house and moved out of the province entirely.
“If they had stayed there, they would have died,” said Richard Ellison of Forbes and her husband.
Forbes’ comments about women coming to the warehouse when Banfield wasn’t present is supported by other statements collected by the MCC.
Another woman who lived in Portapique, identified as EE in the MCC documents, said she was having a sexual relationship with GW, and the two had a signal for when EE could come by: “if the gates were open, the big red gates, so if the gates were open that was my sign that it was OK for me to go in, that she [Banfield] wasn’t around, and if they were closed it was meant like, ‘Stay home, mind your business, don’t come near me’… She [Banfield] would never come down until Friday evening and then she did her bingo on Saturday night and he would come see me while she was at bingo and then I wouldn’t see him until she left around Sunday morning.”
EE told MCC investigators that she would also arrange sexual encounters between GW and other women — including a younger woman who was living with EE in Portapique. As well, EE said GW would ask her opinion of women he was having sex with. “He always brought his girls back to me to give the OK, and I asked him, ‘How do you find all these girls?’ and he said, ‘They come in and sit in my [denturist] chair,'” said EE. Many of the women were clients of Social Services.
“And then he says, ‘I invite them back to my house and I treat them like queens,’ because they don’t get that because they live on the streets or they’re very low income or whatever,” said EE. “He loves the street girls.”
One woman who EE brought to the warehouse is identified as II in the documents. II said that EE tried to talk her into performing oral sex on GW, but she refused. During the visit, she was sexually assaulted by GW, and police were called. But according to II, when police arrived, EE said II was simply drunk, and the responding officers didn’t investigate further.
Lisa McCully
Lisa McCully. Photo: Facebook
Lisa McCully lived on Orchard Beach Drive with her two children. The house was immediately across the road from GW’s large warehouse, where he stored his motorcycles, his weapons, and the fully mocked-up replica RCMP cruiser he was building. There was a bar and, upstairs, an apartment where he would have sex with the visiting women.
Leon Joudrey, another Portapique resident, told police investigators that he had dated McCully soon after he moved to the community in 2018. They met at a community barbecue hosted by another neighbour. “Attractive girl,” said Joudrey.
“I had a couple of beer,” he continued. “There was a little bit of flirtation that went on. I kissed her and she goes ‘Whoah, you’re moving too fast.’ And that was the end of it.”
Joudrey and McCully each started dating other people, but both relationships ended by the summer of 2019. “Lisa [McCully] started talking to me and started showing more interest,” said Joudrey. “We met on the beach, going for a walk, and then one thing led to another. Just the way couples start.”
But, said Joudrey, he was uncertain how to proceed because he was still reeling emotionally from a divorce, which was also why he broke up with the woman he had been dating before McCully.
Besides, there was something odd about another neighbour, GW.
“I never had anything to do with Gabriel until I met Lisa [McCully],” said Joudrey. “Then Gabriel started talking about it, pulled into my yard a couple times. That’s freaking weird… He kept saying about Lisa being a good woman. I said, ‘oh yeah, we’re going out. We’ll see how things go. I’m still trying to go through a divorce.'”
GW kept repeating, “She’s a good woman, she’s a good woman.”
Joudrey understood that GW was jealous over McCully, so Joudrey asked McCully about it.
McCully told Joudrey that she had once slept with GW — many years previously, before she met Joudrey.
“I went and told him [GW] that we couldn’t be friends anymore because I’m dating you [Joudrey] now,” McCully told Joudrey, as Joudrey recalled the conversation.
“What did you do that for?” responded Joudrey. “You trying to poke the bear?”
Then GW was “a dick to me the last two or three times [I saw him],” said Joudrey. Joudrey broke up with McCully, but the two continued to text each other.
On the night of April 18, several people called 911 and said that the killer was driving a police car. In response, the RCMP tried to account for all their cars. One person remembered that Cst. Dave Lilly had a cottage somewhere in the area — could it be his car?
A phone call to Lilly quickly cleared up that confusion — Lilly’s cottage wasn’t in Portapique, but rather in Wentworth, and the car was unmoved in front of the cottage.
But Lilly was then awake, so he logged onto the his computer and learned what he could about the ongoing active shooter situation in Portapique, including that the suspect was GW. Lilly had important information.
“I had a call from Dave Lilly and Dave Lilly as it turns out, had a lot of information about the suspect, about what may have transpired at the scene,” said Staff Sergeant Steve Halliday.
“He advised me that a lady by the name of Lisa McCully, who was a coworker of Dave’s wife — Dave’s wife was a teacher, Lisa McCully was a teacher,” continued Halliday. “So, once he [Dave Lilly] saw the address, he made the connection and indicated that the suspect, [GW], he believed he and her had been in some kind of a relationship. And in recent days or weeks, he had been acting very unusual towards her, driving back and down her residence, and as Dave said, and I quote him, ‘Creeping her out.'”
Soon after, police had checked GW’s vehicle registration, and saw that he owned a Mercedes, the same Mercedes Lisa Banfield had been driving when she was ticketed for speeding some years before.
“And that for me creates a little bit of confusion,” said Halliday. “I have a Lisa McCully who’s at the scene, and now I have a Lisa Banfield. Are these one and the same person? Do they use two separate names?”
But records checks soon showed the two Lisas were two different women.
Lisa McCully’s body was discovered next to the fence at about 10:30pm, her children hiding in the house behind.
Lisa Banfied emerged from hiding in the woods at sunrise, at about 6:30am. She went to the first house she saw — Leon Joudrey’s.
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“I didn’t know he was the devil”: women recall their experiences with the mass murderer
A memorial at the Portapique church hall. Photo: Joan Baxter.
This article is sexually graphic.
In 2008, a woman in her 30s bought a Victorian house in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Next door was a rooming house owned by Tom Evans, an older gay lawyer.
In documents compiled by the Mass Casualty Commission, the woman is referred to as AA. She was interviewed by RCMP investigators on May 22, 2020.
Through Evans, AA met the man the Halifax Examiner refers to as GW — the man who would twelve years later murder 22 people in Nova Scotia. When Evans died in 2009, he willed his property to GW.
AA and GW hit it off, and soon began what AA referred to as an “intimate relationship.”
“I was in love with him,” said AA. GW “pulled out my chair, opened the door, you know, his business was dealing with elderly people, he was soft spoken, he was articulate. He was polite, and the world just fell down at his feet.”
“I didn’t know he was the devil.”
One day, GW invited AA to dinner.
“He was very excited, very, very, very excited,” said AA. “Coming up, a bouquet, great, you know, you get dressed up, you’re going out, it’s nice. He called me like probably six or seven times on the way up [from Nova Scotia]. About something to show me, he’s got something to give me. And I was like, I think it’s jewelry.”
It was a contract.
“So not jewelry, not a great dinner.”
GW was asking AA to sign something akin to a prenuptial agreement. As AA described it, the contract prevented AA from making any claims on GW’s property.
“I was like, this is weird to me,” said AA. “I’m not looking to be your second secretary.”
AA was referring to Lisa Banfield, whom GW was dating. “We spoke a lot about Lisa. I met Lisa.”
AA never visited GW in Portapique — “that’s Lisa’s life,” she said. But AA and GW maintained a relationship for several years — he’d drive to Fredericton and they’d spend the night together at the Delta hotel.
“I assumed he sees other people, of course,” said AA. “Like I knew how we sort of hit it off and I just expected him to do that everywhere.”
When GW talked about having assaulted his father in Cuba, AA tried to get him into counselling, but he didn’t go. GW kept trying to get her to sign the contract, and tried to convince her to sell her house and let him take care of her, but she said she was just starting out in life, and didn’t want to leave with him. The relationship was rocky — GW was never violent with her, but he was often cranky when he came to town, and even when things were good, he remembered that she wouldn’t sign the contract, and got in a sour mood again.
They eventually stopped seeing each other.
But after the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, there was something bothering AA.
“Heidi,” she said. “The name Heidi would come up all the time.”
“I’ve been racking my brain… like, did he have a crush on her? How did this come up? Why is that name coming up? It was so many years ago… but I knew he had a thing for the police.”
“In what context was the name Heidi brought up in?” asked the interviewer.
“I don’t want to misspeak,” answered AA. “Like we spoke about again, like being able to speak about Lisa, and you know, you probably have another girl. I told him, ‘somebody else will take your deal’ … and we talked about other women… you should find somebody, it was like that.”
“Do you think he knew Heidi [Stevenson], the RCMP officer?” asked the interviewer.
“I’m curious if he had some sort of a something,” said AA. “It seemed weird to me that her name came up. I was like, I know I’ve heard this name. I don’t know if, it doesn’t come to mind that he spoke like Heidi who’s a police officer, like it wasn’t in that sequence, but just name, you know. I don’t know if he had a fixation on her or if he did have a fixation on the police… I don’t know.”
• • •
EE met GW in 2014. “I was living there [Portapique] by myself, and he came to introduce himself to me and then we became good friends,” said EE.
GW would bring water and wood to EE’s “camp” in Portapique, which had neither electricity nor water, and he’d hire EE to do odd jobs around his property — cleaning the warehouse, raking the lawn. “He always kept me in liquor,” said EE. The two started a sexual relationship that lasted three or four years.
“He always called me Mummy,” said EE. ” And he always brought his girls back to me to give the OK, and I asked him, ‘How do you find all these girls?’ and he said, ‘They come in and sit in my chair.'” He was quite well endowed, and he said, ‘I measure their mouth to see if I can fit in them.”
“And then he says, ‘I invite them back to my house and I treat them like queens,’ because they don’t get that because they live on the streets or they’re very low income or whatever.”
“He loves the street girls,” said EE.
Doing work for low-income patients was GW’s “bread and butter,” said Olu Brown, a dental hygienist who worked in GW’s offices. “I remember one time a Quickcard or Social Services must have switched from, like, Great West Life to like Blue Cross or something like that. He’s like, ‘Yeah, Lisa and I are just going to call all of those patients because now all of those patients are on a new plan, they can come in and get dentures again.”
“He’d always take people in off the street, too,” continued Brown, “and he’d try to give them a job. And I’d check back in like a month and he’s like, ‘No, Lisa and I had to get rid of her. She’s just on the drugs, you know.’.”
EE described her sexual experiences with GW.
“He’d be the little boy and I’d be the mummy and I’d be the cop,” explained EE, who would wear an RCMP uniform GW provided to her for the event. “He was one of those diaper kind of guys, so you would have to take off his diaper and you would have to clean his bum with your tongue and stuff like that instead of toilet paper, I mean it wasn’t dirty or pooping or anything like that but it was just imaginary, just kind of weird stuff.”
GW had an RCMP uniform and what EE described as “ankle shackles.” As well, he had two pairs of handcuffs — not police handcuffs, but rather the kind bought at sex shops (EE worked at a sex shop and was familiar with them).
Olu Brown, the dental hygienist, said that Lisa Banfield once showed her a picture of Banfield wearing a RCMP uniform. “She was standing just like an RCMP would stand, like up straight, like by a fireplace.” “I just tried it on so we could take the picture,” Banfield told Brown.
Daniel Brace, a friend of Lisa Banfield’s brother Jimmy Banfield, told police that in 2016 he and his partner Carol happed to be driving by Portapique and decided to stop by to say hi to Lisa; Jimmy and his girlfriend were there as well, and Lisa invited Daniel and Carol to stay for dinner. “After dinner,” said Brace, “Gabriel started bringing these uniforms out and he had my wife Carol try a couple on. She was in a red uniform with the hat on, and he had her holding a handgun at one point.”
“He has a place in Maine,” said EE. “He always tried to get me to go to Maine, but I have a slight [criminal] record so I don’t think I could get across the border… he had a doctor friend down there… they both liked to have sex together with these other girls and Gabe wanted to take me down there to have sex and stuff and a big party weekend or whatever.”
“Then after I couldn’t go to the States, he was trying to get me hooked up with Angie’s so that I could go strip, but I’m not into that.” Angie’s is a strip club in Moncton; EE said GW was a regular at the club and liked to sit at the front table.
Like AA, EE was aware that Lisa Banfield was GW’s girlfriend.
“He used to tell me that the only reason he kept her around is she was a good cook,” said EE. “But she’s a cute little thing. She’s a sweetheart.”
“He used to take from Wednesday off [work] until Monday,” said EE. “And he would come to the beach and if the gates were open, the big red gates, so if the gates were open that was my sign that it was OK for me to go in, that she wasn’t around, and if they were closed it was meant like, ‘Stay home, mind your business, don’t come near me’… She [Banfield] would never come down until Friday evening and then she did her bingo on Saturday night and he would come see me while she was at bingo and then I wouldn’t see him until she left around Sunday morning.”
Brown confirmed that GW only worked Monday through Wednesday — and for five years GW allowed Brown to use his two offices (on on Portland Street in Dartmouth, the other on Novalee Drive in Halifax) rent-free from Thursday through Sunday. “You’ll make a lot of money,” GW told Brown.
At one point, a woman referred to as DD came to live with EE in Portapique, and EE arranged a sexual encounter between GW and DD.
“You hear the guys taking out their nephews for their 19th birthday and the strippers and all this,” said EE. “I thought it would be nice if DD — because she always said, ‘[EE] what’s a big one like?’ and I said, ‘Well’… so anyway, I arranged it for her to have somebody who was well-endowed, right, so I put them together, she went over and spent the night with him, and I picked her up in the morning.”
“She [DD] hates him, it was awful,” admitted EE.
“He was making me drinks,” recalled DD in a separate interview with Emily Hill, an investigator with the Mass Casualty Commission. “I was sitting there drinking. I remember being nervous because, like, I don’t know this guy, and clearly we’re going to have sex in a minute… I was trying to get more drunk because I didn’t like the situation.”
DD was then in her early 20s. She had recently been divorced. She was trying to attend university, but she had no place to live, so moved in temporarily with EE.
“I was just coming out of a breakup… I was a little, for lack of a better term, fucked up in the head about it,” DD told Hill. “I was trying to do whatever to cover up the pain I was feeling.”
“There’s two times I remember being at his house and having sex with him,” DD continued. “I think the way it works is he always gives you a bath first because he had a bathtub in the bedroom… I distinctly remember him giving me a bath… from what EE had told me, that’s what he did with these girls that he brings back.”
They had sex. “That was not a pleasant experience,” said DD.
At one point, EE agreed to a threesome with BE, a woman she had never met. The three met at the warehouse.
“She was very confident and she gave me a great big hug when I first came in, and she knew my name,” said EE. “She was prepared… I guess because they had a talk in the office when he was doing her teeth, that she’d be into a threesome.”
EE brought the handcuffs.
“I stayed at the bar and drank a lot,” continued EE. “My head is like, ‘Yeah, you go guys! Yeah!’… [and I joined them later to] make it look like I was enthused about it.”
“Would you ever expect anything like this [the mass murders] to happen?” asked the investigator.
“Well, when he told me he was going to go out in a bang and that I wouldn’t be in it but I would see it, or I wouldn’t see it but I would hear it, that kind of — I’ve been waiting for something, and yeah,” replied EE.
That echoes what GW had told Lisa Banfield. “He used to always say, like, ‘when I go out I’m going out with a bang. It’ll be in the news,'” Banfield told police investigators after the murders.
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On April 30, 2020, police interviewed a woman referred to as II by the Mass Casualty Commission. II was mostly incoherent, but her statement can be paraphrased as follows:
II for a short while lived in Portapique with DD, who II described as a “young girl.”
One day, II was drinking with DD and EE, and the three ended up going to GW’s warehouse, where they had more drinks. II was very disturbed to see a police car in the warehouse, but EE told II that GW was “one of us.”
II explained that EE was involved in biker culture, while working at a sex shop.
At the warehouse, II had more drinks, but felt that she had been drugged. She said GW kept groping her, grabbed her breast so hard that it hurt, and suggested that they send DD home so that II and EE could reenact some sex scenes EE had filmed and given to GW on video. According to II, EE tried to talk her into performing oral sex on GW.
II’s telling of events is unclear, but it appears there was an altercation of some sort that ended up down the road, and somebody called the police. II said the RCMP showed up, and she tried to explain to the responding officers that GW had sexually assaulted her, but EE said she was simply drunk, and the responding officers didn’t investigate further.
Given II’s incoherence, it’s impossible to know if RCMP officers actually came to Portapique in response to the altercation. But as II told it, had the responding officers gone to the warehouse, they would have seen the fake police car, and perhaps “all of this” — the murders — could have been prevented.
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Wow. I appreciate that there was a warning given to preface this but it seems insufficient. Beyond foul.
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‘“And then he says, ‘I invite them back to my house and I treat them like queens,’ because they don’t get that because they live on the streets or they’re very low income or whatever.”’
Poverty, isolation, and lack of social services has horrific consequences, especially in rural areas. However, people who benefit from the status quo, and rural myths of self-reliance, make change difficult.
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I know all of this is tough going for you, for Jennifer, for anyone else involved in covering the MCC. I hope you’re taking good care of yourselves.
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What leaps out at me – putting aside the sordid details and ugly exploitation of vulnerable women – is the question of money, particularly if this guy was only making dentures three days a week.
A quick DuckDuckGo gives a top salary range for denturists in Nova Scotia of a bit over $60,000. Where was the rest of the money to support himself, Banfield, other women, multiple properties, collections of cruisers and motorbikes, etc., etc., etc., coming from?
I’m now going to go have a shower, and rinse my brain off with bleach.
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My thoughts exactly. Sordid story. But I believe it must be told. That world exists even if most of us (I think!) don’t live in it.
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https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/featured/he-was-a-psychopath/
“He was a psychopath”
A former resident of Portapique says she called the RCMP to tell them the future gunman assaulted his domestic partner and that he had illegal weapons. The police took no action.
A memorial at the Portapique church hall. Photo: Joan Baxter.
This article contains graphic descriptions of assault.
“That son of a bitch is dead.”
That was the first thing Boe thought when she heard on April 19 that the RCMP had killed a man who on gone on a murderous rampage across Nova Scotia, leaving 22 dead.
The murder spree started in the village of Portapique on the Minas Basin, where Boe had once lived.
Boe now lives in western Canada. She granted a telephone interview with the Halifax Examiner, but asked that we identify her only by her nickname, in part because she still fears for her safety. We’ve confirmed her identity and other details of her association with Portapique. We are identifying the gunman as “GW,” except in quotes when Boe identifies him by name.
Boe said that soon after she and her husband met GW when he first came to Portapique, they concluded that he was, in their estimation, a “psychopath.”
And it was because of GW that she and her husband eventually decided to sell their beautiful home in Portapique and move to Halifax. But even there she didn’t feel safe.
“I knew he was looking for me,” she said. “And I was afraid if I go into a store in Halifax, and he showed up, what would I do?”
So after three years in Halifax, she and her husband packed up and moved west.
But the awful experience of GW has never left her. She says she has been interviewed many times by the RCMP Serious Incident Response Team since the mass shooting.
She also reached out to Linda MacDonald and Jeanne Sarson, two nurses in Truro whose self-funded campaign, Persons Against Non-State Torture, aims to combat the torture of women and girls that is driven by misogyny.
MacDonald and Sarson were signatories to a recent statement on the mass shooting by seven Nova Scotia feminists fighting femicide, calling for “an inquiry with a feminist analysis of the violence.”
Boe recounted to MacDonald and Sarson the history of her terrifying interactions with GW, and especially her extreme concern over the way he was able to get away with repeated abuse of his common-law spouse.
After Boe spoke with them, MacDonald asked her if she would share her story with the Halifax Examiner. She agreed.
It began, Boe said, around 2004, not long after GW bought a house in Portapique.
They weren’t even in that house for a year when [GW’s partner] ran over to my house one day saying that Gabriel was beating her up and she was scared. She wanted to hide somewhere because he had blocked her car with his truck so she couldn’t get out. But she managed to get away from the house.
Boe said she told GW’s partner that she needed to get help, that there were “a lot of services” and “a lot of places” that would keep her safe. Boe said she was unable to convince her, because, according to Boe, GW’s partner said that there was no way, because he was going to kill her.
Boe told the Examiner that after that she told some people what GW had done, but had trouble convincing everyone:
I’m going to say that about half of them said, “oh no, he’s such a nice guy, he would never do stuff like that,” and just pshawed me, basically.
She said that GW drank a lot, and often bought alcohol for others.
Boe said she learned GW had again physically abused his partner, this time on a piece of property he owned:
And he had [her] on the ground. He was choking her, screaming at her, telling everybody around… Just screaming at her and stuff … It was bad, bad, bad, bad.
Boe said the assault was witnessed by one of GW’s relatives, who was a good friend of hers when he lived in Portapique and who is now in a long-term care facility, following a stroke. Two other men also watched it happen.
When the relative told her about the incident, Boe called the RCMP. The responding officers asked if any of the three men would testify to witnessing the assault. Boe didn’t know. However, she did tell the responding officers that “he’s got a shit load of illegal weapons. I’ve seen them. My husband has seen them.”
Boe said she and her husband know what weapons Canadians are allowed to own with a Firearms Acquisition Certificate, and that they knew GW’s were not legal. So she told the RCMP that, and then in their presence, she called GW’s relative and put him on speakerphone so the Mounties could hear him:
So I called [the relative] and I said… “would you be willing to talk to the RCMP about what happened with [GW’s partner] and the illegal weapons that Gabriel has?” And he said, “no way, because he’s already told me he’ll kill me, because he’s already told me that he’s killed people in the United States.
And I said, “Okay … just chill. Just relax. Don’t worry about it.” I hung up and the RCMP basically said, “the only way that we can actually get the information on this and prove it … like for her being beaten and strangled and stuff like that. She has to say it.” And there’s no way that she would do that. Gabriel had her under his thumb. And I mean, literally. If her family came over, he would be right beside her. So she wouldn’t say anything to them about what happened at all.
According to Boe, at some point, GW pressured his partner to sell her vehicle and to work for him at his denturist office. Boe said that GW would leave his partner working in the city, and come to Portapique in the company of other women. When Boe spoke with his partner about this, she then confronted GW. And that’s when it “got scary” for Boe:
…because he dragged her back up to our house. My husband was downstairs. I was upstairs. I had a little bit of the flu. So I was in bed. It was during the daytime. He pounded on the door. [My husband] opens it. And Gabriel starts screaming …
Boe said that when she heard the obscenities, she went downstairs and told him, in so many words, that she had merely been telling the truth to his partner. GW then “grabbed hold” of his partner and “dragged her back out.”
According to Boe, after that her husband had to go abroad for work and the situation got worse. When Boe came home from work, she would park her car and go inside.
And I noticed him [GW] coming up the road. He stopped his vehicle right in front of my house. He got out of the vehicle, stood there and stared at the house for a good half hour, scaring the shit out of me. And this happened about four days in a row.
When her husband returned home, she said she told him they had to move away from Portapique.
Boe has profound concerns about the well-being of GW’s partner, and believes that people should be aware of “the hell that she lived through,” and what it’s like for a female to be assaulted constantly and to be controlled by a violent male partner. Boe hopes that she will be looked after and that there will something in the estate for her to “make sure she is set.”
Gun control and red flag laws
Boe fully supports the federal government’s May 1 ban on military-grade assault weapons:
I call them weapons of mass destruction. Those ones should not be allowed at all. The only people that use those type of weapons are people that are in the military. When you’re fighting in a war, that’s it, you do not use them anywhere else. They’re not used for hunting. They’re not. You should not be able to get them, period. And gun control, I think right now, because of what’s been happening — and it may get worse with those coronavirus stuff going on — this is my way of thinking: anybody that applies for an FAC* [Firearms Acquisition Certificate] should be psychologically tested first before they get an FAC, and have no criminal charges, no criminal past, nothing like that. It’s just wrong. They don’t do good enough background checks.
Military grade equipment should not be in the hands of civilians at all. And like even retired military guys. There is no reason to have access to any of those type of weapons. None. Because they’re meant to kill.
Boe also supports red flag laws, which Canada’s Public Safety Minister Bill Blair announced the federal government would be bringing in “to allow law enforcement to remove firearms from dangerous situations to make sure they don’t become deadly.”
Said Blair:
We will empower victims, communities, doctors, families. We will empower Canadians to render their situation safe and where there are firearms in a situation that could be dangerous, we know that situation can become deadly and red flag laws will empower us to keep Canadians safe.
Boe said there were lots of red flags about GW:
When I made the first report to the RCMP, I wish they had acted on it. They would have found all his weapons. Because at that time, like he had already been charged with assault before. So there were big red flags going up there.
And she thinks red flag laws that would allow the police to seize weapons from anyone posing a risk to themselves or others would be good.
Right now, if somebody sees somebody assaulting somebody, beating somebody, whether it be a guy or a girl, whatever, and they report it, it should be actioned immediately. Not with the consent of the person that’s being beaten, whether it be a guy or girl. Same with weapons: if you know somebody’s got weapons or has purchased weapons from the States, they didn’t come from Canada, and they don’t have an FAC, that’s a big red flag there. Report them. And the RCMP or whoever is investigating should do it right away — like yesterday.
Boe also said she “really, really” feels for the RCMP, and imagines that they are also “going through hell,” given what they went through and that they also lost a “comrade,” Heidi Stevenson, in the mass shooting.
Her only regret is that they weren’t able to prevent the tragedy by seizing GW’s weapons. Said Boe:
And the one, the only thing that could have been handled differently, is when I reported at first and nothing was done.
* TheFirearms Acquisition Certificate was replaced by the Possession and Acquisition Licence in 1995. Boe was familiar with the older terminology.
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Little New Years Eve Deja Vu for Trump, Trudeau, RCMP, FBI, CBC, CTV
Frank Magazine, Vice Magazine, Feminists, the Ghosts the Queens Crook
Tim Richardson and his buddy the Evil Fat Bastard of Edmonton commonly
known as Mr Baconfat
The decision not to tell the public about the fake RCMP car was not rational. There were many murdered people inPortapique and no body of GW. How could they not view him and his car as a threat. I find the mindset of the in charge RCMP members all the way along weak, patronizing. A low vision of NS rural. Their conditioned mindset blinded any brave, risk taking decisions. Even Heidi Stephenson thought around 8 that there should be a public notice. This lack of strong response cost innocent lives.